Richard Roxburgh Drama in 2012. He stars in "Matching Jack", which was released in August 2010, and "", released in September 2010. Returning to the stage, Roxburgh played Vanya opposite Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving and John Bell in Sydney Theatre Company's 2010 production of Anton Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya". In 2013, he again performed at the STC with Weaving as the protagonists in Samuel Beckett's play "Waiting for Godot", Weaving as Vladimir and Roxburgh as Estragon. In 2014, Roxburgh played the title role in Edmond Rostand's 1897 play "Cyrano de Bergerac" at the STC. In 2015, Roxburgh appeared in Andrew Upton's adaptation of
Samuel Beckett in Literature "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation". He was elected Saoi of Aosdána in 1984. Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin on Good Friday, 13 April 1906, to William Frank Beckett, a quantity surveyor and descendant of the Huguenots, and Maria Jones Roe, a nurse, when both were 35. They had married in 1901. Beckett had one older brother, Frank Edward Beckett (1902–1954). At the age of five, Beckett attended a local playschool in Dublin, where he started to learn music, and then moved to Earlsfort