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BAFTA-winning and Oscar-nominated actor Tom Wilkinson has died. He was 75. According to a statement from his family (obtained by BBC News), he died at home with his wife and family by his side. Wilkinson won a BAFTA for playing Gerald in The Full Monty, and reprised the character in the Disney+ show. He began acting at the age of 18. “For the first time in my life, I started doing something I knew how to do,” he said. “I realized it wasn’t necessarily just these southern middle-class types that got to be actors; it could possibly be people like me. And once I knew, I never changed my mind.”
Wilkinson worked in over 130 films and TV shows across his career, earning Academy Award…
