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| Welsh actor Roger Rees, star of Cheers and The West Wing, has died, aged 71. | Welsh actor Roger Rees, star of Cheers and The West Wing, has died, aged 71. |
| Mr Rees, who was born in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, won Tony and Olivier awards in 1982 for his title role in the The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby. | Mr Rees, who was born in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, won Tony and Olivier awards in 1982 for his title role in the The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby. |
| He played millionaire Robin Colcord in 1980s comedy Cheers and Lord John Marbury in US political drama The West Wing from 2000 to 2005. | |
| Mr Rees had lived in America for 25 years and died after a short illness. | |
| His other credits include an appearance as the Sheriff of Rottingham in Mel Brooks' slapstick comedy Robin Hood: Men in Tights and Sherlock Holmes in a 1988 adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles. | |
| Actor and director Samuel West tweeted: "Woke to the sad news of Roger Rees's death". | |
| Choreographer Matthew Bourne wrote on Twitter: "RIP #RogerRees - a lovely, generous & kind man & an heroic & passionate actor. We all fell in love with him in #NicholasNickleby so sad." | |
| Musician Rick Wakeman added: "Very sad to learn of the passing of Roger Rees. I saw him last year at a Water Rats Lodge. A truly lovely man and very talented too." | |
| Mr Rees spent most of his childhood in south London where he acted in church and Boy Scout stage productions before studying art and painting. | |
| His first jobs in show business were as a scenery painter before he turned to acting full-time in the mid 1960s. | |
| Mr Rees's stage roles included playing Gomez Addams in a 2011 musical of The Addams Family and starring as Vladimir alongside Sir Ian McKellen in Waiting for Godot. | |
| He lived in New York City with husband, playwright Rick Elice, whom he had been in a relationship with since 1982. |