Sir Mark Rylance’s spouse Claire Van Kampen has died aged 71 on her husband’s sixty fifth birthday.
Van Kampen handed away surrounded by her household after being recognized with most cancers, an announcement shared on behalf of Sir Mark and her daughter Juliet confirmed.
Van Kampen was a live performance pianist, composer, playwright, theatre director and labored in numerous roles at Shakespeare’s Globe for round 20 years.
She was additionally described as ‘one of many funniest and (most) inspiring girls we’ve got ever identified’, within the assertion.
It added: ‘We thank her for imbuing our lives together with her magic, music, laughter, and love.
‘Ring the bell, sound the trumpets reverie, one thing is completed, one thing is starting. One of many nice sensible ones has handed.’
Her theatre credit embrace composing the music for the 1989 Royal Shakespeare Firm manufacturing of Hamlet starring Sir Mark, whom she married that very same 12 months.
Later in her profession she created authentic scores for Broadway productions of 2000’s True West, 2008’s Boeing-Boeing and 2010 comedy La Bete, in addition to variations of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Evening and Richard III.
Sir Mark Rylance’s spouse Claire Van Kampen, proper, has died aged 71 on her husband’s sixty fifth birthday
Van Kampen handed away surrounded by her household after being recognized with most cancers
Each Rylance and Van Kampen are pictured attending day eight of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships final 12 months
Van Kampen additionally wrote the play Farinelli And The King which noticed Sir Mark star as King Philippe V of Spain and was nominated for a number of Olivier Awards together with finest new play, and quite a lot of Tony Awards.
The director and composer skilled on the Royal Faculty of Music in London the place she studied music principle and piano, specialising within the efficiency of twentieth century music.
She went on to have a profession as a composer and performer, writing and taking part in for theatre, radio, tv and movie soundtracks and the live performance corridor.
In 1986, she started her theatre profession with the Royal Shakespeare Firm and with the Royal Nationwide Theatre the next 12 months.
Rylance, winner for Greatest Supporting Actor for his position in ‘Bridge of Spies’, arrives along with his spouse on the Governors Ball following the 88th Academy Awards in Hollywood
Rylance and Van Kampen pictured on the ‘Emilia’ after social gathering within the West Finish
The pair attend the pre-show drinks reception for the English Nationwide Ballet’s “Swan Lake”
Van Kampen was described as ‘one of many funniest and (most) inspiring girls we’ve got ever identified’, in an announcement.
Rylance along with his spouse and her daughter Juliet after he was knighted by the Duke of Cambridge
Van Kampen was a live performance pianist, composer, playwright, theatre director and labored in numerous roles at Shakespeare’s Globe for round 20 years
Her theatre credit embrace composing the music for the 1989 Royal Shakespeare Firm manufacturing of Hamlet starring Sir Mark, whom she married that very same 12 months
She served as inventive affiliate at Shakespeare’s Globe from 1996 to 2006 when Sir Mark was the inventive director.
Van Kampen later acted as a musical guide and resident composer to the next inventive director Dominic Dromgoole from 2007 to 2015.
She was additionally a inventive affiliate of the distinguished Previous Vic theatre in London.
Van Kampen was beforehand married to architect Christopher van Kampen, with whom she had two daughters Juliet and Nataasha.
Her youngest daughter Nataasha, a filmmaker, died aged 28 in 2012 after struggling a mind haemorrhage.
