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Peter O'Toole received eight Academy Award nominations for Best Actor without ever winning a competitive Oscar, a record he shares with Glenn Close. In 2002, the Academy awarded him an Academy Honorary Award for his career achievements, which was presented to him by Meryl Streep.
Peter O'Toole is most closely identified with his portrayal of T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), directed by Sir David Lean. Premiere magazine ranked it number one on its list of the 100 Greatest Performances of All Time, and the American Film Institute named the character the tenth-greatest hero in cinema history in 2003.
Peter O'Toole was born on the 2nd of August 1932 at St James's University Hospital in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, though he claimed uncertainty about his own birthplace and held birth certificates from both England and Ireland. He grew up in the south Leeds suburb of Hunslet.
At the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, where O'Toole trained from 1952 to 1954 on a scholarship, his classmates included Albert Finney, Alan Bates, and Brian Bedford. O'Toole later called it "the most remarkable class the academy ever had."
O'Toole underwent surgery in 1976 to have his pancreas and a large portion of his stomach removed, which resulted in insulin-dependent diabetes; his condition had been misdiagnosed as a consequence of alcohol. In 1978 he nearly died from a hematologic disease before eventually recovering.
O'Toole held an Irish passport, owned a house in Clifden, County Galway, and described Irishness as "almost the centre of my very being" in a 1992 interview. His father, Patrick Joseph O'Toole, was Irish, and O'Toole believed he may have been born in Connemara. His ashes were to be taken to the west of Ireland per his family's stated wishes.