In the film "Shakespeare in Love", the actor Tom Wilkinson plays a theatre director. In the film, this character gets a role in a theatre play to play a person of which profession?

Explanation

Tom Wilkinson was born in England in 1948. He studied at the University of Kent and started his acting career straight after, although he only really became more widely known in 1997 where he starred in the Oscar-winning "Shakespeare in Love" where he plays a theatre director who gets the chance to become an actor, cast in the role as a pharmacist. This became the start of a series of Hollywood-films: "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", where he plays opposite Kirsten Dunst and "Batman Begins" where he was hired by Christopher Nolan to play the bad mafia boss are two examples. A third is "Mission Impossible 4 - Ghost Protocol" (2012).