Simon Russell Beale
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Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday12 January 1961 (65 years old)
Place of birthPenang, Malaysia
Known credits75
Biography
Sir Simon Russell Beale CBE (born January 12, 1961) is an English actor. He is known for his appearances in film, television and theatre, and work on radio, on audiobooks and as a narrator. For his services to drama, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in 2019. He has spent much of his theatre career working in productions for both the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre. He has received ten Laurence Olivier Award nominations, winning three awards for his performances in Volpone (1996), Candide (2000), and Uncle Vanya (2003). For his work on the Broadway stag…
Prima Facie
2026
De Gaulle: Liberté
2026 · Winston Churchill
De Gaulle: Résistance
2026 · Winston Churchill
The Magic Faraway Tree
2026 · Know All
The Choral
2025 · Sir Edward Elgar
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
2025 · Sir Hector Moreland
Douglas Is Cancelled
2024 · Bently
Firebrand
2024 · Stephen Gardiner
Mary & George
2024 · Sir George Villiers
Home! Home!
2024 · Narrator (voice)
House of the Dragon
2022 · Ser Simon Strong
Thor: Love and Thunder
2022 · Dionysus
Remembers…
2022 · Self
Operation Mincemeat
2022 · Winston Churchill
The Outfit
2022 · Roy Boyle
Benediction
2021 · Robbie Ross
A Christmas Carol
2020 · Scrooge's voice (voice)
The Hour
2020 · Himself
Radioactive
2020 · Professor Lippmann
National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy
2019 · Henry Lehman
National Theatre Live: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
2019 · Richard II
Mary Queen of Scots
2018 · Robert Beale
Vanity Fair
2018 · John Sedley
Operation Finale
2018 · David Ben-Gurion
Museo
2018 · Frank Graves
The Death of Stalin
2017 · Lavrenti Beria
My Cousin Rachel
2017 · Couch
RSC Live: The Tempest
2017 · Prospero
The Legend of Tarzan
2016 · Mr. Frum
Cunk on Shakespeare
2016 · Self - Actor
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016 · Richard II
Monteverdi in Mantua - The Genius of the Vespers
2015 · presenter
Into the Woods
2014 · Baker's Father
The Mysterious Mr Webster
2014 · Self - Interviewee
Penny Dreadful
2014 · Ferdinand Lyle
National Theatre Live: King Lear
2014 · Lear, King of Britain
Legacy
2013 · Hookey
Lava Land - Glowing Hawaii
2013 · Narrator
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013 · Hamlet
Muse of Fire
2013 · Self
National Theatre Live: Timon of Athens
2012 · Timon
Shakespeare's Sonnets
2012
The Hollow Crown
2012 · Falstaff
Simon Schama's Shakespeare
2012
A Musical Nativity with John Rutter
2011
Sacred Music: God's Composer
2011 · Presenter
National Theatre Live: Collaborators
2011 · Joseph Stalin
The Deep Blue Sea
2011 · Sir William Collyer
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