Simon Russell Beale
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 12, 1961 (age 65)
- Birthplace
- Penang, Malaysia
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 stage he has received a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination for his performance as George in the Tom Stoppard play Jumpers in 2004. For his role as Henry Lehman in The Lehman Trilogy, he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and was nominated for an Olivier Award. Beale has been described by The Independent as "the greatest stage actor of his generation". Beale made his film debut in Sally Potter's period drama Orlando (1992). He continued acting in films such as Persuasion (1995), Hamlet (1996), My Week with Marilyn (2011), The Deep Blue Sea (2011), Into the Woods (2014), and Mary Queen of Scots (2018). In 2017, he starred in Armando Iannucci's dark comedy The Death of Stalin playing Lavrentiy Beria for which he received the British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actor. He has also appeared in the television projects The Young Visiters (2003), Dunkirk (2004), and as Falstaff in the BBC made-for-television films Henry IV, Part I and Part II (2012). He was part of the main cast of Showtime's Penny Dreadful.
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Filmography
This Is Your Five Minute Call
Movie · as Malcolm
De Gaulle: Résistance
Movie · as Winston Churchill
The Magic Faraway Tree
Movie · as Know All
De Gaulle: Liberté
Movie · as Winston Churchill
Prima Facie
Movie
The Choral
Movie · as Sir Edward Elgar
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
Movie · as Sir Hector Moreland
Firebrand
Movie · as Stephen Gardiner
Home! Home!
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Mary & George
TV · as Sir George Villiers · 1 ep
Douglas Is Cancelled
TV · as Bently · 4 eps
Thor: Love and Thunder
Movie · as Dionysus
Operation Mincemeat
Movie · as Winston Churchill
The Outfit
Movie · as Roy Boyle
House of the Dragon
TV · as Ser Simon Strong · 7 eps
Remembers…
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Benediction
Movie · as Robbie Ross
The Hour
Movie · as Himself
Radioactive
Movie · as Professor Lippmann
A Christmas Carol
Movie · as Scrooge's voice (voice)
National Theatre Live: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
Movie · as Richard II
National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy
Movie · as Henry Lehman
Museo
Movie · as Frank Graves
Operation Finale
Movie · as David Ben-Gurion
Mary Queen of Scots
Movie · as Robert Beale
Vanity Fair
TV · as John Sedley · 7 eps
The Death of Stalin
Movie · as Lavrenti Beria
RSC Live: The Tempest
Movie · as Prospero
My Cousin Rachel
Movie · as Couch
The Legend of Tarzan
Movie · as Mr. Frum
Cunk on Shakespeare
Movie · as Self - Actor
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Movie · as Richard II
Monteverdi in Mantua - The Genius of the Vespers
Movie · as presenter
The Mysterious Mr Webster
Movie · as Self - Interviewee
Into the Woods
Movie · as Baker's Father
National Theatre Live: King Lear
Movie · as Lear, King of Britain
Penny Dreadful
TV · as Ferdinand Lyle · 14 eps
Lava Land - Glowing Hawaii
Movie · as Narrator
Legacy
Movie · as Hookey
Muse of Fire
Movie · as Self
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Movie · as Hamlet
National Theatre Live: Timon of Athens
Movie · as Timon
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Movie
Simon Schama's Shakespeare
TV · 2 eps
The Hollow Crown
TV · as Falstaff · 3 eps
The Deep Blue Sea
Movie · as Sir William Collyer
My Week with Marilyn
Movie · as Cotes-Preedy
National Theatre Live: Collaborators
Movie · as Joseph Stalin
Royal Opera House: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Movie · as The Duchess / Introduced by
A Musical Nativity with John Rutter
Movie
Sacred Music: God's Composer
Movie · as Presenter
Symphony
TV · 4 eps
BBC Proms: Sondheim's 80th Birthday
Movie · as Himself - Performer
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
Movie · as Sir Harcourt Courtly
Sacred Music: A Christmas History
Movie · as Presenter
An Easter Celebration
Movie · as presenter
Sacred Music
TV · as Presenter · 8 eps
Deep Water
Movie · as Donald Crowhurst (voice)
Dunkirk
TV · as Winston Churchill · 3 eps
The Young Visiters
Movie · as Prince of Wales
The Gathering
Movie · as Luke Fraser
Spooks
TV · as William Towers, Home Secretary · 6 eps
Blackadder: Back & Forth
Movie · as Wellington
Alice in Wonderland
Movie · as King Cedric of Hearts
An Ideal Husband
Movie · as Sir Edward
The Temptation of Franz Schubert
Movie · as Franz Schubert
A Dance to the Music of Time
TV · as Widmerpool · 4 eps
Hamlet
Movie · as Second Gravedigger
Persuasion
Movie · as Charles Musgrove
The Mushroom Picker
TV · as Anthony · 3 eps
Orlando
Movie · as Earl of Moray
Downtown Lagos
TV · as Heron · 3 eps
American Experience
TV · as John Adams (voice) · 1 ep
A Very Peculiar Practice
TV · as Mark Stibbs · 1 ep
Time and the Conways
Movie · as Party Guest