Rory Kinnear
Acting
Biography
Rory Kinnear (born February 17, 1978) is an English actor and playwright who has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre. He is best known for playing Bill Tanner in the James Bond films Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, and Spectre, and in various video games of the franchise. He is the youngest actor to play the role of Bill Tanner. He also won a Laurence Olivier Award for portraying Fopling Flutter in a 2008 version of The Man of Mode, and a British Independent Film Award for his performance in the 2012 film Broken. In 2014, he won the Olivier Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Shakespeare's villain Iago in the National Theatre production of Othello.
Born: February 17, 1978
Place of Birth: Hammersmith, London, England, UK
Known For
National Theatre Live: Othello
The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
The ruined aftermath of a bloody civil war. Ruthlessly fighting to survive, the Macbeths are propelled towards the crown by forces of elemental darkness. Shakespeare’s most intense and terrifying tragedy, directed by Rufus Norris, sees Rory Kinnear and Anne-Marie Duff return to the National Theatre to play Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.
Black Mirror
Twisted tales run wild in this mind-bending anthology series that reveals humanity's worst traits, greatest innovations and more.
National Theatre Live: Young Marx
1850, and Europe’s most feared terrorist is hiding in Dean Street, Soho. Broke, restless and horny, the thirty-two-year-old revolutionary is a frothing combination of intellectual brilliance, invective, satiric wit, and child-like emotional illiteracy. Creditors, spies, rival revolutionary factions and prospective seducers of his beautiful wife all circle like vultures. His writing blocked, his marriage dying, his friend Engels in despair at his wasted genius, his only hope is a job on the railway. But there’s still no one in the capital who can show you a better night on the piss than Karl Heinrich Marx.
Cranford
A rich and comic drama about the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire town on the cusp of change in the 1840s. Adapted from the novels by Elizabeth Gaskell.
Inside No. 9
An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.
The Thick of It
Set in the corridors of power and spin, the Minister for Social Affairs is continually harassed by Number 10's policy enforcer and dependent on his not-so-reliable team of civil servants.
The Imitation Game
Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.
Penny Dreadful
Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. Penny Dreadful is a frightening psychological thriller that weaves together these classic horror origin stories into a new adult drama.
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
A 2010 broadcast of Hamlet returns to cinemas as part of the NT's 50th anniversary celebrations. Following his celebrated performances at the National Theatre in Burnt by the Sun, The Revenger's Tragedy, Philistines and The Man of Mode, Rory Kinnear plays Hamlet in a dynamic new production of Shakespeare’s complex and profound play about the human condition, directed by Nicholas Hytner. He is joined by Clare Higgins (Gertrude), Patrick Malahide (Claudius), David Calder (Polonius), James Laurenson (Ghost/Player King) and Ruth Negga (Ophelia).
Filmography
as Emperor Joseph
as Harold Laing
as Des Collins
as Dave Fishwick
as Frank Kitson
as David (voice)
as Winston Churchill
as Prime Minister Nicol Trowbridge
as Dave Fishwick
as Tom Bombadil
as Geoffrey
as Captain Nigel Badminton / Chauncey Badminton
as Edward Williams
as Colin Jordan
as Tanner
as Dr. Peter Craft
as Interviewer
as Nikita Ivanovich Panin
as Stephen Lyons
as Craig Oliver
as Cowslip (voice)
as Henry Hunt
as Macbeth
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Robert Lessing
as Pence
as Ellman
as P.C Lovage
as Captain Macheath, aka 'Mac the Knife'
as Self - Performer
as Yet Another Fan
as Tanner
as Sean
as Barry Fairbrother
as Detective Robert Nock
as John Clare / The Creature
as Gary
as Prince Rico / Gus
as Lord Lucan
as Lord Lucan
as Self
as David Whitehead
as Michael Baker
as Young Barrington Coupe
as Tanner
as Self / Bill Tanner
as Bob Oswald
as Bollingbroke
as Reverend Septimus Crisparkle
as Michael Callow
as Rupert Birkin
as Hamlet
as Brian Epstein
as Bedford
as Dan Bishop
as Gerry Bailey
as Wishman
as Tanner
as Ross
as Denis Thatcher
as Alan Simpson
as Septimus Hanbury
as Rob Black
as Rushworth
as Kyle Betts
as Self
as Williams
as Ed
as Andrew
as Father Dillane
as James Mitcham
as Stewart Dean
as Edward Williams