Simon Russell Beale
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.
Lava Land - Glowing Hawaii
(Narrator)
The Mysterious Mr Webster
(Self - Interviewee)
Orlando
(Earl of Moray)
The Hour
(Himself)
Persuasion
(Charles Musgrove)
The Deep Blue Sea
(Sir William Collyer)
The Young Visiters
(Prince of Wales)
My Week with Marilyn
(Cotes-Preedy)
Firebrand
(Stephen Gardiner)
Into the Woods
(Baker's Father)
Legacy
(Hookey)
Hamlet
(Second Gravedigger)
National Theatre Live: King Lear
(Lear, King of Britain)
Thor: Love and Thunder
(Dionysus)
Time and the Conways
(Party Guest)
The Legend of Tarzan
(Mr. Frum)
The Gathering
(Luke Fraser)
BBC Proms: Sondheim's 80th Birthday
(Himself - Performer)
Home! Home!
(Self (narrator))
Monteverdi in Mantua - The Genius of the Vespers
(presenter)
An Easter Celebration
(presenter)
The Choral
Deep Water
(Donald Crowhurst (voice))
Blackadder: Back & Forth
(Wellington)
Downton Abbey 3
De Gaulle – Partie 1 : La France Libre
(Winston Churchill)
The Magic Faraway Tree
Cunk on Shakespeare
(Self - Actor)
The Death of Stalin
(Lavrenti Beria)
Alice in Wonderland
(King Cedric of Hearts)
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
(Richard II)
De Gaulle – Partie 2
(Winston Churchill)
Muse of Fire
(Self)
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
(Hamlet)
RSC Live: The Tempest
(Prospero)
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
(Sir Harcourt Courtly)
National Theatre Live: Collaborators
(Joseph Stalin)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House)
(The Duchess / Introduced by)
National Theatre Live: Timon of Athens
(Timon)
Museo
(Frank Graves)
My Cousin Rachel
(Couch)
An Ideal Husband
(Sir Edward)
Radioactive
(Professor Lippmann)
Operation Finale
(David Ben-Gurion)
Mary Queen of Scots
(Robert Beale)
A Christmas Carol
(Scrooge's voice (voice))
National Theatre Live: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
(Richard II)
A Christmas History
(Presenter)
National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy
(Henry Lehman)
Operation Mincemeat
(Winston Churchill)
Benediction
(Robbie Ross)
Shakespeare's Sonnets
The Outfit
(Roy Boyle)
Home! Home!
(Narrator)
Dunkirk
(Winston Churchill)
A Dance to the Music of Time
(Widmerpool)
Penny Dreadful
(Ferdinand Lyle)
A Very Peculiar Practice
(Mark Stibbs)
American Experience
(John Adams (voice))
Simon Schama's Shakespeare
Vanity Fair
(John Sedley)
The Hollow Crown
(Falstaff)
Symphony
Spooks
(William Towers)
Mary & George
(Sir George Villiers)
Spooks
(Home Secretary)
Blackadder
(Napoléon)
House of the Dragon
(Ser Simon Strong)
Douglas Is Cancelled
(Bently)
The Mushroom Picker
(Anthony)