Rupert Friend
Acting
Born: October 9, 1981 (age 44) · Oxfordshire, England, UK
Highest Rated
Biography
Rupert William Anthony Friend (born October 1981) is an English actor. He first gained recognition for his roles in The Libertine (2004) and Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (2005), winning him awards for best newcomer. He portrayed George Wickham in Pride & Prejudice (2005), Lieutenant Kurt Kotler in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008), Albert, Prince Consort in The Young Victoria (2009), psychologist Oliver Baumer in Starred Up (2013), CIA operative Peter Quinn in the political thriller series Homeland (2012–2017), Vasily Stalin in The Death of Stalin (2017), Theo van Gogh in At Eternity's Gate (2018), and Ernest Donovan in the series Strange Angel (2018–2019). In the early 2020s, Friend began collaborating with director Wes Anderson, starting with a cameo in The French Dispatch (2021), followed by roles in Asteroid City (2023) and the Netflix short films The Swan and The Rat Catcher. In 2022, he starred as disgraced British politician James Whitehouse in Anatomy of a Scandal and featured in the Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi as the Grand Inquisitor. Friend is the director, screenwriter or producer of two award-winning short films: The Continuing and Lamentable Saga of the Suicide Brothers (2008) and Steve (2010). He wrote lyrics for the Kairos 4Tet 2013 album Everything We Hold. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rupert Friend, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Pride & Prejudice
2005
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
2008
A Simple Favor
2018
Jurassic World Rebirth
2025
Hitman: Agent 47
2015
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021
Homeland
2011
Asteroid City
2023
Companion
2025
Obi-Wan Kenobi
2022
Infinite
2021
The Death of Stalin
2017
Photos (11)
Movies (39)
Jurassic World Rebirth
Martin Krebs
Pride & Prejudice
Mr. Wickham
Virgin Territory
Alessandro Felice
Companion
Sergey
The Phoenician Scheme
Excalibur
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Lieutenant Kotler
Infinite
Bathurst 1985
Asteroid City
Montana
Hitman: Agent 47
Agent 47
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Drill-Sergeant
The Death of Stalin
Vasily Stalin
A Simple Favor
Dennis Nylon
Dreams
Jake McCarthy
The Last Legion
Demetrius
The Zero Theorem
TV Presenter
Canary Black
David Brooks
At Eternity's Gate
Theo van Gogh
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
Narrator / Claud (archive footage)
The American Society of Magical Negroes
Mick
Last Looks
Wilson Sikorsky
Starred Up
Oliver Baumer
The Rat Catcher
Claud Cubbage
The Young Victoria
Prince Albert
The Libertine
Downs
The Swan
Narrator / Adult Peter Watson
Outlaw
Sandy Mardell
5 Days of War
Thomas Anders
Chéri
Chéri
Separation
Jeff
The Kid
Kevin Lewis
To Write Love on Her Arms
David McKenna
Jolene
Coco Leger
The Moon and the Stars
Renzo Daverio / Spoletta
Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
Ludovic Meyer
Prince Consorts: In the Shadow of the Crown
Prince Albert (archive footage)
Lullaby for Pi
Sam
Meet Me in Montenegro
Stephen
The Continuing and Lamentable Saga of the Suicide Brothers
Bourbon
After This Death
Ted
