Simon Russell Beale
Acting
Born: January 12, 1961 (age 65) · Penang, Malaysia
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
Thor: Love and Thunder
2022
House of the Dragon
2022
The Legend of Tarzan
2016
Into the Woods
2014
The Death of Stalin
2017
Mary Queen of Scots
2018
Penny Dreadful
2014
The Outfit
2022
My Week with Marilyn
2011
Operation Finale
2018
Radioactive
2020
Operation Mincemeat
2022
Photos (4)
Movies (50)
Thor: Love and Thunder
Dionysus
The Magic Faraway Tree
Know All
The Legend of Tarzan
Mr. Frum
The Death of Stalin
Lavrenti Beria
The Outfit
Roy Boyle
De Gaulle: Résistance
Winston Churchill
Mary Queen of Scots
Robert Beale
The Choral
Sir Edward Elgar
Into the Woods
Baker's Father
De Gaulle: Liberté
Winston Churchill
Operation Mincemeat
Winston Churchill
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
Sir Hector Moreland
My Week with Marilyn
Cotes-Preedy
Alice in Wonderland
King Cedric of Hearts
Firebrand
Stephen Gardiner
Operation Finale
David Ben-Gurion
Radioactive
Professor Lippmann
Persuasion
Charles Musgrove
Orlando
Earl of Moray
Hamlet
Second Gravedigger
Benediction
Robbie Ross
My Cousin Rachel
Couch
An Ideal Husband
Sir Edward
Blackadder: Back & Forth
Wellington
The Deep Blue Sea
Sir William Collyer
The Gathering
Luke Fraser
A Christmas Carol
Scrooge's voice (voice)
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Hamlet
Deep Water
Donald Crowhurst (voice)
The Young Visiters
Prince of Wales
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Richard II
Home! Home!
Narrator (voice)
Museo
Frank Graves
National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy
Henry Lehman
Legacy
Hookey
Shakespeare's Sonnets
2012
Lava Land - Glowing Hawaii
Narrator
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
Sir Harcourt Courtly
RSC Live: The Tempest
Prospero
Sacred Music: God's Composer
Presenter
National Theatre Live: King Lear
Lear, King of Britain
Monteverdi in Mantua - The Genius of the Vespers
presenter
National Theatre Live: Collaborators
Joseph Stalin
National Theatre Live: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
Richard II
Royal Opera House: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The Duchess / Introduced by
National Theatre Live: Timon of Athens
Timon
Sacred Music: A Christmas History
Presenter
An Easter Celebration
presenter
A Musical Nativity with John Rutter
2011
The Temptation of Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
TV Shows (15)
House of the Dragon
Ser Simon Strong · 7 eps
American Experience
John Adams (voice) · 1 eps
Spooks
William Towers · 6 eps
Spooks
Home Secretary · 7 eps
Penny Dreadful
Ferdinand Lyle · 14 eps
The Hollow Crown
Falstaff · 3 eps
Mary & George
Sir George Villiers · 1 eps
Vanity Fair
John Sedley · 7 eps
A Dance to the Music of Time
Widmerpool · 4 eps
A Very Peculiar Practice
Mark Stibbs · 1 eps
Douglas Is Cancelled
Bently · 4 eps
Dunkirk
Winston Churchill · 3 eps
Symphony
4 eps
Simon Schama's Shakespeare
2 eps
Sacred Music
Presenter · 8 eps
