Rory Kinnear
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.
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Movies (49)

Onwards and Sideways
2026 · Professor Ridge

Learning to Breathe Under Water
2026 · Peter

All the Devils Are Here
2025 · Harold Laing

Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger
2025 · Dave Fishwick

The Old Man and the Land
2024 · David (voice)

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
2024 · Churchill

El Banco de Dave
2023 · Dave Fishwick

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
2022 · Narrator

Men: Terror en las sombras
2022 · Geoffrey

A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint
2021 · Edward Williams
Designing Bond
2021 · Self

Sin tiempo para morir
2021 · Tanner

The Interview
2019 · Interviewer

Brexit
2019 · Craig Oliver

Peterloo
2018 · Henry Hunt

National Theatre Live: Macbeth
2018 · Macbeth

Nothing Like a Dame
2018 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Zanzibar
2018 · Prince Rico / Gus

National Theatre Live: Young Marx
2017 · Marx

iBoy
2017 · Ellman

Daddy My
2016 · Father

Trespass Against Us
2016 · P.C Lovage

National Theatre Live: The Threepenny Opera
2016 · Captain Macheath, aka 'Mac the Knife'

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016 · Self - Performer

The Roof
2016 · Yet Another Fan

007: Spectre
2015 · Tanner

Atrévete
2015 · Sean

El código enigma
2014 · Detective Robert Nock

Furia cubana
2014 · Gary

Lucan
2013 · Lord Lucan

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013 · Iago

National Theatre Live: Othello
2013 · Iago

Muse of Fire
2013 · Self

Loving Miss Hatto
2012 · Young Barrington Coupe

007: Operación Skyfall
2012 · Tanner

National Theatre Live: The Last of the Haussmans
2012 · Nick

Bond on Location
2012 · Self / Bill Tanner

Broken
2012 · Bob Oswald

National Theatre Live: Hamlet
2010 · Hamlet

Lennon Naked
2010 · Brian Epstein

El primer hombre en la luna
2010 · Bedford

Escape Salvaje
2010 · Gerry Bailey

Wish 143
2009 · Wishman

007: Quantum
2008 · Tanner

Margaret Thatcher: El Largo Camino a Finchley
2008 · Denis Thatcher

The Curse of Steptoe
2008 · Alan Simpson

Mansfield Park
2007 · Rushworth

Judas
2004 · Andrew
Ignition
TV shows (43)

Honey
2026 · Graham Anderson

Lord of the Flies
2026 · Ralph's Father (uncredited)

Amadeus
2025 · Emperor Joseph

Ciudad tóxica
2025 · Des Collins

No digas nada
2024 · Frank Kitson

La diplomática
2023 · Prime Minister Nicol Trowbridge

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
2022 · Tom Bombadil

Nuestra bandera es de muerte
2022 · Captain Nigel Badminton / Chauncey Badminton

Ridley Road
2021 · Colin Jordan

Penny Dreadful: Ciudad de ángeles
2020 · Dr. Peter Craft

Catalina la Grande
2019 · Nikita Ivanovich Panin

Years & Years
2019 · Stephen Lyons

La Colina de Watership
2018 · Cowslip (voice)

Quacks
2017 · Robert Lessing

Guerrilla
2017 · Pence

The Casual Vacancy
2015 · Barry Fairbrother

Penny Dreadful
2014 · John Clare / The Creature

Inside No. 9
2014 · Prince Rico / Gus

Lucan
2013 · Lord Lucan

Southcliffe
2013 · David Whitehead

Count Arthur Strong
2013 · Michael Baker

La Corona Vacía
2012 · Bollingbroke

The Mystery of Edwin Drood
2012 · Reverend Septimus Crisparkle

Black Mirror
2011 · Michael Callow

Women in Love
2011 · Rupert Birkin

Vexed
2010 · Dan Bishop
Return to Cranford
2009 · Septimus

Beautiful People
2008 · Ross

Ashes to Ashes
2008

Cranford
2007 · Septimus Hanbury

Comedy Showcase
2007 · Rob Black

Cinco Días
2007 · Kyle Betts

The One Show
2006 · Self

The Thick of It
2005 · Ed

The Second Coming
2003 · Father Dillane

Ultimate Force
2002
Menace
2002 · Kevin

Judge John Deed
2001

Waking the Dead
2001 · James Mitcham

Messiah
2001 · Stewart Dean

Silent Witness
1996

A Ghost Story for Christmas
1971 · Edward Williams

Blackmere

