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.
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Films (58)
Prima Facie
2026
La Bataille De Gaulle : Liberté (partie 2)
2026 · Winston Churchill
La bataille de Gaulle : Résistance (partie 1)
2026 · Winston Churchill
El Árbol Mágico
2026 · Know All
El coro de Ramsden
2025 · Sir Edward Elgar
Downton Abbey III : Le Grand Final
2025 · Sir Hector Moreland
Le Jeu de la reine
2024 · Stephen Gardiner
Home! Home!
2024 · Narrator (voice)
Thor : Love and Thunder
2022 · Dionysus
La Ruse
2022 · Winston Churchill
Le tailleur
2022 · Roy Boyle
Les Carnets de Siegfried
2021 · Robbie Ross
A Christmas Carol
2020 · Scrooge's voice (voice)
The Hour
2020 · Himself
Madame Curie
2020 · Professor Lippmann
National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy
2019 · Henry Lehman
National Theatre Live: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
2019 · Richard II
Marie Stuart, reine d'Écosse
2018 · Robert Beale
Opération Finale
2018 · David Ben-Gurion
Museum
2018 · Frank Graves
La Mort de Staline
2017 · Lavrenti Beria
Mi prima Rachel
2017 · Couch
RSC Live: The Tempest
2017 · Prospero
Tarzan
2016 · Mr. Frum
Cunk on Shakespeare
2016 · Self - Actor
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016 · Richard II
Monteverdi in Mantua - The Genius of the Vespers
2015 · presenter
Into the Woods : Promenons-nous dans les bois
2014 · Baker's Father
The Mysterious Mr Webster
2014 · Self - Interviewee
National Theatre Live: King Lear
2014 · Lear, King of Britain
Legacy
2013 · Hookey
Lava Land - Glowing Hawaii
2013 · Narrator
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013 · Hamlet
Muse of Fire
2013 · Self
National Theatre Live: Timon of Athens
2012 · Timon
Shakespeare's Sonnets
2012
A Musical Nativity with John Rutter
2011
Sacred Music: God's Composer
2011 · Presenter
National Theatre Live: Collaborators
2011 · Joseph Stalin
The Deep Blue Sea
2011 · Sir William Collyer
My Week with Marilyn
2011 · Cotes-Preedy
Royal Opera House: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
2011 · The Duchess / Introduced by
Sacred Music: A Christmas History
2010 · Presenter
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
2010 · Sir Harcourt Courtly
BBC Proms: Sondheim's 80th Birthday
2010 · Himself - Performer
An Easter Celebration
2008 · presenter
Deep Water
2006 · Donald Crowhurst (voice)
The Young Visiters
2003 · Prince of Wales
The Gathering
2003 · Luke Fraser
Blackadder: Back & Forth
1999 · Wellington
Alice in Wonderland
1999 · King Cedric of Hearts
An Ideal Husband
1999 · Sir Edward
The Temptation of Franz Schubert
1997 · Franz Schubert
Hamlet
1996 · Second Gravedigger
Persuasion
1995 · Charles Musgrove
Orlando
1992 · Earl of Moray
Time and the Conways
1985 · Party Guest
This Is Your Five Minute Call
· Malcolm
Séries (17)
Douglas Is Cancelled
2024 · Bently
Mary & George
2024 · Sir George Villiers
La maison du dragon
2022 · Ser Simon Strong
Remembers…
2022 · Self
La foire aux vanités
2018 · John Sedley
Penny Dreadful
2014 · Ferdinand Lyle
La guerre des Deux-Roses
2012 · Falstaff
Simon Schama's Shakespeare
2012
Symphony
2011
Sacred Music
2008 · Presenter
Dunkirk
2004 · Winston Churchill
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2002 · William Towers, Home Secretary
A Dance to the Music of Time
1997 · Widmerpool
The Mushroom Picker
1993 · Anthony
Downtown Lagos
1992 · Heron
American Experience
1988 · John Adams (voice)
A Very Peculiar Practice
1986 · Mark Stibbs