Simon Russell Beale
Actor/Actriz
57
Movies
15
TV Shows
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.
As Actor/Actress
La casa del dragón
Ser Simon Strong
American Experience
John Adams (voice)
Spooks
William Towers
Thor: Amor y Trueno
Dionysus
Penny Dreadful
Ferdinand Lyle
Remembers…
Self
La Corona Vacía
Falstaff
El Árbol Mágico
Know All
La Leyenda de Tarzán
Mr. Frum
Mary & George
Sir George Villiers
Downton Abbey: El gran final
Sir Hector Moreland
La Bataille de Gaulle - L’âge de fer
Winston Churchill
A Very Peculiar Practice
Mark Stibbs
El Sastre de la Mafia
Roy Boyle
Las dos reinas
Robert Beale
El coro de Ramsden
Sir Edward Elgar
Vanity Fair
John Sedley
La muerte de Stalin
Lavrenti Beria
En el bosque
Baker's Father
A Dance to the Music of Time
Widmerpool
Douglas Is Cancelled
Bently
El Arma del Engaño
Winston Churchill
Persuasion
Charles Musgrove
Operación Final
David Ben-Gurion
Hamlet
Second Gravedigger
Dunkirk
Winston Churchill
Mi semana con Marilyn
Cotes-Preedy
Orlando
Earl of Moray
Madame Curie
Professor Lippmann
Alice in Wonderland
King Cedric of Hearts