Rupert Friend
Acting
Born 1981-10-09
Oxfordshire, England, UK
61 credits
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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.
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Filmography
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Acting
53 credits
Homeland
Jurassic World Rebirth
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Pride & Prejudice
Companion
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Virgin Territory
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Asteroid City
The Phoenician Scheme
Infinite
A Simple Favor
Canary Black
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Hitman: Agent 47
Anatomy of a Scandal
High Desert
The Death of Stalin
Dreams
Dream Corp LLC
The Last Legion
The Rat Catcher
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
Starred Up
Last Looks
The Libertine
At Eternity's Gate
Strange Angel
The Zero Theorem
5 Days of War
The Swan
Chéri
The Young Victoria
The American Society of Magical Negroes
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
Outlaw
Separation
To Write Love on Her Arms
Jolene
Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
Prince Consorts: In the Shadow of the Crown
Lullaby for Pi
The Kid
The Moon and the Stars
Jurassic World Rebirth: The Making of a New Era
Stryka
The Boy in the Iron Box
After This Death
Meet Me in Montenegro
Photo Booth
My Notes on Mars
Blake & Mortimer: The Yellow M
Directing
4 credits
Other credits
3 credits
Writing
2 credits
Producing
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