Simon Russell Beale
Acting
Born 1961-01-12
Penang, Malaysia
74 credits
BAFTA Awards 1
Laurence Olivier Awards 1
Commander of the Order of the British Empire 1
Knight Bachelor 1
Awards
Won 1 BAFTA Award
BAFTA Awards 1 won
- 2013 Best Supporting Actor Won The Hollow Crown
Tony Awards 1 nominated
- 2004 Best Actor in a Play Nominated
Laurence Olivier Awards 1 won
- — Laurence Olivier Awards Won
Commander of the Order of the British Empire 1 won
- — Commander of the Order of the British Empire Won
Knight Bachelor 1 won
- 2019 Knight Bachelor Won
European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film 1 nominated
- 2018 Best European Film Nominated The Death of Stalin
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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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Filmography
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Acting
56 credits
House of the Dragon
American Experience
Thor: Love and Thunder
Spooks
Penny Dreadful
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
Remembers…
The Hollow Crown
The Legend of Tarzan
The Magic Faraway Tree
Mary & George
Into the Woods
The Choral
The Outfit
De Gaulle: Résistance
The Death of Stalin
Vanity Fair
Mary Queen of Scots
Operation Mincemeat
De Gaulle: Liberté
A Dance to the Music of Time
Douglas Is Cancelled
Operation Finale
Alice in Wonderland
A Very Peculiar Practice
My Week with Marilyn
Persuasion
Firebrand
Hamlet
Orlando
An Ideal Husband
Radioactive
My Cousin Rachel
Benediction
The Gathering
Dunkirk
The Deep Blue Sea
Muse of Fire
BBC Proms: Sondheim's 80th Birthday
Blackadder: Back & Forth
The Mushroom Picker
Lava Land - Glowing Hawaii
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Deep Water
Museo
Home! Home!
National Theatre Live: Collaborators
National Theatre Live: King Lear
Cunk on Shakespeare
A Christmas Carol
The Young Visiters
National Theatre Live: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
Legacy
National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy
Sacred Music: A Christmas History
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
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