Sam Riley

Born: 1980-01-08

He is best known for playing the lead role of Ian Curtis in the movie Control, a biopic about the lead singer of the 1970s post-punk band Joy Division. His performance in the role won him the British Independent Film Award for "Most Promising Newcomer".[1]. He also won a Kermode for Best Actor 2007 for the film. Prior to his portrayal of Ian Curtis, Riley played The Fall frontman Mark E. Smith in the Michael Winterbottom film 24 Hour Party People, which details the Factory Records era. His scenes, however, were omitted from the final cut. In September 2007, Riley was cast in Gerald McMorrow's British science fiction film Franklyn. He will play a lead role in 13, an English-language remake of the French thriller 13 Tzameti. He is currently playing the role of Pinkie Brown in a remake of Brighton Rock alongside Helen Mirren.


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Maleficent

as Diaval
Released: 2014-05-28

A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable...

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Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

as Diaval
Released: 2019-10-16

Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them...

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The Vault

as James
Released: 2021-03-04

Madrid, Spain, 2010. While the whole city follows the national team's successful participation...

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Free Fire

as Stevo
Released: 2017-03-31

Set in Boston in 1978, a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two gangs turns into a...

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

as Fitzwilliam Darcy
Released: 2016-02-04

A zombie outbreak has fallen upon the land in this reimagining of Jane Austen's classic tale of...

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Suite Française

as Benoit Labarie
Released: 2015-03-12

France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a...

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13

as Vince
Released: 2010-03-12

A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground...

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On the Road

as Sal Paradise / Jack Kerouac
Released: 2012-05-22

Dean and Sal are the portrait of the Beat Generation. Their search for "It" results in a fast...

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Byzantium

as Darvell
Released: 2012-09-09

Residents of a coastal town learn, with deadly consequences, the secret shared by the two...

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Rebecca

as Jack Favell
Released: 2020-10-16

After a whirlwind romance with a wealthy widower, a naïve bride moves to his family estate but...

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Radioactive

as Pierre Curie
Released: 2020-03-11

The story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through...

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Franklyn

as Milo
Released: 2008-10-16

Set between the parallel worlds of contemporary London and the futuristic faith dominated...

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as Ian Curtis
Released: 2007-09-12

The story of Joy Division’s lead singer Ian Curtis, from his schoolboy days in 1973 to his...

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Brighton Rock

as Pinkie
Released: 2010-09-13

Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious...

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Firebrand

as Thomas Seymour
Released: 2024-03-27

In blood-soaked Tudor England, Katherine Parr, the sixth and last wife of King Henry VIII, is...

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The Dark Valley

as Greider
Released: 2014-02-13

The Alps, late 19th century. Greider, a mysterious lone rider who claims to be a photographer,...

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as Peter
Released: 2019-03-14

Alan is a stylish tailor with moves as sharp as his suits. He has spent years searching...

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Happy New Year, Colin Burstead

as David Burstead
Released: 2018-10-11

Colin has rented a stately country home for his extended family’s New Year celebrations. He’s...

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She is Love

as Idris
Released: 2023-02-03

When Patricia arrives at a country hotel in Cornwall, she encounters her ex husband Idris, who...

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Robby and Toby's Fantastic Voyager

as Brad Blutbad
Released: 2016-12-01

One day, robot Robby enters into a life of the most creative little boy, Toby. Robby had been...

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Alfons Jitterbit – Class Trip Chaos!

as Jack
Released: 2022-07-07

After oversleeping yet again, Alfons manages to catch the bus to his class trip to the Baltic...

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Widow Clicquot

as uncredited
Released: 2023-09-11

The story behind the Veuve Clicquot champagne family and business that began in the late 18th...

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Lenny Blue

as James Milton
Released: 2002-07-01

Two years after the events of Tough Love, Lenny Milton has been transferred, but still finds...

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The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution

as Narrator English (voice)
Released: 2019-09-12

In 1979, a revolution in Iran. In 1980, a revolution in Poland. The fall of the Shah, the “King...

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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Eric Bruney
First aired: 1999-09-20

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In...

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SS-GB

as Douglas Archer
First aired: 2017-02-19

Adapted from Len Deighton’s 1978 alternate history novel. A British detective investigates a...

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