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.
After his retirement is interrupted by Gorr the God Butcher, a galactic killer who seeks the...
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The Legend of Tarzan
as Mr. FrumTarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to...
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The Outfit
as Roy BoyleLeonard is an English tailor who used to craft suits on London’s world-famous Savile Row. After...
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Into the Woods
as Baker's FatherIn a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the...
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The Death of Stalin
as Lavrenti BeriaWhen dictator Joseph Stalin dies, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle...
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Firebrand
as Stephen GardinerKatherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, is named regent while the tyrant battles...
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Persuasion
as Charles MusgroveAnne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, is persuaded to break...
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My Week with Marilyn
as Cotes-PreedyLondon, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of...
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Mary Queen of Scots
as Robert BealeIn 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful...
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In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to...
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Alice in Wonderland
as King Cedric of HeartsAlice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a whimsical Wonderland, where she meets...
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Hamlet
as Second GravediggerHamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying...
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Radioactive
as Professor LippmannThe story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through...
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Operation Finale
as David Ben-GurionIn 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi...
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My Cousin Rachel
as CouchA young Englishman plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she...
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Orlando
as Earl of MorayEngland, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that...
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An Ideal Husband
as Sir EdwardSir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All...
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The Gathering
as Luke FraserItinerant traveler Cassie Grant comes out of a car accident in Glastonbury, England, with...
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Benediction
as Robbie RossPoet Siegfried Sassoon survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated...
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The Deep Blue Sea
as Sir William CollyerThe wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force...
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Blackadder: Back & Forth
as WellingtonWhat was a cunning plan from Lord Edmund Blackadder V to fake a time machine on his gullibly...
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Museo
as Frank GravesMexico, 1985. Juan and Wilson, two perennial Veterinary students, perpetrate an audacious heist...
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Deep Water
as Donald Crowhurst (voice)DEEP WATER is the stunning true story of the fateful voyage of Donald Crowhurst, an amateur...
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Muse of Fire
as SelfFunny, passionate, exciting, and smart: ‘Muse Of Fire’ will change the way you feel about...
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National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
as HamletTo celebrate its 50th anniversary, the National Theatre of Great Britain presents National...
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The Young Visiters
as Prince of WalesThe Young Visiters, written in twelve days by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford in 1890, is a surreal...
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National Theatre Live: London Assurance
as Sir Harcourt CourtlyGrace has agreed to marry Sir Harcourt in return for his financial support of her family. At a...
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Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
as Richard IIFrom the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, David Tennant, Catherine Tate and guests mark...
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Legacy
as HookeyA KGB plot to attack the UK has plunged Britain into a state of emergency. Charles, a young MI6...
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National Theatre Live: King Lear
as Lear, King of BritainAn aged king decides to divide his kingdom between his three daughters, according to which of...
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A Christmas Carol
as Scrooge's voice (voice)The radical new take on Dickens’ classic seeks both to exhume the original story’s gritty...
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National Theatre Live: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
as Richard IISimon Russell Beale plays William Shakespeare’s Richard II, broadcast live from the stage of the...
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House)
as The Duchess / Introduced byA full-length ballet created by choreographer Christopher Wheeldon for the Royal Ballet at the...
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Cunk on Shakespeare
as Self - ActorFresh from her triumphs on Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe investigating time, Winston Churchill,...
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National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy
as Henry LehmanOn a cold September morning in 1844 a young man from Bavaria stands on a New York dockside....
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The Hour
as HimselfThe hour before actors go on stage at the National Theatre in London is a performance in and of...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
as uncreditedReleased alongside a spectacular edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets for the Apple iPad, this...
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National Theatre Live: Collaborators
as Joseph StalinJohn Hodge's Collaborators centers on an imaginary encounter between Joseph Stalin and the...
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Home! Home!
as Self (narrator)A lyric documentary about home, time, memory and mortality, written by Terence Davies and...
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RSC Live: The Tempest
as ProsperoOn a distant island a man waits. Robbed of his position, power and wealth, his enemies have left...
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BBC Proms: Sondheim's 80th Birthday
as Himself - PerformerMarking the 80th birthday of one of Broadway's great innovators, the first ever all-Sondheim...
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Monteverdi in Mantua - The Genius of the Vespers
as presenterMonteverdi in Mantua tells the story of the Duke of Mantua and his court composer Claudio...
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Lava Land - Glowing Hawaii
as NarratorHawaii, with its tropical rainforests and diverse coral reef is a spectacular natural paradise...
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A Christmas History
as PresenterSimon Russell Beale takes a journey through Italy, Britain, Germany and Austria as he explores...
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National Theatre Live: Timon of Athens
as TimonBased on Shakespeare’s play, Timon of Athens tells the tale of conspicuous consumption, debt and...
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An Easter Celebration
as presenterSimon Russell Beale presents a special concert for Easter from LSO St Luke's in London,...
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House of the Dragon
as Ser Simon StrongThe Targaryen dynasty is at the absolute apex of its power, with more than 15 dragons under...
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Spooks
as William TowersTense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they...
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Spooks
as Home SecretaryTense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they...
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American Experience
as John Adams (voice)TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform...
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Blackadder
as NapoléonBlack Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders...
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Mary & George
as Sir George VilliersIn 17th century England, Mary Villiers molds her beautiful son, George, to seduce King James I,...
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Penny Dreadful
as Ferdinand LyleSome of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and...
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The Hollow Crown
as FalstaffA series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare's History Plays.
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Douglas Is Cancelled
as BentlyThe career of respected news presenter Douglas is threatened after he makes an ill-advised joke....
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A Dance to the Music of Time
as WidmerpoolA Dance to the Music of Time is a four-part adaptation of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel...
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Vanity Fair
as John SedleyIn a world where everyone is striving for what is not worth having, no one is more determined to...
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A Very Peculiar Practice
as Mark StibbsA young and idealistic Doctor Stephen Daker arrives at Lowlands University to work at the Health...
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Simon Schama's Shakespeare
as uncreditedSimon Schama explores the life and times of William Shakespeare to shed a new and fascinating...
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Dunkirk
as Winston ChurchillMajor factual drama telling the story of history's greatest maritime evacuation, after the World...
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Symphony
as uncreditedSimon Russell Beale presents a radical reappraisal of the place of the symphony in the modern...
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