Rory Kinnear
February 17, 1978 (46 years old) in Hammersmith, London, England, UK
Rory Kinnear (born February 17, 1978) is an English actor and playwright who has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre. He is best known for playing Bill Tanner in the James Bond films Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, and Spectre, and in various video games of the franchise. He is the youngest actor to play the role of Bill Tanner. He also won a Laurence Olivier Award for portraying Fopling Flutter in a 2008 version of The Man of Mode, and a British Independent Film Award for his performance in the 2012 film Broken. In 2014, he won the Olivier Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Shakespeare's villain Iago in the National Theatre production of Othello.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · The Old Man and the Land as David (voice)
- 2024 · The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare as Winston Churchill
- 2023 · The Diplomat as Prime Minister Nicol Trowbridge
- 2023 · Bank of Dave as Dave Fishwick
- 2022 · The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power as Tom Bombadil
- 2022 · Men as Geoffrey
- 2022 · Our Flag Means Death as Captain Nigel Badminton / Chauncey Badminton
- 2021 · A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint as Edward Williams
- 2021 · Designing Bond as Self
- 2021 · Ridley Road as Colin Jordan
- 2021 · No Time to Die as Tanner
- 2021 · Being James Bond as Self (archive footage)
- 2020 · Penny Dreadful: City of Angels as Dr. Peter Craft
- 2019 · The Interview as Interviewer
- 2019 · Catherine the Great as Nikita Ivanovich Panin
- 2019 · Years and Years as Stephen Lyons
- 2019 · Brexit: The Uncivil War as Craig Oliver
- 2018 · Watership Down as Cowslip (voice)
- 2018 · Peterloo as Henry Hunt
- 2018 · National Theatre Live: Macbeth as Macbeth
- 2018 · Nothing Like a Dame as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2017 · National Theatre Live: Young Marx as Marx
- 2017 · Quacks as Robert Lessing
- 2017 · Guerrilla as Pence
- 2017 · iBoy as Ellman
- 2016 · Trespass Against Us as P.C Lovage
- 2016 · National Theatre Live: The Threepenny Opera as Captain Macheath, aka 'Mac the Knife'
- 2016 · Shakespeare Live! From the RSC as Self - Performer
- 2016 · The Roof as Yet Another Fan
- 2015 · Spectre as Tanner
- 2015 · Man Up as Sean
- 2015 · The Casual Vacancy as Barry Fairbrother
- 2014 · The Imitation Game as Detective Robert Nock
- 2014 · Penny Dreadful as John Clare / The Creature
- 2014 · Cuban Fury as Gary
- 2014 · Inside No. 9 as Prince Rico / Gus
- 2013 · Lucan as Lord Lucan
- 2013 · Lucan as Lord Lucan
- 2013 · National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage as Iago
- 2013 · National Theatre Live: Othello as Iago
- 2013 · Muse of Fire as Self
- 2013 · Southcliffe as David Whitehead
- 2013 · Count Arthur Strong as Michael Baker
- 2012 · Loving Miss Hatto as Young Barrington Coupe
- 2012 · Skyfall as Tanner
- 2012 · National Theatre Live: The Last of the Haussmans as Nick
- 2012 · Bond on Location as Self / Bill Tanner
- 2012 · Broken as Bob Oswald
- 2012 · The Hollow Crown as Bollingbroke
- 2012 · The Mystery of Edwin Drood as Reverend Septimus Crisparkle
- 2011 · Black Mirror as Michael Callow
- 2011 · Women in Love as Rupert Birkin
- 2010 · National Theatre Live: Hamlet as Hamlet
- 2009 · Wish 143 as Wishman
- 2008 · Beautiful People as Ross
- 2008 · Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley as Denis Thatcher
- Future · Toxic Town as
- 2010 · Lennon Naked as Brian Epstein
- 2010 · The First Men in the Moon as Bedford
- 2010 · Vexed as Dan Bishop
- 2010 · Wild Target as Gerry Bailey
- 2008 · Quantum of Solace as Tanner
- 2008 · The Curse of Steptoe as Alan Simpson
- 2008 · Ashes to Ashes as
- 2007 · Cranford as Septimus Hanbury
- 2007 · Comedy Showcase as Rob Black
- 2007 · Mansfield Park as Rushworth
- 2007 · Five Days as Kyle Betts
- 2005 · The Thick of It as Ed
- 2004 · Judas as Andrew
- 2003 · The Second Coming as Father Dillane
- 2002 · Ultimate Force as
- 2001 · Judge John Deed as
- 2001 · Waking the Dead as James Mitcham
- 2001 · Messiah as Stewart Dean
- 1996 · Silent Witness as
- Future · Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger as Dave Fishwick