Alex Jennings
May 10, 1957 (67 years old) in Essex, England, UK
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alexander "Alex" Jennings (born 10 May 1957) is an English actor, who has worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre. A three-time Olivier Award winner, he won for Too Clever by Half (1988), Peer Gynt (1996), and My Fair Lady (2003). He is the only performer to have won Olivier awards in the drama, musical and comedy categories. He played Prince Charles in the 2006 film The Queen. His other film appearances include The Wings of the Dove (1997), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), Babel (2006) and The Lady in the Van (2015). He also played Edward VIII, the Duke of Windsor, in the critically acclaimed Netflix series The Crown.
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Credits
- 2025 · Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes as Michael Mansfield KC
- 2025 · MobLand as Archie Hammond
- 2024 · The Agency: Central Intelligence as Frank
- 2024 · Blitz as Victor Smythe
- 2024 · A Very Royal Scandal as Sir Edward Young
- 2024 · The New Look as Raymond Dior
- 2024 · Mr Bates vs The Post Office as James Arbuthnot
- 2023 · Your Christmas or Mine 2 as Humphrey
- 2022 · Your Christmas or Mine? as Humphrey
- 2022 · The Forgiven as Lord Swanthorne
- 2022 · The Undeclared War as David Neal
- 2022 · Operation Mincemeat as John Masterman
- 2022 · This Is Going to Hurt as Lockhart
- 2021 · Munich – The Edge of War as Sir Horace Wilson
- 2020 · Small Axe as Judge Clarke
- 2019 · Gold Digger as Ted Day
- 2019 · National Theatre Live: Hansard as Robin Hesketh
- 2018 · A Very English Scandal as Peter Bessell
- 2017 · Il était une fois... « The Queen » as Self
- 2016 · The Crown as David, Duke of Windsor
- 2016 · Denial as Sir Charles Gray
- 2016 · Victoria as King Leopold
- 2016 · Churchill's Secret as Anthony Eden
- 2015 · The Lady in the Van as Alan Bennett
- 2015 · Unforgotten as Dr Tim Finch
- 2015 · Wolf Hall as Stephen Gardiner
- 2014 · Castles in the Sky as Henry Tizard
- 2013 · National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage as Henry Higgins
- 2013 · Trap for Cinderella as Chance
- 2013 · Belle as Lord Ashford
- 2013 · The Lady Vanishes as The Professor
- 2012 · Dickens in London as Middle-aged Dickens(Voice)
- 2012 · We'll Take Manhattan as John Parsons
- 2011 · National Theatre Live: Collaborators as Mikhail Bulgakov
- 2011 · Silk as Alan Cowdrey
- 2010 · National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art as Henry / Benjamin Britten
- 2010 · On Expenses as
- 2009 · The Last Days of Lehman Brothers as Timothy Geithner
- 2009 · Whitechapel as Anderson
- 2009 · Being Human as Griffin
- 2008 · The 39 Steps as Captain Kell
- 2008 · The Disappeared as Adrian Ballan
- 2008 · Hancock & Joan as John Le Mesurier
- 2008 · 10 Days to War as Vincent
- 2008 · Fairy Tales as
- 2007 · Cranford as Reverend Hutton
- 2007 · The Restaurant as
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2007 · Lewis as Rev. Conor Hawes
- 2006 · The State Within as
- 2006 · Babel as Ken Clifford
- 2006 · The Queen as Charles III of the United Kingdom
- 2005 · Riot at the Rite as Sergei Diaghilev
- 2005 · A Very Social Secretary as Alastair Campbell
- 2004 · Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason as Horatio
- 2004 · Five Children and It as Father
- 2004 · London as Stephen Spender
- 2004 · New Tricks as Professor Blake
- 2002 · The Four Feathers as Colonel Hamilton
- 2002 · Spooks as James Allan
- 2001 · Waking the Dead as James Andrews
- 2000 · Too Much Sun as Julian Edgbaston-Bowles
- 1999 · Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat as The Butler
- 1999 · The Hunley as Lt. Alexander
- 1997 · Liberty! as King George III
- 1997 · The Wings of the Dove as Lord Mark
- 1996 · A Midsummer Night's Dream as Theseus / Oberon
- 1994 · Hard Times as Bitzer
- 1994 · Hard Times as Bitzer
- 1992 · Dread Poets' Society as Byron
- 1991 · Ashenden as
- 1989 · Agatha Christie's Poirot as Dr. Roberts
- 1989 · War Requiem as Blinded Soldier
- 1988 · The Franchise Affair as Nevil Bennet
- 1987 · Inspector Morse as Victor Preece
- 1982 · Smiley's People as