Alex Jennings
May 10, 1957 (69 years old) in Essex, England, UK
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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- 2025 · Ballad of a Small Player as Adrian Lippett
- 2025 · The Phoenician Scheme as Broadcloth
- 2025 · Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes as Michael Mansfield QC
- 2025 · MobLand as Archie Hammond
- 2024 · The Agency as Frank
- 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
- 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
- 2020 · Small Axe as Judge Clarke
- 2019 · Gold Digger as Ted Day
- 2018 · A Very English Scandal as Peter Bessell
- 2016 · The Crown as David, Duke of Windsor
- 2016 · Victoria as King Leopold
- 2015 · The Lady in the Van as Alan Bennett
- 2015 · Unforgotten as Dr Tim Finch
- 2015 · Wolf Hall as Stephen Gardiner
- 2011 · Silk as Alan Cowdrey QC
- 2009 · Whitechapel as Anderson
- 2009 · Being Human as Griffin
- 2008 · Fairy Tales as Roger Bateman
- 2007 · Cranford as Reverend Hutton
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2007 · Lewis as Rev. Conor Hawes
- 2006 · The State Within as James Sinclair
- 2006 · Babel as Ken Clifford
- 2006 · The Queen as Prince Charles
- 2004 · Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason as Horatio
- 2004 · New Tricks as Professor Blake
- 2002 · Foyle's War as Clive Ord-Smith
- 2002 · The Four Feathers as Colonel Hamilton
- 2002 · Spooks as James Allan
- 2001 · Waking the Dead as James Andrews
- 1997 · Liberty! as King George III
- 1989 · Agatha Christie's Poirot as Dr. Roberts
- 1987 · Inspector Morse as Victor Preece
- 1986 · ScreenPlay as Lord Byron
- 1982 · Smiley's People as PC Hall
- Future · The Siege as
- 2026 · Dirty Business as Sir James Bevsn
- 2024 · Blitz as Victor Smythe
- 2023 · Your Christmas or Mine 2 as Humphrey
- 2022 · Your Christmas or Mine? as Humphrey
- 2021 · Munich - The Edge of War as Sir Horace Wilson
- 2019 · National Theatre Live: Hansard as Robin Hesketh
- 2017 · Il était une fois... « The Queen » as Self
- 2016 · Denial as Sir Charles Gray
- 2016 · Churchill's Secret as Anthony Eden
- 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 Professor Hastings
- 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
- 2010 · National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art as Henry / Benjamin Britten
- 2010 · On Expenses as Andrew Walker
- 2009 · The Last Days of Lehman Brothers as Timothy Geithner
- 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
- 2007 · The Restaurant as
- 2007 · The Making of 'The Queen' as Self
- 2005 · Riot at the Rite as Sergei Diaghilev
- 2005 · A Very Social Secretary as Alastair Campbell
- 2004 · Strings as Utay
- 2004 · Five Children and It as Father
- 2004 · London as Stephen Spender
- 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 · The Wings of the Dove as Lord Mark
- 1996 · A Midsummer Night's Dream as Theseus / Oberon
- 1994 · Hard Times as Bitzer
- 1992 · Dread Poets' Society as Byron
- 1991 · Ashenden as
- 1990 · Alfonso Bonzo as Alfonso Bonzo
- 1989 · War Requiem as Blinded Soldier
- 1988 · The Franchise Affair as Nevil Bennet