Anton Lesser
February 14, 1952 (74 years old) in Birmingham, England, UK
Anton Lesser is a British actor. He is known for his roles as Qyburn in the HBO series Game of Thrones, Harold Macmillan in The Crown, Clement Attlee in A United Kingdom, Chief Superintendent Bright in Endeavour, and Major Lio Partagaz in Andor. An associate of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he has performed numerous Shakespearean roles on stage and television.
Known For
Credits
- 2026 · ViQueens as Lars (voice)
- 2025 · World of Westeros Ambient Video as Qyburn
- 2025 · The Yellow Tie as Martin Steinke
- 2025 · Beshert as Mr Pinsky
- 2025 · The World Will Tremble as Robbi Schulman
- 2023 · Better as Vernon Marley
- 2022 · 1899 as Mr. Franklin
- 2022 · Making 1899 as Self
- 2022 · Andor as Lio Partagaz
- 2022 · Art That Made Us as Self - Actor (Endeavour)
- 2021 · Benediction as Stephen Tennant (Older)
- 2021 · Dalgliesh as Father John
- 2021 · From A Strange Land as Professor Dr Wolfgang Engel
- 2020 · Kindred as Dr. Richards
- 2020 · Gatecrash as Sid
- 2020 · The Courier as Bertrand
- 2019 · The Trial of Christine Keeler as Michael Eddowes
- 2018 · A Discovery of Witches as Rabbi Loew
- 2018 · Disobedience as Rav Krushka
- 2018 · Killing Eve as Robert
- 2018 · On Chesil Beach as Reverend Woollett
- 2017 · The Exception as General Falkenberg
- 2016 · A United Kingdom as Prime Minister Attlee
- 2016 · Allied as Emmanuel Lombard
- 2016 · The Crown as Harold Macmillan
- 2016 · Hooten & The Lady as
- 2015 · Dickensian as Fagin
- 2015 · Life In Squares as Dr. Hyslop
- 2015 · Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience as Qyburn
- 2015 · Wolf Hall as Thomas More
- 2014 · The Game as C
- 2014 · Closer to the Moon as Holban
- 2014 · The Musketeers as
- 2013 · The Escape Artist as Richard Mayfield QC
- 2013 · Atlantis as Kyros
- 2013 · Endeavour as CS Reginald Bright
- 2013 · Father Brown as Father Ignatius
- 2013 · Spies of Warsaw as Doctor Lapp
- 2012 · Ripper Street as Dr. Karl Crabbe
- 2012 · Secret State as Sir Michael Rix
- 2012 · The Scapegoat as Father McReady
- 2012 · The Hollow Crown as Exeter
- 2011 · The Lady as Professor Finnis
- 2011 · Flutter as Bruno
- 2011 · The Man who Crossed Hitler as Rudolf Olden
- 2011 · The Hour as Clarence Fendley
- 2011 · Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides as Lord John Carteret
- 2011 · Game of Thrones as Qyburn
- 2010 · Five Daughters as Dr Nat Cary
- 2009 · Garrow's Law as John Farmer
- 2008 · Einstein and Eddington as Fritz Haber
- 2008 · Little Dorrit as Mr. Merdle
- 2007 · The History of the World Backwards as
- 2006 · Miss Potter as Harold Warne
- 2006 · Vital Signs as Dr Lindsay
- 2005 · Einstein's Big Idea as Voltaire
- 2005 · Class of '76 as Martin Gibson
- 2005 · Class of '76 as Martin Gibson
- 2005 · River Queen as Baine
- 2005 · Ahead of the Class as Graham Ranger
- 2005 · The Girl in the Café as George
- 2005 · Dirty Filthy Love as Charles
- 2004 · London as Charles Dickens
- 2004 · New Tricks as
- 2003 · Eroica as Sukowaty
- 2003 · Otherworld as Teyrnon (voice)
- 2003 · Danielle Cable: Eyewitness as Batten
- 2002 · The Project as Stanley Hall
- 2002 · Foyle's War as Austin Carmichael
- 2002 · Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as Bertilak / Green Knight (voice)
- 2002 · Spooks as Nicholas Ashworth
- 2002 · Dickens as Charles Dickens
- 2001 · Charlotte Gray as Renech
- 2001 · Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story as Vidas Merlinis
- 2001 · Uprising as Nathan Lensky
- 2001 · Uprising as Nathan Lensky
- 2001 · Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes as Milburn
- 2001 · Waking the Dead as Professor Ray Levin
- 2001 · Messiah as Samuel Waite
- 2001 · Perfect Strangers as Stephen
- 2001 · Lorna Doone as Counsellor Doone
- 2000 · Lorna Doone as Counsellor Doone
- 2000 · Esther Kahn as Sean
- 2000 · The Miracle Maker as Herod (voice)
- 1999 · The Scarlet Pimpernel as Antoine Picard
- 1998 · The Echo as Billy Blake
- 1998 · Vanity Fair as Mr Pitt Crawley
- 1998 · Invasion: Earth as Lt. Charles Terrell
- 1997 · FairyTale: A True Story as Wounded Corporal
- 1997 · Into the Blue as Dr. John Ockleton
- 1997 · Bodyguards as Dusan Mesic
- 1997 · Midsomer Murders as Eddie Darwin
- 1997 · Midsomer Murders as Rev. Wallace Stone
- 1996 · The Moonstone as Ezra Jennings
- 1996 · Testament: The Bible in Animation as Joseph (voice)
- 1996 · Moses as Eliav
- 1996 · Silent Witness as Marcus Gwilym
- 1995 · The Politician's Wife as Mark Hollister
- 1995 · Sharman as Galilee
- 1995 · Bugs as Patrick Marcel
- 1994 · Guinevere as Envoy
- 1992 · A Touch of Frost as Dennis Prior
- 1992 · Shakespeare: The Animated Tales as Leontes (voice)
- 1991 · The Strauss Dynasty as Levi
- 1990 · Traitors as Robert Cecil
- 1989 · Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story as Karl/Stein
- 1988 · Twelfth Night, or What You Will as Feste
- 1988 · Airbase as Vincenzo
- 1988 · Stanley as Stanley Spencer
- 1988 · The Play on One as Vincenzo
- 1985 · The Assam Garden as Mr. Sutton
- 1985 · Anna of the Five Towns as Willie Price
- 1985 · Monsignor Quixote as Robber
- 1984 · Freud as Wilhelm Fliess
- 1984 · Sakharov as Valery Chalidze
- 1983 · Good and Bad at Games as
- 1982 · The Missionary as Young Man at Shoot
- 1982 · King Lear as Edgar
- 1981 · Troilus & Cressida as Troilus
- 1981 · The Cherry Orchard as Trofimov
- 1979 · The Serpent Son as Orestes
- 1978 · The Mill on the Floss as Philip Wakem
- 1978 · The Mill on the Floss as Philip Wakem
- 1974 · NOVA as Voltaire
- Future · Santo Subito! as Father Mattew
- Future · A Blue Butterfly as
- Future · Tick Tick Tick as Narrator