Actor
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Alex Jennings
Born 1957-05-10
📍 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.
Filmography 77
Dirty Business
as Sir James Bevsn
2026
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 KC
2025
MobLand
as Archie Hammond
2025
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
2024
Your Christmas or Mine 2
as Humphrey
2023
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
2022
Munich - The Edge of War
as Sir Horace Wilson
2021
Small Axe
as Judge Clarke
2020
Gold Digger
as Ted Day
2019
National Theatre Live: Hansard
as Robin Hesketh
2019
A Very English Scandal
as Peter Bessell
2018
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
2016
The Lady in the Van
as Alan Bennett
2015
Unforgotten
as Dr Tim Finch
2015
Wolf Hall
as Stephen Gardiner
2015
Castles in the Sky
as Henry Tizard
2014
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
2013
Dickens in London
as Middle-aged Dickens(Voice)
2012
We'll Take Manhattan
as John Parsons
2012
National Theatre Live: Collaborators
as Mikhail Bulgakov
2011
Silk
as Alan Cowdrey QC
2011
National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art
as Henry / Benjamin Britten
2010
On Expenses
2010
The Last Days of Lehman Brothers
as Timothy Geithner
2009
Whitechapel
as Anderson
2009
Being Human
as Griffin
2009
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 Roger Bateman
2008
Cranford
as Reverend Hutton
2007
The Restaurant
2007
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
Lewis
as Rev. Conor Hawes
2007
The State Within
as James Sinclair
2006
Babel
as Ken Clifford
2006
The Queen
as Prince Charles
2006
Riot at the Rite
as Sergei Diaghilev
2005
A Very Social Secretary
as Alastair Campbell
2005
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
as Horatio
2004
Five Children and It
as Father
2004
New Tricks
as Professor Blake
2004
Foyle's War
as Clive Ord-Smith
2002
The Four Feathers
as Colonel Hamilton
2002
Spooks
as James Allan
2002
Waking the Dead
as James Andrews
2001
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
as The Butler
1999
The Hunley
as Lt. Alexander
1999
Liberty!
as King George III
1997
The Wings of the Dove
as Lord Mark
1997
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Theseus / Oberon
1996
Hard Times
as Bitzer
1994
Hard Times
as Bitzer
1994
Dread Poets' Society
as Byron
1992
Alfonso Bonzo
as Alfonso Bonzo
1990
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Dr. Roberts
1989
War Requiem
as Blinded Soldier
1989
The Franchise Affair
as Nevil Bennet
1988
Inspector Morse
as Victor Preece
1987
Smiley's People
as PC Hall
1982