Biography
He is best known for playing the lead role of Ian Curtis in the movie Control, a biopic about the lead singer of the 1970s post-punk band Joy Division. His performance in the role won him the British Independent Film Award for "Most Promising Newcomer".[1]. He also won a Kermode for Best Actor 2007 for the film. Prior to his portrayal of Ian Curtis, Riley played The Fall frontman Mark E. Smith in the Michael Winterbottom film 24 Hour Party People, which details the Factory Records era. His scen...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Bulk
2025
When an over zealous scientist pushes his experiments with string theory too far - his brane explodes. That's "brane" not "brain" - but that means som...
Islands
2025
as Tom
Tom is the tennis coach at a luxurious island hotel, filling the time between lessons with alcohol and one-night stands. The arrival of the Maguire fa...
John Cranko
2024
as John Cranko
The gifted, charismatic artist John Cranko moves to the Swabian province from London, where he is attacked for his homosexuality, and after many crise...
Widow Clicquot
2024
as Louis Bohne
After her husband's death, Madame Clicquot flouts convention by assuming the reins of their wine business, defying her critics and ultimately revoluti...
Firebrand
2024
as Thomas Seymour
Katherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, is named regent while the tyrant battles abroad. When the king returns, increasingly ill and parano...
She is Love
2023
as Idris
When Patricia arrives at a country hotel in Cornwall, she encounters her ex husband Idris, who manages the place with his girlfriend Louise. Things ar...
Alfons Jitterbit – Class Trip Chaos!
2022
as Jack
After oversleeping yet again, Alfons manages to catch the bus to his class trip to the Baltic Sea at the last minute. In his luggage: lots of adventur...
The Vault
2021
as James
Madrid, Spain, 2010. While the whole city follows the national team's successful participation in the World Cup, a group of daring thieves look for a ...
Rebecca
2020
as Jack Favell
After a whirlwind romance with a wealthy widower, a naïve bride moves to his family estate but can't escape the haunting shadow of his late wife.
Radioactive
2020
as Pierre Curie
The story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre—and the s...
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
2019
as Diaval
Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending...
The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution
2019
as Narrator English (voice)
In 1979, a revolution in Iran. In 1980, a revolution in Poland. The fall of the Shah, the “King of Kings,” in Iran. Mass strikes and the foundation of...
Sometimes Always Never
2019
as Peter
Alan is a stylish tailor with moves as sharp as his suits. He has spent years searching tirelessly for his missing son Michael who stormed out over a ...
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
2018
as David Burstead
Colin has rented a stately country home for his extended family’s New Year celebrations. He’s the centre of attention until his estranged brother Davi...
Free Fire
2017
as Stevo
Set in Boston in 1978, a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two gangs turns into a shoot-out and a game of survival.
Robby and Toby's Fantastic Voyager
2016
as Brad Blutbad
One day, robot Robby enters into a life of the most creative little boy, Toby. Robby had been separated from his robot parents when his spaceship cras...
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
2016
as Fitzwilliam Darcy
A zombie outbreak has fallen upon the land in this reimagining of Jane Austen's classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from differen...
Suite Française
2015
as Benoit Labarie
France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they...
Maleficent
2014
as Diaval
A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army th...
The Dark Valley
2014
as Greider
The Alps, late 19th century. Greider, a mysterious lone rider who claims to be a photographer, arrives at an isolated lumber village, despotically rul...
Byzantium
2013
as Darvell
Residents of a coastal town learn, with deadly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought refuge at a local resort.
On the Road
2012
as Sal Paradise / Jack Kerouac
Dean and Sal are the portrait of the Beat Generation. Their search for "It" results in a fast paced, energetic roller coaster ride with highs and lows...
Woman in Love
2011
as Wagenmeister
An actor's career takes a "Tootsie"-like turn when he lets himself be cast as a woman in a movie.
Brighton Rock
2010
as Pinkie
Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.
13
2010
as Vince
A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble be...
Franklyn
2008
as Milo
Set between the parallel worlds of contemporary London and the futuristic faith dominated metropolis of Meanwhile City, Franklyn weaves a tale of four...
Control
2007
as Ian Curtis
The story of Joy Division’s lead singer Ian Curtis, from his schoolboy days in 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 198...
Lenny Blue
2002
as James Milton
Two years after the events of Tough Love, Lenny Milton has been transferred, but still finds that he is hated by his colleagues, who have branded him ...
Tough Love
2000
as James Milton
DC Lenny Milton (Winstone) is not as ambitious as his best friend and popular boss DCI Michael Love (Dunbar), but the pair are drinking partners and t...