Biography
Russell George Tovey (born 14 November 1981) is an English actor with numerous television, film and stage credits. Tovey is best known for playing the role of a werewolf, George Sands in the BBC's supernatural drama Being Human. His other notable roles include Rudge in both the stage and film version of The History Boys, Steve in the BBC Three sitcom Him & Her, Kevin Matheson in the HBO original series Looking and as Henry Knight on BBC TV series Sherlock.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Plainclothes
2025
as Andrew
A promising undercover officer assigned to lure and arrest gay men defies professional orders when he falls in love with a target.

Life is Excellent
2024
David Robilliard was a talented British artist who died in 1988, aged just 36 years old, one of the many young gay men of his generation lost to AIDS....

Pet Shop Boys: A New Bohemia
2024
Following the release of All of Us Strangers, acclaimed British filmmaker Andrew Haigh shoots Tracey Emin and Russell Tovey alongside the Pet Shop Boy...

White Widow
2023
as Charlie
Across Africa and London, an American woman struggles with recent tragic events, resulting in impromptu rendezvous with a naive Irishman, who takes on...

Love Again
2023
as Billy Brooks
Mira Ray, dealing with the loss of her fiancé, John, sends a series of romantic texts to his old cell phone number… not realizing the number was reass...

Allelujah
2023
as Colin Colman
When news of the closure of a small hospital's geriatric ward begins to reach the community, the hospital invites a local news crew to document their ...

Wayfinder
2022
as Russell
Set during a pandemic, the film tracks the movements of its central protagonist – The Wanderer, a young girl, on an intrepid journey across England. P...

National Theatre Live: Constellations
2021
as Roland
A quantum physicist and a beekeeper meet at a barbeque. They hit it off, or perhaps they don’t. They go home together, or maybe they go their separate...

Rhythm of Life
2021
as Self
A star-studded short film encouraging people to get COVID-19 vaccines and featuring the song "The Rhythm of Life" from the 1966 classic musical, Sweet...

The Picture of Dorian Gray
2021
as Basil Hallward
In a profile pic-obsessed, filter-fixated world where online and reality blur, influencer Dorian Gray makes a deal. For his social star never to fade....

No Masks
2020
No Masks from Theatre Royal Stratford East and Moonshine Features present a new work based on the real-life experiences and testimonies of key workers...

Baby Lies Truthfully
2020
It's 1987. David Robilliard is a young artist and writer in London. His work is raw as it is refreshing. It's coarse but laceratingly clever exploring...

It's Me
2020
as Joe
Set over the course of an evening, a mother remembers moments from a game she played with her son throughout his childhood. Tragedy strikes when he un...

The Good Liar
2019
as Steven
Career con man Roy sets his sights on his latest mark: recently widowed Betty, worth millions. And he means to take it all. But as the two draw closer...

The Sea
2019
as David
On a grey day, a woman sits alone on a beach and calmly watches the birds. As she sits, she is joined by various people who make up the tapestry of he...

Hymn of Hate
2018
as Sergeant George May
Sgt George May and Pvt Billy Booth are sent to patrol the deadly No Man's Land by a young and inexperienced officer, eager to assert authority over hi...

Freedom Fighters: The Ray
2018
as Ray Terrill / The Ray (voice)
Earth-X is one of many realities in the multiverse, with one glaring difference from our Earth: The Nazis won World War II. Led by The Ray, a group of...

National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part Two: Perestroika
2017
as Joseph Pitt/Mormon Centre Father/The Angel Europa
America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and ...

National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part One: Millennium Approaches
2017
as Joseph Pitt/Prior 1/The Eskimo
The National Theatre's live theatrical production of Tony Kushner's two-part play 'Angels In America' about New Yorkers grappling with the AIDS crisis...

The Hippopotamus
2017
as Rupert Keynes
Disgraced poet Ted Wallace is summoned to his friend's country manor to investigate a series of unexplained miracles.

Mindhorn
2016
as Paul Melly
A washed up actor best known for playing the title character in the 1980s detective show "Mindhorn" must work with the police when a serial killer say...

Looking: The Movie
2016
as Kevin Matheson
Patrick returns to San Francisco for the first time in almost a year to celebrate a momentous event with his old friends. In the process, he must face...

The Pass
2016
as Jason
The night before their debut game, two professional soccer players share a kiss. In a sporting world where image is everything, this surprising ‘pass’...

Red Top
2016
as Andy Coulson
Comic fantasy telling the story of Rebekah, an innocent and beguiling Northern girl who accidentally becomes Chief Executive of News International and...

Stick Man
2015
as Dog (voice)
Stick Man lives in the family tree with his Stick Lady Love and their stick children three, and he's heading on an epic adventure across the seasons. ...

The Lady in the Van
2015
as Young Man with Earring
The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van ...

Pride
2014
as Tim
In 1984, a group of LGBT activists decide to raise money to support the National Union of Mineworkers during their lengthy strike. There is only one p...

Blackwood
2014
as Jack
Having recovered from a shattering emotional breakdown, college professor Ben Marshall relocates to the countryside with his wife and young son, hopin...

Muppets Most Wanted
2014
as Delivery Man
While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his das...

Effie Gray
2014
as George
A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide
2013
as Narrator (voice)
The Ultimate Guide was a documentary made by BBC Events Production in London which aired on BBC Three in the run-up to the 50th anniversary of the Doc...

The King is Dead
2013
as Nicky
There's a mole in the organisation, and Lionel doesn't like moles. So he's brought his right hand men Nicky and Frank together, and he's going to find...

Tower Block
2012
as Paul
A year after witnessing a murder, residents of Tower Block 31 find themselves being picked off by a sniper, pitting those lucky enough to be alive int...

Grabbers
2012
as Dr. Adam Smith
Something sinister has come to the shores of Erin Island, unbeknownst to the quaint population of this sleepy fishing village resting somewhere off Ir...

Walking the Dogs
2012
as Footman
A Buckingham Palace guard attending to Queen Elizabeth's room takes her dogs for a walk and while he's away an intruder breaks in for a chat with the ...

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
2012
as The Albino Pirate (voice)
The enthusiastic Pirate Captain, along with his rag-tag crew, sets out to beat his bitter rivals. The chaotic adventure takes them from exotic shores ...
Is This a Joke?
2011
as Tim
Tim's life is a joke. Literally.

The Ballad of Russell & Julie
2011
as Midshipman Frame (archive footage)
David Tennant, Catherine Tate and John Barrowman thank Russell T. Davies and Julie Gardner for their work on Doctor Who in this charming tribute that ...

Lady Grey London
2010
as Rod
Starring Marion Cotillard as Lady Grey, a burlesque artist with magical healing powers, the unshakable Sir Ian Mckellan as her crippled fan and Russel...

Huge
2010
as Carl
A feuding double act try to make it in the cut-throat world of stand-up comedy.

Roar
2009
as Tom
London. It's Christmas. Tom is a timid loner who cuts keys in a dry-cleaners in Soho. He's dominated by his extroverted boss, Mick, who habitually cra...

In Passing
2009
as Henry Travers
A Blitz mother confronts a home truth.

Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned
2007
as Midshipman Alonso Frame
When disaster hits the Titanic, the Doctor uncovers a threat to the whole human race. Battling alongside aliens, saboteurs, robot Angels and a new fri...

The History Boys
2006
as Rudge
The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambrid...

My Family and Other Animals
2005
as Leslie Durrell
An English family relocates to sunny Greece in the months before WWII.

The Emperor's New Clothes
2001
as Recruit
Napoleon, exiled, devises a plan to retake the throne. He'll swap places with commoner Eugene Lenormand, sneak into Paris, then Lenormand will reveal ...

The Red Peppers
2001
as Alf
Set in 1936 during the dying days of music hall, "The Red Peppers' is the poignant story of George and Lily Pepper, a husband and wife comedy double a...
Real Love (Yes, It's Real Love!)
N/A
as Mick
Written & directed by Jamie Adams