Russell Tovey

Russell Tovey

1981-11-14 Billericay, Essex, England, UK 48 Credits

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.

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Plainclothes

Plainclothes

2025

as Andrew

9.4
Acting

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

Life is Excellent

2024

Acting

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

Pet Shop Boys: A New Bohemia

2024

9.0
Acting

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

White Widow

2023

as Charlie

5.0
Acting

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

Love Again

2023

as Billy Brooks

6.8
Acting

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

Allelujah

2023

as Colin Colman

5.2
Acting

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

Wayfinder

2022

as Russell

Acting

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

National Theatre Live: Constellations

2021

as Roland

10.0
Acting

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

Rhythm of Life

2021

as Self

6.5
Acting

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

The Picture of Dorian Gray

2021

as Basil Hallward

3.0
Acting

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

No Masks

2020

Acting

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

Baby Lies Truthfully

2020

Acting

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

It's Me

2020

as Joe

Acting

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

The Good Liar

2019

as Steven

6.7
Acting

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

The Sea

2019

as David

9.0
Acting

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

Hymn of Hate

2018

as Sergeant George May

7.0
Acting

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

Freedom Fighters: The Ray

2018

as Ray Terrill / The Ray (voice)

6.1
Acting

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

National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part Two: Perestroika

2017

as Joseph Pitt/Mormon Centre Father/The Angel Europa

8.6
Acting

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

National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part One: Millennium Approaches

2017

as Joseph Pitt/Prior 1/The Eskimo

8.6
Acting

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

The Hippopotamus

2017

as Rupert Keynes

6.4
Acting

Disgraced poet Ted Wallace is summoned to his friend's country manor to investigate a series of unexplained miracles.

Mindhorn

Mindhorn

2016

as Paul Melly

6.1
Acting

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

Looking: The Movie

2016

as Kevin Matheson

7.2
Acting

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

The Pass

2016

as Jason

6.4
Acting

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

Red Top

2016

as Andy Coulson

5.3
Acting

Comic fantasy telling the story of Rebekah, an innocent and beguiling Northern girl who accidentally becomes Chief Executive of News International and...

Stick Man

Stick Man

2015

as Dog (voice)

6.8
Acting

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

The Lady in the Van

2015

as Young Man with Earring

6.4
Acting

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

Pride

2014

as Tim

7.7
Acting

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

Blackwood

2014

as Jack

5.9
Acting

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

Muppets Most Wanted

2014

as Delivery Man

6.3
Acting

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

Effie Gray

2014

as George

5.9
Acting

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

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide

2013

as Narrator (voice)

7.8
Acting

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

The King is Dead

2013

as Nicky

Acting

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

Tower Block

2012

as Paul

5.8
Acting

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

Grabbers

2012

as Dr. Adam Smith

6.1
Acting

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

Walking the Dogs

2012

as Footman

Acting

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!

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

2012

as The Albino Pirate (voice)

6.5
Acting

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

Acting

Tim's life is a joke. Literally.

The Ballad of Russell & Julie

The Ballad of Russell & Julie

2011

as Midshipman Frame (archive footage)

10.0
Acting

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

Lady Grey London

2010

as Rod

7.0
Acting

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

Huge

2010

as Carl

5.6
Acting

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

Roar

Roar

2009

as Tom

7.6
Acting

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

In Passing

2009

as Henry Travers

8.0
Acting

A Blitz mother confronts a home truth.

Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned

Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned

2007

as Midshipman Alonso Frame

7.6
Acting

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

The History Boys

2006

as Rudge

6.7
Acting

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

My Family and Other Animals

2005

as Leslie Durrell

6.5
Acting

An English family relocates to sunny Greece in the months before WWII.

The Emperor's New Clothes

The Emperor's New Clothes

2001

as Recruit

6.7
Acting

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

The Red Peppers

2001

as Alf

Acting

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

Acting

Written & directed by Jamie Adams