Simon Russell Beale

Simon Russell Beale

1961-01-12 Penang, Malaysia 54 Credits

Biography

Sir Simon Russell Beale CBE (born January 12, 1961) is an English actor. He is known for his appearances in film, television and theatre, and work on radio, on audiobooks and as a narrator. For his services to drama, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in 2019. He has spent much of his theatre career working in productions for both the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre. He has received ten Laurence Olivier Award nominations, winning three awards for his perfo...

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The Choral

2025

Acting

Set in Ramsden, Yorkshire in 1916, the plot centers on the chorus master and most of the men of the ambitious local Choral Society, who have volunteer...

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

2025

Acting

When Mary finds herself at the center of a public scandal and the family faces financial trouble, the entire household grapples with the threat of soc...

Firebrand

Firebrand

2024

as Stephen Gardiner

6.4
Acting

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...

Home! Home!

Home! Home!

2024

as Self (narrator)

10.0
Acting

A lyric documentary about home, time, memory and mortality, written by Terence Davies and realised posthumously by the PASSING TIME team, produced for...

Thor: Love and Thunder

Thor: Love and Thunder

2022

as Dionysus

6.4
Acting

After his retirement is interrupted by Gorr the God Butcher, a galactic killer who seeks the extinction of the gods, Thor Odinson enlists the help of ...

Operation Mincemeat

Operation Mincemeat

2022

as Winston Churchill

6.5
Acting

In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain w...

The Outfit

The Outfit

2022

as Roy Boyle

7.1
Acting

Leonard is an English tailor who used to craft suits on London’s world-famous Savile Row. After a personal tragedy, he’s ended up in Chicago, operatin...

Benediction

Benediction

2021

as Robbie Ross

6.2
Acting

Poet Siegfried Sassoon survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery, but became a vocal critic of the gov...

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

2020

as Scrooge's voice (voice)

7.3
Acting

The radical new take on Dickens’ classic seeks both to exhume the original story’s gritty commentary on social inequality and the corrupting influence...

The Hour

The Hour

2020

as Himself

Acting

The hour before actors go on stage at the National Theatre in London is a performance in and of itself.

Radioactive

Radioactive

2020

as Professor Lippmann

6.6
Acting

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...

National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy

National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy

2019

as Henry Lehman

8.7
Acting

On a cold September morning in 1844 a young man from Bavaria stands on a New York dockside. Dreaming of a new life in the new world. He is joined by h...

National Theatre Live: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second

National Theatre Live: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second

2019

as Richard II

10.0
Acting

Simon Russell Beale plays William Shakespeare’s Richard II, broadcast live from the stage of the Almeida Theatre in London to cinemas.

Mary Queen of Scots

Mary Queen of Scots

2018

as Robert Beale

6.6
Acting

In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne and menaces the future of Queen Elizabeth I as ru...

Operation Finale

Operation Finale

2018

as David Ben-Gurion

6.7
Acting

In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argent...

Museo

Museo

2018

as Frank Graves

6.6
Acting

Mexico, 1985. Juan and Wilson, two perennial Veterinary students, perpetrate an audacious heist in the National Museum of Anthropology, running away w...

The Death of Stalin

The Death of Stalin

2017

as Lavrenti Beria

7.0
Acting

When dictator Joseph Stalin dies, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet leader. As they bumble, brawl...

My Cousin Rachel

My Cousin Rachel

2017

as Couch

5.7
Acting

A young Englishman plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian. But his feelings become complicat...

RSC Live: The Tempest

RSC Live: The Tempest

2017

as Prospero

7.0
Acting

On a distant island a man waits. Robbed of his position, power and wealth, his enemies have left him in isolation. But this is no ordinary man, and th...

The Legend of Tarzan

The Legend of Tarzan

2016

as Mr. Frum

5.9
Acting

Tarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining encampment.

Cunk on Shakespeare

Cunk on Shakespeare

2016

as Self - Actor

7.6
Acting

Fresh from her triumphs on Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe investigating time, Winston Churchill, and Donald Trump, Philomena Cunk has finally been give...

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

2016

as Richard II

7.2
Acting

From the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, David Tennant, Catherine Tate and guests mark the life of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversar...

Monteverdi in Mantua - The Genius of the Vespers

Monteverdi in Mantua - The Genius of the Vespers

2015

as presenter

Acting

Monteverdi in Mantua tells the story of the Duke of Mantua and his court composer Claudio Monteverdi during the turbulent times of the late Italian re...

Into the Woods

Into the Woods

2014

as Baker's Father

5.8
Acting

In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.

The Mysterious Mr Webster

2014

as Self - Interviewee

6.0
Acting

Professor James Shapiro goes in search of the mysterious man behind The Duchess of Malfi, the son of a coachmaker who ended up rivalling Shakespeare.

National Theatre Live: King Lear

National Theatre Live: King Lear

2014

as Lear, King of Britain

7.1
Acting

An aged king decides to divide his kingdom between his three daughters, according to which of them is most eloquent in praising him. His favourite, Co...

Legacy

Legacy

2013

as Hookey

5.1
Acting

A KGB plot to attack the UK has plunged Britain into a state of emergency. Charles, a young MI6 spy, is asked to revive an old friendship with Russian...

Lava Land - Glowing Hawaii

Lava Land - Glowing Hawaii

2013

as Narrator

Acting

Hawaii, with its tropical rainforests and diverse coral reef is a spectacular natural paradise for travellers, surfers and all fans of breathtaking sa...

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage

2013

as Hamlet

6.2
Acting

To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the National Theatre of Great Britain presents National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage, bringing together the best Brit...

Muse of Fire

Muse of Fire

2013

as Self

6.5
Acting

Funny, passionate, exciting, and smart: ‘Muse Of Fire’ will change the way you feel about Shakespeare forever. This unique feature documentary follow...

National Theatre Live: Timon of Athens

National Theatre Live: Timon of Athens

2012

as Timon

Acting

Based on Shakespeare’s play, Timon of Athens tells the tale of conspicuous consumption, debt and ruin. Timon of Athens is a wealthy friend to the rich...

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Shakespeare's Sonnets

2012

Acting

Released alongside a spectacular edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets for the Apple iPad, this beautifully produced DVD features specially filmed performa...

A Musical Nativity with John Rutter

A Musical Nativity with John Rutter

2011

Acting

Katie Derham introduces a retelling of the Nativity through the music of John Rutter. Conducted by Rutter himself at Dorchester Abbey, with readings b...

National Theatre Live: Collaborators

National Theatre Live: Collaborators

2011

as Joseph Stalin

Acting

John Hodge's Collaborators centers on an imaginary encounter between Joseph Stalin and the playwright Mikhail Bulgakov.

The Deep Blue Sea

The Deep Blue Sea

2011

as Sir William Collyer

5.9
Acting

The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.

My Week with Marilyn

My Week with Marilyn

2011

as Cotes-Preedy

6.7
Acting

London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his upcoming movie, premiered in 1957 as The Prince an...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House)

2011

as The Duchess / Introduced by

7.7
Acting

A full-length ballet created by choreographer Christopher Wheeldon for the Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The ballet is based o...

A Christmas History

A Christmas History

2010

as Presenter

Acting

Simon Russell Beale takes a journey through Italy, Britain, Germany and Austria as he explores how the sound of Christmas has evolved in response to c...

National Theatre Live: London Assurance

National Theatre Live: London Assurance

2010

as Sir Harcourt Courtly

7.0
Acting

Grace has agreed to marry Sir Harcourt in return for his financial support of her family. At a house party in her father's place, Harcourt's son Charl...

BBC Proms: Sondheim's 80th Birthday

BBC Proms: Sondheim's 80th Birthday

2010

as Himself - Performer

10.0
Acting

Marking the 80th birthday of one of Broadway's great innovators, the first ever all-Sondheim Prom at the Royal Albert Hall. The concert includes excer...

An Easter Celebration

An Easter Celebration

2008

as presenter

Acting

Simon Russell Beale presents a special concert for Easter from LSO St Luke's in London, performed by the award-winning choir The Sixteen, conducted by...

Deep Water

Deep Water

2006

as Donald Crowhurst (voice)

7.3
Acting

DEEP WATER is the stunning true story of the fateful voyage of Donald Crowhurst, an amateur yachtsman who enters the most daring nautical challenge ev...

The Young Visiters

The Young Visiters

2003

as Prince of Wales

5.4
Acting

The Young Visiters, written in twelve days by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford in 1890, is a surreal blend of naiveté, precocious perception and inadverten...

The Gathering

The Gathering

2003

as Luke Fraser

5.5
Acting

Itinerant traveler Cassie Grant comes out of a car accident in Glastonbury, England, with partial memory loss. The deeply regretful driver allows her ...

Blackadder: Back & Forth

Blackadder: Back & Forth

1999

as Wellington

7.0
Acting

What was a cunning plan from Lord Edmund Blackadder V to fake a time machine on his gullibly incompetent friends, turns out to be the real thing and h...

Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland

1999

as King Cedric of Hearts

6.2
Acting

Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a whimsical Wonderland, where she meets characters like the delightful Cheshire Cat, the clumsy W...

An Ideal Husband

An Ideal Husband

1999

as Sir Edward

6.5
Acting

Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London w...

Hamlet

Hamlet

1996

as Second Gravedigger

7.3
Acting

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

Persuasion

Persuasion

1995

as Charles Musgrove

7.1
Acting

Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, is persuaded to break her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young sea capt...

Orlando

Orlando

1992

as Earl of Moray

6.9
Acting

England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to sat...

Time and the Conways

1985

as Party Guest

Acting

1919: the World War is over. Kay Conway celebrates her 21st birthday and all the family look forward with hope and confidence. Then Time begins to con...

De Gaulle – Partie 1 : La France Libre

N/A

as Winston Churchill

Acting

Part one of a two-part biopic following French army officer Charles De Gaulle's life and political commitment between 1940 and 1945, and trace his dev...

The Magic Faraway Tree

The Magic Faraway Tree

N/A

Acting

Soon after the Thompson family’s arrival in the countryside, the three children – Beth, Joe, and Fran – discover a magical tree and its extraordinary ...

De Gaulle – Partie 2

N/A

as Winston Churchill

Acting

Part two of a two-part biopic following French army officer Charles De Gaulle's life and political commitment between 1940 and 1945, and trace his dev...