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Simon Russell Beale

English
Filmography

Thor: Love and Thunder

2022
as Dionysus

Penny Dreadful

2014
as Ferdinand Lyle

Into the Woods

2014
as Baker's Father

Radioactive

2020
as Professor Lippmann

The Legend of Tarzan

2016
as Mr. Frum

The Outfit

2022
as Roy

Mary Queen of Scots

2018
as Robert Beale

The Death of Stalin

2017
as Lavrenti Beria

My Week with Marilyn

2011
as Cotes-Preedy

The Hollow Crown

2012
as Sir John Falstaff

Vanity Fair (2018)

2018
as John Sedley

Operation Mincemeat

2022

Operation Finale

2018
as David Ben-Gurion

Spooks

2002
as Home Secretary William Towers

A Dance to the Music of Time

1997
as Widmerpool

Alice in Wonderland

1999
as King Cedric of Hearts

The Gathering

2003
as Luke Fraser

Dunkirk

2004
as Winston Churchill

National Theatre Live: The Tragedy of Richard II

2019
as King Richard II

Firebrand

2024
as Stephen Gardiner

The Young Visiters

2003
as Prince of Wales

Douglas Is Cancelled

The Temptation of Franz Schubert

1997
as Franz Schubert

Benediction

2021
as Bobbie Ross

Sacred Music

2008
as Presenter

National Theatre Live: Collaborators

2011
as Joseph Stalin

Symphony

2011
as Presenter

BBC Proms: Sondheim's 80th Birthday

2010
as Himself - Performer

Persuasion

1995
as Charles Musgrove

Orlando

1992
as Earl of Moray

Museo

2018
as Frank Graves

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

2011
as The Duchess / Introduced by

Deep Water

2006
as Donald Crowhurst (voice)

An Ideal Husband

1999
as Sir Edward

The Deep Blue Sea

2011
as Sir William Collyer

National Theatre Live: London Assurance

2010
as Sir Harcourt Courtly

National Theatre Live: Timon of Athens

2012
as Timon

Hamlet

1996
as Second Gravedigger

My Cousin Rachel

2017
as Couch

Muse of Fire

2013
as Himself

National Theatre Live: King Lear

2014
as Lear, King of Britain

National Theatre Live: Fifty Years on Stage

2013
as Hamlet

Writer

Episode Sacred Music at Christmas
A Christmas History 		2010
Episode Sacred Music at Christmas
A Choral Christmas 		2010
Episode The Secret Life of Books
Shakespeare's First Folio 		2014
Episode The Secret Life of Books
Mrs Dalloway 		2014

Guest Star

Episode BBC Documentaries
God's Composer 		2011
Episode My Shakespeare
Christopher Plummer on King Lear 		2014
Episode The Secret Life of Books
Shakespeare's First Folio 		2014
Episode Penny Dreadful
The Day Tennyson Died 		2016
Episode BBC Proms
Sondheim's 80th Birthday Celebration 		2010
Episode BBC Proms
War Horse at the Proms 		2014
Episode The South Bank Show
Macbeth 		2007
Episode BBC Documentaries
Sacred Music: The Story of Allegri's Miserere 		2008
Episode Blackadder
Blackadder Back & Forth 		1999
Episode Mary & George
The Second Son 		2024
Episode Sacred Music
A Christmas History 		2010
Episode Sacred Music
A Choral Christmas 		2010
Episode Penny Dreadful
No Beast So Fierce 		2016