Alex Jennings
- Acting
- May 10, 1957 · Essex, England, UK
Biography
Alexander "Alex" Jennings (born 10 May 1957) is an English actor, who has worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre. A three-time Olivier Award winner, he won for Too Clever by Half (1988), Peer Gynt (1996), and My Fair Lady (2003). He is the only performer to have won Olivier awards in the drama, musical and comedy categories. He played Prince Charles in the 2006 film The Queen. His other film appearances include The Wings of the Dove (1997), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), Babel (2006) and The Lady in the Van (2015). He also played Edward VIII, the Duke of Windsor, in the critically acclaimed Netflix series The Crown.
Known for
Filmography
- Dirty Business · Sir James Bevsn
- Ballad of a Small Player · Adrian Lippett
- The Phoenician Scheme · Broadcloth
- Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes · Michael Mansfield QC
- MobLand · Archie Hammond
- The Agency · Frank
- Blitz · Victor Smythe
- A Very Royal Scandal · Sir Edward Young
- The New Look · Raymond Dior
- Mr Bates vs The Post Office · James Arbuthnot
- Your Christmas or Mine 2 · Humphrey
- Your Christmas or Mine? · Humphrey
- The Forgiven · Lord Swanthorne
- The Undeclared War · David Neal
- Operation Mincemeat · John Masterman
- This Is Going to Hurt · Lockhart
- Munich - The Edge of War · Sir Horace Wilson
- Small Axe · Judge Clarke
- Gold Digger · Ted Day
- National Theatre Live: Hansard · Robin Hesketh
- A Very English Scandal · Peter Bessell
- Il était une fois... « The Queen » · Self
- The Crown · David, Duke of Windsor
- Denial · Sir Charles Gray
- Victoria · King Leopold
- Churchill's Secret · Anthony Eden
- The Lady in the Van · Alan Bennett
- Unforgotten · Dr Tim Finch
- Wolf Hall · Stephen Gardiner
- Castles in the Sky · Henry Tizard
- National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage · Henry Higgins
- Trap for Cinderella · Chance
- Belle · Lord Ashford
- The Lady Vanishes · Professor Hastings
- Dickens in London · Middle-aged Dickens (Voice)
- We'll Take Manhattan · John Parsons
- National Theatre Live: Collaborators · Mikhail Bulgakov
- Silk · Alan Cowdrey QC
- National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art · Henry / Benjamin Britten
- On Expenses · Andrew Walker
- The Last Days of Lehman Brothers · Timothy Geithner
- Whitechapel · Anderson
- Being Human · Griffin
- The 39 Steps · Captain Kell
- The Disappeared · Adrian Ballan
- Hancock & Joan · John Le Mesurier
- 10 Days to War · Vincent
- Fairy Tales · Roger Bateman
- Cranford · Reverend Hutton
- The Restaurant
- The Graham Norton Show · Self
- Lewis · Rev. Conor Hawes
- The Making of 'The Queen' · Self
- The State Within · James Sinclair
- Babel · Ken Clifford
- The Queen · Prince Charles
- Riot at the Rite · Sergei Diaghilev
- A Very Social Secretary · Alastair Campbell
- Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason · Horatio
- Strings · Utay
- Five Children and It · Father
- London · Stephen Spender
- New Tricks · Professor Blake
- Foyle's War · Clive Ord-Smith
- The Four Feathers · Colonel Hamilton
- Spooks · James Allan
- Waking the Dead · James Andrews
- Too Much Sun · Julian Edgbaston-Bowles
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat · The Butler
- The Hunley · Lt. Alexander
- Liberty! · King George III
- The Wings of the Dove · Lord Mark
- A Midsummer Night's Dream · Theseus / Oberon
- Hard Times · Bitzer
- Dread Poets' Society · Byron
- Ashenden
- Alfonso Bonzo · Alfonso Bonzo
- Agatha Christie's Poirot · Dr. Roberts
- War Requiem · Blinded Soldier
- The Franchise Affair · Nevil Bennet