Alex Jennings
40 movies · 40 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 10, 1957 (age 69)
- Place of birth
- Essex, England, UK
- Also known as
- Alexander Jennings
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.
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Known for
Alex Jennings: movies and TV shows
Acting (80)
- Upcoming
- 2026
- 2025 Ballad of a Small Player
as Adrian Lippett
- 2025 The Phoenician Scheme
as Broadcloth
- 2025
- 2025
- 2024
- 2024 Blitz
as Victor Smythe
- 2024
- 2024
- 2024
- 2023 Your Christmas or Mine 2
as Humphrey
- 2022 Your Christmas or Mine?
as Humphrey
- 2022 The Forgiven
as Lord Swanthorne
- 2022
- 2022 Operation Mincemeat
as John Masterman
- 2022
- 2021 Munich - The Edge of War
as Sir Horace Wilson
- 2020
- 2019
- 2019 National Theatre Live: Hansard
as Robin Hesketh
- 2018
- 2016
- 2016 Denial
as Sir Charles Gray
- 2016
- 2016 Churchill's Secret
as Anthony Eden
- 2015 The Lady in the Van
as Alan Bennett
- 2015
- 2015
- 2014 Castles in the Sky
as Henry Tizard
- 2013 National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
as Henry Higgins
- 2013 Trap for Cinderella
as Chance
- 2013 Belle
as Lord Ashford
- 2013 The Lady Vanishes
as Professor Hastings
- 2012 Dickens in London
as Middle-aged Dickens(Voice)
- 2012 We'll Take Manhattan
as John Parsons
- 2011 National Theatre Live: Collaborators
as Mikhail Bulgakov
- 2011
- 2010 National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art
as Henry / Benjamin Britten
- 2010 On Expenses
as Andrew Walker
- 2009 The Last Days of Lehman Brothers
as Timothy Geithner
- 2009
- 2009
- 2008 The 39 Steps
as Captain Kell
- 2008 The Disappeared
as Adrian Ballan
- 2008 Hancock & Joan
as John Le Mesurier
- 2008
- 2008
- 2007
- 2007
- 2006
- 2006 Babel
as Ken Clifford
- 2006 The Queen
as Prince Charles
- 2005 Riot at the Rite
as Sergei Diaghilev
- 2005 A Very Social Secretary
as Alastair Campbell
- 2004 Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
as Horatio
- 2004 Strings
as Utay
- 2004 Five Children and It
as Father
- 2004
- 2004
- 2002
- 2002 The Four Feathers
as Colonel Hamilton
- 2002
- 2001
- 2000
- 1999 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
as The Butler
- 1999 The Hunley
as Lt. Alexander
- 1997
- 1997 The Wings of the Dove
as Lord Mark
- 1996 A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Theseus / Oberon
- 1994
- 1992 Dread Poets' Society
as Byron
- 1991
- 1990
- 1989
- 1989 War Requiem
as Blinded Soldier
- 1988
- 1987
- 1986
- 1982
Talk shows and appearances (4)
- 2017
- 2007 The Restaurant
38 episodes
- 2007 The Graham Norton Show
1 episode
- 2007