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Simon Russell Beale
Born 12 January 1961 65 years old Penang, Malaysia Who else is 65? → TMDB ↗
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.
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24age in their first credit on record (1985)
41years on screen and counting
6credits in 2011, their busiest year
61dated credits on record
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Movie credits
Prima Facie
This Is Your Five Minute Call
as Malcolm
Age: 65 De Gaulle: Liberté
2026as Winston Churchill
Age: 65 De Gaulle: Résistance
2026as Winston Churchill
Age: 65 The Magic Faraway Tree
2026as Know All
Age: 64 The Choral
2025as Sir Edward Elgar
Age: 64 Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
2025as Sir Hector Moreland
Age: 63 Firebrand
2024as Stephen Gardiner
Age: 63 Home! Home!
2024as Narrator (voice)
Age: 61 Thor: Love and Thunder
2022as Dionysus
Age: 61 Operation Mincemeat
2022as Winston Churchill
Age: 61 The Outfit
2022as Roy Boyle
Age: 60 Benediction
2021as Robbie Ross
Age: 59 A Christmas Carol
2020as Scrooge's voice (voice)
Age: 59 Radioactive
2020as Professor Lippmann
Age: 58 National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy
2019as Henry Lehman
Age: 58 National Theatre Live: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
2019as Richard II
Age: 57 Mary Queen of Scots
2018as Robert Beale
Age: 57 Operation Finale
2018as David Ben-Gurion
Age: 57 Museo
2018as Frank Graves
Age: 56 The Death of Stalin
2017as Lavrenti Beria
Age: 56 My Cousin Rachel
2017as Couch
Age: 55 RSC Live: The Tempest
2017as Prospero
Age: 55 The Legend of Tarzan
2016as Mr. Frum
Age: 55 Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016as Richard II
Age: 53 Into the Woods
2014as Baker's Father
Age: 53 National Theatre Live: King Lear
2014as Lear, King of Britain
Age: 52 Legacy
2013as Hookey
Age: 52 National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013as Hamlet
Age: 51 National Theatre Live: Timon of Athens
2012as Timon
Age: 51 Shakespeare's Sonnets
2012
Age: 50 A Musical Nativity with John Rutter
2011
Age: 50 National Theatre Live: Collaborators
2011as Joseph Stalin
Age: 50 The Deep Blue Sea
2011as Sir William Collyer
Age: 50 My Week with Marilyn
2011as Cotes-Preedy
Age: 50 Royal Opera House: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
2011as The Duchess / Introduced by
Age: 49 National Theatre Live: London Assurance
2010as Sir Harcourt Courtly
Age: 45 Deep Water
2006as Donald Crowhurst (voice)
Age: 42 The Young Visiters
2003as Prince of Wales
Age: 42 The Gathering
2003as Luke Fraser
Age: 38 Blackadder: Back & Forth
1999as Wellington
Age: 38 Alice in Wonderland
1999as King Cedric of Hearts
Age: 38 An Ideal Husband
1999as Sir Edward
Age: 36 The Temptation of Franz Schubert
1997as Franz Schubert
Age: 35 Hamlet
1996as Second Gravedigger
Age: 34 Persuasion
1995as Charles Musgrove
Age: 31 Orlando
1992as Earl of Moray
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Age: 24 Time and the Conways
1985as Party Guest
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TV credits
Age: 63 Douglas Is Cancelled
2024as Bently
Age: 63 Mary & George
2024as Sir George Villiers
Age: 61 House of the Dragon
2022as Ser Simon Strong
Age: 57 Vanity Fair
2018as John Sedley
Age: 53 Penny Dreadful
2014as Ferdinand Lyle
Age: 51 The Hollow Crown
2012as Falstaff
Age: 51 Simon Schama's Shakespeare
2012
Age: 50 Symphony
2011
Age: 43 Dunkirk
2004as Winston Churchill
Age: 41 Spooks
2002as William Towers
Age: 41 Spooks
2002as Home Secretary
Age: 36 A Dance to the Music of Time
1997as Widmerpool
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Age: 32 The Mushroom Picker
1993as Anthony
Age: 27 American Experience
1988as John Adams (voice)
Age: 25 A Very Peculiar Practice
1986as Mark Stibbs