Simon Russell Beale

Actor

Born: January 12, 1961 (age 65)
From: Penang, Malaysia

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…

Filmography (58)

De Gaulle: Liberté (2026)
Winston Churchill
De Gaulle: Résistance (2026)
Winston Churchill
The Magic Faraway Tree (2026)
Know All
The Choral (2025)
Sir Edward Elgar
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025)
Sir Hector Moreland
Firebrand (2024)
Stephen Gardiner
Home! Home! (2024)
Narrator (voice)
Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
Dionysus
Operation Mincemeat (2022)
Winston Churchill
The Outfit (2022)
Roy Boyle
Benediction (2021)
Robbie Ross
A Christmas Carol (2020)
Scrooge's voice (voice)
The Hour (2020)
Himself
Radioactive (2020)
Professor Lippmann
National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy (2019)
Henry Lehman
National Theatre Live: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (2019)
Richard II
Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
Robert Beale
Operation Finale (2018)
David Ben-Gurion
Museo (2018)
Frank Graves
The Death of Stalin (2017)
Lavrenti Beria
My Cousin Rachel (2017)
Couch
RSC Live: The Tempest (2017)
Prospero
The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
Mr. Frum
Cunk on Shakespeare (2016)
Self - Actor
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC (2016)
Richard II
Monteverdi in Mantua - The Genius of the Vespers (2015)
presenter
Into the Woods (2014)
Baker's Father
The Mysterious Mr Webster (2014)
Self - Interviewee
National Theatre Live: King Lear (2014)
Lear, King of Britain
Legacy (2013)
Hookey