Acting • AGE 69
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 ...


Dirty Business
Sir James Bevsn
2026

Ballad of a Small Player
Adrian Lippett
2025

The Phoenician Scheme
Broadcloth
2025

Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes
Michael Mansfield KC
2025

MobLand
Archie Hammond
2025

The Agency
Frank
2024

Blitz
Victor Smythe
2024

A Very Royal Scandal
Sir Edward Young
2024

The New Look
Raymond Dior
2024

Mr Bates vs The Post Office
James Arbuthnot
2024

Your Christmas or Mine 2
Humphrey
2023

Your Christmas or Mine?
Humphrey
2022

The Forgiven
Lord Swanthorne
2022

The Undeclared War
David Neal
2022

Operation Mincemeat
John Masterman
2022

This Is Going to Hurt
Lockhart
2022

Munich - The Edge of War
Sir Horace Wilson
2021

Small Axe
Judge Clarke
2020

Gold Digger
Ted Day
2019

National Theatre Live: Hansard
Robin Hesketh
2019

A Very English Scandal
Peter Bessell
2018

The Crown
David, Duke of Windsor
2016

Denial
Sir Charles Gray
2016

Victoria
King Leopold
2016

Churchill's Secret
Anthony Eden
2016

The Lady in the Van
Alan Bennett
2015

Unforgotten
Dr Tim Finch
2015

Wolf Hall
Stephen Gardiner
2015

Castles in the Sky
Henry Tizard
2014

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Henry Higgins
2013

Trap for Cinderella
Chance
2013

Belle
Lord Ashford
2013

The Lady Vanishes
Professor Hastings
2013

Dickens in London
Middle-aged Dickens(Voice)
2012

We'll Take Manhattan
John Parsons
2012

National Theatre Live: Collaborators
Mikhail Bulgakov
2011

Silk
Alan Cowdrey QC
2011

National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art
Henry / Benjamin Britten
2010

On Expenses
Andrew Walker
2010

The Last Days of Lehman Brothers
Timothy Geithner
2009

Whitechapel
Anderson
2009

Being Human
Griffin
2009

The 39 Steps
Captain Kell
2008

The Disappeared
Adrian Ballan
2008

Hancock & Joan
John Le Mesurier
2008

10 Days to War
Vincent
2008

Fairy Tales
Roger Bateman
2008

Cranford
Reverend Hutton
2007

The Restaurant
2007

The Graham Norton Show
Self
2007

Lewis
Rev. Conor Hawes
2007

The State Within
James Sinclair
2006

Babel
Ken Clifford
2006

The Queen
Prince Charles
2006

Riot at the Rite
Sergei Diaghilev
2005

A Very Social Secretary
Alastair Campbell
2005

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Horatio
2004

Strings
Utay
2004

Five Children and It
Father
2004

New Tricks
Professor Blake
2004

Foyle's War
Clive Ord-Smith
2002

The Four Feathers
Colonel Hamilton
2002

Spooks
James Allan
2002

Waking the Dead
James Andrews
2001

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
The Butler
1999

The Hunley
Lt. Alexander
1999

Liberty!
King George III
1997

The Wings of the Dove
Lord Mark
1997

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Theseus / Oberon
1996

Hard Times
Bitzer
1994

Hard Times
Bitzer
1994

Dread Poets' Society
Byron
1992

Alfonso Bonzo
Alfonso Bonzo
1990

Agatha Christie's Poirot
Dr. Roberts
1989

War Requiem
Blinded Soldier
1989

The Franchise Affair
Nevil Bennet
1988

Inspector Morse
Victor Preece
1987

ScreenPlay
Lord Byron
1986

Smiley's People
PC Hall
1982