Acting • AGE 65
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 se...


De Gaulle: Liberté
Winston Churchill
2026

De Gaulle: Résistance
Winston Churchill
2026

The Magic Faraway Tree
Know All
2026

The Choral
Sir Edward Elgar
2025

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
Sir Hector Moreland
2025

Douglas Is Cancelled
Bently
2024

Firebrand
Stephen Gardiner
2024

Mary & George
Sir George Villiers
2024

Home! Home!
Narrator (voice)
2024

House of the Dragon
Ser Simon Strong
2022

Thor: Love and Thunder
Dionysus
2022

Remembers…
Self
2022

Operation Mincemeat
Winston Churchill
2022

The Outfit
Roy Boyle
2022

Benediction
Robbie Ross
2021

A Christmas Carol
Scrooge's voice (voice)
2020

The Hour
Himself
2020

Radioactive
Professor Lippmann
2020

National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy
Henry Lehman
2019

National Theatre Live: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
Richard II
2019

Mary Queen of Scots
Robert Beale
2018

Vanity Fair
John Sedley
2018

Operation Finale
David Ben-Gurion
2018

Museo
Frank Graves
2018

The Death of Stalin
Lavrenti Beria
2017

My Cousin Rachel
Couch
2017

RSC Live: The Tempest
Prospero
2017

The Legend of Tarzan
Mr. Frum
2016

Cunk on Shakespeare
Self - Actor
2016

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Richard II
2016

Monteverdi in Mantua - The Genius of the Vespers
presenter
2015

Into the Woods
Baker's Father
2014

The Mysterious Mr Webster
Self - Interviewee
2014

Penny Dreadful
Ferdinand Lyle
2014

National Theatre Live: King Lear
Lear, King of Britain
2014

Legacy
Hookey
2013

Lava Land - Glowing Hawaii
Narrator
2013

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Hamlet
2013

Muse of Fire
Self
2013

National Theatre Live: Timon of Athens
Timon
2012

Shakespeare's Sonnets
2012

The Hollow Crown
Falstaff
2012

Simon Schama's Shakespeare
2012

A Musical Nativity with John Rutter
2011

Sacred Music: God's Composer
Presenter
2011

National Theatre Live: Collaborators
Joseph Stalin
2011

The Deep Blue Sea
Sir William Collyer
2011

My Week with Marilyn
Cotes-Preedy
2011

Symphony
2011

Royal Opera House: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The Duchess / Introduced by
2011

Sacred Music: A Christmas History
Presenter
2010

National Theatre Live: London Assurance
Sir Harcourt Courtly
2010

BBC Proms: Sondheim's 80th Birthday
Himself - Performer
2010

An Easter Celebration
presenter
2008

Sacred Music
Presenter
2008

Deep Water
Donald Crowhurst (voice)
2006

Dunkirk
Winston Churchill
2004

The Young Visiters
Prince of Wales
2003

The Gathering
Luke Fraser
2003

Spooks
William Towers
2002

Blackadder: Back & Forth
Wellington
1999

Alice in Wonderland
King Cedric of Hearts
1999

An Ideal Husband
Sir Edward
1999

The Temptation of Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
1997

A Dance to the Music of Time
Widmerpool
1997

Hamlet
Second Gravedigger
1996

Persuasion
Charles Musgrove
1995

Orlando
Earl of Moray
1992

American Experience
John Adams (voice)
1988

A Very Peculiar Practice
Mark Stibbs
1986

Prima Facie

This Is Your Five Minute Call
Malcolm