Alex Jennings

Personal Info

Birthday

May 10, 1957

(68 years old)

Place of Birth

Essex, England, UK

Also Known As

Alexander Jennings

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Alex 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.

Known For

MobLand

Agatha Christie's Poirot

The Crown

Unforgotten

Lewis

Spooks

The Phoenician Scheme

Foyle's War

Filmography

2025
The Phoenician Scheme
as Broadcloth
2024
Blitz
as Victor Smythe
2023
Your Christmas or Mine 2
as Humphrey
2022
Your Christmas or Mine?
as Humphrey
The Forgiven
as Lord Swanthorne
Operation Mincemeat
as John Masterman
2021
Munich – The Edge of War
as Sir Horace Wilson
2019
National Theatre Live: Hansard
as Robin Hesketh
2017
Il était une fois... « The Queen »
as Self
2016
Denial
as Sir Charles Gray
Churchill's Secret
as Anthony Eden
2015
The Lady in the Van
as Alan Bennett
2014
Castles in the Sky
as Henry Tizard
2013
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
as Henry Higgins
Trap for Cinderella
as Chance
Belle
as Lord Ashford
The Lady Vanishes
as The Professor
2012
Dickens in London
as Middle-aged Dickens(Voice)
We'll Take Manhattan
as John Parsons
2011
National Theatre Live: Collaborators
as Mikhail Bulgakov
2010
National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art
as Henry / Benjamin Britten
2009
The Last Days of Lehman Brothers
as Timothy Geithner
2008
The 39 Steps
as Captain Kell
The Disappeared
as Adrian Ballan
Hancock & Joan
as John Le Mesurier
2007
The Making of 'The Queen'
as Self
2006
Babel
as Ken Clifford
The Queen
as Prince Charles
2005
Riot at the Rite
as Sergei Diaghilev
A Very Social Secretary
as Alastair Campbell
2004
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
as Horatio
Five Children and It
as Father
2002
The Four Feathers
as Colonel Hamilton
1999
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
as The Butler
The Hunley
as Lt. Alexander
1997
The Wings of the Dove
as Lord Mark
1996
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Theseus / Oberon
1992
Dread Poets' Society
as Byron
1989
War Requiem
as Blinded Soldier