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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 12, 1961
Place of Birth
Penang, Malaysia
Also Known As
- 사이몬 러셀 빌
- Simon Russell-Beale
- Simon Russell Beale CBE
Simon Russell Beale
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Biography
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 National Theatre. He has received ten Laurence Olivier Award nominations, winning three awards for his performances in Volpone (1996), Candide (2000), and Uncle Vanya (2003). For his work on the Broadway stage he has received a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination for his performance as George in the Tom Stoppard play Jumpers in 2004. For his role as Henry Lehman in The Lehman Trilogy, he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and was nominated for an Olivier Award. Beale has been described by The Independent as "the greatest stage actor of his generation". Beale made his film debut in Sally Potter's period drama Orlando (1992). He continued acting in films such as Persuasion (1995), Hamlet (1996), My Week with Marilyn (2011), The Deep Blue Sea (2011), Into the Woods (2014), and Mary Queen of Scots (2018). In 2017, he starred in Armando Iannucci's dark comedy The Death of Stalin playing Lavrentiy Beria for which he received the British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actor. He has also appeared in the television projects The Young Visiters (2003), Dunkirk (2004), and as Falstaff in the BBC made-for-television films Henry IV, Part I and Part II (2012). He was part of the main cast of Showtime's Penny Dreadful.
Known For
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The Magic Faraway Tree
2025
0.0
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
2025
7.3
Bently
Douglas Is Cancelled
2024
6.4
Stephen Gardiner
Firebrand
2024
7.2
Sir George Villiers
Mary & George
2024
10.0
Self (narrator)
Home! Home!
2024
8.3
Ser Simon Strong
House of the Dragon
2022
6.4
Dionysus
Thor: Love and Thunder
2022
6.5
Winston Churchill
Operation Mincemeat
2022
7.1
Roy Boyle
The Outfit
2022
Credits
The Magic Faraway Tree
2025
0.0
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
2025
0.0
Douglas Is Cancelled
as Bently
2024
7.3
Firebrand
as Stephen Gardiner
2024
6.4
Mary & George
as Sir George Villiers
2024
7.2
Home! Home!
as Self (narrator)
2024
10.0
House of the Dragon
as Ser Simon Strong
2022
8.3
Thor: Love and Thunder
as Dionysus
2022
6.4
Operation Mincemeat
as Winston Churchill
2022
6.5
The Outfit
as Roy Boyle
2022
7.1
Benediction
as Robbie Ross
2021
6.2
A Christmas Carol
as Scrooge's voice (voice)
2020
7.4
The Hour
as Himself
2020
0.0
Radioactive
as Professor Lippmann
2020
6.6
National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy
as Henry Lehman
2019
8.7
National Theatre Live: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
as Richard II
2019
10.0
Mary Queen of Scots
as Robert Beale
2018
6.6
Vanity Fair
as John Sedley
2018
7.4
Operation Finale
as David Ben-Gurion
2018
6.7
Museo
as Frank Graves
2018
6.6
The Death of Stalin
as Lavrenti Beria
2017
7.0
My Cousin Rachel
as Couch
2017
5.7
RSC Live: The Tempest
as Prospero
2017
7.0
The Legend of Tarzan
as Mr. Frum
2016
5.9
Cunk on Shakespeare
as Self - Actor
2016
7.5
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
as Richard II
2016
7.5
Monteverdi in Mantua - The Genius of the Vespers
as presenter
2015
0.0
Into the Woods
as Baker's Father
2014
5.8
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The Mysterious Mr Webster
as Self - Interviewee
2014
6.0
Penny Dreadful
as Ferdinand Lyle
2014
7.8
National Theatre Live: King Lear
as Lear, King of Britain
2014
7.1
Legacy
as Hookey
2013
5.1
Lava Land - Glowing Hawaii
as Narrator
2013
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National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
as Hamlet
2013
6.3
Muse of Fire
as Self
2013
6.5
National Theatre Live: Timon of Athens
as Timon
2012
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
2012
0.0
The Hollow Crown
as Falstaff
2012
7.3
Simon Schama's Shakespeare
2012
0.0
A Musical Nativity with John Rutter
2011
0.0
National Theatre Live: Collaborators
as Joseph Stalin
2011
0.0
My Week with Marilyn
as Cotes-Preedy
2011
6.7
Symphony
2011
8.0
The Deep Blue Sea
as Sir William Collyer
2011
5.9
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House)
as The Duchess / Introduced by
2011
7.7
A Christmas History
as Presenter
2010
0.0
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
as Sir Harcourt Courtly
2010
7.0
BBC Proms: Sondheim's 80th Birthday
as Himself - Performer
2010
10.0
An Easter Celebration
as presenter
2008
0.0
Deep Water
as Donald Crowhurst (voice)
2006
7.3
Dunkirk
as Winston Churchill
2004
6.3
The Young Visiters
as Prince of Wales
2003
5.4
The Gathering
as Luke Fraser
2003
5.5
Spooks
as William Towers
2002
7.6
Spooks
as Home Secretary
2002
7.6
Blackadder: Back & Forth
as Wellington
1999
7.0
Alice in Wonderland
as King Cedric of Hearts
1999
6.2
An Ideal Husband
as Sir Edward
1999
6.5
A Dance to the Music of Time
as Widmerpool
1997
5.3
Hamlet
as Second Gravedigger
1996
7.3
Persuasion
as Charles Musgrove
1995
7.1
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The Mushroom Picker
as Anthony
1993
1.0
Orlando
as Earl of Moray
1992
6.9
American Experience
as John Adams (voice)
1988
7.4
A Very Peculiar Practice
as Mark Stibbs
1986
8.0
🎬
Time and the Conways
as Party Guest
1985
0.0
🎬
De Gaulle – Partie 1 : La France Libre
as Winston Churchill
N/A
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🎬
De Gaulle – Partie 2
as Winston Churchill
N/A
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🎬
The Choral
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