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Rory Kinnear

Rory Kinnear

Actor · Born February 17, 1978 · Hammersmith, London, England, UK

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Biography

Rory Kinnear (born February 17, 1978) is an English actor and playwright who has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre. He is best known for playing Bill Tanner in the James Bond films Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, and Spectre, and in various video games of the franchise. He is the youngest actor to play the role of Bill Tanner. He also won a Laurence Olivier Award for portraying Fopling Flutter in a 2008 version of The Man of Mode, and a British Independent Film Award for his performance in the 2012 film Broken. In 2014, he won the Olivier Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Shakespeare's villain Iago in the National Theatre production of Othello.

Acted in 82

2020s

  1. 2026

    Honey

    Graham Anderson · 6 episodes

  2. Onwards and Sideways

    Professor Ridge

  3. Learning to Breathe Under Water

    Peter

  4. 2025
  5. 2024
  6. The Old Man and the Land

    David (voice)

  7. 2023
  8. 2022
  9. 2021
  10. 2020

2010s

  1. 2019

    The Interview

    Interviewer

  2. 2018
  3. National Theatre Live: Macbeth

    Macbeth

  4. Zanzibar

    Prince Rico / Gus

  5. 2017

    National Theatre Live: Young Marx

    Marx

  6. Quacks

    Robert Lessing · 6 episodes

  7. Guerrilla

    Pence · 6 episodes

  8. 2016

    Daddy My

    Father

  9. National Theatre Live: The Threepenny Opera

    Captain Macheath, aka 'Mac the Knife'

  10. The Roof

    Yet Another Fan

  11. 2015
  12. 2014
  13. 2013

    Lucan

    Lord Lucan

  14. Lucan

    Lord Lucan · 2 episodes

  15. National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage

    Iago

  16. National Theatre Live: Othello

    Iago

  17. Southcliffe

    David Whitehead · 4 episodes

  18. Count Arthur Strong

    Michael Baker · 20 episodes

  19. 2012

    Loving Miss Hatto

    Young Barrington Coupe

  20. National Theatre Live: The Last of the Haussmans

    Nick

  21. The Mystery of Edwin Drood

    Reverend Septimus Crisparkle · 2 episodes

  22. 2011
  23. Women in Love

    Rupert Birkin · 2 episodes

  24. 2010

    National Theatre Live: Hamlet

    Hamlet

  25. The First Men in the Moon

    Bedford

  26. Vexed

    Dan Bishop · 3 episodes

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  1. Blackmere

    TV

Appearances6

2020s

  1. 2022

    The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

    Narrator

2010s

  1. 2018
  2. 2016

    Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

    Self - Performer

  3. 2013

    Muse of Fire

    Self

  4. 2012

    Bond on Location

    Self / Bill Tanner