Simon Russell Beale
Simon Russell Beale is an acclaimed English actor known for his work in theatre, television, and film. He has received critical acclaim for roles in productions like 'The King's Speech' and 'Pillars of the Earth.' Recognized for his powerful voice and versatility, Beale has built... Read More
Known for
The Death of Stalin (2017)
The Death of Stalin delivers a brutally executed parody of Cold War Russia. When the tyrannical ruler Stalin dies, his hapless inner circle scrambles...
The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
Tarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining...
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| Year | Title | Character | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |
Prima FacieTessa is a brilliant British defence barrister dominating London’s ruthless courtrooms. Fierce, witty, and self-made, she defends men accused of... |
Unknown character | |
| 2026 |
De Gaulle: LibertéPart two of a two-part biopic following French army officer Charles De Gaulle's life and political commitment between 1940 and... |
Winston Churchill | |
| 2026 |
De Gaulle: RésistanceJune, 1940. France collapses and signs the armistice. In the midst of the chaos, one man refuses to give up.... |
Winston Churchill | |
| 2026 |
The Magic Faraway TreeA modern family relocates to the countryside where the children discover a magical tree with eccentric residents. They're transported to... |
Know All | |
| 2025 |
The ChoralAs World War I rages on, Dr. Henry Guthrie takes over a British choral society that's lost most of its... |
Sir Edward Elgar | |
| 2025 |
Downton Abbey: The Grand FinaleWhen Mary finds herself at the center of a public scandal and the family faces financial strife, the entire household... |
Sir Hector Moreland | |
| 2024 |
Douglas Is CancelledThe career of respected news presenter Douglas is threatened after he makes an ill-advised joke. With her 2 million social... |
Bently | |
| 2024 |
FirebrandKatherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, is named regent while the tyrant battles abroad. When the king... |
Stephen Gardiner | |
| 2024 |
Mary & GeorgeIn 17th century England, Mary Villiers molds her beautiful son, George, to seduce King James I, intending to gain riches... |
Sir George Villiers | |
| 2024 |
Home! Home!A lyric documentary about home, time, memory and mortality, commissioned by the Centre Pompidou to accompany their retrospective of Terence... |
Narrator (voice) | |
| 2022 |
House of the DragonThe Targaryen dynasty is at the absolute apex of its power, with more than 15 dragons under their yoke. Most... |
Ser Simon Strong | |
| 2022 |
Thor: Love and ThunderAfter his retirement is interrupted by Gorr the God Butcher, a galactic killer who seeks the extinction of the gods,... |
Dionysus | |
| 2022 |
Remembers…What are the secrets of our favourite TV shows? Famous names from both sides of the camera reflect on making... |
Self | |
| 2022 |
Operation MincemeatIn 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off... |
Winston Churchill | |
| 2022 |
The OutfitLeonard is an English tailor who used to craft suits on London’s world-famous Savile Row. After a personal tragedy, he’s... |
Roy Boyle | |
| 2021 |
BenedictionPoet Siegfried Sassoon survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery, but... |
Robbie Ross | |
| 2020 |
A Christmas CarolThe radical new take on Dickens’ classic seeks both to exhume the original story’s gritty commentary on social inequality and... |
Scrooge's voice (voice) | |
| 2020 |
The HourThe hour before actors go on stage at the National Theatre in London is a performance in and of itself. |
Himself | |
| 2020 |
RadioactiveThe story of Nobel Prize winner Maria Skłodowska-Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband... |
Professor Lippmann | |
| 2019 |
National Theatre Live: The Lehman TrilogyOn a cold September morning in 1844 a young man from Bavaria stands on a New York dockside. Dreaming of... |
Henry Lehman | |
| 2019 |
National Theatre Live: The Tragedy of King Richard the SecondSimon Russell Beale plays William Shakespeare’s Richard II, broadcast live from the stage of the Almeida Theatre in London to... |
Richard II | |
| 2018 |
Mary Queen of ScotsIn 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne and menaces the... |
Robert Beale | |
| 2018 |
Vanity FairIn a world where everyone is striving for what is not worth having, no one is more determined to climb... |
John Sedley | |
| 2018 |
Operation FinaleIn 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the... |
David Ben-Gurion | |
| 2018 |
MuseoMexico, 1985. Juan and Wilson, two perennial Veterinary students, perpetrate an audacious heist in the National Museum of Anthropology, running... |
Frank Graves | |
| 2017 |
The Death of StalinWhen dictator Joseph Stalin dies, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet... |
Lavrenti Beria | |
| 2017 |
My Cousin RachelA young Englishman plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian. But his feelings become... |
Couch | |
| 2017 |
RSC Live: The TempestOn a distant island a man waits. Robbed of his position, power and wealth, his enemies have left him in... |
Prospero | |
| 2016 |
The Legend of TarzanTarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the... |
Mr. Frum | |
| 2016 |
Cunk on ShakespeareFresh from her triumphs on Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe investigating time, Winston Churchill, and Donald Trump, Philomena Cunk has finally... |
Self - Actor | |
| 2016 |
Shakespeare Live! From the RSCFrom the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, David Tennant, Catherine Tate and guests mark the life of William Shakespeare... |
Richard II | |
| 2015 |
Monteverdi in Mantua - The Genius of the VespersMonteverdi in Mantua tells the story of the Duke of Mantua and his court composer Claudio Monteverdi during the turbulent... |
presenter | |
| 2014 |
Into the WoodsIn a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the... |
Baker's Father | |
| 2014 |
The Mysterious Mr WebsterProfessor James Shapiro goes in search of the mysterious man behind The Duchess of Malfi, the son of a coachmaker... |
Self - Interviewee | |
| 2014 |
Penny DreadfulSome of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking... |
Ferdinand Lyle | |
| 2014 |
National Theatre Live: King LearAn aged king decides to divide his kingdom between his three daughters, according to which of them is most eloquent... |
Lear, King of Britain | |
| 2013 |
LegacyA KGB plot to attack the UK has plunged Britain into a state of emergency. Charles, a young MI6 spy,... |
Hookey | |
| 2013 |
Lava Land - Glowing HawaiiHawaii, with its tropical rainforests and diverse coral reef is a spectacular natural paradise for travellers, surfers and all fans... |
Narrator | |
| 2013 |
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on StageTo celebrate its 50th anniversary, the National Theatre of Great Britain presents National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage, bringing together... |
Hamlet | |
| 2013 |
Muse of FireThis unique feature documentary follows two actors, Giles Terera and Dan Poole, as they travel the world to find out... |
Self | |
| 2012 |
National Theatre Live: Timon of AthensBased on Shakespeare’s play, Timon of Athens tells the tale of conspicuous consumption, debt and ruin. Timon of Athens is... |
Timon | |
| 2012 |
Shakespeare's SonnetsWilliam Shakespeare’s Sonnets are among the most beautiful and most fascinating poems ever written. All of the poems, together with... |
Unknown character | |
| 2012 |
The Hollow CrownA series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare's History Plays. |
Falstaff | |
| 2012 |
Simon Schama's ShakespeareSimon Schama explores the life and times of William Shakespeare to shed a new and fascinating light on some of... |
Unknown character | |
| 2011 |
A Musical Nativity with John RutterKatie Derham introduces a retelling of the Nativity through the music of John Rutter. Conducted by Rutter himself at Dorchester... |
Unknown character | |
| 2011 |
Sacred Music: God's ComposerThe Sacred Music journey continues with this special celebration marking the 400th anniversary of the death of the Spanish composer... |
Presenter | |
| 2011 |
National Theatre Live: CollaboratorsJohn Hodge's Collaborators centers on an imaginary encounter between Joseph Stalin and the playwright Mikhail Bulgakov. |
Joseph Stalin | |
| 2011 |
The Deep Blue SeaThe wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot. |
Sir William Collyer | |
| 2011 |
My Week with MarilynLondon, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his upcoming movie, premiered... |
Cotes-Preedy | |
| 2011 |
SymphonySimon Russell Beale presents a radical reappraisal of the place of the symphony in the modern world and explores the... |
Unknown character | |
| 2011 |
Royal Opera House: Alice's Adventures in WonderlandA full-length ballet created by choreographer Christopher Wheeldon for the Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The... |
The Duchess / Introduced by | |
| 2010 |
Sacred Music: A Christmas HistorySimon Russell Beale takes a journey through Italy, Britain, Germany and Austria as he explores how the sound of Christmas... |
Presenter | |
| 2010 |
National Theatre Live: London AssuranceGrace has agreed to marry Sir Harcourt in return for his financial support of her family. At a house party... |
Sir Harcourt Courtly | |
| 2010 |
BBC Proms: Sondheim's 80th BirthdayMarking the 80th birthday of one of Broadway's great innovators, the first ever all-Sondheim Prom at the Royal Albert Hall.... |
Himself - Performer | |
| 2008 |
An Easter CelebrationSimon Russell Beale presents a special concert for Easter from LSO St Luke's in London, performed by the award-winning choir... |
presenter | |
| 2008 |
Sacred MusicActor and former chorister Simon Russell Beale explores the flowering of Western sacred music |
Presenter | |
| 2006 |
Deep WaterDEEP WATER is the stunning true story of the fateful voyage of Donald Crowhurst, an amateur yachtsman who enters the... |
Donald Crowhurst (voice) | |
| 2004 |
DunkirkMajor factual drama telling the story of history's greatest maritime evacuation, after the World War II Battle of Dunkirk in... |
Winston Churchill | |
| 2003 |
The Young VisitersThe Young Visiters, written in twelve days by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford in 1890, is a surreal blend of naiveté, precocious... |
Prince of Wales | |
| 2003 |
The GatheringItinerant traveler Cassie Grant comes out of a car accident in Glastonbury, England, with partial memory loss. The deeply regretful... |
Luke Fraser | |
| 2002 |
SpooksTense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to... |
Home Secretary | |
| 2002 |
SpooksTense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to... |
William Towers | |
| 1999 |
Blackadder: Back & ForthWhat was a cunning plan from Lord Edmund Blackadder V to fake a time machine on his gullibly incompetent friends,... |
Wellington | |
| 1999 |
Alice in WonderlandAlice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a whimsical Wonderland, where she meets characters like the delightful Cheshire... |
King Cedric of Hearts | |
| 1999 |
An Ideal HusbandSir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs... |
Sir Edward | |
| 1997 |
The Temptation of Franz SchubertDirector Peter Webber's dramatized exploration of the tumultuous life of Austrian composer Franz Schubert exposes the stark contradictions of the... |
Franz Schubert | |
| 1997 |
A Dance to the Music of TimeA Dance to the Music of Time is a four-part adaptation of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel sequence that aired on... |
Widmerpool | |
| 1996 |
HamletHamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle.... |
Second Gravedigger | |
| 1995 |
PersuasionIn early 19th-century England, dire financial straits reacquaint the aristocratic Anne Elliot with her wealthy ex-fiance Frederick Wentworth. The two... |
Charles Musgrove | |
| 1993 |
The Mushroom PickerThe story of an outlandish love affair between an impressionable English woman and a Soviet man obsessed with food. |
Anthony | |
| 1992 |
OrlandoEngland, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and... |
Earl of Moray | |
| 1988 |
American ExperienceTV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world... |
John Adams (voice) | |
| 1986 |
A Very Peculiar PracticeA young and idealistic Doctor Stephen Daker arrives at Lowlands University to work at the Health Centre, but has to... |
Mark Stibbs | |
| 1985 |
Time and the Conways1919: the World War is over. Kay Conway celebrates her 21st birthday and all the family look forward with hope... |
Party Guest | |
| TBA |
This Is Your Five Minute CallA young opera director battles backstage to save her premiere, whilst her father, deep in the woods, considers his own... |
Malcolm |
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Got a question about Simon Russell Beale?
Simon Russell Beale's career highlights include his acclaimed performances in 'The King's Speech,' 'Pillars of the Earth,' and numerous stage productions, particularly with the National Theatre.
Yes, Simon Russell Beale has won multiple Olivier Awards, recognizing his outstanding contributions to British theatre.
Simon Russell Beale's first film was 'The Last of the Mohicans' released in 1992, where he played a supporting role.
Some of Simon Russell Beale's most successful films include 'The King's Speech' and 'The History Boys,' both of which received critical acclaim and box office success.
Simon Russell Beale is married to Joanna Riding, and they have two children together. He keeps his personal life relatively private.
Simon Russell Beale's estimated net worth is approximately $3 million, reflecting his successful career in acting and theatre.
Notable milestones in Simon Russell Beale's filmography include his roles in 'The King's Speech,' 'Pillars of the Earth,' and various acclaimed theatre productions.
Yes, Simon Russell Beale has appeared in several television series, including 'The Hollow Crown' and 'Doctor Who,' showcasing his versatility as an actor.