Rory Kinnear
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.
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Acting History
2025
All the Devils Are Here as Harold Laing
2025Toxic Town as Des Collins
2025Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger as Dave Fishwick
2024Say Nothing as Frank Kitson
2024The Old Man and the Land as David (voice)
2024The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare as Winston Churchill
2023The Diplomat as Prime Minister Nicol Trowbridge
2023Bank of Dave as Dave Fishwick
2022The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power as Tom Bombadil
2022Men as Geoffrey
2022Our Flag Means Death as Captain Nigel Badminton / Chauncey Badminton
2021A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint as Edward Williams
2021Designing Bond as Self
2021Ridley Road as Colin Jordan
2021No Time to Die as Tanner
2020Penny Dreadful: City of Angels as Dr. Peter Craft
2019The Interview as Interviewer
2019Catherine the Great as Nikita Ivanovich Panin
2019Years and Years as Stephen Lyons
2019Brexit: The Uncivil War as Craig Oliver
2018Watership Down as Cowslip (voice)
2018Peterloo as Henry Hunt
2018National Theatre Live: Macbeth as Macbeth
2018Nothing Like a Dame as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2017National Theatre Live: Young Marx as Marx
2017Quacks as Robert Lessing
2017Guerrilla as Pence
2017iBoy as Ellman
2016Trespass Against Us as P.C Lovage
2016National Theatre Live: The Threepenny Opera as Captain Macheath, aka 'Mac the Knife'
2016Shakespeare Live! From the RSC as Self - Performer
2016The Roof as Yet Another Fan
2015Spectre as Tanner
2015Man Up as Sean
2015The Casual Vacancy as Barry Fairbrother
2014The Imitation Game as Detective Robert Nock
2014Penny Dreadful as John Clare / The Creature
2014Cuban Fury as Gary
2014Inside No. 9 as Prince Rico / Gus
2013Lucan as Lord Lucan
2013Lucan as Lord Lucan
2013National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage as Iago
2013Muse of Fire as Self
2013National Theatre Live: Othello as Iago
2013Southcliffe as David Whitehead
2013Count Arthur Strong as Michael Baker
2012Loving Miss Hatto as Young Barrington Coupe
2012Skyfall as Tanner
2012National Theatre Live: The Last of the Haussmans as Nick
2012Bond on Location as Self / Bill Tanner
2012Broken as Bob Oswald
2012The Hollow Crown as Bollingbroke
2012The Mystery of Edwin Drood as Reverend Septimus Crisparkle
2011Black Mirror as Michael Callow
2011Women in Love as Rupert Birkin
2010National Theatre Live: Hamlet as Hamlet
2010Lennon Naked as Brian Epstein
2010The First Men in the Moon as Bedford
2010Vexed as Dan Bishop
2010Wild Target as Gerry Bailey
2009Wish 143 as Wishman
2008Quantum of Solace as Tanner
2008Beautiful People as Ross
2008Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley as Denis Thatcher
2008The Curse of Steptoe as Alan Simpson
2008Ashes to Ashes
2007Cranford as Septimus Hanbury
2007Comedy Showcase as Rob Black
2007Mansfield Park as Rushworth
2007Five Days as Kyle Betts
2006The One Show as Self
2005The Thick of It as Ed
2004Judas as Andrew
2003The Second Coming as Father Dillane
2002Ultimate Force
2001Judge John Deed
2001Waking the Dead as James Mitcham
2001Messiah as Stewart Dean
1996Silent Witness
1971A Ghost Story for Christmas as Edward Williams