
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.
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Acting History
2025
Ballad of a Small Player as Adrian Lippett
2025The Phoenician Scheme as Broadcloth
2025Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes as Michael Mansfield KC
2025MobLand as Archie Hammond
2024The Agency: Central Intelligence as Frank
2024Blitz as Victor Smythe
2024A Very Royal Scandal as Sir Edward Young
2024The New Look as Raymond Dior
2024Mr Bates vs The Post Office as James Arbuthnot
2023Your Christmas or Mine 2 as Humphrey
2022Your Christmas or Mine? as Humphrey
2022The Forgiven as Lord Swanthorne
2022The Undeclared War as David Neal
2022Operation Mincemeat as John Masterman
2022This Is Going to Hurt as Lockhart
2021Munich – The Edge of War as Sir Horace Wilson
2020Small Axe as Judge Clarke
2019Gold Digger as Ted Day
2019National Theatre Live: Hansard as Robin Hesketh
2018A Very English Scandal as Peter Bessell
2017Il était une fois... « The Queen » as Self
2016The Crown as David, Duke of Windsor
2016Denial as Sir Charles Gray
2016Victoria as King Leopold
2016Churchill's Secret as Anthony Eden
2015The Lady in the Van as Alan Bennett
2015Unforgotten as Dr Tim Finch
2015Wolf Hall as Stephen Gardiner
2014Castles in the Sky as Henry Tizard
2013National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage as Henry Higgins
2013Trap for Cinderella as Chance
2013Belle as Lord Ashford
2013The Lady Vanishes as The Professor
2012Dickens in London as Middle-aged Dickens(Voice)
2012We'll Take Manhattan as John Parsons
2011National Theatre Live: Collaborators as Mikhail Bulgakov
2011Silk as Alan Cowdrey
2010National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art as Henry / Benjamin Britten
2010On Expenses
2009The Last Days of Lehman Brothers as Timothy Geithner
2009Whitechapel as Anderson
2009Being Human as Griffin
2008The 39 Steps as Captain Kell
2008The Disappeared as Adrian Ballan
2008Hancock & Joan as John Le Mesurier
200810 Days to War as Vincent
2008Fairy Tales as Roger Bateman
2007Cranford as Reverend Hutton
2007The Restaurant
2007The Graham Norton Show as Self
2007Lewis as Rev. Conor Hawes
2007The Making of 'The Queen' as Self
2006The State Within as James Sinclair
2006Babel as Ken Clifford
2006The Queen as Prince Charles
2005Riot at the Rite as Sergei Diaghilev
2005A Very Social Secretary as Alastair Campbell
2004Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason as Horatio
2004Five Children and It as Father
2004London as Stephen Spender
2004New Tricks as Professor Blake
2002Foyle's War as Clive Ord-Smith
2002The Four Feathers as Colonel Hamilton
2002Spooks as James Allan
2001Waking the Dead as James Andrews
2000Too Much Sun as Julian Edgbaston-Bowles
1999Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat as The Butler
1999The Hunley as Lt. Alexander
1997Liberty! as King George III
1997The Wings of the Dove as Lord Mark
1996A Midsummer Night's Dream as Theseus / Oberon
1994Hard Times as Bitzer
1994Hard Times as Bitzer
1992Dread Poets' Society as Byron
1991Ashenden
1989Agatha Christie's Poirot as Dr. Roberts
1989War Requiem as Blinded Soldier
1988The Franchise Affair as Nevil Bennet
1987Inspector Morse as Victor Preece
1982Smiley's People









