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.

Filmography

• 2026Learning to Breathe Under Water — Peter
• Lord of the Flies — Ralph's Father (uncredited)
• 2026Onwards and Sideways — Professor Ridge
• 2025All the Devils Are Here — Harold Laing
• Amadeus — Emperor Joseph
• 2025Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger — Dave Fishwick
• Toxic Town — Des Collins
• Say Nothing — Frank Kitson
• 2024The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare — Churchill
• 2024The Old Man and the Land — David (voice)
• 2023Bank of Dave — Dave Fishwick
• The Diplomat — Prime Minister Nicol Trowbridge
• 2022Men — Geoffrey
• Our Flag Means Death — Captain Nigel Badminton / Chauncey Badminton
• The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power — Tom Bombadil
• 2022The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment — Narrator
• 2021A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint — Edward Williams
• 2021No Time to Die — Tanner
• Ridley Road — Colin Jordan
• Penny Dreadful: City of Angels — Dr. Peter Craft
• 2019Brexit: The Uncivil War — Craig Oliver
• Catherine the Great — Nikita Ivanovich Panin
• 2019The Interview — Interviewer
• Years and Years — Stephen Lyons
• 2018National Theatre Live: Macbeth — Macbeth
• 2018Peterloo — Henry Hunt
• Watership Down — Cowslip (voice)
• 2018Zanzibar — Prince Rico / Gus
• Guerrilla — Pence
• 2017National Theatre Live: Young Marx — Marx
• Quacks — Robert Lessing
• 2017iBoy — Ellman
• 2016Daddy My — Father
• 2016National Theatre Live: The Threepenny Opera — Captain Macheath, aka 'Mac the Knife'
• 2016The Roof — Yet Another Fan
• 2016Trespass Against Us — P.C Lovage
• 2015Man Up — Sean
• 2015Spectre — Tanner
• The Casual Vacancy — Barry Fairbrother
• 2014Cuban Fury — Gary
• Inside No. 9 — Prince Rico / Gus
• Penny Dreadful — John Clare / The Creature
• 2014The Imitation Game — Detective Robert Nock
• Count Arthur Strong — Michael Baker
• 2013Lucan — Lord Lucan
• Lucan — Lord Lucan
• 2013National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage — Iago
• 2013National Theatre Live: Othello — Iago
• Southcliffe — David Whitehead
• 2012Broken — Bob Oswald
• 2012Loving Miss Hatto — Young Barrington Coupe
• 2012National Theatre Live: The Last of the Haussmans — Nick
• 2012Skyfall — Tanner
• The Hollow Crown — Bollingbroke
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood — Reverend Septimus Crisparkle
• Black Mirror — Michael Callow
• Women in Love — Rupert Birkin
• 2010Lennon Naked — Brian Epstein
• 2010National Theatre Live: Hamlet — Hamlet
• 2010The First Men in the Moon — Bedford
• Vexed — Dan Bishop
• 2010Wild Target — Gerry Bailey
• 2009Wish 143 — Wishman
• Ashes to Ashes
• Beautiful People — Ross
• 2008Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley — Denis Thatcher
• 2008Quantum of Solace — Tanner
• 2008The Curse of Steptoe — Alan Simpson
• Comedy Showcase — Rob Black
• Cranford — Septimus Hanbury
• Five Days — Kyle Betts
• 2007Mansfield Park — Rushworth
• The Thick of It — Ed
• 2004Judas — Andrew
• The Second Coming — Father Dillane
• Menace — Kevin
• Ultimate Force
• Judge John Deed
• Messiah — Stewart Dean
• Waking the Dead — James Mitcham
• Silent Witness
• A Ghost Story for Christmas — Edward Williams
• Blackmere
• Honey — Graham Anderson
• Ignition

Appearances as themselves (6)

• 2021Designing Bond — Self
• 2018Nothing Like a Dame — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2016Shakespeare Live! From the RSC — Self - Performer
• 2013Muse of Fire — Self
• 2012Bond on Location — Self / Bill Tanner
• The One Show — Self