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.

Filmography

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

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 2017Il était une fois... « The Queen » — Self
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• 2007The Making of 'The Queen' — Self