Anton Lesser is a British actor. He is known for his roles as Qyburn in the HBO series Game of Thrones, Harold Macmillan in The Crown, Clement Attlee in A United Kingdom, Chief Superintendent Bright in Endeavour, and Major Lio Partagaz in Andor. An associate of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he has performed numerous Shakespearean roles on stage and television.

Filmography

• 2026ViQueens — Lars (voice)
• 2025Beshert — Mr Pinsky
• 2025The World Will Tremble — Robbi Schulman
• 2025The Yellow Tie — Martin Steinke
• Better — Vernon Marley
• 1899 — Mr. Franklin
• Andor — Major Partagaz
• 2021Benediction — Stephen Tennant (Older)
• Dalgliesh — Father John
• 2021Doughnut — Thanks
• 2021From A Strange Land — Professor Dr Wolfgang Engel
• 2020Gatecrash — Sid
• 2020Kindred — Dr. Richards
• 2020The Courier — Bertrand
• The Trial of Christine Keeler — Michael Eddowes
• A Discovery of Witches — Rabbi Loew
• 2018Disobedience — Rav Krushka
• Killing Eve — Robert
• 2018On Chesil Beach — Reverend Woollett
• 2017The Exception — General Falkenberg
• 2016A United Kingdom — Prime Minister Attlee
• 2016Allied — Emmanuel Lombard
• Hooten & The Lady
• The Crown — Harold Macmillan
• Dickensian — Fagin
• 2015Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience — Qyburn
• Life in Squares — Dr. Hyslop
• Wolf Hall — Thomas More
• 2014Closer to the Moon — Holban
• The Game — C
• The Musketeers
• Atlantis — Kyros
• Endeavour — CS Reginald Bright
• Father Brown — Father Ignatius
• Spies of Warsaw — Doctor Lapp
• The Escape Artist — Richard Mayfield QC
• Ripper Street — Dr. Karl Crabbe
• Secret State — Sir Michael Rix
• The Hollow Crown — Exeter
• 2012The Scapegoat — Father McReady
• 2011Flutter — Bruno
• Game of Thrones — Qyburn
• 2011Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides — Lord John Carteret
• The Hour — Clarence Fendley
• 2011The Lady — Professor Finnis
• 2011The Man who Crossed Hitler — Rudolf Olden
• Five Daughters — Dr Nat Cary
• Garrow's Law — John Farmer
• 2008Einstein and Eddington — Fritz Haber
• Little Dorrit — Mr. Merdle
• The History of the World Backwards
• 2006Miss Potter — Harold Warne
• Vital Signs — Dr Lindsay
• 2005Ahead of the Class — Graham Ranger
• 2005Class of '76 — Martin Gibson
• Class of '76 — Martin Gibson
• 2005Dirty Filthy Love — Charles
• 2005Einstein's Big Idea — Voltaire
• 2005River Queen — Baine
• 2005The Girl in the Café — George
• London — Charles Dickens
• New Tricks
• 2003Danielle Cable: Eyewitness — Batten
• 2003Eroica — Sukowaty
• 2003Imagining Argentina — General Guzmán
• 2003Otherworld — Teyrnon (voice)
• Dickens — Charles Dickens
• Foyle's War — Austin Carmichael
• 2002Sir Gawain and the Green Knight — Bertilak / Green Knight (voice)
• Spooks — Nicholas Ashworth
• 2002The Project — Stanley Hall
• 2001Charlotte Gray — Renech
• Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story — Vidas Merlinis
• 2001Lorna Doone — Counsellor Doone
• Messiah — Samuel Waite
• Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes — Milburn
• Perfect Strangers — Stephen
• Swallow — Paul Valley
• 2001Uprising — Nathan Lensky
• Uprising — Nathan Lensky
• Waking the Dead — Professor Ray Levin
• 2000Esther Kahn — Sean
• Lorna Doone — Counsellor Doone
• 2000The Miracle Maker — Herod (voice)
• The Scarlet Pimpernel — Antoine Picard
• Invasion: Earth — Lt. Charles Terrell
• The Echo — Billy Blake
• Vanity Fair — Mr Pitt Crawley
• Bodyguards — Dusan Mesic
• 1997FairyTale: A True Story — Wounded Corporal
• 1997Into the Blue — Dr. John Ockleton
• Midsomer Murders — Eddie Darwin, Rev. Wallace Stone
• Dalziel and Pascoe — Paul Goodman
• Moses — Eliav
• Silent Witness — Marcus Gwilym
• Testament: The Bible in Animation — Joseph (voice)
• 1996The Moonstone — Ezra Jennings
• Bugs — Patrick Marcel
• Sharman — Galilee
• The Politician's Wife — Mark Hollister
• 1994Guinevere — Envoy
• 1994The Winter's Tale — Leontes (voice)
• A Touch of Frost — Dennis Prior
• Downtown Lagos — Mungo Dawson
• Shakespeare: The Animated Tales — Leontes (voice)
• The Strauss Dynasty — Levi
• 1990Traitors — Robert Cecil
• 1989Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story — Karl/Stein
• 1988Airbase — Vincenzo
• 1988Stanley — Stanley Spencer
• The Play on One — Vincenzo
• 1988Twelfth Night, or What You Will — Feste
• Anna of the Five Towns — Willie Price
• 1985Monsignor Quixote — Robber
• Screen Two — Stanley Spencer
• 1985The Assam Garden — Mr. Sutton
• Freud — Wilhelm Fliess
• 1984Sakharov — Valery Chalidze
• 1983Good and Bad at Games
• 1982King Lear — Edgar
• 1982The Missionary — Young Man at Shoot
• 1981The Cherry Orchard — Trofimov
• 1981Troilus & Cressida — Troilus
• The Serpent Son — Orestes
• 1978The Mill on the Floss — Philip Wakem
• The Mill on the Floss — Philip Wakem
• NOVA — Voltaire
• A Blue Butterfly
• Santo Subito! — Father Mattew
• Tick Tick Tick — Narrator

Appearances as themselves (2)

• Art That Made Us — Self - Actor (Endeavour)
• 2022Making 1899 — Self