Rafe Joseph Spall is an English actor on both stage and screen. He is perhaps best known for his roles in BBC's The Shadow Line, Channel 4's Pete versus Life, One Day, Anonymous, and the Ridley Scott film Prometheus. He played writer Yann Martel in the 2012 film Life of Pi.

Filmography

• Bait — Nigel
• Secret Service — Stuart Henderson
• Under Salt Marsh — Eric Bull
• Smoke — Steven Burk
• 2025William Tell — Stauffacher
• 2024Rich Flu — Toni
• The English — David Melmont
• 2021Long Story Short — Teddy
• 2020National Theatre Live: Death of England: Michael — Michael
• The Salisbury Poisonings — DS Nick Bailey
• Trying — Jason, Executive Producer
• 2019Denmark — Herb
• 2019Just Mercy — Tommy Champan
• 2019Men in Black: International — Agent C
• The War of the Worlds — George
• 2018Grandpa's Great Escape — Adult Jack (voice)
• 2018Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom — Eli Mills
• 2018Stan & Ollie — Thanks
• My Online Nightmare — Narrator (voice)
• 2017National Theatre Live: Hedda Gabler — Brack
• 2017The Ritual — Luke
• 2016Mum's List — Singe
• Roadies — Reg Whitehead
• 2016Swallows and Amazons — Jim 'Captain Flint' Turner / Polski the Parrot
• 2016The BFG — Mr. Tibbs
• 2015Harry Price: Ghost Hunter — Harry Price
• Sons of Liberty — John Hancock
• 2015The Big Short — Danny Moses
• 2015X+Y — Martin Humphreys
• 2014Get Santa — Steve
• 2014Off the Page: Death of England — Son
• 2013I Give It a Year — Josh
• 2013The World's End — Young Man
• 2013What If — Ben
• 2012Earthbound — Joe
• 2012Life of Pi — Writer
• 2012Prometheus — Millburn
• 2011Anonymous — William Shakespeare
• Black Mirror — Potter
• 2011One Day — Ian Whitehead
• The Shadow Line — Jay Wratten
• Pete versus Life — Pete Griffiths
• 2010SUS — Wilby
• 2010The Scouting Book for Boys — Steve
• Desperate Romantics — William Holman Hunt
• 2009Modern Life Is Rubbish — Liam
• A Room with a View — George Emerson
• 2008Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me — Dennis Heymer
• He Kills Coppers — Frank Taylor
• 2007A Room with a View — George Emerson
• 2007Get Off My Land — Man
• 2007Grindhouse — Featured Ghost (segment "Don't") (uncredited)
• 2007Hot Fuzz — DC Andy Cartwright
• 2006A Good Year — Kenny
• 2006Cracker: Nine Eleven — DS McAllister
• 2006Dracula — Jonathan Harker
• 2006Kidulthood — Lenny
• 2006The Chatterley Affair — Keith
• 2006The Last Drop — David Wellings
• The Romantics — John Clare
• 2006Wide Sargasso Sea — Edward Rochester
• 2005Green Street Hooligans — Swill
• The Rotters' Club — Sean Harding
• Twisted Tales — Dominic
• Agatha Christie's Marple — Roger Bassington
• 2004Shaun of the Dead — Noel
• 2004The Calcium Kid — Stan Parlour
• 2004The Legend of the Tamworth Two — Crustie
• Spine Chillers
• 2003The Lion in Winter — Prince John
• 2002Out of Control — Ray
• Number 10 — Harry Douglas

Appearances as themselves (3)

• The Last Leg — Self
• 2012The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus — Self
• Soccer AM — Self