Rupert William Anthony Friend (born October 1981) is an English actor. He first gained recognition for his roles in The Libertine (2004) and Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (2005), winning him awards for best newcomer. He portrayed George Wickham in Pride & Prejudice (2005), Lieutenant Kurt Kotler in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008), Albert, Prince Consort in The Young Victoria (2009), psychologist Oliver Baumer in Starred Up (2013), CIA operative Peter Quinn in the political thriller series Homeland (2012–2017), Vasily Stalin in The Death of Stalin (2017), Theo van Gogh in At Eternity's Gate (2018), and Ernest Donovan in the series Strange Angel (2018–2019). In the early 2020s, Friend began collaborating with director Wes Anderson, starting with a cameo in The French Dispatch (2021), followed by roles in Asteroid City (2023) and the Netflix short films The Swan and The Rat Catcher. In 2022, he starred as disgraced British politician James Whitehouse in Anatomy of a Scandal and featured in the Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi as the Grand Inquisitor. Friend is the director, screenwriter or producer of two award-winning short films: The Continuing and Lamentable Saga of the Suicide Brothers (2008) and Steve (2010). He wrote lyrics for the Kairos 4Tet 2013 album Everything We Hold. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rupert Friend, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2026Found Alive
• 2026My Notes on Mars — Sam
• Youth — Patrick
• 2025After This Death — Ted
• 2025Companion — Sergey
• 2025Dreams — Jake McCarthy
• 2025Jurassic World Rebirth — Martin Krebs
• 2025The Phoenician Scheme — Excalibur
• 2024Canary Black — David Brooks
• 2024The American Society of Magical Negroes — Mick
• 2024The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More — Narrator / Claud (archive footage)
• 2023Asteroid City — Montana
• High Desert — Guru Bob
• 2023The Rat Catcher — Claud Cubbage
• 2023The Swan — Narrator / Adult Peter Watson
• Anatomy of a Scandal — James Whitehouse
• 2022Last Looks — Wilson Sikorsky
• Obi-Wan Kenobi — Grand Inquisitor
• 2021Infinite — Bathurst 1985
• 2021Prince Consorts: In the Shadow of the Crown — Prince Albert (archive footage)
• 2021Separation — Jeff
• 2021The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun — Drill-Sergeant
• 2018A Simple Favor — Dennis Nylon
• 2018At Eternity's Gate — Theo van Gogh
• Strange Angel — Ernest Donovan
• 2017The Death of Stalin — Vasily Stalin
• 2016Barton & Charlie & Checco & Bill — Director
• Dream Corp LLC — Patient 62
• 2015Hitman: Agent 47 — Agent 47
• 2015Meet Me in Montenegro — Stephen
• 2015Stryka — Callen
• 2015To Write Love on Her Arms — David McKenna
• 2014Starred Up — Oliver Baumer
• 2013The Zero Theorem — TV Presenter
• 2012Stars in Shorts — Director, Producer, Writer
• 20115 Days of War — Thomas Anders
• Homeland — Peter Quinn
• 2010Jolene — Coco Leger
• 2010Lullaby for Pi — Sam
• 2010Steve — Director, Writer
• 2010The Kid — Kevin Lewis
• 2009Chéri — Chéri
• 2009The Continuing and Lamentable Saga of the Suicide Brothers — Bourbon
• 2009The Young Victoria — Prince Albert
• 2008The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas — Lieutenant Kotler
• 2007Outlaw — Sandy Mardell
• 2007The Last Legion — Demetrius
• 2007The Moon and the Stars — Renzo Daverio / Spoletta
• 2007Virgin Territory — Alessandro Felice
• 2005Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont — Ludovic Meyer
• 2005Pride & Prejudice — Mr. Wickham
• 2004The Libertine — Downs
• Blake & Mortimer: The Yellow M — Colonel Olrik
• Cornerman — Director
• Perdition
• Photo Booth — Ben Bouchet
• The Boy in the Iron Box — Liev

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2025Jurassic World Rebirth: The Making of a New Era — Self
• 2022Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return — Self - Grand Inquisitor
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self - Guest