Sir Simon Russell Beale CBE (born January 12, 1961) is an English actor. He is known for his appearances in film, television and theatre, and work on radio, on audiobooks and as a narrator. For his services to drama, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in 2019. He has spent much of his theatre career working in productions for both the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre. He has received ten Laurence Olivier Award nominations, winning three awards for his performances in Volpone (1996), Candide (2000), and Uncle Vanya (2003). For his work on the Broadway stage he has received a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination for his performance as George in the Tom Stoppard play Jumpers in 2004. For his role as Henry Lehman in The Lehman Trilogy, he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and was nominated for an Olivier Award. Beale has been described by The Independent as "the greatest stage actor of his generation". Beale made his film debut in Sally Potter's period drama Orlando (1992). He continued acting in films such as Persuasion (1995), Hamlet (1996), My Week with Marilyn (2011), The Deep Blue Sea (2011), Into the Woods (2014), and Mary Queen of Scots (2018). In 2017, he starred in Armando Iannucci's dark comedy The Death of Stalin playing Lavrentiy Beria for which he received the British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actor. He has also appeared in the television projects The Young Visiters (2003), Dunkirk (2004), and as Falstaff in the BBC made-for-television films Henry IV, Part I and Part II (2012). He was part of the main cast of Showtime's Penny Dreadful.

Фільмографія

• 2026De Gaulle: Liberté — Winston Churchill
• 2026De Gaulle: Résistance — Winston Churchill
• 2026Prima Facie
• 2026Таємні світи магічного дерева — Know All
• 2025Абатство Даунтон: Величний фінал — Sir Hector Moreland
• 2025Хоровий спів — Sir Edward Elgar
• Douglas Is Cancelled — Bently
• 2024Home! Home! — Narrator (voice)
• 2024Гамбіт королеви — Stephen Gardiner
• Мері та Джордж — Sir George Villiers
• Дім дракона — Ser Simon Strong
• 2022Костюм — Roy Boyle
• 2022Операція «М’ясний фарш» — Winston Churchill
• 2022Тор: Любов і грім — Dionysus
• 2021Benediction — Robbie Ross
• 2020A Christmas Carol — Scrooge's voice (voice)
• 2020Небезпечний елемент — Professor Lippmann
• 2019National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy — Henry Lehman
• 2019National Theatre Live: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second — Richard II
• 2018Museo — Frank Graves
• Vanity Fair — John Sedley
• 2018Марія — королева Шотландії — Robert Beale
• 2018Операція «Фінал» — David Ben-Gurion
• 2017My Cousin Rachel — Couch
• 2017RSC Live: The Tempest — Prospero
• 2017Смерть Сталіна — Lavrenti Beria
• 2016Shakespeare Live! From the RSC — Richard II
• 2016Легенда про Тарзана — Mr. Frum
• 2015Monteverdi in Mantua - The Genius of the Vespers — presenter
• 2014National Theatre Live: King Lear — Lear, King of Britain
• Бульварні жахіття — Ferdinand Lyle
• 2014У темному-темному лісі — Baker's Father
• 2013Lava Land - Glowing Hawaii — Narrator
• 2013Legacy — Hookey
• 2013National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage — Hamlet
• 2012National Theatre Live: Timon of Athens — Timon
• 2012Shakespeare's Sonnets
• Simon Schama's Shakespeare
• Порожня корона — Falstaff
• 20117 днів і ночей з Мерилін — Cotes-Preedy
• 2011A Musical Nativity with John Rutter
• 2011National Theatre Live: Collaborators — Joseph Stalin
• 2011Royal Opera House: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — The Duchess / Introduced by
• 2011Sacred Music: God's Composer — Presenter
• Symphony
• 2011Глибоке синє море — Sir William Collyer
• 2010National Theatre Live: London Assurance — Sir Harcourt Courtly
• 2010Sacred Music: A Christmas History — Presenter
• 2008An Easter Celebration — presenter
• Sacred Music — Presenter
• 2006Deep Water — Donald Crowhurst (voice)
• Dunkirk — Winston Churchill
• 2003The Gathering — Luke Fraser
• 2003The Young Visiters — Prince of Wales
• Spooks — William Towers, Home Secretary
• 1999Alice in Wonderland — King Cedric of Hearts
• 1999Blackadder: Back & Forth — Wellington
• 1999Ідеальний чоловік — Sir Edward
• A Dance to the Music of Time — Widmerpool
• 1997The Temptation of Franz Schubert — Franz Schubert
• 1996Гамлет — Second Gravedigger
• 1995Переконання — Charles Musgrove
• The Mushroom Picker — Anthony
• Downtown Lagos — Heron
• 1992Orlando — Earl of Moray
• American Experience — John Adams (voice)
• A Very Peculiar Practice — Mark Stibbs
• 1985Time and the Conways — Party Guest
• This Is Your Five Minute Call — Malcolm

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (6)

• Remembers… — Self
• 2020The Hour — Himself
• 2016Cunk on Shakespeare — Self - Actor
• 2014The Mysterious Mr Webster — Self - Interviewee
• 2013Muse of Fire — Self
• 2010BBC Proms: Sondheim's 80th Birthday — Himself - Performer