Rory Kinnear

Biography

Rory Kinnear (born February 17, 1978) is an English actor and playwright who has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre. He is best known for playing Bill Tanner in the James Bond films Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, and Spectre, and in various video games of the franchise. He is the youngest actor to play the role of Bill Tanner. He also won a Laurence Olivier Award for portraying Fopling Flutter in a 2008 version of The Man of Mode, and a British Independent Film Award for his performance in the 2012 film Broken. In 2014, he won the Olivier Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Shakespeare's villain Iago in the National Theatre production of Othello.

Known For

Black Mirror

Silent Witness

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

The One Show

Waking the Dead

Inside No. 9

Lord of the Flies

The Diplomat

All Movies (46)

• Learning to Breathe Under Water2026 · as Peter
• All the Devils Are Here2025 · as Harold Laing
• Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger2025 · as Dave Fishwick
• The Old Man and the Land2024 · as David (voice)
• The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare2024 · as P.M. Winston Churchill
• Bank of Dave2023 · as Dave Fishwick
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment2022 · as Narrator
• Men2022 · as Geoffrey
• A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint2021 · as Edward Williams
• Designing Bond2021 · as Self
• No Time to Die2021 · as Tanner
• The Interview2019 · as Interviewer
• Brexit: The Uncivil War2019 · as Craig Oliver
• Peterloo2018 · as Henry Hunt
• National Theatre Live: Macbeth2018 · as Macbeth
• Nothing Like a Dame2018 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• National Theatre Live: Young Marx2017 · as Marx
• iBoy2017 · as Ellman
• Trespass Against Us2016 · as P.C Lovage
• National Theatre Live: The Threepenny Opera2016 · as Captain Macheath, aka 'Mac the Knife'
• Shakespeare Live! From the RSC2016 · as Self - Performer
• The Roof2016 · as Yet Another Fan
• Spectre2015 · as Tanner
• Man Up2015 · as Sean
• The Imitation Game2014 · as Detective Robert Nock
• Cuban Fury2014 · as Gary
• Lucan2013 · as Lord Lucan
• National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage2013 · as Iago
• National Theatre Live: Othello2013 · as Iago
• Muse of Fire2013 · as Self
• Loving Miss Hatto2012 · as Young Barrington Coupe
• Skyfall2012 · as Tanner
• National Theatre Live: The Last of the Haussmans2012 · as Nick
• Bond on Location2012 · as Self / Bill Tanner
• Broken2012 · as Bob Oswald
• National Theatre Live: Hamlet2010 · as Hamlet
• Lennon Naked2010 · as Brian Epstein
• The First Men in the Moon2010 · as Bedford
• Wild Target2010 · as Gerry Bailey
• Wish 1432009 · as Wishman
• Quantum of Solace2008 · as Tanner
• Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley2008 · as Denis Thatcher
• The Curse of Steptoe2008 · as Alan Simpson
• Mansfield Park2007 · as Rushworth
• Judas2004 · as Andrew
• Ignition—

All TV Shows (40)

• Lord of the Flies2026 · as Ralph's Father (uncredited)
• Amadeus2025 · as Emperor Joseph
• Toxic Town2025 · as Des Collins
• Say Nothing2024 · as Frank Kitson
• The Diplomat2023 · as Prime Minister Nicol Trowbridge
• The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power2022 · as Tom Bombadil
• Our Flag Means Death2022 · as Captain Nigel Badminton / Chauncey Badminton
• Ridley Road2021 · as Colin Jordan
• Penny Dreadful: City of Angels2020 · as Dr. Peter Craft
• Catherine the Great2019 · as Nikita Ivanovich Panin
• Years and Years2019 · as Stephen Lyons
• Watership Down2018 · as Cowslip (voice)
• Quacks2017 · as Robert Lessing
• Guerrilla2017 · as Pence
• The Casual Vacancy2015 · as Barry Fairbrother
• Penny Dreadful2014 · as John Clare / The Creature
• Inside No. 92014 · as Prince Rico / Gus
• Lucan2013 · as Lord Lucan
• Southcliffe2013 · as David Whitehead
• Count Arthur Strong2013 · as Michael Baker
• The Hollow Crown2012 · as Bollingbroke
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood2012 · as Reverend Septimus Crisparkle
• Black Mirror2011 · as Michael Callow
• Women in Love2011 · as Rupert Birkin
• Vexed2010 · as Dan Bishop
• Beautiful People2008 · as Ross
• Ashes to Ashes2008
• Cranford2007 · as Septimus Hanbury
• Comedy Showcase2007 · as Rob Black
• Five Days2007 · as Kyle Betts
• The One Show2006 · as Self
• The Thick of It2005 · as Ed
• The Second Coming2003 · as Father Dillane
• Ultimate Force2002
• Judge John Deed2001
• Waking the Dead2001 · as James Mitcham
• Messiah2001 · as Stewart Dean
• Silent Witness1996
• A Ghost Story for Christmas1971 · as Edward Williams
• Honey— · as Graham Anderson