
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.

BBC Proms: Sondheim's 80th Birthday

Home! Home!

The Magic Faraway Tree

National Theatre Live: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second

ハウス・オブ・ザ・ドラゴン

National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy

Symphony

A Very Peculiar Practice

ペニー・ドレッドフル 〜ナイトメア 血塗られた秘密〜

Royal Opera House: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Spooks

Cunk on Shakespeare

A Christmas Carol

ホロウ・クラウン/嘆きの王冠

ハムレット

ヴァニティ・フェア ~燃ゆる欲望~

Douglas Is Cancelled

Deep Water

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

待ち焦がれて

National Theatre Live: King Lear

アウトフィット

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

メアリー&ジョージ 王の暗殺者

スターリンの葬送狂騒曲

RSC Live: The Tempest

National Theatre Live: London Assurance

Blackadder: Back & Forth

オルランド

オペレーション・フィナーレ

マリリン 7日間の恋

American Experience

キュリー夫人 天才科学者の愛と情熱

ふたりの女王 メアリーとエリザベス

オペレーション・ミンスミート ―ナチを欺いた死体―

Muse of Fire

Museo

理想の結婚

Dunkirk

ソー:ラブ&サンダー

Firebrand

アリス・イン・ワンダーランド 不思議の国のアリス

The Choral

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage

Benediction

ターザン:REBORN

The Deep Blue Sea

イントゥ・ザ・ウッズ

レイチェル

The Gathering

The Young Visiters

Legacy

A Dance to the Music of Time

Lava Land - Glowing Hawaii

The Hour

Monteverdi in Mantua - The Genius of the Vespers

An Easter Celebration

La Bataille De Gaulle, film 1 : L'âge de fer

La Bataille De Gaulle, film 2 : J'écris ton nom

National Theatre Live: Collaborators

National Theatre Live: Timon of Athens

Sacred Music: A Christmas History

Shakespeare's Sonnets

A Musical Nativity with John Rutter

Sacred Music: God's Composer

The Temptation of Franz Schubert

Prima Facie

Simon Schama's Shakespeare

Sacred Music

Remembers…