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Rory Kinnear

Birthplace: Hammersmith

Born: 1978-02-17

Occupations recorded in source

actor; film actor; stage actor; television actor

Biography from Wikipedia

Rory Michael Kinnear (born 17 February 1978) is an English actor. He won two Olivier Awards, both at the National Theatre, in 2008 for his portrayal of Sir Fopling Flutter in The Man of Mode, and for playing the William Shakespeare villain Iago in Othello in 2014.

He played Bill Tanner in four James Bond films: Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015), and No Time to Die (2021); and in various video games of the franchise. Kinnear also played Dave Fishwick in Bank of Dave (2023) and Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger (2025) and the men in Men (2022). His other film roles include Broken (2012), for which he won a British Independent Film Award, The Imitation Game (2014), Men (2022), and The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024).

Television roles include Michael Callow in the debut episode of the anthology Black Mirror, "The National Anthem" (2011), Michael Baker in the sitcom Count Arthur Strong (2013–2017), Lord Lucan in the two-part thriller Lucan (2013), the Creature in the horror drama Penny Dreadful (2014–2016), Stephen in the dystopian mini-series Years and Years (2019), and Tom Bombadil in the Amazon Prime Video series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2024).

Sources & attribution

Wikidata · revision
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Wikipedia · revision 1379135561
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