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Acting

Simon Russell Beale

Career: Active from 1993 to 2026, busiest in 2011 with 4 main titles.

Leading roles: 26
top three billing

Average score: 68/100

Highest rated: National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy
85/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 42 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Simon Russell Beale Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.3, average 5.4
Pop Culture
0.8, average 2.2
Crime
2.4, average 3.6
Physical Comedy
1.3, average 2.4

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character Study 5
Sharp Dialogue 4
Political Intrigue 3
Historical Drama 3
Character-Driven 3
Shakespearean Tragedy 2
British Theatre 2
Live Performance 2
Emotional Catharsis 2
Patriotic Narrative 2
Intellectual 2
Thought-Provoking 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

66

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

1 title

This Is Your Five Minute Call

as Malcolm

2020s

16 titles · average score 69

De Gaulle: Résistance

76

as Winston Churchill

De Gaulle: Liberté

78

as Winston Churchill

The Magic Faraway Tree

68

as Know All

The Choral

63

as Sir Edward Elgar

Firebrand

59

as Stephen Gardiner

Douglas Is Cancelled

74

TV show · as Bently

The Outfit

76

as Roy Boyle

House of the Dragon

77

TV show · as Ser Simon Strong

Thor: Love and Thunder

57

as Dionysus

Benediction

76

as Robbie Ross

Radioactive

57

as Professor Lippmann

A Christmas Carol

60

as Scrooge's voice (voice)

2010s

29 titles · average score 70

National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy

85

as Henry Lehman

National Theatre Live: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second

as Richard II

The Death of Stalin

82

as Lavrenti Beria

My Cousin Rachel

62

as Couch

RSC Live: The Tempest

as Prospero

National Theatre Live: King Lear

73

as Lear, King of Britain

Penny Dreadful

82

TV show · as Ferdinand Lyle

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage

74

as Hamlet

National Theatre Live: Timon of Athens

as Timon

The Deep Blue Sea

71

as Sir William Collyer

Symphony

TV show

National Theatre Live: London Assurance

as Sir Harcourt Courtly

2000s

7 titles · average score 63

Sacred Music

TV show · as Presenter

An Easter Celebration

as presenter

Deep Water

76

as Donald Crowhurst (voice)

Dunkirk

68

TV show · as Winston Churchill

The Gathering

34

as Luke Fraser

The Young Visiters

59

as Prince of Wales

Spooks

80

TV show · as Home Secretary / William Towers

1990s

10 titles · average score 70

Alice in Wonderland

41

as King Cedric of Hearts

An Ideal Husband

72

as Sir Edward

Blackadder: Back & Forth

75

as Wellington

A Dance to the Music of Time

67

TV show · as Widmerpool

The Temptation of Franz Schubert

as Franz Schubert

Hamlet

86

as Second Gravedigger

Persuasion

74

as Charles Musgrove

The Mushroom Picker

TV show · as Anthony

Orlando

76

as Earl of Moray

TV show · as Heron

1980s

3 titles · average score 79

American Experience

75

TV show · as John Adams (voice)

A Very Peculiar Practice

82

TV show · as Mark Stibbs

Time and the Conways

as Party Guest