
Rory Kinnear
Department: Acting
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

Quantum of Solace
2008

Skyfall
2012

A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint
2021

The First Men in the Moon
2010

National Theatre Live: The Last of the Haussmans
2012

Bank of Dave
2023

Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
2008

Broken
2012

Loving Miss Hatto
2012

Wish 143
2009

Cuban Fury
2014

National Theatre Live: Othello
2013

The Old Man and the Land
2024

The Imitation Game
2014

Wild Target
2010

Trespass Against Us
2016

Mansfield Park
2007

Spectre
2015

Designing Bond
2021

Man Up
2015

Lennon Naked
2010

Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger
2025

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
2024

The Curse of Steptoe
2008

The Roof
2016

iBoy
2017

National Theatre Live: The Threepenny Opera
2016

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016

Judas
2004

National Theatre Live: Hamlet
2010

Muse of Fire
2013

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013

Peterloo
2018

National Theatre Live: Young Marx
2017

Lucan
2013

No Time to Die
2021

National Theatre Live: Macbeth
2018

Brexit: The Uncivil War
2019

The Interview
2019

Men
2022

Nothing Like a Dame
2018

Bond on Location
2012

All the Devils Are Here
2025

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
2022

Ultimate Force
2002

Ashes to Ashes
2008

Silent Witness
1996

Five Days
2007

Judge John Deed
2001

Messiah
2001

Our Flag Means Death
2022

Vexed
2010

Penny Dreadful
2014

Lucan
2013

Southcliffe
2013

Black Mirror
2011

Count Arthur Strong
2013

Ridley Road
2021

The Casual Vacancy
2015

Catherine the Great
2019

Beautiful People
2008

Comedy Showcase
2007

Cranford
2007

Waking the Dead
2001

Toxic Town
2025

Guerrilla
2017

Quacks
2017

The Second Coming
2003

Women in Love
2011

The Diplomat
2023

The Thick of It
2005

Watership Down
2018

Years and Years
2019

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
2020

The Hollow Crown
2012

Inside No. 9
2014

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
2022

The Mystery of Edwin Drood
2012

Say Nothing
2024

The One Show
2006

A Ghost Story for Christmas
1971

Amadeus
2025

Lord of the Flies
2026

Honey
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