
Rafe Spall
Department: Acting
Biography
Rafe Joseph Spall is an English actor on both stage and screen. He is perhaps best known for his roles in BBC's The Shadow Line, Channel 4's Pete versus Life, One Day, Anonymous, and the Ridley Scott film Prometheus. He played writer Yann Martel in the 2012 film Life of Pi.
Known For

The Last Drop
2006

Hot Fuzz
2007

Rich Flu
2024

Green Street Hooligans
2005

A Good Year
2006

A Room with a View
2007

Out of Control
2002

Wide Sargasso Sea
2006

Anonymous
2011

The Chatterley Affair
2006

SUS
2010

Prometheus
2012

Life of Pi
2012

The World's End
2013

I Give It a Year
2013

Earthbound
2012

Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me
2008

What If
2013

Get Santa
2014

Dracula
2006

William Tell
2025

Cracker: Nine Eleven
2006

X+Y
2014

National Theatre Archive: Death of England
2020

One Day
2011

The Calcium Kid
2004

Swallows and Amazons
2016

The Big Short
2015

Harry Price: Ghost Hunter
2015

Modern Life Is Rubbish
2009

The BFG
2016

The Scouting Book for Boys
2010

Shaun of the Dead
2004

Mum's List
2016

Kidulthood
2006

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
2018

The Ritual
2017

National Theatre Live: Hedda Gabler
2017

The Lion in Winter
2003

Denmark
2019

Men in Black: International
2019

Just Mercy
2019

Grandpa's Great Escape
2018

The Legend of the Tamworth Two
2004

Get Off My Land
2007

The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus
2012

Long Story Short
2021

Grindhouse
2007

Soccer AM
1995

Desperate Romantics
2009

The Rotters' Club
2005

He Kills Coppers
2008

The Romantics
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Pete versus Life
2010

The Shadow Line
2011

Spine Chillers
2003

Sons of Liberty
2015

Roadies
2016

Black Mirror
2011

Agatha Christie's Marple
2004

The War of the Worlds
2019

My Online Nightmare
2017

The English
2022

Smoke
2025

Trying
2020

The Salisbury Poisonings
2020

Under Salt Marsh
2026

The Last Leg
2013

Secret Service
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Twisted Tales
2005

Number 10
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A Room with a View
2008

Bait
2026