
Rupert Penry-Jones
Department: Acting
Biography
Rupert William Penry-Jones (born 22 September 1970) is an English actor, the son of Welsh actor Peter Penry-Jones and English actress Angela Thorne. He is best known for his role as Adam Carter in the BBC spy drama Spooks, as well as other television roles such as Silk, Whitechapel and Black Sails.
Known For

Virtual Sexuality
1999

Charlotte Gray
2001

Persuasion
2007

Joe's Palace
2007

Jane Eyre
1997

The 39 Steps
2008

Hilary and Jackie
1998

Defeating the Hackers
2013

The Ring
1996

Krakatoa: The Last Days
2006

The Student Prince
1998

Match Point
2005

The Four Feathers
2002

Still Crazy
1998

Cold Comfort Farm
1995

Fatherland
1994

Crown for Christmas
2015

The Moth
1997

Edward VIII's Murderous Mistress
2013

A Little Chaos
2015

The Tribe
1998

Pegasus Bridge
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Vita & Virginia
2019

Black Beauty
1994

Food of Love
1997

Red Tails
2012

Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
2020

Bent
1997

Love Sarah
2020

Prisoners of Paradise
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Getting to Know You
2020

The Batman
2022

When Playboys Ruled the World
2010

Ambleside
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Treasure Island
2012

This Morning
1988

French & Saunders
1987

The Drowning
2021

Spooks
2002

Kavanagh Q.C.
1995

The Royals and the Tabloids
2020

Cambridge Spies
2003

Burn Up
2008

Faith in the Future
1995

Casanova
2005

The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007

North Square
2000

Whitechapel
2009

Those About to Die
2024

Treasure Island
2012

Horizon
1964

Who Do You Think You Are?
2004

The Palace and the Press
2021

The Moth
1997

Our House
2022

The Last Weekend
2012

The Ring
1996

Top Gear
2002

Life In Squares
2015

Stan Lee's Lucky Man
2016

Natural World
1983

The Strain
2014

The Commons
2019

Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989

Wizards: Tales of Arcadia
2020

Robson Green's Weekend Escapes
2023

The Feud
2025

Black Sails
2014

Silk
2011

Cold Lazarus
1996

Absolutely Fabulous
1992