Rory Kinnear

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

Black Mirror

Michael Callow

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

Tom Bombadil

Silent Witness

Inside No. 9

Prince Rico / Gus

The Diplomat

Prime Minister Nicol Trowbridge

Our Flag Means Death

Captain Nigel Badminton / Chauncey Badminton

Toxic Town

Des Collins

Watership Down

Cowslip (voice)

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2025	Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger	Dave Fishwick
2024	The Old Man and the Land	David (voice)
2024	The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare	Winston Churchill
2023	Bank of Dave	Dave Fishwick
2022	Men	Geoffrey
2021	A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint	Edward Williams
2021	Designing Bond	Self
2021	No Time to Die	Tanner
2019	Brexit: The Uncivil War	Craig Oliver
2019	The Interview	Interviewer
2018	Peterloo	Henry Hunt
2018	National Theatre Live: Macbeth	Macbeth
2018	Nothing Like a Dame	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2017	iBoy	Ellman
2017	National Theatre Live: Young Marx	Marx
2016	Trespass Against Us	P.C Lovage
2016	The Roof	Yet Another Fan
2016	National Theatre Live: The Threepenny Opera	Captain Macheath, aka 'Mac the Knife'
2016	Shakespeare Live! From the RSC	Self - Performer
2015	Spectre	Tanner
2015	Man Up	Sean
2014	Cuban Fury	Gary
2014	The Imitation Game	Detective Robert Nock
2013	National Theatre Live: Othello	Iago
2013	Muse of Fire	Self
2013	National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage	Iago
2013	Lucan	Lord Lucan
2012	Skyfall	Tanner
2012	National Theatre Live: The Last of the Haussmans	Nick
2012	Broken	Bob Oswald
2012	Loving Miss Hatto	Young Barrington Coupe
2012	Bond on Location	Self / Bill Tanner
2010	The First Men in the Moon	Bedford
2010	Wild Target	Gerry Bailey
2010	Lennon Naked	Brian Epstein
2010	National Theatre Live: Hamlet	Hamlet
2009	Wish 143	Wishman
2008	Quantum of Solace	Tanner
2008	Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley	Denis Thatcher
2008	The Curse of Steptoe	Alan Simpson
2007	Mansfield Park	Rushworth
2004	Judas	Andrew

Year	TV Show	Role
2025	Toxic Town	Des Collins
2024	Say Nothing	Frank Kitson
2023	The Diplomat	Prime Minister Nicol Trowbridge
2022	Our Flag Means Death	Captain Nigel Badminton / Chauncey Badminton
2022	The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power	Tom Bombadil
2021	Ridley Road	Colin Jordan
2020	Penny Dreadful: City of Angels	Dr. Peter Craft
2019	Catherine the Great	Nikita Ivanovich Panin
2019	Years and Years	Stephen Lyons
2018	Watership Down	Cowslip (voice)
2017	Guerrilla	Pence
2017	Quacks	Robert Lessing
2015	The Casual Vacancy	Barry Fairbrother
2014	Penny Dreadful	John Clare / The Creature
2014	Inside No. 9	Prince Rico / Gus
2013	Lucan	Lord Lucan
2013	Southcliffe	David Whitehead
2013	Count Arthur Strong	Michael Baker
2012	The Hollow Crown	Bollingbroke
2012	The Mystery of Edwin Drood	Reverend Septimus Crisparkle
2011	Black Mirror	Michael Callow
2011	Women in Love	Rupert Birkin
2010	Vexed	Dan Bishop
2008	Ashes to Ashes
2008	Beautiful People	Ross
2007	Five Days	Kyle Betts
2007	Comedy Showcase	Rob Black
2007	Cranford	Septimus Hanbury
2006	The One Show	Self
2005	The Thick of It	Ed
2003	The Second Coming	Father Dillane
2002	Ultimate Force
2001	Judge John Deed
2001	Messiah	Stewart Dean
2001	Waking the Dead	James Mitcham
1996	Silent Witness