Alex Jennings
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Alexander "Alex" Jennings (born 10 May 1957) is an English actor, who has worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre. A three-time Olivier Award winner, he won for Too Clever by Half (1988), Peer Gynt (1996), and My Fair Lady (2003). He is the only performer to have won Olivier awards in the drama, musical and comedy categories. He played Prince Charles in the 2006 film The Queen. His other film appearances include The Wings of the Dove (1997), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), Babel (2006) and The Lady in the Van (2015). He also played Edward VIII, the Duke of Windsor, in the critically acclaimed Netflix series The Crown.
Known for
Credits
The Phoenician Scheme (2025)
as Broadcloth
Ballad of a Small Player (2025)
as Adrian Lippett
Babel (2006)
as Ken Clifford
Operation Mincemeat (2022)
as John Masterman
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
as Horatio
Munich - The Edge of War (2021)
as Sir Horace Wilson
The Queen (2006)
as Prince Charles
Blitz (2024)
as Victor Smythe
Your Christmas or Mine? (2022)
as Humphrey
The Lady in the Van (2015)
as Alan Bennett
Belle (2013)
as Lord Ashford
The Four Feathers (2002)
as Colonel Hamilton
The Forgiven (2022)
as Lord Swanthorne
Denial (2016)
as Sir Charles Gray
Your Christmas or Mine 2 (2023)
as Humphrey
The Wings of the Dove (1997)
as Lord Mark
Five Children and It (2004)
as Father
The Last Days of Lehman Brothers (2009)
as Timothy Geithner
Strings (2004)
as Utay
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1999)
as The Butler
The Lady Vanishes (2013)
as Professor Hastings
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage (2013)
as Henry Higgins
Trap for Cinderella (2013)
as Chance
The Hunley (1999)
as Lt. Alexander
We'll Take Manhattan (2012)
as John Parsons
The 39 Steps (2008)
as Captain Kell
The Disappeared (2008)
as Adrian Ballan
Churchill's Secret (2016)
as Anthony Eden
War Requiem (1989)
as Blinded Soldier
On Expenses (2010)
as Andrew Walker
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1996)
as Theseus / Oberon
Hard Times (1994)
as Bitzer
Dread Poets' Society (1992)
as Byron
A Very Social Secretary (2005)
as Alastair Campbell
Castles in the Sky (2014)
as Henry Tizard
Il était une fois... « The Queen » (2017)
as Self
National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art (2010)
as Henry / Benjamin Britten
National Theatre Live: Hansard (2019)
as Robin Hesketh
The Making of 'The Queen' (2007)
as Self
Hancock & Joan (2008)
as John Le Mesurier
National Theatre Live: Collaborators (2011)
as Mikhail Bulgakov
Riot at the Rite (2005)
as Sergei Diaghilev
Dickens in London (2012)
as Middle-aged Dickens(Voice)