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
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The Phoenician Scheme (2025)
as Broadcloth
Babel (2006)
as Ken Clifford
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
as Horatio
Belle (2013)
as Lord Ashford
Operation Mincemeat (2022)
as John Masterman
Ballad of a Small Player (2025)
as Adrian Lippett
The Queen (2006)
as Prince Charles
Munich - The Edge of War (2021)
as Sir Horace Wilson
Your Christmas or Mine? (2022)
as Humphrey
Blitz (2024)
as Victor Smythe
The Lady in the Van (2015)
as Alan Bennett
Denial (2016)
as Sir Charles Gray
The Forgiven (2022)
as Lord Swanthorne
The Four Feathers (2002)
as Colonel Hamilton
Strings (2004)
as Utay
Five Children and It (2004)
as Father
We'll Take Manhattan (2012)
as John Parsons
Your Christmas or Mine 2 (2023)
as Humphrey
The Wings of the Dove (1997)
as Lord Mark
Dread Poets' Society (1992)
as Byron
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1999)
as The Butler
The Last Days of Lehman Brothers (2009)
as Timothy Geithner
The Lady Vanishes (2013)
as Professor Hastings
The 39 Steps (2008)
as Captain Kell
Trap for Cinderella (2013)
as Chance
Castles in the Sky (2014)
as Henry Tizard
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage (2013)
as Henry Higgins
National Theatre Live: Collaborators (2011)
as Mikhail Bulgakov
The Hunley (1999)
as Lt. Alexander
National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art (2010)
as Henry / Benjamin Britten
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1996)
as Theseus / Oberon
Churchill's Secret (2016)
as Anthony Eden
A Very Social Secretary (2005)
as Alastair Campbell
National Theatre Live: Hansard (2019)
as Robin Hesketh
The Disappeared (2008)
as Adrian Ballan
Riot at the Rite (2005)
as Sergei Diaghilev
War Requiem (1989)
as Blinded Soldier
Il était une fois... « The Queen » (2017)
as Self
On Expenses (2010)
as Andrew Walker
Hancock & Joan (2008)
as John Le Mesurier
The Making of 'The Queen' (2007)
as Self
Dickens in London (2012)
as Middle-aged Dickens(Voice)