
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.
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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

Munich - The Edge of War (2021)
as Sir Horace Wilson

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
as Horatio

Blitz (2024)
as Victor Smythe

The Lady in the Van (2015)
as Alan Bennett

The Forgiven (2022)
as Lord Swanthorne

Your Christmas or Mine? (2022)
as Humphrey

The Queen (2006)
as Prince Charles

The Four Feathers (2002)
as Colonel Hamilton

Belle (2013)
as Lord Ashford

Denial (2016)
as Sir Charles Gray

Your Christmas or Mine 2 (2023)
as Humphrey

The Wings of the Dove (1997)
as Lord Mark

The Last Days of Lehman Brothers (2009)
as Timothy Geithner

Five Children and It (2004)
as Father

Strings (2004)
as Utay

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage (2013)
as Henry Higgins

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1999)
as The Butler

Churchill's Secret (2016)
as Anthony Eden

Trap for Cinderella (2013)
as Chance

The Hunley (1999)
as Lt. Alexander

The 39 Steps (2008)
as Captain Kell

The Lady Vanishes (2013)
as Professor Hastings

The Disappeared (2008)
as Adrian Ballan

We'll Take Manhattan (2012)
as John Parsons

On Expenses (2010)
as Andrew Walker

War Requiem (1989)
as Blinded Soldier

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1996)
as Theseus / Oberon

Hard Times (1994)
as Bitzer

A Very Social Secretary (2005)
as Alastair Campbell

Dread Poets' Society (1992)
as Byron

Castles in the Sky (2014)
as Henry Tizard

National Theatre Live: Hansard (2019)
as Robin Hesketh
The Making of 'The Queen' (2007)
as Self
Il était une fois... « The Queen » (2017)
as Self

National Theatre Live: Collaborators (2011)
as Mikhail Bulgakov

Riot at the Rite (2005)
as Sergei Diaghilev

National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art (2010)
as Henry / Benjamin Britten

Dickens in London (2012)
as Middle-aged Dickens(Voice)

Hancock & Joan (2008)
as John Le Mesurier





