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Rory Michael Kinnear (born 17 February 1978)[1][2][3] is an English actor and playwright who has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre. In 2014, he won the Olivier Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of William Shakespeare's villain Iago in the National Theatre production of Othello.

Rory Kinnear
Kinnear in 2012
Born	Rory Michael Kinnear (1978-02-17) 17 February 1978 (age 44) Hammersmith, London, England
Education	Balliol College, Oxford London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
Occupation	Actor playwright
Years active	2000–present
Partner	Pandora Colin
Children	2
Parent(s)	Roy Kinnear Carmel Cryan

He is known for playing Bill Tanner in the James Bond films Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, Spectre and No Time to Die, 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 Sir Fopling Flutter in a 2008 version of The Man of Mode by George Etherege, and a British Independent Film Award for his performance in the 2012 film Broken. He is also known for starring as all the male inhabitants of the village of Cotson in the horror film Men, as well as his TV roles including Michael on the BBC comedy Count Arthur Strong (2013–2017), Lord Lucan in the two-part ITV series Lucan, Frankenstein's monster in Penny Dreadful, and the lead role of Prime Minister Michael Callow in "The National Anthem", the first episode of the anthology series Black Mirror.

Early life

Kinnear was born in Hammersmith, London, the son of the actor Roy Kinnear and actress Carmel Cryan.[4] He grew up with two older sisters, Kristina and Kirsty. He is the grandson of the Scottish international rugby union and rugby league player Roy Kinnear and the godson of actor Michael Williams.[5] He was educated at Tower House School (leaving in 1991),[6] St Paul's School, London, and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read English. He then studied acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.[7]

Career

Theatre

Kinnear's performances in Phyllida Lloyd's production of Mary Stuart and Trevor Nunn's Hamlet, in which he played Laertes, met with acclaim. He also achieved recognition as the outrageous Sir Fopling Flutter in The Man of Mode at the National Theatre, winning a Laurence Olivier Award and Ian Charleson Award. Other notable theatre work includes the lead in Thomas Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy, the role of Pyotr in Maxim Gorky's Philistines and the role of Mitia in a stage adaptation of the Nikita Mikhalkov film Burnt by the Sun, all for the National Theatre.

In 2010, he played Angelo in Measure for Measure at the Almeida Theatre.^{[citation needed]} Later in 2010, he played the title role in Hamlet at the National Theatre.[8] The two portrayals won him the best actor award in the Evening Standard drama awards for 2010.[9]

Kinnear appeared in The Last of the Haussmans by Stephen Beresford at the National Theatre during the summer of 2012. The production was broadcast to cinemas around the world on 11 October 2012 through the National Theatre Live programme.[10]

He starred as Iago opposite Adrian Lester in the title role of Othello in 2013 at the National Theatre throughout the summer of 2013. Both actors won the Best Actor award in the Evening Standard Theatre Awards for their roles; the award is normally given to only one actor, but the judges were unable to choose between the two men.[11]

From September 2013, the Bush Theatre in London staged Kinnear's debut play The Herd, directed by Howard Davies.[12] The play ran at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago beginning 2 April 2015.[13] In October 2017, he appeared in the title role of Young Marx, the premiere production at the Bridge Theatre.[14] He returned to the Olivier Theatre at the National Theatre to star as the title role in Macbeth with Anne-Marie Duff from February 2018.

Opera

For The Threepenny Opera (a "play with songs") at the Olivier Theatre from May to October 2016, Kinnear found his "dormant" singing voice for the role of Macheath.[15][16] In February 2017, he made his directing debut with The Winter's Tale, a new opera written by Ryan Wigglesworth and based on Shakespeare's play, for English National Opera.[17]

Film

Kinnear portrays Bill Tanner in the Daniel Craig era James Bond film series after taking over from Michael Kitchen. He is the fourth person to play the character. He has appeared in Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021). As well as the films, Kinnear also lends his voice and likeness to the Bond video games; GoldenEye 007 (2010), James Bond 007: Blood Stone (2010) and 007 Legends (2012). In 2014, he played the fictional character, Detective Nock, in The Imitation Game based loosely on the biography Alan Turing:The Enigma by Andrew Hodges. In January 2017, he portrayed Ellmann in the Netflix film iBoy. He played Henry Hunt in Mike Leigh's 2018 film Peterloo.

Television

Further to his theatre work, Kinnear received particularly positive reviews for his sympathetic portrayal of Denis Thatcher in The Long Walk to Finchley (2008), a BBC dramatisation of the early years of Margaret Thatcher's political career, which also starred Andrea Riseborough and Samuel West.

He also starred alongside Lucy Punch and Toby Stephens in the BBC Two series Vexed. Broadcast on 19 October 2010, he was the co-lead in the BBC4 TV drama, The First Men in the Moon written by and co-starring Mark Gatiss.

In 2011, he provided narration during the BBC Proms production of 'Henry V – suite' arranged by Muir Mathieson during their Film Music Prom.[18] He appeared in the lead role of Prime Minister Michael Callow in "The National Anthem", the first episode of the anthology series Black Mirror.[19]

In July 2012, Kinnear appeared as Bolingbroke in Richard II, a BBC Two adaptation of the play of the same name, with Ben Whishaw as King Richard and Patrick Stewart as John of Gaunt.[20]

From 2013 to 2017, he starred as Michael in the BBC sitcom Count Arthur Strong. He has also appeared in the Channel 4 drama Southcliffe.

In December 2013, he appeared as British peer and suspected murderer Lord Lucan in the two-part ITV series Lucan.

He also appeared as Frankenstein's monster in the Showtime television series Penny Dreadful, which premiered 11 May 2014.[21]

In 2017, he appeared in the British miniseries Guerrilla as a Chief Inspector in the Special Branches.[22]

In 2017, he starred as Robert Lessing in the BBC Two comedy series Quacks, which ridicules the early days of medicine in England.

In 2018, he appeared in the first episode of the fourth series of the BBC One comedy series Inside No. 9, Zanzibar, which being a Shakespearean parody, was written in mainly rhyming couplets, with Rory Kinnear playing identical twins and long-lost sons.

In 2019, Kinnear played Craig Oliver in the Channel 4 television film Brexit: The Uncivil War,[23] and the desperate financial advisor Stephen Lyons in the futuristic series Years and Years.

In 2021, Kinnear played Neo-Nazi Colin Jordan in the television drama Ridley Road.[24]

In 2022, he starred in Our Flag Means Death.[25]

Radio

In 2010, he played Flugkapitän Jürgen Rahl in the BBC Radio drama Slipstream as a disaffected German pilot who joins a mission to steal an alien spacecraft harboured by the Nazis.

Personal life

Kinnear is engaged to actress Pandora Colin. Pandora (née Pandora Ormsby-Gore) is the daughter of the 5th Baron Harlech, and aunt to the current 7th Baron, conservative sitting peer, Jasset Ormsby-Gore.[26] The couple have a son, Riley, born in 2010, and a daughter, Hope, born in 2014.[27][28]

Karina Kinnear, Rory's sister, died from coronavirus at the age of 48 in May 2020.[29]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	Judas	Andrew
2008	Quantum of Solace	Bill Tanner
2009	Wish 143	Wisham	Short film
2010	The First Men in the Moon	Julius Bedford
	Wild Target	Gerry Bailey
2012	Skyfall	Bill Tanner
	Broken	Bob Oswald	Nominated—British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actor
2014	Cuban Fury	Gary
	The Imitation Game	Detective Nock	Nominated—San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2015	Man Up	Sean
	Spectre	Bill Tanner
2016	Trespass Against Us	P.C Lovage
	The Roof	Yet Another Fan	Short film
	Daddy My	Father	Short film
2017	iBoy	Ellman
2018	Peterloo	Henry Hunt
2021	No Time to Die	Bill Tanner
2022	Men	Geoffrey / Various roles

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	Judge John Deed	Tony Cootes	Episode: "Duty of Care"
2002	Menace	Kevin	2 episodes
	Ultimate Force	Policeman	Episode: "The Killing House"
2003	The Second Coming	Father Dillane	Episode: "#1.1"
2005	Silent Witness	Paul	Episode: "The Meaning of Death"
	Secret Smile	Nick	Television movie
2007	Mansfield Park	James Rushworth	Television movie
	Five Days	Kyle Betts	5 episodes
	Comedy Showcase	Rob Black	Episode: "Plus One"
2008	Messiah: The Rapture	Stewart Dean	2 episodes
	The Curse of Steptoe	Alan Simpson	Television movie
	The Long Walk to Finchley	Denis Thatcher	Television movie
2009	Waking the Dead	James Mitcham	2 episodes
	Beautiful People	Ross	Episode: "How I Got My Plumes"
	Ashes to Ashes	Jeremy	Episode: "#2.3"
	Cranford	Septimus Hanbury	Episode: "Return to Cranford: Part One – August 1844"
	The Thick of It	Ed Atkins	Episode: "#3.1"
2010	Vexed	Dan Bishop	3 episodes
	Lennon Naked	Brian Epstein	Television movie
2011	Women in Love	Rupert Birkin	2 episodes
	Black Mirror	Prime Minister Michael Callow	Episode: "The National Anthem"
2012	The Mystery of Edwin Drood	Reverend Septimus Crisparkle	2 episodes
	The Hollow Crown	Bolingbroke	Episode: "Richard II"
2013	Southcliffe	David Whitehead	4 episodes Nominated—BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated—Broadcasting Press Guild Award for Best Actor
	Lucan	Lord Lucan	2 episodes
2013–2017	Count Arthur Strong	Michael	20 episodes
2014–2016	Penny Dreadful	The Creature	22 episodes Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film Nominated—Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television (2015–16)
2015	The Casual Vacancy	Barry Fairbrother	3 episodes
2017	Guerrilla	Pence	6 episodes
	Quacks	Robert Lessing	6 episodes
2018	Inside No. 9	Prince Rico / Gus	Episode: "Zanzibar"
	Watership Down	Cowslip (voice)	Miniseries
2019	Brexit: The Uncivil War	Craig Oliver	Television film
	Years and Years	Stephen Lyons	Main role
	Catherine the Great	Nikita Ivanovich Panin	Miniseries
2020	Penny Dreadful: City of Angels	Peter Craft	Main role
2021	Ridley Road	Colin Jordan
2022	Our Flag Means Death	Captain Nigel Badminton/Chauncey Badminton	Main role

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Theatre	Notes
2002	The Seagull	Konstantin	Royal Theatre (Northampton)
	The Tempest	Caliban	Theatre Royal, Plymouth
2003	The Taming of the Shrew	Tranio	Royal Shakespeare Company at the Queen's Theatre
	The Tamer Tamed	—	Royal Shakespeare Company at the Queen's Theatre
	Cymbeline	1st Lord
2004	Festen	Michael	Almeida Theatre / Lyric Theatre
	Hamlet	Laertes	Old Vic
2005	Mary Stuart	Mortimer	Donmar Warehouse
2006	Southwark Fair	Simon	Royal National Theatre, Cottesloe
2007	The Man of Mode	Sir Fopling Flutter	Royal National Theatre, Olivier	Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
	Philistines	Pyotr	Royal National Theatre, Lyttelton
2008	The Revenger's Tragedy	Vindice	Royal National Theatre, Olivier
2009	Burnt by the Sun	Mitia	Royal National Theatre, Lyttelton
2010	Measure For Measure	Angelo	Almeida Theatre
	Hamlet	Hamlet	Royal National Theatre, Olivier
2012	The Last of the Haussmans	Nick	Royal National Theatre, Lyttelton
2013	Othello	Iago	Royal National Theatre, Olivier	Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor
2015	The Trial	K	Young Vic
2016	The Threepenny Opera	Macheath	Royal National Theatre, Olivier
2017	Young Marx	Karl Marx	Bridge Theatre
2018	Macbeth	Macbeth	Royal National Theatre, Olivier
2022	Force Majeure	Tomas	Donmar Warehouse

References

External links

• Rory Kinnear at IMDb
• Interview with The Observer
• Wish 143 – short film starring Rory Kinnear
• The First Men in the Moon

Acting roles
Preceded by Michael Kitchen	Bill Tanner actor from the James Bond films 2008 – present	Incumbent
Preceded by Liam Brennan	Henry IV actor 2012	Succeeded by Jeremy Irons

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[de] Rory Kinnear

Rory Kinnear (* 17. Februar 1978 in London, England) ist ein britischer Schauspieler.

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[es] Rory Kinnear

Rory Michael Kinnear (Hammersmith, Londres; 17 de febrero de 1978) es un actor británico, ganador de múltiples premios y que ha trabajado con la Royal Shakespeare Company y el Royal National Theatre.

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[ru] Киннир, Рори

Ро́ри Кинни́р (в русской транслитерации часто как Киннер; англ. Rory Kinnear; род. 17 февраля 1978, Лондон, Англия, Великобритания[1][2]) — британский актёр театра, кино и телевидения. Двукратный обладатель Премии Лоренса Оливье, обладатель премии Спутник.

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