Alex Jennings
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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.58 |
| Birthday | 1957-05-10 |
| Place of Birth | Essex, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Alexander Jennings, |
2006
The Queen
6.941/1465
The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, fol...
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The Queen
2005
Riot at the Rite
8/2
In the spring of 1913, Parisian businessman Gabriel Astruc opens a new theater on the Champs Elysées. The first performance is the premiere of Igor St...
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Riot at the Rite
1999
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
6.169/71
Joseph, the favored son of Jacob, is betrayed by his jealous brothers, sold into slavery, and driven to Egypt. Though beset with adversity, Joseph per...
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
2008
The Disappeared
5.7/39
Following the disappearance of his younger brother Tom, Matthew Ryan tries to put his life and sanity back together. However the past keeps coming bac...
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The Disappeared
1997
The Wings of the Dove
6.605/129
Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's dece...
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The Wings of the Dove
2004
Five Children and It
5.6/234
The Psammead is an 'it', an ancient, ill-tempered sand-fairy with a spider-shaped body, bat-like ears, and snail-like eyes. It is grumpy but has the p...
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Five Children and It
2008
The 39 Steps
6.529/28
Richard Hannay, a mining engineer on holiday from the African colonies, finds London socialite life terribly dull. Yet it's more than he bargained for...
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The 39 Steps
2022
The Forgiven
5.742/271
Over a weekend in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, a random accident reverberates through the lives of both the local Muslims and Western visitors...
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The Forgiven
2021
Munich - The Edge of War
6.931/690
At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret.
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Munich - The Edge of War
2012
Dickens in London
8/1
The life of Charles Dickens recreated using puppets, live action and animation. An experimental visualisation by Chris Newby of a pre-recorded radio...
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Dickens in London
1996
A Midsummer Night's Dream
5.9/11
Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night... all fr...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
2022
Operation Mincemeat
6.509/842
In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain w...
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Operation Mincemeat
2008
Hancock & Joan
4.1/5
Drama which tells the story of comedian Tony Hancock's love affair with his friend's wife, and her fight to save the man and his career.
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Hancock & Joan
2013
The Lady Vanishes
6.346/52
Young socialite Iris Carr befriends an older woman while traveling solo by train. When Iris wakes from a nap, the woman is gone and other passengers c...
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The Lady Vanishes
2023
Your Christmas or Mine 2
6.24/121
They've swapped Christmas – again. Can Hayley and James' relationship survive another turbulent family Christmas or has their future together gone off...
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Your Christmas or Mine 2
1992
Dread Poets' Society
0/0
Benjamin Zephaniah, renowned Rastafarian poet/rapper is traveling by train from Birmingham to Cambridge to receive his Creative Arts Fellowship sharin...
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Dread Poets' Society
2010
National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art
8/1
National Theatre Live’s 2010 broadcast of Alan Bennett’s acclaimed play The Habit of Art, with Richard Griffiths, Alex Jennings, and Frances de la Tou...
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National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art
2005
A Very Social Secretary
6.25/8
Bernard Hill and Victoria Hamilton star in Alistair Beaton's wickedly funny feature-length drama inspired by David Blunkett's private affair held up f...
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A Very Social Secretary
1989
War Requiem
6.283/23
During World War I, British soldier Owen is mortified by the examples of cruelty that surround him in the trenches. He combats these terrifying images...
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War Requiem
2014
Castles in the Sky
5.967/15
England, while the storm clouds of Nazism menace Germany. Robert Watson Watt and a team of eccentric and brilliant meteorologists struggle to turn the...
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Castles in the Sky
2002
The Four Feathers
6.647/613
A young British officer resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends a...
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The Four Feathers
2022
Your Christmas or Mine?
6.401/217
Students Hayley and James are young and in love. After saying goodbye for Christmas at a London train station, they both make the same mad split-secon...
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Your Christmas or Mine?
2015
The Lady in the Van
6.401/819
The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van...
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The Lady in the Van
2016
Churchill's Secret
6.3/26
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953 that's kept a secret from the rest of the world.
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Churchill's Secret
2010
On Expenses
0/0
Drama about journalist Heather Brooke's fight for the disclosure of MPs' expenses.
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On Expenses
2016
Denial
6.833/716
Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a reno...
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Denial
2017
Il était une fois... « The Queen »
0/0
Released in 2006, British filmmaker Stephen Frears' "The Queen" dramatizes the brief but intense conflict between Prime Minister Tony Blair and Elizab...
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Il était une fois... « The Queen »
2024
Blitz
5.993/274
In World War II London, nine-year-old George is evacuated to the countryside by his mother, Rita, to escape the bombings. Defiant and determined to re...
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Blitz
2006
Babel
7.169/4191
Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.
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Babel
2009
The Last Days of Lehman Brothers
5.471/17
The heads of Wall Street's biggest investment banks were summoned to an evening meeting by the US Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson, to discuss the pli...
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The Last Days of Lehman Brothers
2012
We'll Take Manhattan
5.7/31
We’ll Take Manhattan explores the explosive love affair between sixties supermodel Jean Shrimpton and photographer David Bailey. Focusing on a wild a...
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We'll Take Manhattan
2013
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
6.2/4
To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the National Theatre of Great Britain presents National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage, bringing together the best Brit...
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National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2011
National Theatre Live: Collaborators
0/0
John Hodge's Collaborators centers on an imaginary encounter between Joseph Stalin and the playwright Mikhail Bulgakov.
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National Theatre Live: Collaborators
2004
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
6.2/3086
Bridget Jones is still dating her new love, barrister Mark Darcy, for a perfect six weeks. However, while on assignment in Thailand with her disreputa...
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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
2013
Belle
7.1/740
Dido Elizabeth Bell, the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, plays an important role in the campaign to abolish slavery in Engl...
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Belle
2019
National Theatre Live: Hansard
8.7/3
It's a summer's morning in 1988 and Tory politician Robin Hesketh has returned home to the idyllic Cotswold house he shares with his wife of 30 years,...
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National Theatre Live: Hansard
2013
Trap for Cinderella
5.189/45
A young girl, suffering from amnesia after surviving a house fire that takes her childhood friend's life, begins a tormented road to recovery.
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Trap for Cinderella
1999
The Hunley
6.211/19
CSS Hunley tells the incredible true story of the crew of the manually propelled submarine CSS Hunley, during the siege of Charleston of 1864. It is a...
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The Hunley
2025
The Phoenician Scheme
6.522/1053
Wealthy businessman Zsa-zsa Korda appoints his only daughter, a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As Korda embarks on a new enterprise, they soon becom...
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The Phoenician Scheme
2007
The Making of 'The Queen'
4/2
Documentary on the making of the 2006 film 'The Queen'.
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The Making of 'The Queen'
2025
Ballad of a Small Player
5.777/361
Amid the glittering casinos of Macau, a gambler running from his past—and his debts—becomes fascinated by an enigmatic woman at the baccarat table.
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Ballad of a Small Player
2004
Strings
6.64/89
The story of Prince Hal who sets out to avenge his dead father against the city's rivals, the Zeriths, little knowing it was his wicked uncle Nezo who...
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