Rory Kinnear
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
Rory Kinnear (born February 17, 1978) is an English actor and playwright who has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre. He is best known for playing Bill Tanner in the James Bond films Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, and Spectre, 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 Fopling Flutter in a 2008 version of The Man of Mode, and a British Independent Fil...
Known For
Filmography
Learning to Breathe Under Water
2026
as Peter
Onwards and Sideways
2026
Lord of the Flies
2026
as Ralph's Father (uncredited)
Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger
2025
as Dave Fishwick
All the Devils Are Here
2025
as Harold Laing
Toxic Town
2025
as Des Collins
Amadeus
2025
as Emperor Joseph
The Old Man and the Land
2024
as David (voice)
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
2024
as Churchill
Say Nothing
2024
as Frank Kitson
Bank of Dave
2023
as Dave Fishwick
The Diplomat
2023
as Prime Minister Nicol Trowbridge
Men
2022
as Geoffrey
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
2022
as Narrator
Our Flag Means Death
2022
as Captain Nigel Badminton / Chauncey Badminton
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
2022
as Tom Bombadil
A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint
2021
as Edward Williams
Designing Bond
2021
as Self
No Time to Die
2021
as Tanner
Ridley Road
2021
as Colin Jordan
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
2020
as Dr. Peter Craft
Brexit: The Uncivil War
2019
as Craig Oliver
The Interview
2019
as Interviewer
Catherine the Great
2019
as Nikita Ivanovich Panin
Years and Years
2019
as Stephen Lyons
Peterloo
2018
as Henry Hunt
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
2018
as Macbeth
Nothing Like a Dame
2018
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Zanzibar
2018
as Prince Rico / Gus
Watership Down
2018
as Cowslip (voice)
iBoy
2017
as Ellman
National Theatre Live: Young Marx
2017
as Marx
Guerrilla
2017
as Pence
Quacks
2017
as Robert Lessing
Trespass Against Us
2016
as P.C Lovage
The Roof
2016
as Yet Another Fan
National Theatre Live: The Threepenny Opera
2016
as Captain Macheath, aka 'Mac the Knife'
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016
as Self - Performer
Daddy My
2016
as Father
Spectre
2015
as Tanner
Man Up
2015
as Sean
The Casual Vacancy
2015
as Barry Fairbrother
Cuban Fury
2014
as Gary
The Imitation Game
2014
as Detective Robert Nock
Penny Dreadful
2014
as John Clare / The Creature
Inside No. 9
2014
as Prince Rico / Gus
National Theatre Live: Othello
2013
as Iago
Muse of Fire
2013
as Self
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013
as Iago
Lucan
2013
as Lord Lucan
Lucan
2013
as Lord Lucan
Southcliffe
2013
as David Whitehead
Count Arthur Strong
2013
as Michael Baker
Skyfall
2012
as Tanner
National Theatre Live: The Last of the Haussmans
2012
as Nick
Broken
2012
as Bob Oswald
Loving Miss Hatto
2012
as Young Barrington Coupe
Bond on Location
2012
as Self / Bill Tanner
The Hollow Crown
2012
as Bollingbroke
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
2012
as Reverend Septimus Crisparkle
Black Mirror
2011
as Michael Callow
Women in Love
2011
as Rupert Birkin
The First Men in the Moon
2010
as Bedford
Wild Target
2010
as Gerry Bailey
Lennon Naked
2010
as Brian Epstein
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
2010
as Hamlet
Vexed
2010
as Dan Bishop
Wish 143
2009
as Wishman
Quantum of Solace
2008
as Tanner
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
2008
as Denis Thatcher
The Curse of Steptoe
2008
as Alan Simpson
Ashes to Ashes
2008
Beautiful People
2008
as Ross
Mansfield Park
2007
as Rushworth
Five Days
2007
as Kyle Betts
Comedy Showcase
2007
as Rob Black
Cranford
2007
as Septimus Hanbury
The One Show
2006
as Self
The Thick of It
2005
as Ed
Judas
2004
as Andrew
The Second Coming
2003
as Father Dillane
Ultimate Force
2002
Menace
2002
as Kevin
Judge John Deed
2001
Messiah
2001
as Stewart Dean
Waking the Dead
2001
as James Mitcham
Silent Witness
1996
A Ghost Story for Christmas
1971
as Edward Williams