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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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
as Horatio
The Phoenician Scheme (2025)
as Broadcloth
Babel (2006)
as Ken Clifford
Ballad of a Small Player (2025)
as Adrian Lippett
The Queen (2006)
as Prince Charles
Belle (2013)
as Lord Ashford
Operation Mincemeat (2022)
as John Masterman
The Four Feathers (2002)
as Colonel Hamilton
The Forgiven (2022)
as Lord Swanthorne
Your Christmas or Mine? (2022)
as Humphrey
Munich - The Edge of War (2021)
as Sir Horace Wilson
The Wings of the Dove (1997)
as Lord Mark
Five Children and It (2004)
as Father
Denial (2016)
as Sir Charles Gray
Blitz (2024)
as Victor Smythe
We'll Take Manhattan (2012)
as John Parsons
The Lady in the Van (2015)
as Alan Bennett
The Last Days of Lehman Brothers (2009)
as Timothy Geithner
The Lady Vanishes (2013)
as Professor Hastings
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1996)
as Theseus / Oberon
Your Christmas or Mine 2 (2023)
as Humphrey
The Hunley (1999)
as Lt. Alexander
Strings (2004)
as Utay
Churchill's Secret (2016)
as Anthony Eden
Trap for Cinderella (2013)
as Chance
Riot at the Rite (2005)
as Sergei Diaghilev
Castles in the Sky (2014)
as Henry Tizard
The 39 Steps (2008)
as Captain Kell
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage (2013)
as Henry Higgins
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1999)
as The Butler
A Very Social Secretary (2005)
as Alastair Campbell
Dread Poets' Society (1992)
as Byron
Il était une fois... « The Queen » (2017)
as Self
Hard Times (1994)
as Bitzer
Hancock & Joan (2008)
as John Le Mesurier
The Making of 'The Queen' (2007)
as Self
The Disappeared (2008)
as Adrian Ballan
On Expenses (2010)
as Andrew Walker
National Theatre Live: Collaborators (2011)
as Mikhail Bulgakov
War Requiem (1989)
as Blinded Soldier
National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art (2010)
as Henry / Benjamin Britten
National Theatre Live: Hansard (2019)
as Robin Hesketh
Dickens in London (2012)
as Middle-aged Dickens(Voice)