Rory Kinnear

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 Film Award for his performance in the 2012 film Broken. In 2014, he won the Olivier Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Shakespeare's villain Iago in the National Theatre production of Othello.

Filmography (83 Appearances)

Honey

TBA

Lord of the Flies

2026

Amadeus

2025

All the Devils Are Here

2025

Toxic Town

2025

Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger

2025

Say Nothing

2024

The Old Man and the Land

2024

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

2024

The Diplomat

2023

Bank of Dave

2023

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

2022

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

2022

Men

2022

Our Flag Means Death

2022

A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint

2021

Designing Bond

2021

Ridley Road

2021

No Time to Die

2021

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels

2020

The Interview

2019

Catherine the Great

2019

Years and Years

2019

Brexit: The Uncivil War

2019

Watership Down

2018

Peterloo

2018

National Theatre Live: Macbeth

2018

Nothing Like a Dame

2018

National Theatre Live: Young Marx

2017

Quacks

2017

Guerrilla

2017

iBoy

2017

Trespass Against Us

2016

National Theatre Live: The Threepenny Opera

2016

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

2016

The Roof

2016

Spectre

2015

Man Up

2015

The Casual Vacancy

2015

The Imitation Game

2014

Penny Dreadful

2014

Cuban Fury

2014

Inside No. 9

2014

Lucan

2013

Lucan

2013

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage

2013

National Theatre Live: Othello

2013

Muse of Fire

2013

Southcliffe

2013

Count Arthur Strong

2013

Loving Miss Hatto

2012

Skyfall

2012

National Theatre Live: The Last of the Haussmans

2012

Bond on Location

2012

Broken

2012

The Hollow Crown

2012

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

2012

Black Mirror

2011

Women in Love

2011

National Theatre Live: Hamlet

2010

Lennon Naked

2010

The First Men in the Moon

2010

Vexed

2010

Wild Target

2010

Wish 143

2009

Quantum of Solace

2008

Beautiful People

2008

Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley

2008

The Curse of Steptoe

2008

Ashes to Ashes

2008

Cranford

2007

Comedy Showcase

2007

Mansfield Park

2007

Five Days

2007

The One Show

2006

The Thick of It

2005

Judas

2004 Debut

The Second Coming

2003

Ultimate Force

2002

Judge John Deed

2001

Waking the Dead

2001

Messiah

2001

Silent Witness

1996
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