Rory Kinnear
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Rory Kinnear
| Rory Kinnear | |
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| Born | Rory Kinnear 17 February 1978 London, England |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Parents | Roy Kinnear (deceased) Carmel Cryan |
Rory Kinnear (born 17 February 1978) is an award-winning English actor who has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre.
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Early life
The son of actor Roy Kinnear and actress Carmel Cryan, he has two sisters, Kirsty and Karina. Through his father he is the grandson of the Scottish rugby player Roy Muir Kinnear, and he is the godson of Michael Williams. Educated at Tower House School and St Paul's School (London), he read English at Balliol College, Oxford and then studied acting at LAMDA.[1]
Career
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 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.
Further to his theatre work he 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 portrayed Bill Tanner in the Bond films Quantum of Solace (2008) and Skyfall (2012).
In 2010 he played Angelo in Measure For Measure at the Almeida Theatre.[2] Later in 2010 he played the title role in Hamlet at the National Theatre.[3] The two portrayals won him the best actor award in the Evening Standard drama awards for 2010.[4]
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. 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.[5] He appeared in the lead role of Prime Minister Michael Callow in 'The National Anthem', the first instalment of Charlie Brooker's miniseries Black Mirror.[6]
In 2012, Kinnear will feature 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.[7]
Selected credits
- The Seagull (2002, stage play: Theatre Royal, Northampton) as Konstantin
- The Tempest (2002, stage play: Theatre Royal, Plymouth) as Caliban
- The Taming of the Shrew (2003, stage play: RSC) as Tranio
- The Tamer Tamed (2003, stage play: RSC)
- Cymbeline (2003, stage play: RSC) as 1st Lord
- Festen (2004, stage play: Almeida) as Michael
- Hamlet (2004, stage play: Old Vic) as Laertes
- Mary Stuart (2005, stage play: Donmar Warehouse) as Mortimer
- Southwark Fair (2006, stage play: NT) as Simon
- The Man of Mode (2007, stage play: NT) as Sir Fopling Fluter
- Philistines (2007, stage play: NT) as Pyotr
- The Curse of Steptoe (2008, TV movie) as Alan Simpson
- The Revenger's Tragedy (2008, stage play: NT) as Vindice
- Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley (2008, TV movie) as Denis Thatcher
- Quantum of Solace (2008) as Bill Tanner
- Burnt by the Sun (2009, stage play: NT) as Mitia
- Waking the Dead (2009, TV guest role)
- Wish 143 (2009, short film)
- Ashes to Ashes (2009) Jeremy (psychoanalyst)
- Lennon Naked (2010, BBC Four) as Brian Epstein
- Vexed (2010, BBC Two) as Dan Bishop
- GoldenEye 007 (2010, voice) as Bill Tanner
- James Bond 007: Blood Stone (2010, voice) as Bill Tanner
- Hamlet (2010, stage play: National Theatre, London) as Hamlet
- The First Men in the Moon (2010) Julius Bedford
- Women in Love (2011, BBC Series) as Rupert Birkin
- Black Mirror (2011) as Prime Minister Michael Callow
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood (2012) as Reverend Septimus Crisparkle
- Skyfall (2012) as Bill Tanner
References
- ^ "Rory Kinnear: Good show, sweet prince". London Evening Standard. November 29, 2010. http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/arts/theatre/rory-kinnear-good-show-sweet-prince-6541358.html.
- ^ Bamigboye, Baz (26 September 2009). "Gemma Arterton takes her bow in West End debut". Daily Mail (London). http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1215978/BAZ-BAMIGBOYE-Gemma-Arterton-takes-bow.html.
- ^ http://www.playbill.com/news/article/133098-National_Theatre_s_2010%2010_Season_to_Feature_Grandage_Debut_and_Kinnear_s_Hamlet
- ^ Brown, Mark (29 November 2010). "Kinnear and Carroll land top theatre awards". The Guardian (London).
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/whats-on/2011/august-12/43
- ^ "Charlie Brooker: the dark side of our gadget addiction". 2011-12-1. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/dec/01/charlie-brooker-dark-side-gadget-addiction-black-mirror.
- ^ Mike Watkins (May 2011). "BBC Two to air Shakespeare works Richard II, Henry IV Parts I and II and Henry V". ATV Guide. http://www.atvtoday.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1237;bbc-two-to-air-shakespeare-works-richard-ii-henry-iv-parts-i-and-ii-and-henry-v. Retrieved 20 June 2011.
External links
- Rory Kinnear at the Internet Movie Database
- Interview with The Observer
- Wish 143 - short film starring Rory Kinnear
- The First Men in the Moon
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