Alex Jennings
Acting
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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.
Filmography
The Siege
2026
Dirty Business
2026
Ballad of a Small Player
2025
The Phoenician Scheme
2025
Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes
2025
MobLand
2025
The Agency
2024
Blitz
2024
A Very Royal Scandal
2024
The New Look
2024
Mr Bates vs The Post Office
2024
Your Christmas or Mine 2
2023
Your Christmas or Mine?
2022
The Forgiven
2022
The Undeclared War
2022
Operation Mincemeat
2022
This Is Going to Hurt
2022
Munich - The Edge of War
2021
Small Axe
2020
Gold Digger
2019
National Theatre Live: Hansard
2019
A Very English Scandal
2018
Il était une fois... « The Queen »
2017
The Crown
2016
Denial
2016
Victoria
2016
Churchill's Secret
2016
The Lady in the Van
2015
Unforgotten
2015
Wolf Hall
2015
Castles in the Sky
2014
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013
Trap for Cinderella
2013
Belle
2013
The Lady Vanishes
2013
Dickens in London
2012
We'll Take Manhattan
2012
National Theatre Live: Collaborators
2011
Silk
2011
National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art
2010
On Expenses
2010
The Last Days of Lehman Brothers
2009
Whitechapel
2009
Being Human
2009
The 39 Steps
2008
The Disappeared
2008
Hancock & Joan
2008
10 Days to War
2008
Fairy Tales
2008
Cranford
2007
The Restaurant
2007
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Lewis
2007
The Making of 'The Queen'
2007
The State Within
2006
Babel
2006
The Queen
2006
Riot at the Rite
2005
A Very Social Secretary
2005
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
2004
Strings
2004
Five Children and It
2004
London
2004
New Tricks
2004
Foyle's War
2002
The Four Feathers
2002
Spooks
2002
Waking the Dead
2001
Too Much Sun
2000
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
1999
The Hunley
1999
Liberty!
1997
The Wings of the Dove
1997
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1996
Hard Times
1994
Hard Times
1994
Dread Poets' Society
1992
Ashenden
1991
Alfonso Bonzo
1990
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
War Requiem
1989
The Franchise Affair
1988
Inspector Morse
1987
ScreenPlay
1986
Smiley's People
1982