
Alex Jennings
Born May 10, 1957 · Essex, England, UK
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.
Notable Appearances
Movies

The Phoenician Scheme

Babel

Ballad of a Small Player

Operation Mincemeat

The Queen

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

The Lady in the Van

The Four Feathers

The Forgiven

Blitz

Five Children and It

Munich - The Edge of War

Belle

Your Christmas or Mine?

The Wings of the Dove

Denial

Your Christmas or Mine 2

The Last Days of Lehman Brothers

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage

Castles in the Sky

We'll Take Manhattan

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Trap for Cinderella

Strings

Riot at the Rite

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Very Social Secretary

Churchill's Secret

The Hunley

War Requiem

The 39 Steps

National Theatre Live: Collaborators

National Theatre Live: Hansard

The Lady Vanishes
TV Shows

Spooks

New Tricks

Waking the Dead

The Agency

Lewis

Foyle's War

Inspector Morse

Unforgotten

ScreenPlay

Silk

Wolf Hall

Victoria

Being Human

The New Look

Cranford

This Is Going to Hurt

Smiley's People

Whitechapel

A Very English Scandal

Small Axe

The Undeclared War

Liberty!

The State Within

A Very Royal Scandal

Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes

Mr Bates vs The Post Office

10 Days to War

Fairy Tales

Gold Digger

Alfonso Bonzo

Dirty Business

The Franchise Affair

Hard Times










