Alex Jennings

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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.

Early life

Jennings was born in Romford, Essex, the son of Peggy Patricia (née Mahoney) and Michael Thomas Jennings. He attended Abbs Cross Technical High School in Hornchurch and studied English and Theatre studies at the University of Warwick, graduating in 1978. He said he saw his first theatre when he was in high school and went to the Old Vic Theatre, which inspired him to be an actor.

He trained as an actor for two years at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

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Career

Jennings began working in regional repertory theatre in the early 1980s. Maximilien Robespierre of The Scarlet Pimpernel appeared in 1985, appearing in a variety of roles, including Maximilien Robespierre. Jennings met director Nicholas Hytner during this film and has worked with him often since. In 1988, he received the Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance, according to his appearance as Gloumov in Too Clever by Half at the Old Vic. The following year, he was nominated in the same category for portraying Dorante in The Liar. Leontes in The Winter's Tale and Albert Speer's title role have all appeared for the Royal National Theatre.

Jennings' television appearances include appearances in Smiley's People, Inspector Morse, Lewis, Alfonso Bonzo, The Professional Affair, Inspector Morse, Lewis, Alfonso Bonzo, Inspector Leo Morse, Alfonso Bonzo, The Official Role in Ashenden, Dead Poets Society, Inspector Alleyn, Bad Blood, Hard Times, Bad Blood, and Peter Ackroyd's London. His many radio appearances include Casino Royale, The Way of the World, The Unknown Meeting, Vorbis in Small Gods, and The Old Curiosity Shop.

Peer Gynt (for which he received an Olivier Award in 1995-06), Actor Henry Bolingbroke, Theseus/Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream (UK, American tour and Broadway), and the title role in Hamlet are among his Royal Shakespeare Company appearances.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1999), as well as War Requiem, the RSC's film version of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Jennings appeared in The Wings of the Dove, a romantic drama starring Helena Bonham Carter, Elizabeth McGovern, Charlotte Rampling, and Sir Michael Gambon. The film received acclaim and many awards nominations, including four Academy Award nominations and five British Academy Film Award nominations.

He appeared in the Cameron Mackintosh/Trevor Nunn revival of My Fair Lady at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in 2002, and received the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He was an Associate Artist at the Royal Shakespeare Company. In addition, Heath Ledger, Kate Hudson, and Michael Sheen appeared in The Four Feathers (2002) as Colonel Hamilton.

Jennings made his first film appearance in 2006 as Charles, Prince of Wales, opposite Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen. Stephen Frears directed the film and Peter Morgan wrote it. The film depicts Diana, Princess of Wales, on the 31th of August 1997, as well as the British public and the British royal family's reaction. After it premiered at the Venice Film Festival, the film was a huge critical and box office success. The film received six Academy Award nominations, one for Mirren's performance.

In 2007, he appeared in No.l Coward's Present Laughter. He also portrayed the Rev. in 2007. Judi Dench appears in Cranford's BBC miniseries. In addition to John Le Mesurier in the one-off BBC drama Hancock and Joan, he also appeared in John Le Mesurier in the one-off BBC drama Hancock and Joan. Benjamin Britten appeared in The Habit of Art in 2009.

In June 2008, he made his debut in the Operetta at the ENO in Robert Carsen's production of Bernstein's Candide, in which he played Voltaire and Doctor Pangloss.

Jeffrey Archer, Sins of the Father, The Horse and His Boy, Out of the Silent Planet, and Perelandra by C.S. have all recorded their audio recordings: Sins of the Father by Jeffrey Archer, The Father by Jeffrey Archer, The Bear and His Boy by John Wyndham, The Shepherd's Daughter, The Shepherd and His Boy by Jeffrey Archer, The Horse and His Boy. Jules Verne's Lewis, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and Attention All Shipping by Charlie Connelly, one of the top 40 audiobooks of all time, were selected in June 2008. In 2006, Mark Haddon abridged A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon. He appears on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime as a regular narrator. He was also a member of the BBC's Radio Drama Company.

He appeared in the film Belle in 2010 as Captain Shipshape in the CBeebies' second series of Grandpa in my Pocket and was a part of the Belle Theatre Company. He starred Henry Tizard in Castles in the Sky after that. In 2011, he appeared in the National Theatre's production of Collaborators. He appeared in Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the Musical, directed by Sam Mendes, and performed in London's West End theatre district in 2014. In 2014, he took over Douglas Hodge's role.

Jennings appeared Alan Cowdrey QC in the BBC One legal drama Silk from 2011 to 2014. Inspector Lewis (2012), as well as Foyle's War (2015), have appeared in the PBS/Masterpiece Theatre television series Inspector Lewis (2012).

In the 2015 film The Lady in the Van opposite Academy Award-winning Dame Maggie Smith in the title role, Jennings played playwright Alan Bennett. Nicolas Hytner, a long-time collaborator from the theatre, produces the film. Jim Broadbent, Claire Foy, Frances de la Tour, and James Corden appeared in the film as well. Smith's film premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival to great acclaim, particularly for Smith's appearance. This is Smith's first chat show appearance in over 40 years, and it's to advertise the film Maggie Smith and Jennings appeared on The Graham Norton Show.

In 2016, he reprised his role as Professor Henry Higgins in the Australian 60th anniversary production of My Fair Lady, directed by Julie Andrews.

Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, uncle to Queen Elizabeth, and great-uncle to Prince Charles appeared on television from 2016 to 2017. Both audiences and writers alike have lauded the series. In the ITV/PBS series Victoria (2016–2019) Jennings also portrayed King Leopold I of Belgium alongside Jenna Coleman.

Peter Bessell appeared in BBC One's A Very English Scandal, alongside Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw, a miniseries about the Jeremy Thorpe affair filmed by Stephen Frears in 2018. With a 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the film earned widespread critical praise. "Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw impress in A Very English Scandal, an absorbing and sad reflection of British politics and culture." The series also received four Primetime Emmy Awards, including a win for Whishaw for his work.

Jennings appeared in the Small Axe miniseries directed by Steve McQueen, primarily the television film Mangrove, starring Letitia Wright as physician and British Black Panther Altheia Jones-LeCointe. The story in Mangrove revolves around the true tale based on the Mangrove Nine, a British black activist who attempted to spark a riot against the police attack of the Mangrove restaurant, Notting Hill, in West London, in 1970. "Mangrove, a strong example of institutional bigotry, has been widely distributed in praise, with the critics' consensus on Rotten Tomatoes' reading."

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