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.
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Primarily2025 Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger as Dave Fishwick
2024 The Old Man and the Land as David (voice)
2024 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare as Winston Churchill
2023 Bank of Dave as Dave Fishwick
2022 Men as Geoffrey
2021 A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint as Edward Williams
2021 Designing Bond as Self
2021 No Time to Die as Tanner
2021 Being James Bond as Self (archive footage)
2019 The Interview as Interviewer
2019 Brexit: The Uncivil War as Craig Oliver
2018 Peterloo as Henry Hunt
2018 National Theatre Live: Macbeth as Macbeth
2018 Nothing Like a Dame as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2017 National Theatre Live: Young Marx as Marx
2017 iBoy as Ellman
2016 Trespass Against Us as P.C Lovage
2016 National Theatre Live: The Threepenny Opera as Captain Macheath, aka 'Mac the Knife'
2016 Shakespeare Live! From the RSC as Self - Performer
2016 The Roof as Yet Another Fan
2015 Spectre as Tanner
2015 Man Up as Sean
2014 The Imitation Game as Detective Robert Nock
2014 Cuban Fury as Gary
2013 Lucan as Lord Lucan
2013 National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage as Iago
2013 Muse of Fire as Self
2013 National Theatre Live: Othello as Iago
2012 Loving Miss Hatto as Young Barrington Coupe
2012 Skyfall as Tanner
2012 National Theatre Live: The Last of the Haussmans as Nick
2012 Bond on Location as Self / Bill Tanner
2012 Broken as Bob Oswald
2010 National Theatre Live: Hamlet as Hamlet
2010 Lennon Naked as Brian Epstein
2010 The First Men in the Moon as Bedford
2010 Wild Target as Gerry Bailey
2009 Wish 143 as Wishman
2008 Quantum of Solace as Tanner
2008 Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley as Denis Thatcher
2008 The Curse of Steptoe as Alan Simpson
2007 Mansfield Park as Rushworth
2004 Judas as Andrew