Rupert Friend

Known for ActingBorn 1981-10-09 (age 44)Oxfordshire, England, UK

Rupert William Anthony Friend (born October 1981) is an English actor. He first gained recognition for his roles in The Libertine (2004) and Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (2005), winning him awards for best newcomer. He portrayed George Wickham in Pride & Prejudice (2005), Lieutenant Kurt Kotler in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008), Albert, Prince Consort in The Young Victoria (2009), psychologist Oliver Baumer in Starred Up (2013), CIA operative Peter Quinn in the political thriller series Homeland (2012–2017), Vasily Stalin in The Death of Stalin (2017), Theo van Gogh in At Eternity's Gate (2018), and Ernest Donovan in the series Strange Angel (2018–2019). In the early 2020s, Friend began collaborating with director Wes Anderson, starting with a cameo in The French Dispatch (2021), followed by roles in Asteroid City (2023) and the Netflix short films The Swan and The Rat Catcher. In 2022, he starred as disgraced British politician James Whitehouse in Anatomy of a Scandal and featured in the Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi as the Grand Inquisitor. Friend is the director, screenwriter or producer of two award-winning short films: The Continuing and Lamentable Saga of the Suicide Brothers (2008) and Steve (2010). He wrote lyrics for the Kairos 4Tet 2013 album Everything We Hold. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rupert Friend, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Jurassic World Rebirth: The Making of a New Era

Prince Consorts: In the Shadow of the Crown

Pride & Prejudice

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More

Homeland

After This Death

Companion

The Young Victoria

Starred Up

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Anatomy of a Scandal

The Death of Stalin

At Eternity's Gate

The Swan

Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return

Lullaby for Pi

To Write Love on Her Arms

High Desert

The Rat Catcher

A Simple Favor

Infinite

Steve

Dream Corp LLC

The Phoenician Scheme

Strange Angel

Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont

Asteroid City

Stryka

Jurassic World Rebirth

The Kid

Dreams

Canary Black

Jolene

The Zero Theorem

Chéri

Stars in Shorts

Hitman: Agent 47

Last Looks

The Libertine

Separation

5 Days of War

The Last Legion

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Outlaw

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Continuing and Lamentable Saga of the Suicide Brothers