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Rupert Friend
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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 be…
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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.
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Found Alive
My Notes on Mars
as Sam
Dreams
as Jake McCarthy
Jurassic World Rebirth: The Making of a New Era
as Self
Jurassic World Rebirth
as Martin Krebs
Montblanc: Let's Write
The Phoenician Scheme
as Excalibur
After This Death
as Ted
Companion
as Sergey
Canary Black
as David Brooks
The American Society of Magical Negroes
as Mick
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
as Narrator / Claud (archive footage)
The Rat Catcher
as Claud Cubbage
The Swan
as Narrator / Adult Peter Watson
Asteroid City
as Montana
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
as Self - Grand Inquisitor
Last Looks
as Wilson Sikorsky
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
as Drill-Sergeant
Infinite
as Bathurst 1985
Separation
as Jeff
Prince Consorts: In the Shadow of the Crown
as Prince Albert (archive footage)
At Eternity's Gate
as Theo van Gogh
A Simple Favor
as Dennis Nylon
The Death of Stalin
as Vasily Stalin
No Poster
Barton & Charlie & Checco & Bill
Hitman: Agent 47
as Agent 47
Meet Me in Montenegro
as Stephen
No Poster
Stryka
as Callen
To Write Love on Her Arms
as David McKenna
Starred Up
as Oliver Baumer
The Zero Theorem
as TV Presenter
5 Days of War
as Thomas Anders
Jolene
as Coco Leger
Lullaby for Pi
as Sam
The Kid
as Kevin Lewis
The Continuing and Lamentable Saga of the Suicide Brothers
as Bourbon
Chéri
as Chéri
The Young Victoria
as Prince Albert
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
as Lieutenant Kotler
Virgin Territory
as Alessandro Felice
The Last Legion
as Demetrius
Outlaw
as Sandy Mardell
The Moon and the Stars
as Renzo Daverio / Spoletta
Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
as Ludovic Meyer
Pride & Prejudice
as Mr. Wickham
The Libertine
as Downs
No Poster
Perdition
No Poster
The Boy in the Iron Box
as Liev
Photo Booth
as Ben Bouchet
No Poster
Blake & Mortimer: The Yellow M
as Colonel Olrik