Rory Kinnear (born 17 February 1978) is an English actor.
The son of actor Roy Kinnear and actress Carmel Cryan, he has two sisters, Kirsty and Karina, and is the god-son of Michael Williams. Educated at Tower House School and St Paul's School (London), read English at Balliol College, Oxford and then studied acting at LAMDA.
Kinnear met with acclaim for his performances in Phyllida Lloyd's production of Mary Stuart and Trevor Nunn's Hamlet, in w...
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Rory Kinnear (born 17 February 1978) is an English actor.
The son of actor Roy Kinnear and actress Carmel Cryan, he has two sisters, Kirsty and Karina, and is the god-son of Michael Williams. Educated at Tower House School and St Paul's School (London), read English at Balliol College, Oxford and then studied acting at LAMDA.
Kinnear met with acclaim for his performances in Phyllida Lloyd's production of Mary Stuart and Trevor Nunn's Hamlet, in which he played Laertes. He also achieved recognition as the outrageous Sir Fopling Flutter in The Man of Mode at the National Theatre, winning a Laurence Olivier Award and Ian Charleson Award. Other notable theatre work includes the lead in Thomas Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy, the role of Pyotr in Gorky's Philistines and the role of Mitia in a stage adaptation of the Nikita Mikhalkov film Burnt by the Sun, all for the National Theatre.
Further to his theatre work he received particularly positive reviews for his sympathetic portrayal of...
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