Acting credits
49
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Rupert Friend
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
3.9
Moderate attention
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Movies: 44Series: 7Crew credits: 2
TMDB ID: 36669
IMDb ID: nm1670029
Known for: Acting
Born: October 9, 1981
Age: 44
Place of birth: Oxfordshire, England, UK
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1988 - 2025
Years active: 38
Average TMDB rating: 6.53
Wikidata: Q314659
Also known as
루퍼드 프렌드 • روپرت فرند
Other jobs
Director (2)
Biography
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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Rupert Friend.
6.1
Dreams
as Jake McCarthy
2025 Movie
6.3
Jurassic World Rebirth
as Martin Krebs
2025 Movie
8.8
Jurassic World Rebirth: The Making of a New Era
as Self
2025 Movie
6.5
The Phoenician Scheme
as Excalibur
2025 Movie
7.3
After This Death
as Ted
2025 Movie
7.0
Companion
as Sergey
2025 Movie
6.2
Canary Black
as David Brooks
2024 Movie
4.8
The American Society of Magical Negroes
as Mick
2024 Movie
7.4
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
as Narrator / Claud (archive footage)
2024 Movie
6.6
The Rat Catcher
as Claud Cubbage
2023 Movie
6.8
The Swan
as Narrator / Adult Peter Watson
2023 Movie
6.5
Asteroid City
as Montana
2023 Movie
6.8
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
as Self - Grand Inquisitor
2022 Movie
5.8
Last Looks
as Wilson Sikorsky
2022 Movie
7.0
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
as Drill-Sergeant
2021 Movie
6.6
Infinite
as Bathurst 1985
2021 Movie
5.7
Separation
as Jeff
2021 Movie
8.0
Prince Consorts: In the Shadow of the Crown
as Prince Albert (archive footage)
2021 Movie
7.0
At Eternity's Gate
as Theo van Gogh
2018 Movie
6.6
A Simple Favor
as Dennis Nylon
2018 Movie
7.0
The Death of Stalin
as Vasily Stalin
2017 Movie
5.9
Hitman: Agent 47
as Agent 47
2015 Movie
4.2
Meet Me in Montenegro
as Stephen
2015 Movie
6.7
To Write Love on Her Arms
as David McKenna
2015 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Rupert Friend.
6.7
High Desert
as Guru Bob • 8 eps
2023 Series
7.0
Obi-Wan Kenobi
as Grand Inquisitor • 4 eps
2022 Series
7.0
Anatomy of a Scandal
as James Whitehouse • 6 eps
2022 Series
6.5
Strange Angel
as Ernest Donovan • 17 eps
2018 Series
6.6
Dream Corp LLC
as Patient 62 • 2 eps
2016 Series
7.6
Homeland
as Peter Quinn • 57 eps
2011 Series
5.4
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
1988 Series