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Rory Kinnear

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Biography

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.

Notable films

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Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

No Time to Die

Appears in a KinoChain journey

The Imitation Game

As Detective Robert Nock

Skyfall

As Tanner

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

As P.M. Winston Churchill

Quantum of Solace

As Tanner

Spectre

As Tanner

Years and Years

As Stephen Lyons

Men

As Geoffrey

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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When Studios Marry: Films Born of Corporate Chaos

From the ashes of mergers and acquisitions come some of cinema's most fascinating experiments. This chain traces how boardroom decisions shaped the art on scree...

8 films

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