Black Mirror Cast Biographies

7 November 2011

The National Anthem

Rory Kinnear plays PM Michael Callow

The son of actor Roy Kinnear, Rory Kinnear is an award-winning English actor who studied at LAMDA and has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre...

Rory's performance in Mary Stuart was met with critical acclaim. In 2010 he played Angelo in Measure For Measure at the Almeida Theatre and later went on to play the title role in Hamlet at the National Theatre. The two roles won him the best actor award in the Evening Standard drama awards. 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, Gorky's Philistines and the role of Mitia in a stage adaptation of the Nikita Mikhalkov film Burnt by the Sun.

Rory has also had a successful career in film and television. Rory stared in the 22nd Bond film, Quantum of Solace and later went on to appear in the 2010 comedy film, Wild Target. Rory received positive reviews for his portrayal of Denis Thatcher in The Long Walk to Finchley, a BBC dramatisation of the early years of Margaret Thatcher's political career.

Rory has also appeared in numerous other TV dramas including BBC Two series Vexed and BBC4's The First Men in the Moon.

 

 

Tom Goodman-Hill plays Tom Blice

Tom Goodman-Hill is a leading actor of Film, Television, Stage and Radio.

He is currently co-starring with Thandie Newton in the Olivier Award Winning play, Death and the Maiden, at the Pinter Theatre in London's West End. Tom started his professional career in theatre and has since appeared in leading roles in productions such as the highly successful Enron (Chichester, Royal Court and West End), Earthquakes in London (National Theatre) both directed by Rupert Goold and also diverse roles such as Peter Cook in Pete and Dud: Come Again (The Venue, Leicester Square) and Sir Lancelot in Spamalot (Palace Theatre) for which he was nominated for an Olivier Award.

Tom is perhaps best known for numerous television appearances which include most recently Call the Midwife, Case Histories and several series of Ideal, all for the BBC. He can currently be seen in hit Sky1 sitcom, Spy.

Other appearances include Case Sensitive, Free Agents, Hustle, Lewis, My Family and other Animals, Perfect Day, Green Wing, The Office and the critically acclaimed, The Devil's Whore for Channel 4. Recent films include Richard II for BBC Films, 7 Lives, The Chalet Girl and Glorious 39 as well as playing opposite Sean Connery in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen for Twentieth Century Fox.

Tom also has numerous radio credits to his name including the title role in I, Claudius, and the on-going series, Another Case for Milton Jones, for BBC Radio 4.

 

 

Anna Wilson-Jones plays Jane Callow

Anna Wilson-Jones is a well known British actress who has numerous television roles under her belt.

Credits include Lewis, Phone Shop, Dci Banks, Law & Order, The Night Watch, Misfits, Come Rain Or Come Shine, Hotel Babylon, Ashes To Ashes, Time Of Your Life, Sugar Rush, Afterlife, Midsomer Murders, Hex, Ny-Lon, The Vice, As If,  Monarch Of The Glen Inspector Morse, Spaced and Wonderful You.

Anna has also stared in several films and theatre productions including The Silent Treatment, Gladiatress on the silver screen and Dangerous Corner and A Midsummer Night's Dream on the stage.

 

 

Lindsay Duncan plays Alex Cairns

Lindsay Duncan trained at Central School of Speech & Drama. She began her career in regional theatre, before going on to appear in David Hare's PLENTY at the National Theatre.

 

On stage she has won two Olivier Awards and a Tony Award for her performance in Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Private Lives. Lindsay has also starred in several plays by Harold Pinter and Frank McGuinness' adaptation of Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkmann, BAM with Alan Rickman and Polly Stenham's That Face in which she was nominated for an Olivier award. Credits at the National Theatre include The Homecoming, Berenice and Cat on A Hot Tin Roof, (Evening Standard Award for best actress). For the RSC, Lindsay's other credits include Titania/Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Her most famous roles on television are in Alan Bleasdale's G.B.H. (1991), the HBO/BBC/RAI series Rome and Doctor Who. In film, Lindsay played Alice's mother in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. She also stared in Afterlife where she picked up a Bowmore Scottish Screen award for Best Actress.

Lindsay was awarded a CBE in 2009 for services to drama.

 

 

Donald Sumpter plays Julian Hereford

Donald Sumpter is a British actor who has appeared in film, television and theatre since the mid sixties.

Donald's extensive television credits include two series of Game of Thrones, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Merlin, Spooks, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Dracula, Eleventh Hour, Midsomer Murders, The Last Detective, A Touch of Frost, In Deep, Nicholas Nickleby, Dalziel & Pascoe and Bleak House. His film credits include The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Constant Gardener, Eastern Promises and The Black Panther.

His numerous theatre credits are Hamlet (Young Vic), Ballad of Wolves and Silverface (both for The Gate), An Honourable Tale (Royal Court), Mrs Gauguin and Hedda Gabler (both Almeida). For the RSC, Donald has appeared in Titus Andronicus (also USA tour), Twelfth Night, Cymbeline (for which he was awarded Times Out's Best Actor Award), and Ill Candelaio. For the RSC Warehouse he has appeared in The Loud Boy's Life, Bastard Angel, Much Ado About Nothing and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.

 

Otto Bathurst - Director 

Otto Bathurst is currently developing a number of feature film projects including high concept thriller ‘The Apple', with Peapie Films and BBC Films.

Otto's other television credits include the BAFTA winning, BBC drama '‘Criminal Justice' (starring Ben Wishaw & Pete Postlethwaite), the BBC/HBO's stripped drama ‘Five Days' and single film 'Margot', starring Anne-Marie Duff as Margot Fonteyn and Michiel Huisman as Rudolph Nureyev, and described by The Telegraph as 'Drama of the year.'