Alex Jennings, born in Essex in 1957, is a senior British stage actor whose reputation was built at the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre, where he has taken on Hamlet, Peer Gynt, and much of the classical repertoire. He is one of very few actors to have won Olivier Awards in all three acting categories — musical, comedy and drama. On screen he is best known for his royal portraits: Prince Charles in Stephen Frears’s The Queen (2006) and the Duke of Windsor across the first two seasons of The Crown (2016-17), roles that placed him in front of an international streaming audience. He continues to work steadily in prestige television and film, and is regarded as a benchmark of contemporary English stage acting. Read more