Simon Russell Beale

British actor and music historian

Sir Simon Russell Beale, CBE (born 12 January 1961) is an English actor, author and music historian. He was born in Penang, Malaya (present-day Malaysia).[1]

Simon Russell Beale

He appeared in Persuasion (1995), The Young Visiters (2003), Dunkirk (2004), The Deep Blue Sea (2011) and as Falstaff in the BBC made-for-television movies Henry IV, Part I and Part II (2012).

He was part of the main cast of Showtime's Penny Dreadful. He also appeared in Into the Woods (2014) and The Death of Stalin (2017).

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