Patrick Kennedy (actor)

Patrick Kennedy
Born	(1977-08-26) 26 August 1977 London, England
Occupation	Actor/ Director
Years active	2002–present

Patrick Kennedy (born 26 August 1977) is an English actor and director.

He studied English literature and language at St John's College, Oxford, and then attended LAMDA.

Kennedy's first screen role was in Peter Greenaway's The Tulse Luper Suitcases, followed by the role of Julian Bell in the BBC's Cambridge Spies.

Kennedy's first lead role was playing Richard Carstone in the BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens' Bleak House, and he followed this with roles in Joe Wright's Atonement, Steven Spielberg's Munich, Richard Linklater's Me and Orson Welles, and Michael Hoffman's The Last Station.

Kennedy recurred on the television series Boardwalk Empire in 2012, earning a nomination for Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, and played the role of McKechnie in Parade's End, directed by Susanna White, written by Tom Stoppard.

Kennedy's recent television roles have included Neil in Peep Show (Season 8), the lead role in ITV's Murder on the Home Front, a lead opposite Brendan Gleeson in the HBO pilot The Money, Sampson in ITV's Downton Abbey, Jock Colville with Michael Gambon in Churchill's Secret, directed by Charles Sturridge, and recurring roles in Hulu's The First, Mrs Wilson for the BBC, and Allston Wheatley in Scott Frank's The Queen's Gambit for Netflix.

Kennedy’s more recent film roles include Lieutenant Waverly in Steven Spielberg's War Horse, Roger Donaldson's November Man, Bill Condon's Mr Holmes (with Ian McKellen), Babak Najafi's London Has Fallen, Lt. Col. Guy L'Estrange in Mike Leigh's Peterloo; Edward Aveling opposite Romola Garai in Susanna Nicchiarelli's Miss Marx.

Kennedy's stage roles include Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Bristol Old Vic (directed by David Farr); George Holly in Michael Grandage's production of Suddenly Last Summer with Diana Rigg and Victoria Hamilton in the West End; the lead role of Jonathan in Everything is Illuminated at The Hampstead Theatre; Camille in Therese Raquin, at the National Theatre, directed by Marianne Elliott; Tom in The Glass Menagerie, for Shared Experience; Oliver in Polly Stenham's No Quarter, directed by Jeremy Herrin at the Royal Court; Don Caspar in Anna Ziegler's Photograph 51, with Nicole Kidman, directed by Michael Grandage at the Noel Coward Theatre.

In 2017 Kennedy took the lead roles in Harold Pinter's The Lover and The Collection, directed by Michael Kahn for the Shakespeare Theatre Company, Lansburgh Theatre, Washington D.C.

Kennedy has worked on several films with the British artist Nathaniel Mellors, playing the recurring Neanderthal character Voggen Williams in The Sophisticated Neanderthal Interview, Neanderthal Container, and the pub lecher, Uncle Tommy, in the Ourhouse series

In 2018 Kennedy wrote and directed the short film The Human Voice, starring Rosamund Pike, adapted from the Jean Cocteau play La Voix Humaine.

Kennedy portrayed astronaut Michael Collins in the documentary of the Apollo 11 mission, 8 Days: To the Moon and Back, shown on BBC2 on 10 July 2019.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2002	Spooks	Radio Operator	TV series (1 episode: "Episode #1.4") uncredited
	Nine Lives	Tim
2003	Cambridge Spies	Julian Bell	TV mini-series (2 episodes)
	The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story	Hercule
2004	The Inspector Lynley Mysteries	Gideon Martin	TV series (1 episode: "A Traitor to Memory")
2005	Mrs Henderson Presents	Pilot
	The Somme	Sgt. R. H. Tawney	TV movie
	Bleak House	Richard Carstone	TV mini-series (12 episodes)
	Munich	English Reporter in Munich Underground
2006	A Good Year	Trader #2
2007	Atonement	Leon Tallis
2008	In Tranzit	Peter
	Dreaming of Leo	Jonathan	short
	Me and Orson Welles	Grover Burgess (Ligarius)
	Consuming Passion	Gerald Mills	TV movie
	Einstein and Eddington	William Marston	TV movie
	Scratch	Simon
	The 39 Steps	Hellory Sinclair	TV movie
2009	The Last Station	Sergeyenko
2010	Married Single Other	Dr. Dominic	TV series (1 episode: "Chink")
2011	War Horse	Lt. Waverley
	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides	English Father
	Black Mirror	Section Chief Walker	Episode: "The National Anthem"
2012	Parade's End	McKechnie
	Boardwalk Empire	Dr. Douglas Mason	TV series: 7 episodes
2013	Murder on the Home Front	Lennox Collins	TV series: 2 episodes
	Downton Abbey	Terence Sampson	Season 4
2014	HBO's The Money	John Castman
	The November Man	Edgar Simpson
2015	Person of Interest	Dr. Shane Edwards	Season 4 (Episode 17: "Karma")
	Mr. Holmes	Thomas Kelmot
2016	London Has Fallen	John Lancaster, MI5 Intelligence Chief
2018	Peterloo	Lt. Col. Guy L'Estrange	Directed by Mike Leigh
	Mrs Wilson	Dennis Wilson	TV mini-series (3 episodes)
2019	8 Days: To the Moon and Back	Astronaut Michael Collins	BBC2 TV documentary
2020	The Queen's Gambit	Mr Allston Wheatley	Netflix
2020	Miss Marx	Edward Aveling
2022	Atlanta	Will	Episode: "The Old Man and the Tree"

Theatre

Year	Production	Role	Venue	Notes
2002	Maps of Desire	Charles	Southwark Playhouse, London
2003	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Lysander	Bristol Old Vic
	Les Liaisons dangereuses	Danceny	Bristol Old Vic
2004	Suddenly, Last Summer	George	UK Tour
2006	Everything is Illuminated	Jonathan	Hampstead Theatre, London
	Therese Raquin	Camille	National Theatre, London
2010	The Glass Menagerie	Tom	Shared Experience Tour
	Measure for Measure	Lucio	Touring Company- London
2013	No Quarter	Oliver	Royal Court Theatre
2015	Photograph 51	Donald Caspar	Noel Coward Theatre
2016	Oil	Samuel	Almeida Theatre
2017	The Lover	Richard	Shakespeare Theater Company, Washington DC
2017	The Collection	James	Shakespeare Theater Company, Washington DC

External links

• Curtis Brown CV [1]
• Patrick Kennedy at IMDb
• BBC Profile
• Deadline-Patrick Kennedy cast as lead in HBO Pilot
• Hollywood Reporter- HBO's the Money casts Patrick Kennedy
• My Friendship with Luise Rainer [2]