Alex Jennings

Theatre

National Theatre: Collaborators, Benjamin Britten in The Habit of Art, Garry Essendine in Present Laughter, Subtle in The Alchemist, George Bush in Stuff Happens, Walter Burns in His Girl Friday, Leontes in The Winter’s Tale and Lord Foppington in The Relapse, for which two roles he won the Evening Standard Drama Award for Best Actor in 2001, the title role in Albert Speer, Ghetto, The Recruiting Officer, and Henry Higgins in the National’s production of My Fair Lady at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, for which he won the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical.
He is an Associate Actor of the RSC where his work includes Hyde Park, The Taming of the Shrew, Measure for Measure, the title role in Richard II, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (also on US tour and on Broadway), Much Ado About Nothing, and title roles in Peer Gynt (Olivier Award, Best Actor, 1996) and Hamlet (also in US – Helen Hayes Award, Best Actor, 1998).
Elsewhere, seasons at York, Leeds, Bristol and Chichester
Other theatre includes: The Country Wife, Too Clever by Half (Olivier Award, Best Comedy Performance, London Theatre Critics’ Awards, Best Actor), The Liar, The Wild Duck
TV
Silk, Being Human, Lewis, We’ll Take Manhattan, Whitechapel, On Expenses, Marple, Hancock and Joan, Cranford, Rapunzel, The State Within, Waking The Dead, Spooks, Riot at the Rite, Poirot, A Very Social Secretary, Bad Blood, Ashenden, Hard Times, Inspector Morse, Smiley’s People
Films
Trap for Cinderella, The Queen, Five Children and It, Babel, The Four Feathers, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Wings of the Dove, Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, War Requiem
He has worked extensively on the radio and recording audio books.