Rupert Friend

Rupert William Anthony Friend born October 1981 is an English actor He first gained recognition for his roles in The Libertine 2004 and Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont 2005 winning him awards for best newcomer He portrayed George Wickham in Pride Prejudice 2005 Lieutenant Kurt Kotler in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas 2008 Albert Prince Consort in The Young Victoria 2009 psychologist Oliver Baumer in Starred Up 2013 CIA operative Peter Quinn in the political thriller series Homeland 20122017 Vasily Stalin in The Death of Stalin 2017 Theo van Gogh in At Eternitys Gate 2018 and Ernest Donovan in the series Strange Angel 20182019 In the early 2020s Friend began collaborating with director Wes Anderson starting with a cameo in The French Dispatch 2021 followed by roles in Asteroid City 2023 and the Netflix short films The Swan and The Rat Catcher In 2022 he starred as disgraced British politician James Whitehouse in Anatomy of a Scandal and featured in the Disney series ObiWan Kenobi as the Grand Inquisitor Friend is the director screenwriter or producer of two awardwinning short films The Continuing and Lamentable Saga of the Suicide Brothers 2008 and Steve 2010 He wrote lyrics for the Kairos 4Tet 2013 album Everything We Hold Description above from the Wikipedia article Rupert Friend licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia