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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.
Alex Jennings, My Fair Lady
Alex JenningsHamlet
Alex JenningsA Midsummer Nights Dream
Alex JenningsPeer Gynt
Alex JenningsThe Liar
Alex JenningsToo Clever By Half
Alex Jennings's next show will be The Southbury Child which opens on 7/1/2022 on West End.
Alex Jennings has appeared on Broadway in 1 shows.
Alex Jennings has appeared on London's West End in 4 shows.
Alex Jennings's first West End show was My Fair Lady which opened in 2001
Best Actor in a Musical or Entertainment (Olivier Awards) for My Fair Lady , Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production (Helen Hayes Awards) for Hamlet , Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production (Helen Hayes Awards) for A Midsummer Nights Dream , Best Actor (Olivier Awards) for Peer Gynt Comedy Performance of the Year (Olivier Awards) for The Liar and Comedy Performance of the Year (Olivier Awards) for Too Clever By Half .
Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production (Helen Hayes Awards) for Hamlet Best Actor (Olivier Awards) for Peer Gyntand Comedy Performance of the Year (Olivier Awards) for Too Clever By Half.
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