# Patrick Kennedy (actor)

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

## Life and career

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 the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, and played the role of McKechnie in the Susanna White directed, Tom Stoppard written, Parade's End.
Kennedy's recent television roles have included Will in Atlanta (season 3), Mark Bolton in Liaison, Neil in Peep Show (series 8), a principal role in ITV's Murder on the Home Front, alongside Tamzin Merchant, 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. He appeared in several episodes of The_Day_of_the_Jackal_(TV_series) as the target UDC's partner.
Kennedy's other film roles include Lieutenant Waverly in 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; and as 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; and 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
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2002 | Nine Lives | Tim | |
| 2003 | The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story | Joris Salmon | |
| 2005 | Mrs Henderson Presents | Pilot | |
| 2005 | Munich | English Reporter in Munich Underground | |
| 2006 | A Good Year | Trader #2 | |
| 2007 | Atonement | Leon Tallis | |
| 2008 | In Tranzit | Peter | |
| 2008 | Me and Orson Welles | Grover Burgess (Ligarius) | |
| 2008 | Scratch | Simon | Short film |
| 2009 | The Last Station | Sergeyenko | |
| 2011 | War Horse | Lt. Charlie Waverley | |
| 2011 | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | English Father | |
| 2014 | The November Man | Edgar Simpson | |
| 2014 | Dreaming of Leo | Jonathan | Short film |
| 2015 | Mr. Holmes | Thomas Kelmot | |
| 2016 | London Has Fallen | John Lancaster, MI5 Intelligence Chief | |
| 2016 | So Good to See You | | Short film |
| 2018 | Peterloo | Lt. Col. Guy L'Estrange | Directed by Mike Leigh |
| 2019 | Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | First Order Officer | |
| 2020 | Miss Marx | Edward Aveling | |
| 2025 | Blue Moon | E. B. White | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2002 | Spooks | Radio Operator (uncredited) | Episode: "Traitor's Gate" |
| 2003 | Cambridge Spies | Julian Bell | Miniseries; 2 episodes |
| 2004 | The Inspector Lynley Mysteries | Gideon Martin | Episode: "A Traitor to Memory" |
| 2005 | The Somme | Sgt. R. H. Tawney | TV film |
| 2005 | Bleak House | Richard Carstone | Miniseries; 12 episodes |
| 2008 | The 39 Steps | Hellory Sinclair | TV film |
| 2008 | Consuming Passion: 100 Years of Mills & Boon | Gerard Mills | TV film |
| 2008 | Einstein and Eddington | William Marston | TV film |
| 2010 | Married Single Other | Dr. Dominic | Episode: "Chink" |
| 2011 | Black Mirror | Section Chief Walker | Episode: "The National Anthem" |
| 2012 | Parade's End | McKechnie | 3 episodes |
| 2012 | Boardwalk Empire | Dr. Douglas Mason | 7 episodes |
| 2012 | Peep Show | Neil | 3 episodes |
| 2013 | Murder on the Home Front | Lennox Collins | TV film |
| 2013 | Downton Abbey | Terence Sampson | 3 episodes |
| 2014 | The Money | John Castman | TV film |
| 2015 | Person of Interest | Dr. Shane Edwards | Episode: "Karma" |
| 2016 | The Collection | Gambon | 2 episodes |
| 2018 | Mrs Wilson | Dennis Wilson | Miniseries; 3 episodes |
| 2018 | The First | Ollie Bennett | 3 episodes |
| 2019 | 8 Days: To the Moon and Back | Astronaut Michael Collins | BBC2 TV documentary |
| 2019 | World on Fire | Campbell | Episode #1.3 |
| 2020 | The Queen's Gambit | Allston Wheatley | 3 episodes |
| 2021 | Around the World in 80 Days | Sir Henry Rowbotham | Episode #1.5 |
| 2022 | Atlanta | Will | Episode: "The Old Man and the Tree" |
| 2023 | Death in Paradise | David Cartwright | 2 episodes |
| 2023 | Liaison | Mark Bolton | 6 episodes |
| 2024 | Franklin | Strachey | 2 episodes |
| 2024 | Senna | Ron Dennis | Post-production |

## Theatre

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