Patrick Kennedy (born 26 August 1977) is an English actor and director.
Education He studied English literature and language at St John's College, Oxford, and then attended LAMDA.
Career 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 and 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,Deadline-Patrick Kennedy cast as lead in HBO PilotHollywood Reporter- HBO's the Money casts Patrick Kennedy Sampson in ITV's Downton Abbey, Jock Colville in Churchill's Secret with Michael Gambon and 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 as the target UDC's partner.
Kennedy's other film roles include Lieutenant Waverly in Spielberg's War Horse, Roger Donaldson's The 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 YearTitleRole Notes 2002 Nine Lives Tim 2003 The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story Joris Salmon2005 Mrs Henderson Presents Pilot Munich English Reporter in Munich Underground 2006 A Good Year Trader #2 2007 Atonement Leon Tallis 2008 In Tranzit Peter Me and Orson Welles Grover Burgess (Ligarius) Scratch Simon Short film 2009 The Last Station Sergeyenko2011 War Horse Lt. Charlie Waverley Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides English Father 2014 The November Man Edgar Simpson Dreaming of Leo Jonathan Short film 2015 Mr. Holmes Thomas Kelmot 2016 London Has Fallen John Lancaster, MI5 Intelligence Chief So Good to See You Short film 2018 Peterloo Lt. Col. Guy L'Estrange 2019 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker First Order Officer 2020 Miss Marx Edward Aveling 2025 Blue Moon E. B. White 2026 Ink Bernard Shrimsley
Television YearTitleRole 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 Bleak House Richard Carstone Miniseries; 12 episodes2008 The 39 Steps Harry Sinclair TV film Consuming Passion: 100 Years of Mills & Boon Gerard Mills TV film 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 Boardwalk Empire Dr. Douglas Mason 7 episodes Peep Show Neil 3 episodes2013 Murder on the Home Front Lennox Collins TV film Downton Abbey Terence Sampson 3 episodes 2014 The Money John Castman TV film 2015 Person of Interest Dr. Shane Edwards Episode: "Karma"2016 Churchill's Secret Jock ColvilleTV film The Collection Gambon 2 episodes2018 Mrs Wilson Dennis Wilson Miniseries; 3 episodes The First Ollie Bennett 3 episodes2019 8 Days: To the Moon and Back Astronaut Michael Collins BBC2 TV documentary 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 Liaison Mark Bolton 6 episodes2024 Franklin Strachey 2 episodes Senna Ron Dennis 6 episodes The Day of the JackalTeddy5 episodes 2025 Dept. Q Liam Taylor 5 episodes
Theatre Year Production Role Venue 2002 Maps of Desire Charles Southwark Playhouse, London2003 A Midsummer Night's Dream Lysander Bristol Old Vic Les Liaisons Dangereuses Danceny Bristol Old Vic 2004 Suddenly, Last Summer George UK Tour2006 Everything Is Illuminated Jonathan Hampstead Theatre, London Therese Raquin Camille National Theatre, London2010 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 Noël Coward Theatre 2016 Oil Samuel Almeida Theatre2017 The Lover Richard Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington, D.C. The Collection James Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington, D.C.
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"My Friendship with Luise Rainer"