Acting credits
56
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Simon McBurney
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
2.2
Moderate attention
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Movies: 53Series: 11Crew credits: 9
TMDB ID: 16358
IMDb ID: nm0564402
Known for: Acting
Born: August 25, 1957
Age: 69
Place of birth: Cambridge, England, UK
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1979 - 2026
Years active: 48
Average TMDB rating: 6.59
Wikidata: Q705602
Also known as
سایمن مکبرنی
Other jobs
Director (5)Art Direction (1)Co-Director (1)Creative Consultant (1)Story (1)
Biography
Simon Montagu McBurney, OBE (born 25 August 1957) is an English Olivier Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated actor, writer and director. He is the founder and artistic director of Théâtre de Complicité in England, now called Complicite.
Photos
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Simon McBurney.
The Betrayers
2026 Movie
The Actor
as Doctor Croft / Doctor Edgarton
2025 Movie
Nosferatu
as Herr Knock
2024 Movie
Gardening
as Detective Danforth
2024 Movie
National Theatre Live: Mnemonic
Director
2024 Movie
A Mistake
as Andrew McGrath
2023 Movie
The Metropolitan Opera: The Magic Flute
Art Direction
2023 Movie
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Director
2023 Movie
The Pale Blue Eye
as Captain Hitchcock
2022 Movie
Can I Live?
Co-Director
2021 Movie
Wolfwalkers
as Lord Protector (voice)
2020 Movie
Siberia
as Magician
2020 Movie
The Mercy
as Sir Francis Chichester
2018 Movie
The Encounter
as Himself
2017 Movie
Allied
as S.O.E. Official
2016 Movie
The New Man
as Self
2016 Movie
John Berger or The Art of Looking
as Self
2016 Movie
The Conjuring 2
as Maurice Grosse
2016 Movie
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
as Atlee
2015 Movie
The Theory of Everything
as Frank Hawking
2014 Movie
Magic in the Moonlight
as Howard Burkan
2014 Movie
For Those Who Can Tell No Tales
as Tim Clancy
2013 Movie
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
as Oliver Lacon
2011 Movie
Jane Eyre
as Mr. Brocklehurst
2011 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Simon McBurney.
Hijack
as Edgar Janssen • 2 eps
2023 Series
Carnival Row
as Runyan Millworthy • 18 eps
2019 Series
The Loudest Voice
as Rupert Murdoch • 5 eps
2019 Series
The Casual Vacancy
as Colin Wall • 3 eps
2015 Series
Utopia
as Professor Donaldson • 3 eps
2013 Series
The Borgias
as Johannes Burchart • 5 eps
2011 Series
Rev.
as Robert • 19 eps
2010 Series
Midsomer Murders
as Henry Carstairs • 1 eps
1997 Series
Performance
as Pistol • 1 eps
1991 Series
ScreenPlay
as Martin • 1 eps
1986 Series
Friday Night, Saturday Morning
1 eps
1979 Series