National Theatre

Alex Jennings

'In Conversation' 5

Today's guest:
Alex Jennings, currently appearing as Walter Burns in His Girl Friday.

Alex Jennings is an NT Associate. He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. His theatre credits include, for the National, 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, Kittel in Ghetto, Plume in The Recruiting Officer, Thomas Mendip in The Lady's Not For Burning (NT2000 Platform production) and Professor 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. Elsewhere, seasons at York, Leeds, Bristol and Chichester, as Mr Sparkish in The Country Wife at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, and in London as Gloumov in Too Clever by Half at the Old Vic (Olivier Award, Best Comedy performance, London Theatre Critics' Awards, Best Actor, 1988), Dorante in The Liar at the Old Vic, Hjalmar Ekdal in The Wild Duck with the Peter Hall Company and Jack Worthing in The Importance of Being Earnest at the Aldwych. He is an Associate Actor of the RSC where his work includes Hyde Park, The Taming of the Shrew, Lucio in Measure for Measure, the title role in Richard II, Theseus and Oberon in A Midsummer Night¹s Dream (also on US tour and on Broadway), Angelo in Measure for Measure, Benedick in 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). TV includes Smiley's People, Inspector Morse, the title role in Ashenden, Hard Times, Bad Blood, CSS Hunley and Peter Ackroyd's London. Film: War Requiem, A Midsummer Night¹s Dream, The Wings of the Dove, Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and The Four Feathers. His many radio credits include, most recently, Casino Royale, The Way of the World and The Old Curiosity Shop. He has also recorded many audio books.

'In Conversation' - A Summer series of informal conversations with National Theatre actors, chaired by Al Senter. Your chance to ask questions and find out more about their work over afternoon tea in the Terrace Café.

Doors open at 2.30pm (90 mins)
Tickets £8 (including tea)

Alex Jennings finished on: 4 September 2003