Cast & creator
Rupert Penry-Jones
Best known for Agatha Christie's Poirot, Top Gear, Horizon
Rupert William Penry-Jones (born 22 September 1970) is an English actor, the son of Welsh actor Peter Penry-Jones and English actress Angela Thorne. He is best known for his role as Adam Carter in the BBC spy drama Spooks, as well as other television roles such as Silk, Whitechapel and Black Sails.
Also known as: روپرت پنری-جونز
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film credits
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television credits
71
1964–2025 · acting roles
6.6
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (71)
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Agatha Christie's Poirot
Roddy Winter
1989
Top Gear
Self
2002
Horizon
Himself - Narrator
1964
The Strain
Mr. Quinlan
2014
Spooks
Adam Carter
2002
The Batman
Mayor Don Mitchell, Jr.
2022
Black Sails
Thomas Hamilton
2014
Natural World
Narrator
1983The Alan Titchmarsh Show
Self
2007
Absolutely Fabulous
Boy at Party
1992
Who Do You Think You Are?
Self
2004
Silk
Clive Reader QC
2011
Kavanagh Q.C.
Lt. Ralph Kinross
1995
French & Saunders
Stage Manager
1987
Those About to Die
Marsus
2024
Whitechapel
DI Joseph Chandler
2009
Stan Lee's Lucky Man
Samuel Blake
2016
Wizards: Tales of Arcadia
Sir Lancelot / Lancelot (voice)
2020
Match Point
Henry
2005
A Little Chaos
Antoine Lauzun
2015
This Morning
Self
1988
Life in Squares
Duncan Grant
2015
Robson Green's Weekend Escapes
2023
Cambridge Spies
Donald Maclean
2003
North Square
Alex Hay
2000
The Four Feathers
Tom Willoughby
2002
Black Beauty
Wild-Looking Young Man
1994
Love Sarah
Matthew
2020
Casanova
Grimani
2005
Cold Lazarus
Policeman / Milkman
1996
Treasure Island
Squire John Trelawney
2012
Faith in the Future
Sam
1995
Fatherland
Jost
1994
Our House
Toby
2022
Crown for Christmas
Maximillian
2015
Red Tails
Campbell
2012
Treasure Island
Trelawney
2012
The Commons
Dom Boulay
2019
Persuasion
Captain Wentworth
2007
Hilary and Jackie
Piers du Pré
1998
The Feud
John Barnett
2025
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
First Lieutenant Jonathon Lofthouse
2020
Vita & Virginia
Harold Nicolson
2019
The Drowning
Mark
2021
Virtual Sexuality
Jake
1999
Still Crazy
Young Ray
1998
Charlotte Gray
Peter Gregory
2001
Burn Up
Tom
2008
The Last Weekend
Ollie
2012
Cold Comfort Farm
Dick Hawk-Monitor
1995
Bent
Guard on Road
1997
Jane Eyre
St John Rivers
1997
Hello & Paris
The Moth
Stanley Thorman
1997
The 39 Steps
Richard Hannay
2008
The Ring
Gerhard von Gotthard
1996
Krakatoa: The Last Days
Willem Beijerinck
2006
The Royals and the Tabloids
Voice Over
2020
The Palace and the Press
Narrator
2021
Getting to Know You
Luke
2020
Horizon: Defeating the Hackers
Naarator
2013
Prisoners of Paradise
George Huyton
2025
The Ring
Gerhard von Gotthard
1996
Food of Love
Head office
1997
The Student Prince
The Prince
1998
The Moth
Stanley Thorman
1997
Joe's Palace
Richard Reece
2007
Edward VIII's Murderous Mistress
Himself - Narrator
2013
When Playboys Ruled the World
Narrator
2010
The Tribe
Dietrich
1998Pegasus Bridge
Colonel Geoffrey Pine-Coffin