Simon McBurney

1957 (69) • Acting

Born: 8/25/1957 (69) in Cambridge, England, UK

Known for: Acting

Simon McBurney

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.

Known For

The Theory of Everything

78%

Frank Hawking

2014

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

72%

Atlee

2015

Allied

68%

S.O.E. Official

2016

Body of Lies

66%

Garland

2008

Mr. Bean's Holiday

64%

Story

2007

The Last King of Scotland

74%

British Diplomat

2006

The Pale Blue Eye

68%

Captain Hitchcock

2022

The Duchess

70%

Charles Fox

2008

The Actor

61%

Doctor Croft / Doctor Edgarton

2025

Nosferatu

67%

Herr Knock

2024

Gardening

Detective Danforth

2024

A Mistake

63%

Andrew McGrath

2023

Hijack

75%

Edgar Janssen

2023

The Metropolitan Opera: The Magic Flute

Art Direction

2023

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Director

2023

The Pale Blue Eye

68%

Captain Hitchcock

2022

Can I Live?

Co-Director

2021

Wolfwalkers

82%

Lord Protector (voice)

2020

Siberia

49%

Magician

2020

Carnival Row

77%

Runyan Millworthy

2019

The Loudest Voice

74%

Rupert Murdoch

2019

The Mercy

59%

Sir Francis Chichester

2018

The Encounter

55%

Himself

2017

The Encounter

55%

Director

2017

Allied

68%

S.O.E. Official

2016

The New Man

Self

2016

John Berger or The Art of Looking

52%

Self

2016

The Conjuring 2

73%

Maurice Grosse

2016

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

72%

Atlee

2015

The Casual Vacancy

62%

Colin Wall

2015

The Theory of Everything

78%

Frank Hawking

2014

Magic in the Moonlight

65%

Howard Burkan

2014

For Those Who Can Tell No Tales

48%

Tim Clancy

2013

Utopia

79%

Professor Donaldson

2013

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

66%

Oliver Lacon

2011

Jane Eyre

72%

Mr. Brocklehurst

2011