Patrick Kennedy
Biography
Patrick Kennedy is an English actor and director who studied English literature at St John's College, Oxford, and later trained at LAMDA. He began on screen in Peter Greenaway's The Tulse Luper Suitcases, then played Julian Bell in the BBC's Cambridge Spies. His first leading part was Richard Carstone in the BBC's Bleak House. Film credits include Atonement (2007), Me and Orson Welles (2008), The Last Station (2009), War Horse (2011), The November Man (2014), Mr Holmes (2015), London Has Fallen (2016) and Miss Marx (2020), where he appeared as Edward Aveling. On television he had a recurring role in Boardwalk Empire, which brought a Screen Actors Guild ensemble nomination, and he has worked on Peep Show, Downton Abbey, Atlanta, The Queen's Gambit and The Day of the Jackal. His stage work includes the National Theatre and the West End. He directed The Human Voice, a short film he wrote, with Rosamund Pike and adapted from a Jean Cocteau play.
49years old
Turns 50 on August 26in 288 days
- Born London
- Star sign: VirgoThe sign runs August 23 to September 22
Movie Career
- Films
- 13
- Career span
- 19 years2006 to 2025
First and latest
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Behind the camera
Kennedy both wrote and directed The Human Voice, a short film that came out in 2018. Rosamund Pike starred in it, and it was adapted from the Jean Cocteau play La Voix Humaine.
First role
Kennedy made his screen debut in Peter Greenaway's The Tulse Luper Suitcases. He then took the part of Julian Bell in the BBC's Cambridge Spies.
Early training
Kennedy attended St John's College, Oxford, where he studied English literature and language, and he went on to LAMDA afterward.
Patrick Kennedy movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Richard Linklater directed two of these films. Eddie Marsan appears in three of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Eddie Marsan's page
James McAvoy's page
John Sessions's page
All films by Richard Linklater
Box office
What Patrick Kennedy's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$638 million
9 of the 13 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 13 films: 9 worldwide figure; 3 never in cinemas; 1 figure not found.
- 9Worldwide figure
- 3Never in cinemas
- 1Figure not found
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$206M32.3% of the total
- 2$178M27.8% of the total
- 3$131M20.5% of the total
- 4$42M6.6% of the total
- 5$33M5.1% of the total
- 6$29M4.6% of the total
- 7$14M2.1% of the total
- 8$3.6M0.6% of the total
$2.3 millionfrom the other 1 film with a worldwide figure, 0% of the total
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