Peter Forbes

Peter Forbes is a Scottish actor whose career has taken in West End musicals, classical theater and audio recording. Born in Glasgow, he studied at Edinburgh University and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, and his early stage work included Twelfth Night and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre. With the Royal National Theatre he played Buddy Plummer in Stephen Sondheim's Follies in 2017 and 2018 and again in the 2019 revival, and his other stage credits include The James Plays, Our Country's Good, Mamma Mia! and The Winter's Tale. On television he has appeared in Poldark, The Crown, Victoria and Endeavour, and in 2025 he played Stalin in Howard Brenton's Churchill in Moscow at the Orange Tree Theatre. He is also a prolific audiobook narrator, and The Sleeper and the Spindle was a finalist in two categories at the 2016 Audie Awards.