Rory Kinnear (born February 17, 1978) is an English actor.

Rory Kinnear with Judy Dench.

Kinnear met with particular acclaim for his performances in Phyllida Lloyd’s production of Mary Stuart and Trevor Nunn’s Hamlet, in which he played Laertes. He also achieved recognition as the outrageous Sir Fopling Flutter in The Man of Mode at the National Theatre, winning a Laurence Olivier Award and Ian Charleson Award.

Other notable theatre work includes the lead in Thomas Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy, the role of Pyotr in Gorky’s Philistines and the role of Mitia in a stage adaptation of the Nikita Mikhalkov film Burnt by the Sun, all for the National Theatre. Nicholas Hytner, current artistic director of the National Theatre, is reportedly eager to stage his own Hamlet there in the near future, with Kinnear, this time, in the title role.

In 2008 he portrayed Bill Tanner in the 22nd Bond film, Quantum of Solace, though his film credits are not, as yet, extensive.