Rupert Friend

Rupert Friend

Actor (b. 1981)
20
Movies
65.9%
Avg ThumbScore
Drama
Top Genre

Audiences rate Rupert Friend’s films lower than 91% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

Free to watch now (26 Oct): The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (YouTube, Kanopy, Hoopla, Pluto TV) · The Death of Stalin (Kanopy) · At Eternity's Gate (Plex, Prime Video (free), Tubi, Kanopy, Hoopla) · The Last Legion (YouTube, Fandango at Home, Plex, Prime Video (free), Tubi, Kanopy, Hoopla, Fawesome) · Starred Up (Fandango at Home, Pluto TV, Plex, Tubi, Kanopy, Hoopla, Fawesome) · Chéri (Hoopla) and 7 more.

Frequent Collaborators

David Thewlis (2)Thomas Kretschmann (2)Asa Butterfield (1)Vera Farmiga (1)Jack Scanlon (1)
i How is this score calculated?

The ThumbScore for Rupert Friend (65.9%) is the average audience approval rating across 20 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Rupert's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

Rupert William Anthony Friend (born October 1981) is an English actor. He first gained recognition for his roles in The Libertine (2004) and Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (2005), winning him awards for best newcomer. He portrayed George Wickham in Pride & Prejudice (2005), Lieutenant Kurt Kotler in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008), Albert, Prince Consort in The Young Victoria (2009), psychologist Oliver Baumer in Starred Up (2013), CIA operative Peter Quinn in the political thriller series Homeland (2012–2017), Vasily Stalin in The Death of Stalin (2017), Theo van Gogh in At Eternity's Gate (2018), and Ernest Donovan in the series Strange Angel (2018–2019). In the early 2020s, Friend began collaborating with director Wes Anderson, starting with a cameo in The French Dispatch (2021), followed by roles in Asteroid City (2023) and the Netflix short films The Swan and The Rat Catcher. In 2022, he starred as disgraced British politician James Whitehouse in Anatomy of a Scandal and featured in the Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi as the Grand Inquisitor. Friend is the director, screenwriter or producer of two award-winning short films: The Continuing and Lamentable Saga of the Suicide Brothers (2008) and Steve (2010). He wrote lyrics for the Kairos 4Tet 2013 album Everything We Hold. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rupert Friend, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born 1981-10-01 in Oxfordshire, England, UK.

On ThumbScore, Rupert Friend appears in 20 films with an average audience score of 65.9%, most frequently in the Drama genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every Rupert Friend movie, ranked by audience score

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
2008
👍 93%
The Young Victoria
The Young Victoria
2009
👍 85%
The Death of Stalin
The Death of Stalin
2017
👍 84%
Companion
Companion
2025
👍 81%
At Eternity's Gate
At Eternity's Gate
2018
👍 76%
The Last Legion
The Last Legion
2007
👍 72%
Starred Up
Starred Up
2014
👍 71%
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
2022
👍 68%
Chéri
Chéri
2009
👍 65%
Hitman: Agent 47
Hitman: Agent 47
2015
👍 64%
Jurassic World Rebirth
Jurassic World Rebirth
2025
👍 63%
5 Days of War
5 Days of War
2011
👍 62%
Outlaw
Outlaw
2007
👍 61%
Separation
Separation
2021
👍 58%
Last Looks
Last Looks
2022
👍 57%
Canary Black
Canary Black
2024
👍 55%
A Simple Favor
A Simple Favor
2018
👍 54%
The Zero Theorem
The Zero Theorem
2013
👍 52%
Dreams
Dreams
2025
👍 49%
Infinite
Infinite
2021
👍 48%