Rupert Penry-Jones (born 22 September 1970, London) is an English actor, best known for his role as Adam Carter in the British television series Spooks.
His father is actor Peter Penry-Jones, his mother is actress Angela Thorne. His brother Laurence Penry-Jones is also an actor.
In 1995 he appeared with his mother on television in Cold Comfort Farm.
He has previously dated singer Kylie Minogue. He married actress Dervla Kirwan in August 2007 after a 3 year engagement. Dervla had given birth to their daughter Florence on 1 May 2004. Their son Peter was born 8 April 2006.
He and Kirwan both appeared in Casanova in 2005, although they did not share any scenes.
Penry-Jones trained for the stage at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
He made his London stage debut at the Hackney Empire in 1995 playing Fortinbras to Ralph Fiennes' Hamlet in an Almeida production of Hamlet.
He was cast as Richard in the premiere staging of Stephen Poliakoff's Sweet Panic at Hampstead Theatre in 1996. The following year he appeared in both The Paper Husband at Hampstead Theatre and as the upper-class Pip Thompson in a prestigious revival of Arnold Wesker's Chips With Everything on the Lyttelton stage at the Royal National Theatre.
In 1998 he created the role of The Boy in Edward Albee's The Play About the Baby at the Almeida Theatre.
In 1999 he joined the RSC at Stratford upon Avon, playing the title role in Don Carlos at The Other Place, and Alcibiades in Timon of Athens at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Both productions transferred to the Barbican Centre in 2000, his performance as Don Carlos winning him the Ian Charleson Award.
At the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds in 2001 he was cast as Robert Caplan in J B Priestley's thriller 'time-play' Dangerous Corner, opposite Dervla Kirwan who played Olwen Peel. The production then successfully transferred for a four-month run at the Garrick Theatre in London's West End.
From July to October 2003 at the National's Cottesloe Theatre he played the leading role of Louis XIV in Nick Dear's historical drama Power.
Whitechapel (TV) (post-production) - DI Chandler
Burn Up (mini) TV mini-series (post-production) - Tom McConnell
Top Gear (TV) Appeared Alongside Peter Firth As Themselves in Star in A Reasonably Priced Car on the 2nd episode of series 11 first broadcast 29th June 2008
Joe's Palace (TV) - Richard Reece
Persuasion (TV) - Captain Wentworth
Krakatoa - The Last Days (TV) - Willem Beijerinck
Match Point - Henry
Casanova (TV) - Grimani
Spooks - Adam Carter
Poirot - Roddy Winter (1 episode)
Cambridge Spies (TV) - Donald Maclean
A Family Man - Tarquin
The Four Feathers - Willoughby
Charlotte Gray - Peter Gregory
North Square - Alex Hay (8 episodes)
Virtual Sexuality - Jake
Still Crazy - Young Ray
Hilary and Jackie - Piers
The Tribe - Dietrich
Food of Love - Head office
Bent - Guard on road
Jane Eyre (TV) - St John Rivers
The Student Prince (TV) - The Prince
The Moth (TV) - Stanley Thorman
Faith in the Future - Sam (2 episodes)
The Ring (TV) - Gerhard von Gotthard
Cold Lazarus (TV mini-series) - Policeman/Militiaman
Kavanagh QC - Lt. Ralph Kinross (1 episode)
Absolutely Fabulous - Boy at Party (1 episode)
Cold Comfort Farm (TV) - Dick Hawk-Monitor
Fatherland (TV) - SS Cadet Hermann Jost
Black Beauty - Wild-looking Young Man
French and Saunders (1 episode)
