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Rupert Penry-Jones

Rupert Penry-Jones


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  • Cambridge Spies
  • Cambridge Spies review by A customer from London
    Rated - 3.0 stars cambridge spies 6 March 2009
    ...mative programme. The acting was good from Tom Hollander and Toby Stephens with Rupert Penry-Jones giving a more intelligent and sensitive performance of McClean than any other c...   Read customer review
  • Burn Up
  • Burn Up review by from Orsett, UK
    Rated - 4.0 stars A really pleasant surprise !! :-) 4 August 2009
    ...t aspect also mildly educational. Well worth hiring, Besides, the delightful Rupert Penry-Jones is in it so that should be reason enough ;-) ...   Read customer review
  • Whitechapel - Series 3
  • Whitechapel - Series 3 review by Samoza from
    Rated - 4.0 stars Chapel Cornered 14 May 2012
    ...fully they have been. The core of what makes the show tick is still present; Rupert Penry-Jones as the uptight DI Chandler and Philip Davis as his more down to earth DI. The f...   Read customer review

Rupert Penry-Jones - filmography


  • Treasure Island on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Shaun Parks,  Rupert Penry-Jones
    Director: Steve Barron
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Eddie Izzard stars as Long John Silver in this TV adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure novel. Young Jim Hawkins (Toby Regbo) finds himself set for adventure on the high seas when he is entrusted with a treasure map by ailing pirate Billy Bones (David Harewood).The map shows the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 2,655 members
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  • Treasure Island - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Shaun Parks,  Rupert Penry-Jones
    Director: Steve Barron
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Eddie Izzard stars as Long John Silver in this TV adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure novel. Young Jim Hawkins (Toby Regbo) finds himself set for adventure on the high seas when he is entrusted with a treasure map by ailing pirate Billy Bones (David Harewood).The map shows the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,255 member
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  • The Last Weekend - Series 1 on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Rupert Penry-Jones,  Genevieve O'Reilly
    Director: Jon East
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    All three episodes of the ITV drama thriller that follows the mind games at large between two couples when they meet for a weekend catch-up in the country. Having spent time together at university, well-heeled solicitor Ollie (Rupert Penry-Jones) and primary teacher Ian (Shaun Evans) decide to meet ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 90 members
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  • Silk - Series 2 on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Maxine Peake,  Rupert Penry-Jones,  Alex Jennings
    Director: Peter Hoar
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    As Martha (Maxine Peake) steps up to become a QC, Shoe Lane Chambers once again becomes the focus for drama and intrigue on the front line of criminal law... Martha Costello is incredibly young to have got silk, she is a brilliant and passionate barrister but now the stakes are higher than ever. ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 83% from 183 members
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  • Silk (2 discs) on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Rupert Penry-Jones,  Maxine Peake
    Director: Catherine Morshead,  Catherine Morshead,  Michael Offer
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    All six episodes of the BBC courtroom drama written by Peter Moffat and set in the cut-throat world of British criminal law. Maxine Peake and Rupert Penry-Jones star as Martha Costello and Clive Reader, two ambitious young defence barristers who are in the process of applying to become QCs (Queen's ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 83% from 722 members
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  • Burn Up - E01 (2008)
    Starring: Bradley Whitford,  Neve Campbell,  Rupert Penry-Jones
    Director: Omar Madha
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Oil surveyor Masud Khamil narrowly escapes an attack on his camp in the deserts of Saudi Arabia and flees with some valuable data. Tom McConnell replaces his father-in-law Sir Mark Foxbay as Chairman of Arrow Oil. At the celebration party, Inuit activist Mika Namuvai enters uninvited and serves Tom ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 19 members
  • The 39 Steps on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Eddie Marsan,  Rupert Penry-Jones,  Alex Jennings
    Director: James Hawes
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    2008 adaptation of the classic novel by John Buchan and the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film. Set just before the outbreak of World War I, the film stars Rupert Penry Jones as Richard Hannay, a Scottish expatriate living in London, who gets caught up in a deadly conspiracy when Scudder, a man claiming to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 2,618 members
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  • Burn Up - E02 (2008)
    Starring: Bradley Whitford,  Neve Campbell,  Rupert Penry-Jones
    Director: Omar Madha
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Conclusion: Crowley sends Dernay to the World Forum on Climate Change in Calgary to look for Masud. Mack leads the Open Business Coalition and their friendly countries in moves to scupper Kyoto II. Dernay contacts Masud and tries to go to McConnell but he dismisses her. Crowley gets support within ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 18 members
  • Burn Up on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Marc Warren,  Rupert Penry-Jones,  Bradley Whitford
    Director: Omar Madha
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Edgy, ecological TV thriller from the same stable that made 'Life on Mars' and 'Spooks'. This highly topical drama focuses on the lives of two friends in the oil industry, whose relationship is tested to the full by increasing environmental concerns and the greed of big business. When the head of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 2,118 members
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  • Persuasion - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Rupert Penry-Jones,  Alice Krige,  Julia Davis
    Director: Adrian Shergold
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    TV adaptation of Jane Austen's novel. Anne Elliott (Sally Hawkins) has spent years regretting her rejection of Captain Wentworth (Rupert Penry-Jones)'s proposal of marriage, her family having been against the match on grounds of class. When he returns from sea they meet but, instead of finding ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 177 members
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  • Joe's Palace on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Rupert Penry-Jones,  Kelly Reilly,  Michael Gambon
    Director: Stephen Poliakoff
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this drama from celebrated writer/director, Stephen Poliakoff, Michael Gambon plays a reclusive billionaire. The film tells of his relationship with Joe (Danny Lee Wyntner), the teenage boy he employs to take care of a grand house. Poliakoff explores themes he has touched on in his previous work,..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 1,217 member
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  • Persuasion on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Rupert Penry-Jones,  Alice Krige,  Julia Davis
    Director: Adrian Shergold
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    TV adaptation of Jane Austen's novel. Anne Elliott (Sally Hawkins) has spent years regretting her rejection of Captain Wentworth (Rupert Penry-Jones)'s proposal of marriage, her family having been against the match on grounds of class. When he returns from sea they meet but, instead of finding ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 8,539 members
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  • Match Point on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Rupert Penry-Jones,  Brian Cox,  Scarlett Johansson
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Thriller from award-winning writer/director Woody Allen. A one-time tennis pro, Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) was used to falling just short in his life. But when he befriends Tom Hewett (Matthew Goode) and marries his sister, Chloe (Emily Mortimer), the doors are opened to the kind of money ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 31,796 members
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  • Casanova - BBC (2005)
    Starring: Rupert Penry-Jones,  Peter O'Toole,  Matt Lucas
    Director: Sheree Folkson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Irreverant three-part BBC television miniseries about the notorious 18th century lothario, written by Russell T. Davies, and starring David Tennant and Peter O'Toole in the title role. The aged Casanova (O'Toole) is living out his days as the custodian of a library in Bohemia, when he meets young ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 6,545 members
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  • North Square (3 discs) on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Ruth Millar,  Rupert Penry-Jones,  Victoria Smurfit
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    All ten episodes of the Channel 4 legal drama following a group of young barristers working at the defence chambers in Leeds. Chief Clerk Peter McLeish (Philip Davis) is the most driven and conniving of the group. Determined to succeed in his profession, he casts aside morals and a social life in ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 54 members
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  • Charlotte Gray on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Anton Lesser,  James Fleet,  Rupert Penry-Jones
    Director: Gillian Armstrong
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    London, World War Two. Charlotte Gray (Cate Blanchett) agrees to go on a special mission to France when her RAF boyfriend, originally scheduled to carry out the mission himself, goes missing. Based in a remote French farm run by M. Levade (Michael Gambon), her job is to liaise with local Resistance ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 5,676 members
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  • Virtual Sexuality (1999)
    Starring: Rupert Penry-Jones,  Luke De Lacey,  Kieran O'Brien
    Director: Nick Hurran
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Justine (Laura Fraser) is a seventeen-year-old girl determined to lose her virginity with the school hunk Alex (Kieran O'Brien). They arrange to go on a date at a computer exposition, but at the last minute Alex decides to go out with the sexy Hoover (Natasha Bell). A dejected Justine decides to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 819 members
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Rupert Penry-Jones facts

5 most recent films

Treasure Island - 3.5 stars
Treasure Island - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
The Last Weekend - Series 1 - 2.5 stars
Whitechapel - Series 3 - 4.5 stars
Silk - Series 2 - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Spooks - Complete Season 7 - 4.5 stars
Spooks - Complete Season 6 - 4.5 stars
Spooks - Complete Season 5 - 4.5 stars
Whitechapel - Series 3 - 4.5 stars
Silk - Series 2 - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Last Weekend - Series 1 - 2.5 stars
Virtual Sexuality - 3.0 stars
Match Point - 3.0 stars
Burn Up - 3.0 stars
The 39 Steps - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Peter Firth - 117 times - show films
Hugh Simon - 108 times - show films
Nicola Walker - 102 times - show films
Hermione Norris - 45 times - show films
Hermione Norris - 42 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Alrick Riley - 78 times - show films
Omar Madha - 73 times - show films
Andy Hay - 52 times - show films
Justin Chadwick - 38 times - show films
Antonia Bird - 26 times - show films