Anton Lesser
February 14, 1952 (74 years old) in Birmingham, England, UK
Anton Lesser is a British actor. He is known for his roles as Qyburn in the HBO series Game of Thrones, Harold Macmillan in The Crown, Clement Attlee in A United Kingdom, Chief Superintendent Bright in Endeavour, and Major Lio Partagaz in Andor. An associate of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he has performed numerous Shakespearean roles on stage and television.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · The Yellow Tie as Martin Steinke
- 2023 · Better as Vernon Marley
- 2022 · 1899 as Mr. Franklin
- 2022 · Andor as Lio Partagaz
- 2021 · Dalgliesh as Father John
- 2020 · The Courier as Bertrand
- 2019 · The Trial of Christine Keeler as Michael Eddowes
- 2018 · A Discovery of Witches as Rabbi Loew
- 2018 · Disobedience as Rav Krushka
- 2018 · Killing Eve as Robert
- 2017 · The Exception as General Falkenberg
- 2016 · A United Kingdom as Prime Minister Attlee
- 2016 · Allied as Emmanuel Lombard
- 2016 · The Crown as Harold Macmillan
- 2016 · Hooten & The Lady as
- 2015 · Dickensian as Fagin
- 2015 · Life In Squares as Dr. Hyslop
- 2015 · Wolf Hall as Thomas More
- 2014 · The Game as C
- 2014 · The Musketeers as
- 2013 · The Escape Artist as Richard Mayfield QC
- 2013 · Atlantis as Kyros
- 2013 · Endeavour as CS Reginald Bright
- 2013 · Father Brown as Father Ignatius
- 2013 · Spies of Warsaw as Doctor Lapp
- 2012 · Ripper Street as Dr. Karl Crabbe
- 2012 · Secret State as Sir Michael Rix
- 2012 · The Hollow Crown as Exeter
- 2011 · The Hour as Clarence Fendley
- 2011 · Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides as Lord John Carteret
- 2011 · Game of Thrones as Qyburn
- 2010 · Five Daughters as Dr Nat Cary
- 2009 · Garrow's Law as John Farmer
- 2008 · Little Dorrit as Mr. Merdle
- 2006 · Miss Potter as Harold Warne
- 2006 · Vital Signs as Dr Lindsay
- 2005 · River Queen as Baine
- 2004 · London as Charles Dickens
- 2004 · New Tricks as
- 2002 · Foyle's War as Austin Carmichael
- 2002 · Spooks as Nicholas Ashworth
- 2001 · Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story as Vidas Merlinis
- 2001 · Uprising as Nathan Lensky
- 2001 · Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes as Milburn
- 2001 · Waking the Dead as Professor Ray Levin
- 2001 · Messiah as Samuel Waite
- 2000 · Lorna Doone as Counsellor Doone
- 1999 · The Scarlet Pimpernel as Antoine Picard
- 1998 · Vanity Fair as Mr Pitt Crawley
- 1997 · Bodyguards as Dusan Mesic
- 1997 · Midsomer Murders as Eddie Darwin
- 1997 · Midsomer Murders as Rev. Wallace Stone
- 1996 · Testament: The Bible in Animation as Joseph (voice)
- 1996 · Moses as Eliav
- 1996 · Silent Witness as Marcus Gwilym
- 1995 · Sharman as Galilee
- 1995 · Bugs as Patrick Marcel
- 1992 · A Touch of Frost as Dennis Prior
- 1992 · Shakespeare: The Animated Tales as Leontes (voice)
- 1991 · The Strauss Dynasty as Levi
- 1988 · The Play on One as Vincenzo
- 1985 · Screen Two as Stanley Spencer
- 1974 · NOVA as Voltaire
- Future · Santo Subito! as Father Mattew
- 2026 · ViQueens as Lars (voice)
- 2025 · Beshert as Mr Pinsky
- 2025 · The World Will Tremble as Robbi Schulman
- 2022 · Making 1899 as Self
- 2022 · Art That Made Us as Self - Actor (Endeavour)
- 2021 · Benediction as Stephen Tennant (Older)
- 2021 · From A Strange Land as Professor Dr Wolfgang Engel
- 2020 · Kindred as Dr. Richards
- 2020 · Gatecrash as Sid
- 2018 · On Chesil Beach as Reverend Woollett
- 2015 · Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience as Qyburn
- 2014 · Closer to the Moon as Holban
- 2012 · The Scapegoat as Father McReady
- 2011 · The Lady as Professor Finnis
- 2011 · Flutter as Bruno
- 2011 · The Man who Crossed Hitler as Rudolf Olden
- 2008 · Einstein and Eddington as Fritz Haber
- 2007 · The History of the World Backwards as
- 2005 · Einstein's Big Idea as Voltaire
- 2005 · Class of '76 as Martin Gibson
- 2005 · Class of '76 as Martin Gibson
- 2005 · Ahead of the Class as Graham Ranger
- 2005 · The Girl in the Café as George
- 2005 · Dirty Filthy Love as Charles
- 2003 · Eroica as Sukowaty
- 2003 · Otherworld as Teyrnon (voice)
- 2003 · Danielle Cable: Eyewitness as Batten
- 2002 · The Project as Stanley Hall
- 2002 · Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as Bertilak / Green Knight (voice)
- 2002 · Dickens as Charles Dickens
- 2001 · Charlotte Gray as Renech
- 2001 · Uprising as Nathan Lensky
- 2001 · Perfect Strangers as Stephen
- 2001 · Lorna Doone as Counsellor Doone
- 2000 · Esther Kahn as Sean
- 2000 · The Miracle Maker as Herod (voice)
- 1998 · The Echo as Billy Blake
- 1998 · Invasion: Earth as Lt. Charles Terrell
- 1997 · FairyTale: A True Story as Wounded Corporal
- 1997 · Into the Blue as Dr. John Ockleton
- 1996 · The Moonstone as Ezra Jennings
- 1995 · The Politician's Wife as Mark Hollister
- 1994 · Guinevere as Envoy
- 1990 · Traitors as Robert Cecil
- 1989 · Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story as Karl/Stein
- 1988 · Twelfth Night, or What You Will as Feste
- 1988 · Airbase as Vincenzo
- 1988 · Stanley as Stanley Spencer
- 1985 · The Assam Garden as Mr. Sutton
- 1985 · Anna of the Five Towns as Willie Price
- 1985 · Monsignor Quixote as Robber
- 1984 · Freud as Wilhelm Fliess
- 1984 · Sakharov as Valery Chalidze
- 1983 · Good and Bad at Games as
- 1982 · The Missionary as Young Man at Shoot
- 1982 · King Lear as Edgar
- 1981 · Troilus & Cressida as Troilus
- 1981 · The Cherry Orchard as Trofimov
- 1979 · The Serpent Son as Orestes
- 1978 · The Mill on the Floss as Philip Wakem
- Future · Tick Tick Tick as Narrator
- Future · A Blue Butterfly as
- 1978 · The Mill on the Floss as Philip Wakem



