Charles Edwards is a star of both stage and screen, with notable credits including The Crown and Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
Charles Edwards recently starred in The Line of Beauty at the Almeida Theatre in London.
Charles is an English actor with a career in theatre, TV, and film. He currently stars as Lord Celebrimbor in Amazon Prime series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. He is also known for playing Michael Gregson in Downton Abbey, Dr Alexander McDonald in The Terror and Sir Martin Charteris in The Crown.
Charles Edwards on stage
Charles Edwards recently appeared on stage in The Ballad of Hattie and James at the Kiln Theatre; and also James Graham’s Best Of Enemies at the Young Vic playing Gore Vidal, with his performance receiving an Olivier Award nomination for Best Actor .
Other theatre credits include, at the National Theatre: This House, in which he played the persuasive Conservative chief whip Jack Wetherhill and gained a nomination for a Best Actor Evening Standard Award; Absolute Hell; Waste; NT50; Twelfth Night; The Duchess of Malfi; All My Sons; and, Eugene O’Neill’s Strange Interlude opposite Anne-Marie Duff.
He appeared in Copenhagen (Minerva Theatre, Chichester); as Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady (Opera Australia – Green Room Award winner); Richard in Richard II and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare’s Globe); Blithe Spirit (Gielgud Theatre and Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles); Bertie in The King’s Speech (Wyndham’s Theatre); Wanderlust (Royal Court Theatre); Hay Fever (Haymarket Theatre Royal); as well as Hannay in The 39 Steps in the West End and on Broadway.
Charles Edwards – TV and film
Charles’s TV credits include Celebrimbor in The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power, The Crown, Downton Abbey, The Terror, Henry IX, The Halycon, Sherlock, Arthur and George, Ripper Street, Trying Again, A Young Doctor’s Notebook, and Michael Palin in Holy Flying Circus.
On film, his credits include The Duke, The Witches, Florence Foster Jenkins, Philomena, Batman Begins, Diana, Relative Values, Mansfield Park, and An Ideal Husband.
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