Anton Lesser

Known for: Acting
Born: February 14, 1952, Birmingham, England, UK
Movies: 60

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.

Upcoming Anton Lesser Movies

ViQueens

2026

December 26, 2026

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Release date TBA

Best-Known Movies

6.6

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

2011

6.8

Allied

2016

7.0

The Courier

2020

6.9

Disobedience

2018

6.7

Miss Potter

2006

6.6

A United Kingdom

2016

6.9

The Exception

2017

6.1

On Chesil Beach

2018

6.8

The Lady

2011

6.1

Charlotte Gray

2001

Filmography

2026	ViQueens	Lars (voice)
2025	The Yellow Tie	Martin Steinke
2025	Beshert	Mr Pinsky
2025	The World Will Tremble	Robbi Schulman
2022	Making 1899	Self
2021	Benediction	Stephen Tennant (Older)
2021	From A Strange Land	Professor Dr Wolfgang Engel
2020	Kindred	Dr. Richards
2020	Gatecrash	Sid
2020	The Courier	Bertrand
2018	Disobedience	Rav Krushka
2018	On Chesil Beach	Reverend Woollett
2017	The Exception	General Falkenberg
2016	A United Kingdom	Prime Minister Attlee
2016	Allied	Emmanuel Lombard
2015	Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience	Qyburn
2014	Closer to the Moon	Holban
2012	The Scapegoat	Father McReady
2011	The Lady	Professor Finnis
2011	Flutter	Bruno
2011	The Man who Crossed Hitler	Rudolf Olden
2011	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides	Lord John Carteret
2008	Einstein and Eddington	Fritz Haber
2006	Miss Potter	Harold Warne
2005	Einstein's Big Idea	Voltaire
2005	Class of '76	Martin Gibson
2005	River Queen	Baine
2005	Ahead of the Class	Graham Ranger
2005	The Girl in the Café	George
2005	Dirty Filthy Love	Charles
2003	Eroica	Sukowaty
2003	Imagining Argentina	General Guzmán
2003	Otherworld	Teyrnon (voice)
2003	Danielle Cable: Eyewitness	Batten
2002	The Project	Stanley Hall
2002	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	Bertilak / Green Knight (voice)
2001	Charlotte Gray	Renech
2001	Uprising	Nathan Lensky
2001	Lorna Doone	Counsellor Doone
2000	Esther Kahn	Sean
2000	The Miracle Maker	Herod (voice)
1997	FairyTale: A True Story	Wounded Corporal
1997	Into the Blue	Dr. John Ockleton
1996	The Moonstone	Ezra Jennings
1994	The Winter's Tale	Leontes (voice)
1994	Guinevere	Envoy
1990	Traitors	Robert Cecil
1989	Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story	Karl/Stein
1988	Twelfth Night, or What You Will	Feste
1988	Airbase	Vincenzo
1988	Stanley	Stanley Spencer
1985	The Assam Garden	Mr. Sutton
1985	Monsignor Quixote	Robber
1984	Sakharov	Valery Chalidze
1983	Good and Bad at Games
1982	The Missionary	Young Man at Shoot
1982	King Lear	Edgar
1981	Troilus & Cressida	Troilus
1981	The Cherry Orchard	Trofimov
1978	The Mill on the Floss	Philip Wakem

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