Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

Gender

Male

Birthday

1957-08-25 (67 years old)

Place of Birth

Cambridge, England, UK

Also Known As

سایمن مک‌برنی

Simon McBurney

Biography

Simon Montagu McBurney, OBE (born 25 August 1957) is an English Olivier Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated actor, writer and director. He is the founder and artistic director of Théâtre de Complicité in England, now called Complicite.

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Known For

7.7%

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Nov 17, 2010

7.8%

The Theory of Everything

Nov 7, 2014

7.2%

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

Jul 23, 2015

7.3%

The Conjuring 2

Jun 8, 2016

6.4%

Robin Hood

May 12, 2010

6.1%

The Golden Compass

Dec 4, 2007

6.8%

Allied

Feb 12, 2016

6.6%

Body of Lies

Oct 9, 2008

6.6%

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Sep 16, 2011

6.7%

Nosferatu

Dec 25, 2024

7.4%

The Last King of Scotland

Jan 12, 2006

6.5%

Magic in the Moonlight

Jul 25, 2014

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Acting

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Gardening as Detective Danforth

2025

The Actor as Doctor Croft / Doctor Edgarton

2024		Nosferatu as Herr Knock
2024		A Mistake as Andrew McGrath

2023

Hijack as Edgar Janssen

2022

The Pale Blue Eye as Captain Hitchcock

2020		Wolfwalkers as Lord Protector (voice)
2020		Siberia as Magician

2019		Carnival Row as Runyan Millworthy
2019		The Loudest Voice as Rupert Murdoch

2018

The Mercy as Sir Francis Chichester

2017

The Encounter as Himself

2016		The New Man as Self
2016		John Berger or The Art of Looking as Self
2016		The Conjuring 2 as Maurice Grosse
2016		Allied as S.O.E. Official

2015		Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation as Atlee
2015		The Casual Vacancy as Colin Wall

2014		The Theory of Everything as Frank Hawking
2014		Magic in the Moonlight as Howard Burkan

2013		For Those Who Can Tell No Tales as Tim Clancy
2013		Utopia as Professor Donaldson

2011		Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as Oliver Lacon
2011		Jane Eyre as Mr. Brocklehurst

2010		Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 as Kreacher (voice)
2010		Rev. as Robert
2010		Robin Hood as Father Tancred

2009

Boogie Woogie as Robert Freign

2008		Body of Lies as Garland
2008		The Duchess as Charles Fox

2007

The Golden Compass as Fra Pavel

2006		Friends with Money as Aaron
2006		The Last King of Scotland as British Diplomat

2004		The Manchurian Candidate as Dr. Atticus Noyle
2004		The Reckoning as Stephen

2003		Bright Young Things as Sneath
2003		Sweet Dreams as Thomas

2000

Eisenstein as Sergei Eisenstein

1999		Onegin as Triquet
1999		Inside-Out as Market researcher

1998

Cousin Bette as Vauvinet

1997

Midsomer Murders as Henry Carstairs

1996

The Ogre as Brigadier

1994		Mesmer as Franz Mesmer junior
1994		Being Human as Hermas
1994		Tom & Viv as Dr. Reginald Miller
1994		A Business Affair as Salesman

1993

Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase as Madman

1992

The Crying Game as Mick

1991

Kafka as Assistant Oscar

1988

Burning Ambition as Martin

1982		The Comic Strip Presents... as Mick
1982		The Comic Strip Presents... as Madman

Art

2023

The Met: Live in HD – Die Zauberflöte as Art Direction

Directing

2023

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead as Director

2021

Can I Live? as Co-Director

2017

The Encounter as Director

2010

National Theatre Live: A Disappearing Number as Director

2003

The Elephant Vanishes as Director

Production

2007

Mr. Bean's Holiday as Executive Producer

Writing

2010

National Theatre Live: A Disappearing Number as Writer

2007

Mr. Bean's Holiday as Story