Anton Lesser
Known for Acting · 126 credits
- Born
- 1952-02-14 (age 74)
- Place of birth
- Birmingham, England, UK
- Also known as
- 安东·莱瑟 · آنتون لسر · أنتون ليسير
Biography
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
TV Shows (65)
Game of Thrones
2011
as Qyburn
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Eddie Darwin / Rev. Wallace Stone
NOVA
1974
as Voltaire
The Crown
2016
as Harold Macmillan
Silent Witness
1996
as Marcus Gwilym
Spooks
2002
as Nicholas Ashworth
Father Brown
2013
as Father Ignatius
Andor
2022
as Lio Partagaz
Screen Two
1985
as Stanley Spencer
Endeavour
2013
as CS Reginald Bright
Foyle's War
2002
as Austin Carmichael
A Touch of Frost
1992
as Dennis Prior
New Tricks
2004
Killing Eve
2018
as Robert
Waking the Dead
2001
as Professor Ray Levin
Ripper Street
2012
as Dr. Karl Crabbe
The Musketeers
2014
Dalgliesh
2021
as Father John
Bugs
1995
as Patrick Marcel
Wolf Hall
2015
as Thomas More
The Hollow Crown
2012
as Exeter
A Discovery of Witches
2018
as Rabbi Loew
1899
2022
as Mr. Franklin
The Play on One
1988
as Vincenzo
Atlantis
2013
as Kyros
Dickensian
2015
as Fagin
Little Dorrit
2008
as Mr. Merdle
The Hour
2011
as Clarence Fendley
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992
as Leontes (voice)
The Game
2014
as C
Vanity Fair
1998
as Mr Pitt Crawley
Garrow's Law
2009
as John Farmer
Hooten & The Lady
2016
Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
2001
as Milburn
Better
2023
as Vernon Marley
Messiah
2001
as Samuel Waite
Testament: The Bible in Animation
1996
as Joseph (voice)
The Escape Artist
2013
as Richard Mayfield QC
The Strauss Dynasty
1991
as Levi
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
2001
as Vidas Merlinis
Lorna Doone
2000
as Counsellor Doone
The Trial of Christine Keeler
2019
as Michael Eddowes
Secret State
2012
as Sir Michael Rix
Spies of Warsaw
2013
as Doctor Lapp
The Scarlet Pimpernel
1999
as Antoine Picard
Five Daughters
2010
as Dr Nat Cary
Uprising
2001
as Nathan Lensky
Sharman
1995
as Galilee
Vital Signs
2006
as Dr Lindsay
Freud
1984
as Wilhelm Fliess
Dickens
2002
as Charles Dickens
Art That Made Us
2022
as Self - Actor (Endeavour)
Life In Squares
2015
as Dr. Hyslop
Perfect Strangers
2001
as Stephen
Invasion: Earth
1998
as Lt. Charles Terrell
Moses
1996
as Eliav
London
2004
as Charles Dickens
The Mill on the Floss
1978
as Philip Wakem
The History of the World Backwards
2007
Class of '76
2005
as Martin Gibson
Movies (61)
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
2011
as Lord John Carteret
Disobedience
2018
as Rav Krushka
Allied
2016
as Emmanuel Lombard
The Courier
2020
as Bertrand
The Yellow Tie
2025
as Martin Steinke
The World Will Tremble
2025
as Robbi Schulman
Miss Potter
2006
as Harold Warne
Uprising
2001
as Nathan Lensky
Guinevere
1994
as Envoy
The Exception
2017
as General Falkenberg
Einstein and Eddington
2008
as Fritz Haber
ViQueens
2026
as Lars (voice)
Monsignor Quixote
1985
as Robber
The Lady
2011
as Professor Finnis
A United Kingdom
2016
as Prime Minister Attlee
FairyTale: A True Story
1997
as Wounded Corporal
Santo Subito!
as Father Mattew
On Chesil Beach
2018
as Reverend Woollett
Charlotte Gray
2001
as Renech
The Miracle Maker
2000
as Herod (voice)
Beshert
2025
as Mr Pinsky
The Cherry Orchard
1981
as Trofimov
River Queen
2005
as Baine
Closer to the Moon
2014
as Holban
Gatecrash
2020
as Sid
Dirty Filthy Love
2005
as Charles
Einstein's Big Idea
2005
as Voltaire
The Missionary
1982
as Young Man at Shoot
Benediction
2021
as Stephen Tennant (Older)
Tick Tick Tick
as Narrator
Lorna Doone
2001
as Counsellor Doone
The Girl in the Café
2005
as George
The Scapegoat
2012
as Father McReady
The Assam Garden
1985
as Mr. Sutton
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
2015
as Qyburn
Esther Kahn
2000
as Sean
The Moonstone
1996
as Ezra Jennings
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
1988
as Feste
A Blue Butterfly
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989
as Karl/Stein
The Mill on the Floss
1978
as Philip Wakem
Danielle Cable: Eyewitness
2003
as Batten
Troilus & Cressida
1981
as Troilus
Kindred
2020
as Dr. Richards
Airbase
1988
as Vincenzo
Otherworld
2003
as Teyrnon (voice)
Into the Blue
1997
as Dr. John Ockleton
Good and Bad at Games
1983
The Project
2002
as Stanley Hall
Making 1899
2022
as Self
King Lear
1982
as Edgar
The Man who Crossed Hitler
2011
as Rudolf Olden
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
2002
as Bertilak / Green Knight (voice)
Class of '76
2005
as Martin Gibson
Ahead of the Class
2005
as Graham Ranger
Eroica
2003
as Sukowaty
From A Strange Land
2021
as Professor Dr Wolfgang Engel
Sakharov
1984
as Valery Chalidze
Flutter
2011
as Bruno
Stanley
1988
as Stanley Spencer
Traitors
1990
as Robert Cecil
About Anton Lesser
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. With 126 credits spanning from 1974 to 2026, Anton Lesser has appeared in 61 films and 65 TV shows.
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Most Popular Anton Lesser Movies
- Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) — as Lord John Carteret
- Disobedience (2018) — as Rav Krushka
- Allied (2016) — as Emmanuel Lombard
- The Courier (2020) — as Bertrand
- The Yellow Tie (2025) — as Martin Steinke
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