Alex Blake








Alex Blake - English Actor based in London.

Over the last twenty years Alex has appeared in some of the biggest television
shows of the modern era, working with some of the world’s most distinguished
directors of theatre, television and film – among them, Sir Peter Hall, Sir Richard
Eyre, Peter Kosminsky, Daniel Evans, Johan Renck and Richard Laxton. He has
played opposite a raft of equally distinguished actors including Sir Anthony Sher,
Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent, Imelda Staunton, Kim Cattrall, Michael Pennington,
Timothy Spall, Ruth Wilson and Dominic West.
In 2026, Alex joins the cast of Apple TV’s massive global hit Ted Lasso.
Alex’s television credits include the two final seasons of the multiple Golden Globe
and Emmy award-winning The Crown (Netflix) playing Stephen Lamport, private
secretary to the Prince of Wales; a memorable turn in the Emmy-nominated Andor
(Disney+); another memorable appearance in the Golden Globe and Emmy winner
Chernobyl (HBO/Sky); and another well-remembered performance in the BAFTA-
nominated Mrs Wilson (BBC). In 2024, Alex played opposite Sophie Turner in Joan,
Richard Laxton’s highly acclaimed six-part drama for ITV – adapted for the screen by
Anna Symon. He has appeared in debbie tucker green’s BAFTA-winning television
film Random (C4); the BAFTA and Emmy award-winning television film Longford
(HBO) as well as Prime Suspect VII (ITV); Pinochet’s Last Stand (C4); The
Government Inspector (C4) and The Crimson Field (BBC) not to mention a host of
stalwart British television dramas including New Tricks (BBC); Holby City (BBC);
Midsommer Murders (ITV); Silent Witness (BBC) and Father Brown (BBC).
Alex’s film credits include Charlixcx’s mockumentary movie The Moment directed by
Aidan Zamiri; Finding Your Feet directed by Richard Loncraine; The Children Act
directed by Sir Richard Eyre; Chatroom directed by Hideo Nakata and Amazing
Grace directed by the late, great Michael Apted. Most recently Alex appeared in
On stage Alex has appeared in the first ever staging of Albert Camus’ novel
L’Etranger in English, adapted by Ben Okri for the Coronet in Notting Hill;
Stravinsky’s L’Histoire Du Soldat directed by Alessandro Talevi for Opera di Firenze;
Torvald in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House directed by Rachel O’Riordan for the Sherman
Theatre in Cardiff, as well as Alan Bennett’s Single Spies at the Rose Theatre,
Kingston; Henry IV Parts I & II directed by Sir Peter Hall for the Theatre Royal in
Bath; Antony & Cleopatra directed by Janet Suzman for the Playhouse in Liverpool
and An Enemy of the People directed by Daniel Evans at the Crucible Theatre in
Sheffield.
Alex read English at Cambridge and trained as an actor at the London Academy of
Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), graduating in 2003.