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Sir Simon Russell Beale CBE (born January 12, 1961) is an English actor. He is known for his appearances in film, television and theatre, and work on radio, on audiobooks and as a narrator. For his services to drama, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in 2019. He has spent much of his theatre career working in productions for both the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre. He has received ten Laurence Olivier Award nominations, winning three awards for his performances in Volpone (1996), Candide (2000), and Uncle Vanya (2003). For his work on the Broadway stage he has received a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination for his performance as George in the Tom Stoppard play Jumpers in 2004. For his role as Henry Lehman in The Lehman Trilogy, he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and was nominated for an Olivier Award. Beale has been described by The Independent as "the greatest stage actor of his generation". Beale made his film debut in Sally Potter's period drama Orlando (1992). He continued acting in films such as Persuasion (1995), Hamlet (1996), My Week with Marilyn (2011), The Deep Blue Sea (2011), Into the Woods (2014), and Mary Queen of Scots (2018). In 2017, he starred in Armando Iannucci's dark comedy The Death of Stalin playing Lavrentiy Beria for which he received the British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actor. He has also appeared in the television projects The Young Visiters (2003), Dunkirk (2004), and as Falstaff in the BBC made-for-television films Henry IV, Part I and Part II (2012). He was part of the main cast of Showtime's Penny Dreadful.
Simon Russell Beale
High Septon (the Starry Sept)
for High Septon (the Starry Sept) in The Faith's Sword
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He was raised in the High Septon's household. When the Faith Militant turned against the crown, he was the only man who could end it without a war. Set during the Faith Militant Uprising under Maegor the Cruel (~40 AC), The Faith's Sword follows Aldric of the Faith, 28, a Black man raised by the High Septon as a ward of the Faith — not a septon himself but a lay member of the Faith's household and its chief diplomatic representative. He is entirely Westerosi and entirely of the Faith's tradition: he speaks the Common Tongue and High Valyrian, knows the Seven's theology with scholarly precision, and has been formed by the Faith's ideal of justice. When the Faith Militant rises and Maegor the Cruel responds with dragon and sword, Aldric occupies the impossible middle: a man of the Faith who knows the Militant's grievances are legitimate, a servant of the crown who knows Maegor's response is brutal, and the only person either side will speak to. His relationship with Serafina of Oldtown — a maester's daughter and scholar whose neutral position mirrors his own — is the series' central love story. E1 — The Risen Stars The Faith Militant mobilizing. Aldric receiving conflicting orders from the dying High Septon and from King's Landing simultaneously. E5 — The Terms Aldric in a barn outside Oldtown, negotiating with both sides' representatives simultaneously in adjacent rooms. The series' most formally inventive episode. E10 — The Peace of the Seven Series finale: The uprising ends — not through Maegor's dragons but through the terms Aldric negotiated. He is credited nowhere in the official record. Serafina writes the true account.
