Rafe Spall

Biography

Rafe Joseph Spall is an English actor on both stage and screen. He is perhaps best known for his roles in BBC's The Shadow Line, Channel 4's Pete versus Life, One Day, Anonymous, and the Ridley Scott film Prometheus. He played writer Yann Martel in the 2012 film Life of Pi.

Known for

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

Men in Black: International

12 June 2019

One Day

2 March 2011

Acting roles

Year	Movie / TV show / Other	Role
—	Firebug
2025	William Tell
2024	Rich Flu
2020	National Theatre Live: Death of England	Michael
—	The Romantics	John Clare
2022	The English	David Melmont
2021	Long Story Short	Teddy
2020	Trying	Jason
2020	The Salisbury Poisonings	DS Nick Bailey
2019	Men in Black: International	Agent C
2019	Just Mercy	Tommy Champan
2019	The War of the Worlds	George
2019	Denmark	Herb
2018	Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom	Eli Mills
2018	Grandpa's Great Escape	Adult Jack (voice)
2017	The Ritual	Luke
2017	National Theatre Live: Hedda Gabler	Brack
2017	My Online Nightmare	Narrator (voice)
2016	The BFG	Mr. Tibbs
2016	Swallows and Amazons	Jim 'Captain Flint' Turner / Polski the Parrot
2016	Roadies	Reg Whitehead
2016	Mum's List	Singe
2015	The Big Short	Danny Moses
2015	Sons of Liberty	John Hancock
2015	Harry Price: Ghost Hunter	Harry Price
2014	X+Y	Martin Humphreys
2014	Get Santa	Steve
2013	The World's End	Young Man
2013	What If	Ben
2013	I Give It a Year	Josh
2012	Life of Pi	Writer
2012	Prometheus	Millburn
2012	Earthbound	Joe
2012	The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus	Self
2011	Black Mirror	Potter
2011	One Day	Ian Whitehead
2011	Anonymous	William Shakespeare
2011	The Shadow Line	Jay Wratten
2010	The Scouting Book for Boys	Steve
2010	SUS	Wilby
2010	Pete versus Life	Pete Griffiths
2009	Desperate Romantics	William Holman Hunt
2009	Modern Life Is Rubbish	Liam
2008	He Kills Coppers	Frank Taylor
2008	Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me	Dennis Heymer
2007	Hot Fuzz	DC Andy Cartwright
2007	Grindhouse	Featured Ghost (segment "Don't") (uncredited)
2007	Don't
2007	A Room with a View	George Emerson
2007	Get Off My Land	Man
2006	A Good Year	Kenny
2006	Kidulthood	Lenny
2006	Dracula	Jonathan Harker
2006	The Last Drop	David Wellings
2006	Wide Sargasso Sea	Edward Rochester
2006	The Chatterley Affair	Keith
2006	Cracker: Nine Eleven	DS McAllister
2005	Green Street Hooligans	Swill
2005	Twisted Tales
2005	The Rotters' Club	Sean Harding
2004	Shaun of the Dead	Noel
2004	Agatha Christie's Marple	Roger Bassington
2004	The Calcium Kid	Stan Parlour
2004	The Legend of the Tamworth Two	Crustie
2003	The Lion in Winter	Prince John
2003	Spine Chillers
2002	Out of Control	Ray
1995	Soccer AM	Self
1993	Cracker	DS McAllister

Credits

Year	Movie / TV show / Other	Role
2018	Stan & Ollie	Thanks