Pip Torrens

Pip Torrens at San Diego Comic-Con International (2017)

Pip Torrens (born June 2, 1960 in Bromley , Kent , England ) is a British actor .

Life

Torrens was educated at Trinity College of the University of Cambridge .

He made his stage actor debut in 1981 in the role of Delahay in the play Another Country . From the mid-1980s he had his first roles in British productions. In 2005 he starred as the butler in Joe Wright's drama Pride and Prejudice . From 2011 onwards, numerous roles in larger film productions followed. Torrens appeared in the biopic My Week with Marilyn , Steven Spielberg's war film Companions and the literary adaptation Anna Karenina . In 2015 he took on the role of Dr. Hexler in the biopic The Danish Girl . In the same year, Torrens played the role of Colonel Kaplan in the science fiction film Star Wars: The Force Awakens. In 2017, Torrens was cast in the Netflix production The Crown as Tommy Lascelles , private secretary of Queen Elizabeth II . Torrens has appeared as Klaus Starr in the Preacher series since 2017 .

Filmography (selection)

• 1984: Oxford Blues - Help the Americans Are Coming (Oxford Blues)
• 1986: Lady Jane - Queen for Nine Days (Lady Jane)
• 1987: The Lenny Henry Show (TV series, 6 episodes)
• 1987: Little Dorrit (Little Dorrit)
• 1988: A Handful of Dust
• 1989: The Nightmare Years (miniseries, 5 episodes)
• 1989: Voice of the Heart (TV movie)
• 1989: Head to Head (How to Get Ahead in Advertising)
• 1989: Played Out - Bearskin (Bearskin - An Urban Fairytale)
• 1990: Land of the Black Sun (Mountains of the Moon)
• 1990: Total Control (Eminent Domain)
• 1991: Object of Beauty (The Object of Beauty)
• 1991: Chimera (miniseries, 3 episodes)
• 1992: The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles ( The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles , TV Show, Episode 1)
• 1992: The Patriot Games
• 1992–1993: Jeeves and Wooster - Lord and Master ( Jeeves and Wooster , TV series, 2 episodes)
• 1993: What is left of the day remained (The Remains of the Day)
• 1993: To Play the King , mini-series, 3 episodes
• 1995: Indiana Jones and the Diamond in the Peacock's Eye ( The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye , TV movie)
• 1997: Bodyguards (TV series, 6 episodes)
• 1997: Incognito
• 1997: James Bond 007 - Tomorrow Never Dies
• 1998: The Unknown Soldier (TV movie)
• 1999: The Fast Money - The Nick Leeson Story (Rogue Trader)
• 1999: Pure Wickedness (TV series, 3 episodes)
• 2000: Longitude - Der Längengrad ( Longitude , TV movie)
• 2000: Mein - Bis in den Tod ( Trust , TV movie)
• 2000: Lorna Doone (TV movie)
• 2001: The Whistle-Blower (TV movie)
• 2001: The Infinite Worlds of HG Wells (miniseries, 6 episodes)
• 2001: To End All Wars - The real hell (To End All Wars)
• 2001: Revelation (Revelation)
• 2001: The Mystic Masseur
• 2001: The Queen's Men (All the Queen's Men)
• 2002: Ernest Shackleton ( Shackleton , miniseries, 2 episodes)
• 2002: Sunday (TV movie)
• 2002: Aka Albert Walker (TV movie)
• 2002: Ted and Alice (miniseries, 3 episodes)
• 2002: Dead Gorgeous (TV movie)
• 2002: Project Power Change ( The Project , TV film)
• 2002: Darwin's Daughter (TV movie)
• 2003: You Only Die Twice ( Second Nature , TV movie)
• 2003: Gifted (TV movie)
• 2004: When I'm 64 - Late Love (TV movie)
• 2004: Messiah: The Promise (mini-series, 2 episodes)
• 2005: Broken News (TV series, 6 episodes)
• 2005: A View from a Hill (TV movie)
• 2005: The Commander: Virus (TV movie)
• 2005: The Commander: Blackdog (TV movie)
• 2005: The Government Inspector (TV movie)
• 2005: Pride & Prejudice (Pride & Prejudice)
• 2005: Ian Fleming: Bondmaker (TV movie)
• 2005: Class of '76 , TV movie
• 2005: Rom ( Rome , TV series, 1 episode)
• 2006: Missing (TV movie)
• 2006: Dresden (TV film)
• 2006: The Chatterley Affair (TV movie)
• 2006: Pinochet in Suburbia (TV movie)
• 2006: The Path to 9/11 - Ways of Terror ( The Path to 9/11 , miniseries, 2 episodes)
• 2006: Rome and its great rulers ( Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire , miniseries, 1 episode)
• 2007: The Mark of Cain
• 2007: Waking the Dead ( Waking the Dead , TV series, 2 episodes)
• 2007: Das Handbuch für Rabenmütter ( The Bad Mother's Handbook , TV movie)
• 2007: The Flood - When the Sea Devours the Cities (Flood)
• 2007: Doctor Who (TV series, 2 episodes)
• 2007: Consenting Adults (TV movie)
• 2008: Miss Austen Regrets (TV movie)
• 2008: Queen Victoria's Men (documentary)
• 2008: Easy Virtue - An Immoral Wife (Easy Virtue)
• 2009: The Portrait of Dorian Gray (Dorian Gray)
• 2009: You're Dead ( U Be Dead , TV movie)
• 2009: The Girls of St. Trinian 2 - On a Treasure Hunt (St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold)
• 2010: Coronation Street (TV series, 6 episodes)
• 2011: Largo Winch II - The Burma Conspiracy (Largo Winch II)
• 2011: Promised Land ( The Promise , Miniseries, 4 episodes)
• 2011: Love's Kitchen - A dessert to fall in love with (Love's Kitchen)
• 2011: My Week with Marilyn
• 2011: Companions (War Horse)
• 2011: Die Eiserne Lady (The Iron Lady)
• 2011–2014: Silk - Robes made of silk ( Silk , TV series, 4 episodes)
• 2011–2014: Law & Order: UK (TV series, 5 episodes)
• 2012: Bel Ami
• 2012: The Fall of Singapore: The Great Betrayal (documentary)
• 2012: Anna Karenina
• 2012: The Scapegoat
• 2012: Gambit - The Master Plan (Gambit)
• 2013: Black Mirror (TV series, episode 2x03)
• 2013: The Lady Vanishes (TV movie)
• 2014: My name is Fleming. Ian Fleming ( Fleming , miniseries, 4 episodes)
• 2014: The Conspiracy: Merciless Hunt ( Salting the Battlefield , Movie made for TV)
• 2014: Walter (TV movie)
• 2014: Gemma Bovery - A Summer with Flaubert (Gemma Bovery)
• 2014: Effie Gray
• 2015: The Struggle for Heavy Water ( Kampen om tungtvannet , miniseries, 6 episodes)
• 2015: The Danish Girl
• 2015: Star Wars : The Force Awakens
• 2016: War and Peace ( War & Peace , miniseries, 2 episodes)
• 2016: Kids in Love
• 2015-2018: Poldark (TV series, 21 episodes)
• 2015-2017: Versailles (TV series, 17 episodes)
• 2016–2017: The Crown (TV series, 16 episodes)
• since 2017: Preacher (TV series)
• 2017: The Darkest Hour
• 2018: Patrick Melrose (miniseries, 4 episodes)
• 2018: Down a Dark Hall
• 2019: No Man's Land - The Aftermath (The Aftermath)

theatre

• 1981–1983: Another Country (Greenwich Theater, London and Queens Theater, London; role: Delahey)
• 1983–1984: Another Country (Bristol Hippodrome, Cambridge Arts Theater etc .; role: Bennett)
• 1995: Absolute Hell (Lyttelton Theater, National Theater; role: Nigel Childs)
• 1996: Stanley (National Theater, Cottesloe Theater, National Theater; role: Henry)
• 2001: PWA: The Diaries of Oscar Moore (role: Oscar Moore)

Web links

• Pip Torrens in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Pip Torrens at Theatricalia (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Pip Torrens - A Full and Mixed Career . In: YouTube from February 19, 2015