Michael Rouse
Actor
Michael Rouse is a British actor, singer, and composer active since the late 1990s, represented by Waring & McKenna. He has sung as a soloist with the Royal Philharmonic and London Philharmonic Orchestras, composed music for Tap Boy (2021), and directed and starred in Geoff (2017).
His most notable screen credits include Captain Rylands in 1917 (2019, directed by Sam Mendes), Francis Collins in All Is True (2018, directed by Kenneth Branagh), British Police Chief Inspector in Murder on the Orient Express (2017, with Johnny Depp), Private Laurin in Death on the Nile (2022), News Reporter in Artemis Fowl (2020, with Judi Dench), and Prince Albert in The Windsors (2018). On stage he is best known for his work with the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company, including Lord Capulet in Romeo and Juliet (2016, West End) and Gaoler in The Winter's Tale (2015, with Judi Dench), as well as Legolas in The Lord of the Rings (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane) and Protean in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (National Theatre, 2004). He starred in the world premiere of the one-man musical Superhero (2017, Southwark Playhouse), whose song "Don't Look Down" won the Stiles and Drewe Award.
Known for
1917
December 25, 2019
Murder on the Orient Express
November 3, 2017
Death on the Nile
February 9, 2022
Artemis Fowl
May 29, 2020
All Is True
December 21, 2018
Alien Autopsy
April 7, 2006
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
July 7, 2016
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
November 30, 2015
A Christmas Carol
December 12, 2020
Acting9
- 2022Death on the Nile as Private Laurin
- 2020A Christmas Carol
- 2020Artemis Fowl as Reporter
- 20191917 as Captain Rylands
- 2018All Is True as Francis Collins
- 2017Murder on the Orient Express as British Police Chief Inspector
- 2016Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet as Lord Capulet
- 2015Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale as Gaoler/Mariner
- 2006Alien Autopsy as Young Harvey