Peter Ferdinando
Actor
Biography
Peter Ferdinando is a British character actor, known for his varied performances.
He has collaborated extensively with director and cousin Gerard Johnson, playing the title role in the critically acclaimed Tony and the lead role in their more recent film together, the award-winning Hyena.
He played the King Pin Spencer in David Mackenzie's prison drama Starred Up.
He also regularly collaborates with British filmmaker Ben Wheatley, having played Jacob in A Field in England, The Half-Face Man in "Deep Breath", the first episode of series 8 of Doctor Who, and Paul in Wheatley's High-Rise.
More recent work includes Tommy's Honour with Peter Mullan, directed by Jason Connery, Ghost in the Shell, with Scarlett Johansson and Juliet Binoche, directed by Rupert Sanders, and Guy Ritchie's King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, with Jude Law. In 2017, he starred in Woody Harrelson's experimental, live film directorial debut Lost In London alongside Owen Wilson, Willie Nelson and Woody Harrelson.
Filmography
Snow White and the Huntsman
as Black Knight 2012
300: Rise of an Empire
as Greek Ambassador 2014
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
as Earl of Mercia 2017
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
as Mike 2023
High-Rise
as Cosgrove 2015
Starred Up
as Spencer 2014
Archive
as Tagg 2020
A Field in England
as Jacob 2013
Vita & Virginia
as Leonard Woolf 2019
Lost in London
as Dante 2017
Doctor Who: Deep Breath
as Half-Face Man 2014
Blue Iguana
as Deacon Bradshaw 2018
Hyena
as Michael 2015
Tony
as Tony 2010
Face
as Policeman 1997
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
as Jimmy 2018