Tim McInnerny

Timothy L. McInnerny ( ; born 18 September 1956) is a British actor. He is notable for appearing as multiple characters in the Blackadder series, playing Lord Percy Percy in The Black Adder, and Blackadder II (1986); as the Scarlet Pimpernel in Blackadder the Third (1987), Captain Kevin Darling in Blackadder Goes Forth (1989), and returned to play Archdeacon Darling, the Duke of Darling, and le Duc de Darling in Blackadder: Back and Forth (1999).

Other credits include Erik the Viking (1989), Richard III (1995), 101 Dalmatians (1996), FairyTale: A True Story (1997), Notting Hill (1999), 102 Dalmatians (2000), The Emperor's New Clothes (2001), Spooks (2004), Gunpowder, Treason & Plot (2004), Casanova (2005), Severance (2006), The Devil's Whore (2008), Black Death (2010) New Tricks (2012), Game of Thrones (season 6) (2016), National Treasure (2016), Eddie The Eagle (2016), In the Dark (2017), Strike (2017), Harlots (2017), Strangers (2018), Peterloo (2018), The Trial of Christine Keeler (2019–2020), The Windermere Children (2020), Gangs of London (2020), The Serpent (2021), Ten Percent (2022), One Day (2024), Gladiator II (2024), and Bookish (2025).

Early life McInnerny was born on 18 September 1956 in Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, the son of Mary Joan (née Gibbings) and William Ronald McInnerny. He has two sisters. He was brought up in Cheadle Hulme and in Stroud, Gloucestershire, and educated at Marling School, a grammar school in Stroud, and read English at Wadham College, Oxford, matriculating in 1976 after taking a gap year backpacking around the world.

Career Television McInnerny's first role was in Blackadder during the 1980s. He played the two bumbling related aristocrats with the same name of Lord Percy Percy in the first series The Black Adder (1983), and the second series Blackadder II (1986); He returned to play Archdeacon Darling, the Duke of Darling, and le Duc de Darling in Blackadder: Back and Forth (1999).

McInnerny had a minor but significant role as Emma Craven's boyfriend Terry Shields, in the BBC TV serial Edge of Darkness(1985).

Television

Film

Since 2012, McInnerny has been a patron of the Norwich Film Festival.

Radio

Theatre In 1985 he was cast in Pravda alongside Anthony Hopkins.

He played Dr Frank-N-Furter in the 1990 West End production of The Rocky Horror Show. His performance can be heard on the soundtrack album of this production.

In summer 2007, he played Iago in Othello at Shakespeare's Globe on Bankside in London.

Selected theatre performances Clitandre in The Misanthrope by Moliere. Directed by Casper Wrede at the Royal Exchange, Manchester (1981) Charlie in Detective Story by Sidney Kingsley. Directed by John Dillon at the Royal Exchange, Manchester (1982) Billy Bibbitt in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Dale Wasserman. Directed by Greg Hersov at the Royal Exchange, Manchester (1982) Mick in The Caretaker by Harold Pinter. Directed by Richard Negri at the Royal Exchange, Manchester (1983) Orsino in Twelfth Night. Directed by Braham Murray at the Royal Exchange, Manchester (1988)

Music In 1989, he co-starred with Kate Bush in the music video for her song "This Woman's Work". He also appeared in the Westlife video for "Uptown Girl", along with Claudia Schiffer, Robert Bathurst, Crispin Bonham-Carter, Ioan Gruffudd and James Wilby.