Educated in English literature at St John’s College, Oxford, and later trained at LAMDA, Kennedy entered screen acting with Peter Greenaway’s The Tulse Luper Suitcases and a turn as Julian Bell in the BBC’s Cambridge Spies. He secured his first leading part as Richard Carstone in the BBC adaptation of Bleak House, then appeared in high-profile films such as Atonement, Munich, Me and Orson Welles a…
