
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.

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
2017 · as Earl of Mercia

Ghost in the Shell
2017 · as Cutter

300: Rise of an Empire
2014 · as Greek Ambassador

Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
2023 · as Mike

Snow White and the Huntsman
2012 · as Black Knight

Starred Up
2014 · as Spencer

High-Rise
2015 · as Cosgrove

Archive
2020 · as Tagg

Vita & Virginia
2019 · as Leonard Woolf

Lost in London
2017 · as Dante

Doctor Who: Deep Breath
2014 · as Half-Face Man

Tommy's Honour
2017 · as Major Molesworth

A Field in England
2013 · as Jacob

Blue Iguana
2018 · as Deacon Bradshaw

Odyssey
2025 · as Cowboy

Face
1997 · as Policeman

Hyena
2015 · as Michael

Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
2018 · as Jimmy