Tony Blair
Known for: Acting
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He resigned from all of these positions in June 2007. Tony Blair was elected Leader of the Labour Party in the leadership election of July 1994, following the sudden death of his predecessor, John Smith. Under his leadership, the party adopted the term "New Labour" and moved away from its traditional left wing position towards the centre ground. Blair subsequently led Labour to a landslide victory in the 1997 general election. At 43 years old, he became the youngest Prime Minister since Lord Liverpool in 1812. In the first years of the New Labour government, Blair's government implemented a number of 1997 manifesto pledges, introducing the minimum wage, Human Rights Act and Freedom of Information Act, and carrying out devolution, establishing the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales, and the Northern Ireland Assembly. Blair's role as Prime Minister was particularly visible in foreign and security policy, including in Northern Ireland, where he was involved in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. From the start of the War on Terror in 2001, Blair strongly supported the foreign policy of US President George W. Bush, notably by participating in the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan and 2003 invasion of Iraq. Blair is the Labour Party's longest-serving Prime Minister, the only person to have led the Labour Party to three consecutive general election victories, and the only Labour Prime Minister to serve consecutive terms more than one of which was at least four years long. He was succeeded as Leader of the Labour Party on 24 June 2007 and as Prime Minister on 27 June 2007 by Gordon Brown. On the day he resigned as Prime Minister, he was appointed the official Envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East. In May 2008, Blair launched his Tony Blair Faith Foundation. This was followed in July 2009 by the launching of the Faith and Globalisation Initiative with Yale University in the USA, Durham University in the UK and the National University of Singapore in Asia to deliver a postgraduate programme in partnership with the Foundation.
Filmography
Series
The Simpsons
Tony Blair (voice)
1989
Series
The Daily Show
Self
1996
Series
Panorama
1953
Series
Wogan
Self
1982
Series
Dispatches
1987
Series
Question Time
Self - Panellist
1979
Series
maybrit illner
Self
1999
Series
The Last Leg
Self
2013
Series
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
2018
Series
GMTV
Self
1993
Series
Skavlan
Self - Guest
2009
Sabine Christiansen
Self
1998
Series
Newscast
Self
2020
Series
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
Self
2024
Film
Official Secrets
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2019
Series
Attack on London: Hunting the 7/7 Bombers
Self - Prime Minister 1997 - 2007
2025
Series
Soccer Aid
2006
Series
Parkinson
Self - Guest
2004
Film
Fahrenheit 9/11
Self (archive footage)
2004
Series
The Century of the Self
Self (archive footage)
2002
Series
Lockerbie
Self - UK Prime Minister (archive footage)
2023
Series
Amol Rajan Interviews
Self - Interviewed Guest
2021
Film
England 2006: The Golden Generation
Self (archive footage)
2026
Series
The Agreement
Self
2023
Series
The Tony Blair Story
Self
2026
Film
We Are Many
Self
2014
Film
Iris
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2001
Series
Live Aid at 40: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World
Self
2025
Film
Brexit: The Uncivil War
Self (archive footage)
2019
Film
The 90s: Ten Years That Changed the World
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2015
Series
La última llamada
Self
2025
Film
Queen Elizabeth II: Her Story, Our Century
Self
2026
Film
Chinese Box
Self (archive footage)
1997
Film
HyperNormalisation
Self (archive footage)
2016
Series
Once Upon a Time in Iraq
Self (archive footage)
2020
Series
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom
Self (archive footage)
2007
Film
The Class of ‘92
Self
2013
Series
7/7: The London Bombings
Self
2025
Series
Endgame in Ireland
Self (archive footage)
2021
Series
The Blair Years
Self
2007
The Man Who Broke Britain
Self (archive footage)
2004
Film
In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America
Self
2017
Film
Shadow World
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2016
Film
Working for Labour
1998
Film
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2016
Film
Echolalia
Self
2003
Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was
2013
Film
The New Watchdogs
Self
2012
Film
Viral: Antisemitism in Four Mutations
Self
2020
Film
Putin's Witnesses
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2018
Film
VM-krönika 1998
Self (archive footage)
1998
Film
La Traversée du désir
Self
2009
Film
De strijd van Kok
Self
2015
Film
Clinton: His Struggle with Dirt
Self (archive footage)
1998
Film
Everything's Cool
Self (archive footage)
2007
Film
Nail Bomber: Manhunt
Himself (archive Footage)
2021
Series
Blair and Brown: The New Labour Revolution
Self
2021
Film
David Attenborough: A Life on Earth
Self
2023
Series
The Wilderness Years
Self
1995
Film
Athens 2004: Olympic Opening Ceremony (Games of the XXVIII Olympiad)
Self - British Prime Minister
2004
Film
Speeches That Shook the World
Self (archive footage)
2013
Film
Countdown to Zero
Self
2010
Newsflash: Stories That Stopped the World
Self
2013
Film
Sergio
Self
2009
Film
Litvinenko: The Mayfair Poisoning
Self (archive footage)
2022
Film
Hero With A Thousand Faces
Self
2016
Film
Dunblane: How Britain Banned Handguns
Self
2026
Film
Live Forever
Self (archive footage)
2003
Film
Being W
Self (archive footage)
2008
Film
James Blunt: One Brit Wonder
Self (archive footage)
2023
Troubles and Peace
Self
2023
Film
Liam Gallagher: Knebworth 22
Self (archive footage)
2022
Film
Fogh bag facaden
Self
2003
Film
The Dunblane Tapes
Self (archive footage)
2026
Film
30 Years of Democracy
Self (archive footage)
2019
Film
How to Win the TV Debate
Self (archive footage)
2010
The Queen at 80
Self
2006
Film
Leading to War
Self
2008
Film
Ever Again
Self - British Prime Minister (archive footage)
2006
Film
Heist: The Northern Bank Robbery
Self (archive footage)
2021
Film
Born to be The King
Narrator
2022
VICE Special Report: A World in Disarray
Self
2017
Film
Her Majesty's Prime Ministers: John Major
Self
2023
Film
Merkel
Self
2022
Film
Celsius 41.11
Self (archive footage)
2004
Film
How to Win the US Presidency
Self (archive footage)
2016
Film
Queen Elizabeth II: Above All Else
Self
2022
Film
Taking Liberties
Self (archive footage)
2007
Film
The Killing$ of Tony Blair
Self
2016
A Word in the Right Ear
Himself
1997
Film
The Downing Street Patient
Self (archive footage)
2004
Film
Diana: The People's Princess
Self
2017
Series
The Rise and Fall of Tony Blair
Self
2007
Film
Unconstitutional: The War On Our Civil Liberties
Self (archive footage)
2004
Film
The New Ten Commandments
Self (archive footage)
2008
Film
The World According To Bush
Self
2004
Film
Age of Dissent
Self
1994
Film
Being Jacques Chirac
Self (archive footage)
2006
Film
Brexit: The Clock Is Ticking
Self (archive footage)
2019
When the Windsors Met the Bushes
Brexageddon?!
Self
2016
Film
The Proclamation of HM the King
Self
2022
Film
Under the Knife
Self
2019
Film
Trust Me - I'm a Politician
Self (archive footage)
2003
Film
From Beaconsfield to Baghdad
Self (Archive Footage)
2007
Film
How to Be an Ex-Prime Minister
Self
2007
Film
In Search of Tony Blair
Self (Archive Footage)
2004
Film
Cabinet Confidential
Self
2001
Gary's War
Self ( archive footage)
2008
Margaret Thatcher: Prime Minister
Self
2013
Film
A Tribute to Her Majesty the Queen
Self
2022
Film
Kongehusets troløse butler
Self (archive footage)
Film
Things We Won't Say About Race That Are True
2015
Film
Party Election Broadcast for the Labour Party
Self
1997
Film
News From Number 10
Himself
2000
Film
Second Coming
Self (archive footage)
2002