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Charles Dance
🎂 Oct 10, 1946 (79)
Redditch, Worcestershire, England, UK
Walter Charles Dance OBE (born 10 October 1946) is an English actor, screenwriter, and director. He typically plays strict, authoritarian characters or villains.
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Wildcat
2025
Frankenstein
2025
The Imitation Game
2014
Me Before You
2016
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019
Alien³
1992
Ghostbusters
2016
The King's Man
2021
Iron Mask
2019
For Your Eyes Only
1981
Underworld: Blood Wars
2016
Dracula Untold
2014
The First Omen
2024
Child 44
2015
Victor Frankenstein
2015
Last Action Hero
1993
Underworld: Awakening
2012
Mank
2020
Johnny English Strikes Again
2018
Gosford Park
2001
Scoop
2006
Ironclad
2011
Forbidden Empire
2014
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
2016
Ali G Indahouse
2002
Swimming Pool
2003
Your Highness
2011
Woman in Gold
2015
The Golden Child
1986
China Moon
1994
Rumours
2024
Euphoria
2018
Space Truckers
1996
Against the Ice
2022
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
2015
White Mischief
1987
Michael Collins
1996
Admiral
2015
There Be Dragons
2011
Starter for 10
2006
Plenty
1985
The Contractor
2007
Hilary and Jackie
1998
Patrick
2013
The Hanging Sun
2022
Justin and the Knights of Valour
2013
Despite the Falling Snow
2016
Dark Blue World
2001
Century
1993
Twice Upon a Time
2006
TV Shows
Moley
2021
Game of Thrones
2011
Bleak House
2005
Strike Back
2010
Trinity
2009
Rabbit Hole
2023
The Widow
2019
This England
2022
The Singapore Grip
2020
The Little Drummer Girl
2018
The Day of the Jackal
2024
The Crown
2016
The Woman in White
2018
The Jewel in the Crown
1984
Secret State
2012
Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love
2011
The Great Fire
2014
Fallen Angel
2007
Fingersmith
2005
Childhood's End
2015
And Then There Were None
2015
To the Ends of the Earth
2005
First Born
1988
Last Rights
2005
The Secret Servant
1984
Going Postal
2010
Rebecca
1997
Neverland
2011
The Phantom of the Opera
1990
Deadline Gallipoli
2015
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Charles Dance
1946-10-10 · Redditch, Worcestershire, England, UK
Walter Charles Dance OBE (born 10 October 1946) is an English actor, screenwriter, and director. He typically plays strict, authoritarian characters or villains. He is best known for his roles as Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones, Kitchener in The King's Man, Martin Benson in Amazon Prime's The Widow, Lord Mountbatten in Netflix's The Crown (for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series), Thomas in Underworld: Awakening and Underworld: Blood Wars, Harold Fillmore in Ghostbusters (2016), Mr. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Frankenstein in Victor Frankenstein, Master Vampire in Dracula Untold, Conrad Knox in the Cinemax series Strike Back, Raymond Stockbridge in Gosford Park, one-eyed hitman Benedict in Last Action Hero, Clemens in Alien³, Sardo Numpsa in The Golden Child, and Guy Perron in The Jewel in the Crown.
He started his career on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) before appearing in film and television. For his services to drama, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2006.
He made his directorial film debut with the drama film Ladies in Lavender (2004), which he also wrote and executive produced.