Charles Dance
Acting
Born 1946-10-10
Redditch, Worcestershire, England, UK
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Walter Charles Dance OBE (born 10 October 1946) is an English actor. He is known for playing intimidating, authoritarian characters and villains. Dance 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 OBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 2006.
He made his feature film debut in the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only (1981). He has since appeared in a string of critically acclaimed period films, including Michael Collins (1996), Gosford Park (2001), The Imitation Game (2014), Mank (2020), and The King's Man (2021). He has also appeared in the films The Golden Child (1986), Alien 3 (1992), Last Action Hero (1993), Dracula Untold (2014), and Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019). He made his directorial film debut with the drama film Ladies in Lavender (2004), which he also wrote and executive-produced.
On television, Dance played Guy Perron in The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Mr Tulkinghorn in Bleak House (2005), for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie, Tywin Lannisterin Game of Thrones (2011–2015), and Lord Mountbatten in the third and fourth seasons of The Crown (2019–2020), for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series.
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Acting
58 credits
Game of Thrones
Top Gear
The Crown
Agatha Christie's Marple
The One Show
The Day of the Jackal
Merlin
Frankenstein
The Sandman
Foyle's War
BBC Play of the Month
Me Before You
Playhouse
The Imitation Game
Tales of the Unexpected
Screen Two
The Flying Doctors
Strike Back
The Professionals
Who Do You Think You Are?
Would I Lie to You?
Film '72
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Wildcat
Alien³
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
The King's Man
An Audience with...
Ghostbusters
Ladies First
The First Omen
Child 44
Dracula Untold
And Then There Were None
Rise of Empires: Ottoman
The Serpent Queen
Last Action Hero
Rabbit Hole
For Your Eyes Only
Room 101
Johnny English Strikes Again
Underworld: Blood Wars
Testament: The Story of Moses
The Little Drummer Girl
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Underworld: Awakening
Iron Mask
Gosford Park
Swimming Pool
Childhood's End
Bleak House
Jam and Jerusalem
Moley
Savage Kingdom
Your Highness
Victor Frankenstein
Woman in Gold
The Contractor
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