Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1946-10-10 (Age: 80)
Place of Birth
Redditch, Worcestershire, England, UK
Charles Dance
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Charles Dance, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (117)
Untitled The Batman Sequel
2027
Ladies First
2026
The Big Fat Quiz of Telly
2026
World of Westeros Ambient Video
2025
Wildcat
2025
Frankenstein
2025
Creditors
2025
Samaná Sunrise
2024
Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
2024
The Big Fat Quiz of Telly
2024
Rumours
2024
The First Omen
2024
Savage Waters
2023
Portrait of the Queen
2022
