
Charles Dance
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Biography
Walter Charles Dance OBE (born October 10, 1946 in Redditch, Worcestershire) 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.
Known For

The Professionals

The Crown

Agatha Christie's Marple

Top Gear

Would I Lie to You?

Room 101

The One Show

Foyle's War

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

Who Do You Think You Are?

Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes

The Serpent Queen

Merlin

To the Ends of the Earth

Strike Back

For Your Eyes Only

Game of Thrones

Mank

The Little Drummer Girl

Michael Collins

Child 44

Underworld: Blood Wars

BBC Play of the Month

Your Highness

Nancy Astor

Ghostbusters

The King's Man

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Dreams of Leaving

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience

The Imitation Game

The Sandman

Dark Blue World

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

The Woman in White

Rabbit Hole

Underworld: Awakening

The First Omen

Last Action Hero

Victor Frankenstein

The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank

Woman in Gold

The Contractor

Gosford Park

Little Eyolf

Bleak House

Dracula Untold

Euphoria

Me Before You

The Day of the Jackal

Fingersmith

The Widow

Consenting Adults

Undertow

Iron Mask

Alien³

The Phantom of the Opera

In the Presence of Mine Enemies

The Golden Child

The Liar

And Then There Were None

Lancaster

First Born

Rise of Empires: Ottoman

Rainy Day Women

Century

Testament: The Story of Moses

The McGuffin
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