
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

Nancy Astor

Underworld: Blood Wars

Your Highness

Child 44

BBC Play of the Month

The King's Man

Ghostbusters

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience

Dreams of Leaving

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Dark Blue World

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

The Woman in White

The Sandman

The Imitation Game

Woman in Gold

Rabbit Hole

The First Omen

Last Action Hero

Victor Frankenstein

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

Underworld: Awakening

Little Eyolf

Dracula Untold

The Contractor

Bleak House

Gosford Park

Fingersmith

Me Before You

Euphoria

The Widow

The Day of the Jackal

Alien³

Iron Mask

Undertow

Consenting Adults

The Liar

The Phantom of the Opera

The Golden Child

In the Presence of Mine Enemies

Rainy Day Women

Testament: The Story of Moses

And Then There Were None

First Born

Lancaster

Rise of Empires: Ottoman

The McGuffin

Century
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