Charles Dance
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Charles Dance, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read full biography
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Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty (2024), This England (2022), The Singapore Grip (2020), The Widow (2019), Hang Ups (2018), The Woman in White (2018), Savage Kingdom (2016), Deadline Gallipoli (2015), The Great Fire (2014), Secret State (2012), Neverland (2011), Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love (2011), Going Postal (2010), Drama Trails (2010), Trinity (2009), Fallen Angel (2007), Jam and Jerusalem (2006), Bleak House (2005), Fingersmith (2005), To the Ends of the Earth (2005), Last Rights (2005), Henry VIII (2003), Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future (2002), Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (2000), Rebecca (1997), The Phantom of the Opera (1990), First Born (1988), Out on a Limb (1987), Time for Murder (1985), The Jewel in the Crown (1984), The Secret Servant (1984), Tales of the Unexpected (1979), Raffles (1977), Father Brown (1974), The Inheritors (1974)