Charles Dance
Born 10/10/1946
(77 years old)
Redditch, Worcestershire, England, UK
Biography
In some thirty five years as an actor Charles Dance has amassed an impressive body of work in all media from title roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and major work in London's commercial theatre including, Good, and Long Day's Journey Into Night with Jessica Lange, and Shadowlands for which he received the London Critic's Circle Award for best actor, through award-winning television series - The Jewel in the Crown (BAFTA nomination for best actor) Rebecca, Nicholas Nickleby, Fingersmith, Bleak House for which he received an International Emmy nomination and won the Press Guild Award for best actor, Consenting Adults about the ground-breaking Wolfenden Report of 1957 which resulted in the de-criminalisation of homosexuality, and Dickens Secret Life - a documentary about Charles Dickens' turbulent personal life.
Dance's major film credits include, Plenty, White Mischief, Good Morning Babylon, The Golden Child, Alien 3, Last Action Hero, Hilary and Jackie, Michael Collins, Starter For Ten for Sam Mendes' Company, Robert Altman's Gosford Park, and Kabloonak for which he received the best actor award at the Paris film festival in 1996, The Perfect Disagreement, directed by Antoine de Caunes, and The Shooter with Wesley Snipes.
His debut as a film director and writer was the hugely successful Ladies in Lavender with Judi Dench and Maggie Smith for which both 'great dames' were nominated for European Film Academy Awards. He has appeared in the television series Trinity, and Merlin as well as the television adaptation of Going Postal by Terry Pratchet and a two-part adaptation of the Peter Pan story for Sky entitled Neverland directed by Nick Willing also featuring Rhys Ifans, Anna Friel and Bob Hoskins.
His other film roles include Roland Joffe's feature There Be Dragons, Your Highness, a feature directed by David Gordon Green and staring James Franco and Natalie Portman, Ironclad, directed by Jonathan English, also featuring Derek Jacobi and Brian Cox, and Deepa Mehta's Winds of Change. Dance appears as "Tywin Lannister" in the new HBO series Game of Thrones.
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Actor
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2024 |
Testament: The Story of Moses (series) - narrator |
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Part Three: The Promised Land - narrator (E03) |
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Part Two: The Plagues - narrator (E02) |
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Part One: The Prophet - narrator (E01) |
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2022 |
Portrait of the Queen - narrator |
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Rise of Empires: Ottoman (series) - narrator |
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House of War - narrator (S02E01) |
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Savage Waters - narrator |
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2020 |
Savage Kingdom (series) - narrator |
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The Crown - narrator (S04E06) |
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Outcasts Rising - narrator (S04E05) |
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Line of Fire - narrator (S04E04) |
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2019 |
Savage Kingdom (series) - narrator |
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Ascendancy - narrator (S03E06) |
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Fall of the Queen - narrator (S03E05) |
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War Games - narrator (S03E04) |
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2018 |
Spitfire - narrator |
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2017 |
Savage Kingdom (series) - narrator |
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King Slayers - narrator (S02E04) |
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Reign of Traitors - narrator (S02E03) |
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First Blood - narrator (S02E02) |
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The Enemy Within - narrator (S02E01) |
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Who Do You Think You Are? (series) |
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Charles Dance (S14E01) |
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2016 |
Savage Kingdom (series) - narrator |
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Win or Die - narrator (S01E06) |
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The Pale Pack - narrator (S01E05) |
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The Rebel Army - narrator (S01E04) |
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2013 |
The Science of Doctor Who (TV movie) |
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2012 |
Great West End Theatres |
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2008 |
Dickens' Secret Lover (TV movie) |
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2005 |
The 50 Greatest Documentaries (TV movie) |
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Titanic: Birth of a Legend (TV movie) |
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2004 |
When Hitler Invaded Britain (TV movie) |
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2001 |
Alien Evolution (TV movie) |
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1992 |
The Making of 'Alien 3' (TV movie) |
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2019 |
Master Moley |
2014 |
Retrospective |
2013 |
Common Ground (series) |
2011 |
The Door |
The Mapmaker |
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2010 |
The Clerk's Tale |
The Commuter |
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2006 |
Dolls |
1999 |
Chrono-Perambulator |
1996 |
Potemkin: The Runner's Cut |
Performer
Director
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2004 |
Ladies in Lavender |
Screenwriter
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2004 |
Ladies in Lavender |
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