Walter Charles Dance is an English actor who was born on October 10, 1946. He is well-known for his portrayal of strict, authoritarian characters and villains.
Sardo Numspa in The Golden Child (1986), Dr. Jonathan Clemens in Alien 3 (1992), Benedict in Last Action Hero (1993), Lord Havelock Vetinari in Terry Pratchett’s Going Postal (2010), the Master Vampire in Dracula Untold (2014), Alastair Denniston in The Imitation Game (2014), Alan Jonah in Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), and William Randolph Hearst in Mank (2019) are (2020).
Charles Dance siblings: Meet Michael Dance
Charles’s older brother, Michael, had joined the Navy at the age of 16 and provided a window into the world beyond.
Dance appeared as the Witchfinder Aredian in the BBC drama series Merlin, and as a vain version of himself in the third series of Jam & Jerusalem. In the 2010 Sky adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s Going Postal, he played Lord Vetinari, and in Paris Connections, he played Russian oligarch Aleksandr Borinski. He portrayed Tywin Lannister in HBO’s Game of Thrones, which is based on George R. R. Martin’s novels A Song of Ice and Fire. The producers wooed Dance for the role while filming Your Highness in Belfast. Dance also portrayed the series’ main antagonist, Conrad Knox, in the British television series Strike Back: Vengeance.
