Charles Dance

Actor + Scriptwriter + Bureaucrat

Male

Born Oct 10, 1946

Age 66

Hometown Redditch

Walter Charles Dance, OBE is an English actor, screenwriter, and film director. Dance typically plays assertive bureaucrats or villains. Some of his most high profile roles are Perron in The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Dr Clemens, the doctor who becomes… Read More

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TV BAFTA Awards 2013 Press Room

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Game of Thrones Season 3 premiere at One Marleybone

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Mar 26, 2013

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Press night performance of 'Peter And Alice' at the Noel Coward Theatre

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Mar 25, 2013

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Premiere of the third season of HBO series 'Game of Thrones' - Arrivals

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Mar 19, 2013

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Romance

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Eleanor Boorman

Dated 2008
Shambhala Marthe

Fling 2006
Sophia Myles
Dated 2004 - 2005
Joanna Dance

Married 1970 - 2004

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Game Of Thrones Power Shift: Jaime Overplays His Hand
Seattle Pi - Apr 14, 2013

Game of Thrones Power Shift: Jaime Overplays His Hand Seattle Post-Intelligencer Copyright 2013 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 8:11 pm, Sunday, April 14, 2013 On Sunday's Game of Thrones, the Kingslayer got a firsthand lesson that his father's money and influence will only take him so far. [...] Jaime's fortunes changed hands because of his nas...
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Betrayal, Retribution & More
Huffington Post - Mar 29, 2013

"Game of Thrones" returns for Season 3 on Sunday, March 31 (9 p.m. ET on HBO), and the war-torn land of Westeros will only become more brutal as we delve deeper into George R. R. Martin's meaty tale, confidently adapted by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss on an increasingly epic scale. Ahead of the show's hotly anticipated premiere on Sunday, The Huffington Post spoke with a number of stars from the series to find out what they could reveal about where we find their characters this ...
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No To Downton Abbey Cameo: Charles Dance Rules Out Appearance In Itv's ... Mirror.Co.Uk
Google News - Mar 01, 2013

Mirror.co.uk No to Downton Abbey cameo: Charles Dance rules out appearance in ITV's ... Mirror.co.uk Charles Dance has said he would have loved a role in TV hit Downton Abbey - but the disgruntled veteran thespian was never asked. And if show bosses did suddenly pick up the phone to recruit the 66-year-old actor, they could be sorely disappointed as the ... Money Lessons From 'Downton Abbey'Wall Street Journal Downton Ab...
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Tv Review: Game Of Thrones 2.6, ‘a Man Without Honor’
Obsessed with Film - What Cultur - May 14, 2012

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars (WARNING: Significant spoilers follow) This was an episode of conversations. There was very little action, very little adventure and, shockingly, no sex. Instead we had people talking to each other, and in doing so producing some of the most interesting TV I’ve seen in a while. But before we get to the conversations, we must address Theon Greyjoy (Alfie Allen). Oh, Theon. Stupid, stupid Theon. With almost everything he does, he proves himself to be a very, ve...
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1946 Birth Born on October 10, 1946.

TWENTIES

1970 23 Years Old He married Joanna Haythorn in 1970 and they had two children.

1974 27 Years Old Dance made his screen debut in 1974, in a BBC mystery series Father Brown as Commandant Neil O'Brien in The Secret Garden, but his big break came ten years later when he played the major role of Guy Perron in The Jewel in the Crown (Granada Television, Christopher Morahan 1984), an adaptation of Paul Scott's novels that also made stars of Geraldine James and Art Malik. … Read More

THIRTIES

1981 34 Years Old … Dance made one of his earliest big screen appearances in the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only as evil henchman Claus, and in 1989 he played Bond creator Ian Fleming in Anglia Television's dramatised biography, Goldeneye (the name of Fleming's estate in Jamaica and a title later used for a James Bond film). … Read More

FIFTIES

2004 57 Years Old After his marriage ended in 2004, he had a brief relationship with actress Sophia Myles.

2006 59 Years Old Dance was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) on 17 June 2006. … Read More

LATE ADULTHOOD

2010 63 Years Old He became engaged to sculptor Eleanor Boorman in September 2010. … Read More

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