Charles Dance, OBE (born 10 October 1946) is an English actor, screenwriter, and film director.

Dance typically plays assertive bureaucrats or villains. Some of his most high-profile roles are Tywin Lannister in HBO's Game of Thrones, Guy Perron in The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Sardo Numspa in The Golden Child (1986), Dr. Jonathan Clemens in Alien 3 (1992), Benedict in Last Action Hero (1993), the Master Vampire in Dracula Untold (2014), and Alastair Denniston in The Imitation Game (2014). He also made his breakthrough in video game voice acting with the role of Emperor Emhyr var Emreis in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt in 2015.

Biography

Dance married Joanna Haythorn in 1970. They have two children. After his marriage ended in 2004, he had a brief relationship with actress Sophia Myles who was 34 years his junior.

He became engaged to sculptor Eleanor Boorman in September 2010. They have a daughter, Rose, born in March 2012, though the two subsequently separated.

Dance was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) on 17 June 2006.

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