Hugh Dancy
English actor celebrated for compelling dramatic roles across film and television, from Hannibal to Law & Order.
Hugh Dancy - Personal Information
- Name: Hugh Dancy
- Date of Birth: June 19, 1975
- Place of Birth: Staffordshire, England, UK
- Gender: Male
- Job Title: Actor
- Other Credits: Thanks, Other
Biography
Hugh Michael Horace Dancy (born 19 June 1975) is an English actor who rose to prominence for his role as the title character in the television film adaptation of David Copperfield (2000) as well as for roles in feature films as Kurt Schmid in Black Hawk Down (2001) and Prince Charmont in Ella Enchanted (2004).
Other film roles include Joe Conner in Shooting Dogs (2005), Grigg Harris in The Jane Austen Book Club (2007), Luke Brandon in Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009), Adam Raki in Adam (2009) and Ted in Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011).
On television, he portrayed criminal profiler Will Graham in the NBC television series Hannibal (2013–2015), Cal Roberts in the Hulu original series The Path (2016–2018) and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, in the Channel 4 miniseries Elizabeth I (2005); the latter role earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
Dancy currently portrays Senior Assistant District Attorney Nolan Price on NBC's revival of the original Law & Order (2022–present).
Selected Filmography
A selection of Hugh Dancy's most notable recent screen appearances across film and television.
- The American Revolution (TV - 2025) as Hugh Percy / John Burgoyne / Banastre Tarleton / Comte de Vergennes (voice)
- Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (TV - 2025) as Otto Octavius (voice)
- Georgia O'Keeffe: The Brightness of Light (2024) as Narrator (voice)
- Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022) as Jack Barber
- Roar (TV - 2022) as Detective Bobby Bronson
- The Abominable Snow Baby (2021) as Albert
- Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People (2019) as Alleyne Ireland (voice)
- Late Night (2019) as Charlie Fain
- The Good Fight (TV - 2017) as Caleb Garlin
- The Path (TV - 2016) as Calvin 'Cal' Roberts
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