Ian McShane
Scottish-English actor renowned for iconic television and film roles across six decades of distinguished performance.
Ian McShane - Personal Information
- Date of Birth: September 29, 1942
- Place of Birth: Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK
- Gender: Male
- Job Title: Actor
- Crew Jobs: Executive Producer, Producer, Director
Biography
Ian David McShane (born 29 September 1942) is a Scottish-English actor. His television performances include the title role in the BBC series Lovejoy (1986–1994), Al Swearengen in Deadwood (2004–2006) and its 2019 film continuation, and Mr. Wednesday in American Gods (2017–2021). For the original series of Deadwood, McShane won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama and received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. As a producer of the film, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie.
His film roles include Harry Brown in The Wild and the Willing (1962), Charlie Cartwright in If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969), Wolfe Lissner in Villain (1971), Teddy Bass in Sexy Beast (2000), Frank Powell in Hot Rod (2007), Blackbeard in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), and Winston Scott in the John Wick franchise (2014–present).
Selected Filmography
A selection of Ian McShane's most recent screen appearances across film and television.
- Deep Cover (2025) as Metcalfe
- Ballerina (2025) as Winston
- Wick Is Pain (2025) as Self
- Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024) as Tai Lung (voice)
- American Star (2024) as Wilson
- ONE PIECE (TV - 2023) as Narrator (voice)
- John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) as Winston
- My Father's Dragon (2022) as Saiwa (voice)
- Robbo: The Bryan Robson Story (2021) as Narrator
- The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU (2020) as (archive footage)
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