Hugh Dancy

Birthplace: Stoke-on-Trent, England, United Kingdom
Birthday: June 19, 1975

An English-born lead and occasional support in features and television productions on both sides of the Atlantic, Hugh Dancy was an actor who specialized in romantic young men in features like “Ella Enchanted” (2004), “Elizabeth I” (Channel 4/HBO, 2005/2006) and “The Jane Austen Book Club” (2007). Though he shone in such roles, Dancy’s palette was varied enough to allow for more complex characters in independent features like “Evening” (2007), which cast him as an artist unable to reconcile his love for Patrick Wilson, or the …more

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Credits

Actor

David Copperfield
David Copperfield
Elizabeth I
Earl of Essex
Madame Bovary
Leon
Relic Hunter
Michel Previn
Relic Hunter

Career Milestones

2009
Co-starred with Isla fisher in the film adaptation of "Confessions of a Shopaholic"
2009
Portrayed a young man born with Asperger syndrome in "Adam"
2007
Appeared in Michael Cunningham's film adaptation of Susan Minot's novel, "Evening"
2007
Cast as the only male member of the book club, in the feature adatation of "The Jane Austen Book Club"
2007
Made Broadway debut as Captain Dennis Stanhope in "Journey's End"