Hugh Dancy
Hugh Dancy was born in Stoke-on-Trent, England, United Kingdom on June 19th, 1975 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 48, Hugh Dancy biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Hugh Michael Horace Dancy (born 19 June 1975) is an English actor.
Will Graham, a criminal profiler in NBC television series Hannibal (2013–2015), Thomas Novachek in the stage play Venus in Fur (2011–2012) and Adam Raki in the film Adam (2009). He is best known for his role as Will Graham in the NBC television series Hannibal (2013–2015).
Dancy started his career in television production David Copperfield (2000) and the miniseries Daniel Deronda (2002).
Prince Charmont appeared in Ella Enchanted and Galahad in King Arthur (both 2004).
In the Channel 4 miniseries Elizabeth I (2005), Robert Devereux, the 2nd Earl of Essex, was portrayed by him. He received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
Cal Roberts appeared in the Hulu original series The Path from 2016 to 2018. He is married to American actress Claire Danes, with whom he has two children.
Early life
Dancy was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, and raised in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Sarah Ann Dancy (née Birley, 1952) works in academic publishing. Jonathan Dancy (born 1946), a philosophy professor at the University of Reading and the University of Texas at Austin, is his father.
Hugh is the oldest of three children, followed by brother Jack Dancy (born 1977), who is co-director of Trufflepig Travel, and sister Katharine Redman (born 1980). Dancy was educated at Edenhurst Preparatory School in Newcastle-under-Lyme from the age of 5 to ten years old. Dancy started at the Dragon School in Oxford, and then at Winchester College at age 10. He appeared in Twelfth Night, a Winchester College Players production, which was performed in both Winchester and the Minack Theatre in Cornwall at the age 18. He went on to study English at St Peter's College in Oxford.
Personal life
On the set of Evening in Newport, Rhode Island, Dancy first met American actress Claire Danes and started dating. They announced their participation in February 2009. In 2009, the couple married in France in a private ceremony. They have two children together, born in 2012 and 2018.
They live in New York City's West Village neighborhood.
Career
Dancy travelled to London after graduation, where a chance meeting in a cafe led to his meeting casting director Ros Hubbard and agent Dallas Smith, who signed him. In 1999, Dancy appeared in the second series of Cold Feet as Danny, who had a brief romance with Rachel, one of the show's main characters. In 2002, Dancy appeared in George Eliot's adaptation of Daniel Deronda on the BBC.
Prince Charmont from the 2004 Disney film Ella Enchanted with Anne Hathaway, and later in the year, Galahad in King Arthur with Hannibal co-star Mads Mikkelsen. Adam Raki starred in Adam, an independent film that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009 and follows the life of a young man with an autism spectrum disorder. He went on to appear in several other films.
In theater, Dancy appeared in MCC Theatre's The Pride, written by Alexi Kaye Campbell, at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in New York City. Joe Mantello and co-starred Ben Whishaw and Andrea Riseborough in the off-Broadway production. In 2007, Dancy appeared on Broadway as Captain Dennis Stanhope in Journey's End (Belasco Theatre). He appeared in Venus in Fur with Nina Arianda from 2010 to 2011. Charles Isherwood, a theatre critic for The New York Times, praised his appearance. Peter and Simon appeared in both Peter and Simon's off-Broadway premiere of Apologia, written by Alexi Kay Campbell, in August 2018.
Dancy had been cast in Hannibal, the television adaptation based on Thomas Harris' 1981 novel Red Dragon's main character. The show received critical acclaim and was nominated for a number of prestigious awards. It was cancelled after three seasons and ended in 2015, but there are hopes for its revival. Cal Roberts, a lead character in Hulu's The Path, appeared on many television shows from 2016 to 2018. Dancy was crowned as one of the leaders in NBC's 2022 revival of Law & Order in November 2021, serving as an assistant district attorney.