Hugh Dancy

ActorArtCrew Jun 19 (age 51) Staffordshire, England, UK 1988–2025 (37 year career)

6.7 avg rating

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) …

Known For

Film

Hannibal

Will Graham

Film

Black Hawk Down

SFC Kurt 'Doc' Schmid

Film

Confessions of a Shopaholic

Luke Brandon

Film

King Arthur

Galahad

Film

Ella Enchanted

Char

Film

An American Crime

Thanks

Film

Law & Order

Nolan Price

Film

Downton Abbey: A New Era

Jack Barber

Filmography

Acting (58)

Movies (35)

SNL50: The Homecoming Concert

2025

as Self

6.4

Georgia O'Keeffe: The Brightness of Light

2024

as Narrator (voice)

Downton Abbey: A New Era

2022

as Jack Barber

7.2

The Abominable Snow Baby

as Albert

Late Night

as Charlie Fain

Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People

2019

as Alleyne Ireland (voice)

5.3

Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon

2015

as Self

10.0

Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return

2014

as Marshall Mallow (voice)

6.3

Hannibal: This Is My Design

2014

as Self

9.3

Hannibal (NBC)

2013

as Will Graham

Martha Marcy May Marlene

as Ted

Our Idiot Brother

as Christian

Hysteria

as Dr. Mortimer Granville

6.7

The Wildest Dream

2010

as Andrew 'Sandy' Irvine (voice)

7.0

Coach

2010

as Nick

5.3

Confessions of a Shopaholic

as Luke Brandon

Adam

as Adam Raki

The Jane Austen Book Club

as Grigg

Savage Grace

as Sam Green

Blood and Chocolate

as Aiden

Evening

as Buddy Wittenborn

Basic Instinct 2

as Adam Towers

Shooting Dogs

as Joe Connor

King Arthur: A Roundtable Discussion

2005

as Self

King Arthur

2004

as Galahad

6.3

The Making of King Arthur

as Self

Ella Enchanted

as Char

The Magical World of Ella Enchanted

2004

as Self / Prince Char

5.7

The Sleeping Dictionary

as John Truscott

Tempo

as Jack

Black Hawk Down

as SFC Kurt 'Doc' Schmid

Young Blades

as D'Artagnan

David Copperfield

as David Copperfield

The Custom of the Country

Poe

as Edgar Allan Poe (voice)

Television (23)

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man

2025

as Otto Octavius (voice)

7.8

The American Revolution

2025

as Hugh Percy / John Burgoyne / Banastre Tarleton / Comte de Vergennes (voice)

5.8

Roar

2022

as Detective Bobby Bronson

The Good Fight

as Caleb Garlin

The Path

as Calvin 'Cal' Roberts

6.4

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015

as Self - Guest

6.1

Deadline Gallipoli

2015

as Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett

5.8

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

2014

as Self

5.8

Late Night with Seth Meyers

as Self

Hannibal

as Will Graham

The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien

2009

as Self

7.1

It's On with Alexa Chung

2009

Elizabeth I

2005

as Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex

7.2

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

as Self

Daniel Deronda

as Daniel Deronda

Madame Bovary

as Leon

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Nolan Price

Relic Hunter

as Michel Previn

Cold Feet

Trial & Retribution

Kavanagh Q.C.

as Michael Woodley

Law & Order

as Nolan Price

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

1988

as Self - Guest

5.6

Crew (2)

Movies (1)

An American Crime

2007

Thanks

7.3

Television (1)

Hannibal

2013

Other

8.3