• Name: Hugh Dancy
  • Date of Birth: June 19, 1975
  • Place of Birth: Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
Mini-bio: The son of a publisher and a philosophy professor, handsome young British actor Hugh Dancy studied English Language and Literature at Oxford and speaks fluent French. He got his start performing in th... read moreeater productions under the direction of Sam Mendes before he made his first few television guest-star appearances on Dangerfield, Cold Feet, and the miniseries Trial & Retribution II. He got his first starring role in the Hallmark Hall of Fame production of David Copperfield, which aired in the States on TNT, and he continued doing costume dramas adapted from literature with the BBC productions of Madame Bovary and Daniel Deronda. In 2000, he experimented with fantasy adventures, starring in the Three Musketeers-inspired Young Blades and appearing in an episode of Relic Hunter. He had a small role in the war drama Black Hawk Down before making the move toward romance with the straight-to-video titles The Sleeping Dictionary (opposite Jessica Alba) and Tempo (opposite Melanie Griffith). Dancy stuck with romance for his next feature, the fantasy comedy Ella Enchanted, opposite Princess Diaries star Anne Hathaway. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
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Replace this image with an actor photoHugh Dancy mini-bio: He first got started with roles in series such as Trial & Retribution II (1998) (TV), "Dangerfield" (1995), "Kavanagh QC" (1995) and Granada's popular series "Cold Feet" (1997) and his theater appearances include Sam Mendes's David Copperfield (2000) (TV) and BBC's Madame Bovary (2000) (TV). He also portrayed D'Artagnan in the series Young Blades (2001). Dancy's appearance in Ridley Scott's war drama Black Hawk Down (2001) as Medic Kurt Schmid was followed with starring roles in Tempo (2003) with Melanie Griffith and Rachael Leigh Cook and The Sleeping Dictionary (2003). He played Prince Charmont opposite Anne Hathaway in Ella Enchanted (2004) and Galahad in King Arthur (2004). His mother, Sarah, is a publisher, father, Jonathan, a writer and philosophy professor at Reading University. He has a brother, Jack and a sister, Kate.

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