Will Keen

Known for ActingBorn 1970-03-04 (age 56)Oxford, Oxfordshire, England UK

Will Keen (William Walter Maurice Keen, born 4 March 1970, Oxford) is an English stage, film, and television actor, active since 1993. He is the grandson of Edward Curzon, 6th Earl Howe, and father of actress Dafne Keen. He has been married to María Fernández Ache since 2002. Keen won the 2023 Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for playing Vladimir Putin in Peter Morgan's Patriots, which transferred from the Almeida to the West End and then to Broadway. His most notable screen roles include Michael Adeane in The Crown (2016–17) (Claire Foy, Matt Smith), Father MacPhail in His Dark Materials (2019–22) (James McAvoy, Lin-Manuel Miranda), and Ian Fleming in Operation Mincemeat (2021) (Colin Firth, Jason Isaacs). He also played Lord Belzagar in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 (2024) (Ciarán Hinds, Rory Kinnear) and Boris Berezovsky in Olivier Assayas' The Wizard of the Kremlin (Jude Law, Paul Dano), which premiered at Venice in August 2025.Read more

Movies & web series

The Winter's Tale - Live at Shakespeare's Globe

Watergate

Sherlock

The Crown

Martin Chuzzlewit

The Sandman

His Dark Materials

Foyle's War

Star City

Garrow's Law

My Lady Jane

Genius

Wolf Hall

Silk

Murphy's Law

The Gold

Midsomer Murders

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

New Tricks

The Refugees

Elizabeth I

The Colour of Magic

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

A Wind from the South

Operation Mincemeat

The Wizard of the Kremlin

The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz

Ridley Road

Dime Quién Soy: Mistress of War

The Man from Rome

Victor Frankenstein

Titanic

Love and Other Disasters

Consecration

Dead Shot

Dope Girls

When I'm Sixty-Four

Ghosts

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

The Return of Stanley Atwell

La Cathédrale

If Love Should Die