Will Keen
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- March 4, 1970 (age 56)
- Birthplace
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England UK
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Return of Stanley Atwell
Movie
La Cathédrale
Movie
If Love Should Die
Movie
The Wizard of the Kremlin
Movie · as Boris Berezovsky
Star City
TV · as Konstantin Filonov · 1 ep
Dope Girls
TV · as Frederick Asquith-Gore · 6 eps
My Lady Jane
TV · as Norfolk · 4 eps
Dead Shot
Movie · as Woodville
A Wind from the South
Movie · as Robert
Consecration
Movie · as John
The Gold
TV · as Hugh Vincent QC · 1 ep
Operation Mincemeat
Movie · as Salvador Gomez-Beare
The Man from Rome
Movie · as Archbishop Corvo
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
TV · 1 ep
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
TV · as Lord Belzagar · 3 eps
The Sandman
TV · as Older Shakespeare · 1 ep
Ridley Road
TV · as David Epstein · 4 eps
Dime Quién Soy: Mistress of War
TV · as Albert James · 9 eps
His Dark Materials
TV · as Father MacPhail · 20 eps
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Movie · as Producer
The Winter's Tale - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Movie · as Leontes
Watergate
TV · as John Ehrlichman · 6 eps
Genius
TV · as Paul Rosenberg · 2 eps
The Crown
TV · as Michael Adeane · 15 eps
Victor Frankenstein
Movie · as Surgeon
The Refugees
TV · as Samuel · 8 eps
Wolf Hall
TV · as Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop Cranmer · 5 eps
Ghosts
Movie · as Pastor Manders
Titanic
TV · as Chief Officer Wilde · 4 eps
Silk
TV · as Michael Connolly · 3 eps
Sherlock
TV · as Major Reed · 1 ep
Garrow's Law
TV · as Fullerton · 1 ep
The Colour of Magic
TV · as Ganmack Treehallett · 2 eps
Love and Other Disasters
Movie · as David Williams
Elizabeth I
TV · as Francis Bacon · 2 eps
When I'm Sixty-Four
Movie · as Doctor
New Tricks
TV · as Ronnie Glazebrook · 1 ep
Foyle's War
TV · as Alan Deakin · 2 eps
Murphy's Law
TV · as Anthony Brody · 1 ep
The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz
Movie · as Cuthbert
Midsomer Murders
TV · as Preaching Pete Kubatski · 1 ep
Martin Chuzzlewit
TV · as Todgers' Lodger · 1 ep