Will Keen
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.
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Films (16)
Le Mage du Kremlin
2026 · Boris Berezovsky
Emboscada
2023 · Woodville
A Wind from the South
2023 · Robert
La Consagración
2023 · John
The Man from Rome
2022 · Archbishop Corvo
La Ruse
2022 · Salvador Gomez-Beare
The Winter's Tale - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
2018 · Leontes
L'homme qui tua Don Quichotte
2018 · Producer
Docteur Frankenstein
2015 · Surgeon
Ghosts
2014 · Pastor Manders
Love (et ses petits désastres)
2006 · David Williams
When I'm Sixty-Four
2004 · Doctor
Les 9 vies de Thomas Katz
2000 · Cuthbert
The Return of Stanley Atwell
La Cathédrale
If Love Should Die
Séries (26)
La cité des étoiles
2026 · Konstantin Filonov
Dope Girls
2025 · Frederick Asquith-Gore
My Lady Jane
2024 · Norfolk
The Gold : Le casse du siècle
2023 · Hugh Vincent QC
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
Le Seigneur des anneaux : Les Anneaux de pouvoir
2022 · Lord Belzagar
Sandman
2022 · Older Shakespeare
Ridley Road
2021 · David Epstein
Dis-moi qui je suis
2020 · Albert James
His Dark Materials : À la croisée des mondes
2019 · Father MacPhail
Watergate
2018 · John Ehrlichman
Genius: Einstein
2017 · Paul Rosenberg
The Crown
2016 · Michael Adeane
The Refugees
2015 · Samuel
Dans l'ombre des Tudors
2015 · Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop Cranmer
Titanic
2012 · Chief Officer Wilde
Silk
2011 · Michael Connolly
Sherlock
2010 · Major Reed
Garrow's Law
2009 · Fullerton
Discworld
2008 · Ganmack Treehallett
Elizabeth I
2005 · Francis Bacon
New Tricks
2004 · Ronnie Glazebrook
Les enquêtes de Foyle
2002 · Alan Deakin
La Loi de Murphy
2001 · Anthony Brody
Inspecteur Barnaby
1997 · Preaching Pete Kubatski
Martin Chuzzlewit
1994 · Todgers' Lodger