Will Keen
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.
Movies 16
The Wizard of the Kremlin
as Boris Berezovsky
2026
Operation Mincemeat
as Salvador Gomez-Beare
2022
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
as Producer
2018
Victor Frankenstein
as Surgeon
2015
Love and Other Disasters
as David Williams
2006
Consecration
as John
2023
The Man from Rome
as Archbishop Corvo
2022
Dead Shot
as Woodville
2023
The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz
as Cuthbert
2000
When I'm Sixty-Four
as Doctor
2004
Ghosts
as Pastor Manders
2014
The Winter's Tale - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
as Leontes
2018
If Love Should Die
La Cathédrale
The Return of Stanley Atwell
A Wind from the South
as Robert
2023TV Shows 27
Sherlock
as Major Reed
2010
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
as Lord Belzagar
2022
Midsomer Murders
as Preaching Pete Kubatski
1997
The Crown
as Michael Adeane
2016
New Tricks
as Ronnie Glazebrook
2004
His Dark Materials
as Father MacPhail
2019
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
The Sandman
as Older Shakespeare
2022
Foyle's War
as Alan Deakin
2002
Genius
as Paul Rosenberg
2017
The Gold
as Hugh Vincent QC
2023
Star City
as Konstantin Filonov
2026
Silk
as Michael Connolly
2011
Wolf Hall
as Thomas Cranmer
2015
Wolf Hall
as Archbishop Cranmer
2015
Garrow's Law
as Fullerton
2009
Murphy's Law
as Anthony Brody
2001
The Colour of Magic
as Ganmack Treehallett
2008
My Lady Jane
as Norfolk
2024
Titanic
as Chief Officer Wilde
2012
Martin Chuzzlewit
as Todgers' Lodger
1994
Dope Girls
as Frederick Asquith-Gore
2025
Elizabeth I
as Francis Bacon
2005
The Refugees
as Samuel
2015
Ridley Road
as David Epstein
2021
Dime Quién Soy: Mistress of War
as Albert James
2020
Watergate
as John Ehrlichman
2018