Cast & creator
Hugh Dancy
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Hugh Michael Horace Dancy (born 19 June 1975) is an English actor who rose to prominence for his role as the title character in the television film adaptation of David Copperfield (2000) as well as for roles in feature films as Kurt Schmid in Black Hawk Down (2001) and Prince Charmont in Ella Enchanted (2004). Other film roles include Joe Conner in Shooting Dogs (2005), Grigg Harris in The Jane Austen Book Club (2007), Luke Brandon in Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009), Adam Raki in Adam (2009) and Ted in Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011). On television, he portrayed criminal profiler Will Graham in the NBC television series Hannibal (2013–2015), Cal Roberts in the Hulu original series The Path (2016–2018) and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, in the Channel 4 miniseries Elizabeth I (2005); the latter role earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Dancy currently portrays Senior Assistant District Attorney Nolan Price on NBC's revival of the original Law & Order (2022–present). Description above from the Wikipedia article Hugh Dancy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also known as: Хʼю Денсі, Hugh Michael Horace Dancy
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1988–2025 · acting roles
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Filmography (63)
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Nolan Price
1999
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
2014
Law & Order
Nolan Price
1990
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest
1988
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
2003
The Good Fight
Caleb Garlin
2017
Hannibal
Will Graham
2013Hannibal
Other
2013
Relic Hunter
Michel Previn
1999
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man
Dr. Otto Octavius (voice)
2025
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
Self
2009
Black Hawk Down
Schmid
2001
Trial & Retribution
Roberto Bellini
1997
Roar
Detective Bobby Bronson
2022
Kavanagh Q.C.
Michael Woodley
1995
The Path
Calvin 'Cal' Roberts
2016
King Arthur
Galahad
2004
Cold Feet
Danny
1998
The American Revolution
Hugh Percy / John Burgoyne / Banastre Tarleton / Comte de Vergennes (voice)
2025
Ella Enchanted
Char
2004
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Luke Brandon
2009
Downton Abbey: A New Era
Jack Barber
2022
Daniel Deronda
Daniel Deronda
2002
Basic Instinct 2
Adam Towers
2006
Late Night
Charlie Fain
2019
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Ted
2011
David Copperfield
David Copperfield
2000It's On with Alexa Chung
2009
An American Crime
Thanks
2007
Deadline Gallipoli
Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett
2015
Our Idiot Brother
Christian
2011
Elizabeth I
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
2005
Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
Marshall Mallow (voice)
2014
Madame Bovary
Leon
2000
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
Self
2025
The Sleeping Dictionary
John Truscott
2003
The Jane Austen Book Club
Grigg
2007
Savage Grace
Sam Green
2007
Hysteria
Dr. Mortimer Granville
2011
Blood and Chocolate
Aiden
2007
Adam
Adam Raki
2009
Evening
Buddy Wittenborn
2007The Custom of the Country
Shooting Dogs
Joe Connor
2006
Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People
Alleyne Ireland (voice)
2019
The Making of King Arthur
Self
2004
The Abominable Snow Baby
Albert
2021
David Copperfield
David Copperfield
2001Hannibal: This Is My Design
Self
2014
The Essence of Combat: Making 'Black Hawk Down'
Self
2002
Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon
Self
2015
Coach
Nick
2010
The Wildest Dream
Andrew 'Sandy' Irvine (voice)
2010
King Arthur: A Roundtable Discussion
Self
2005
Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (voice)
The Magical World of Ella Enchanted
Self / Prince Char
2004
Tempo
Jack
2003
Young Blades
D'Artagnan
2001
Georgia O'Keeffe: The Brightness of Light
Narrator (voice)
2024