Filmography Hugh Dancy

Hugh Michael Horace Dancy (born 19 June 1975)[1] is an English actor and model. 
 
Dancy was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, and raised in Newcastle-under-Lyme.  
His mother, Sarah Ann (née Birley), works in academic publishing. 
His father is philosophy professor Jonathan Peter Dancy, who teaches at the University of Reading and at the University of Texas at Austin.  
He is the oldest of three children, followed by brother John (Jack) Christopher Dancy (born 25 May 1977), co-director of the travel company Trufflepig Travel,and sister Katharine Sarah Dancy (born 05 March 1980).  
At age 8, or 10 (sources differ), Dancy attended boarding school at the Dragon School in Oxford, then at 13 at Winchester College. At 18, Dancy acted in the Winchester College Players production of Twelfth Night which was performed in both Winchester and at the Minack Theatre in Cornwall. 
He went on to study English at St Peter's College, Oxford. 
 
After graduation, Dancy moved to London, where a chance conversation in a cafe led to his meeting casting director Ros Hubbard and agent Dallas Smith, who signed him. 
 
In 1999, Dancy played the role of Danny, who had a fleeting romance with Rachel, one of the shows main characters, in the second series of Cold Feet. In 2007, Dancy had a starring role on Broadway as Captain Dennis Stanhope in Journey's End (Belasco Theatre). He also played Aiden in the 2007 film Blood and Chocolate. He portrayed the title character, a man with Asperger syndrome, in the 2009 independent film Adam. Dancy also appeared in Savage Grace, a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Natalie Robins and Steven M.L. Aronson. 
 
Hugh Dancy appeared in MCC Theater's The Pride, written by Alexi Kaye Campbell, at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in New York City. The off-Broadway production was directed by Joe Mantello and co-starred Ben Whishaw and Andrea Riseborough. In 2009 Dancy appeared in Confessions of a Shopaholic. In 2010-11, Dancy co-starred alongside Nina Arianda in a Broadway production of Venus in Fur in which he was praised by The New York Times. 
 
In March 2012, NBC announced that Dancy had been cast as Will Graham in Hannibal, an upcoming television adaptation of Thomas Harris' 1981 novel Red Dragon. 
 
Dancy met actress Claire Danes on the set of Evening in Newport, Rhode Island, and they began dating. In February 2009, they announced their engagement. 
The couple married in France in late August or early September 2009, in a ceremony not announced publicly. The two have a son, Cyrus Michael Christopher Dancy, born on December 17, 2012. His previous longtime girlfriend was UK artist Annie Morris. 
 
He attended Oxford University, studying English at St Peter's.