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