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William Walter Maurice Keen (born 4 March 1970)^[1][2] is an English stage, television, and film actor. He has worked in theatre and television in both the United Kingdom and Spain. He was a trustee of the James Menzies Kitchin Award, an award set up for young theatre directors in memory of the director with whom Keen collaborated early in his career.

Keen was born inOxford, the son of Charles William Lyle Keen and Lady Priscilla Mary Rose Curzon, daughter ofEdward Curzon, 6th Earl Howe.^[3] His sisters are the poetAlice Oswald and the authorLaura Beatty.^[4][5] He studied atEton College and has a first class degree in English literature from theUniversity of Oxford.

Some of his notable British theatre credits includeGhosts,Waste,Tom & Viv,Five Gold Rings,Patriots (Almeida Theatre),Huis Clos (Trafalgar Studios),Macbeth,The Changeling (Cheek by Jowl,Barbican and international tours),The Arsonists (Royal Court Theatre),Kiss of the Spider Woman (Donmar Warehouse),The Rubenstein Kiss (Hampstead Theatre),Hysteria,Don Juan,Man and Superman (Theatre Royal, Bath),Pericles,The Prince of Homburg (Lyric Hammersmith),The Duchess of Malfi,The Coast of Utopia,Mary Stuart,Hove (National Theatre),The Two Noble Kinsmen,The Tempest,The Winter's Tale,Dido, Queen of Carthage (Shakespeare's Globe),The Seagull,Present Laughter,The Tempest (West Yorkshire Playhouse), andQuartermaine's Terms,A Midsummer Night's Dream andElton John's Glasses (West End).^{[citation needed]}

His television credits includeWolf Hall,The Musketeers,Midsomer Murders,Silk,Sherlock,The Impressionists,Wired,Casualty 1907,Elizabeth I,New Tricks,Titanic,Foyle's War,The Colour of Magic, andThe Refugees. His film credits includeNine Lives of Tomas Katz andLove and Other Disasters.

In 2016, he played the role of the Queen's longtimePrivate Secretary,Michael Adeane, in theNetflix seriesThe Crown. In 2019, he appeared in theBBC TV seriesHis Dark Materials, based on the critically acclaimedbook trilogy byPhilip Pullman, as Father MacPhail (his daughter, Dafne, is the series' lead actress), whilst in 2021 he appeared as David Epstein inRidley Road. In 2022, he playedVladimir Putin in the opening run ofPeter Morgan's playPatriots, about the life of RussianoligarchBoris Berezovsky, at the Almeida Theatre in London.^[6]

In Spain, he has performed plays in Spanish,Traición (Betrayal) andCuento de Invierno (The Winter's Tale) as well as directingHamlet andRomeo y Julieta. In the musical field, he has recorded the "Seven Scenes from Hamlet" by the Spanish composerBenet Casablancas, in collaboration with theOrquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, conducted by José Ramón Encinar (Stradivarius, 2010).^{[citation needed]}

He is married to Spanish actress, theatre director, and writer Maria Fernandez Ache with whom he has a daughter,Dafne Keen, who is also an actress.

2013 Ghosts, Pastor Manders, Almeida Theatre

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• 1970 births
• Alumni of the University of Oxford
• Curzon family
• English male dramatists and playwrights
• English male Shakespearean actors
• English male stage actors
• English male television actors
• Howe family
• Laurence Olivier Award winners
• Living people
• Male actors from Oxford
• People educated at Eton College
• Theatre World Award winners

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