English actor and model

Hugh Dancy

Hugh Michael Horace Dancy 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).

Born

1975

June 19

Died

Living

Era

1970s

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Hugh, in brief

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Key dates

1975 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

325 The original Nicene Creed is adopted at the First Council of Nicaea.
1179 The Battle of Kalvskinnet takes place outside Nidaros (now Trondheim), Norway. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
1306 The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
1586 English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.

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The world in 1975

When Hugh arrived

april 13 Beirut bus massacre: A confrontation between Phalangist paramilitaries and PLO militia marks the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War.
april 17 The Cambodian Civil War ends and the Cambodian Genocide begins. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.
april 19 India's first satellite Aryabhata launched in orbit from Kapustin Yar, Russia.
april 19 South Vietnamese forces withdraw from the town of Xuan Loc in the last major battle of the Vietnam War.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on June 19

Blaise Pascal 1623–1662 French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (born 1623) Jean Dujardin 1972– French actor John Ralston Saul 1947– Canadian philosopher and author Lejla Njemčević 1994– Bosnian cross-country and mountain bike cyclist Lou Gehrig 1903–1941 American baseball player (died 1941) Mary Tenney Gray 1833–1904 American editorial writer, club-woman, philanthropist, and suffragette (died 1904) Nigel Gresley 1876–1941 Scottish-English engineer (born 1876) Silvanus P. Thompson 1851– English physicist, engineer, and academic (died 1916) Timothy Morton 1968– American philosopher and academic

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1975

Alanna Ubach 1975– American actress Alexandre Daigle 1975– Canadian ice hockey player Alicia Witt 1975– American actress and musician Asia Argento 1975– Italian actress Cristobal Huet 1975– French ice hockey player David Ortiz 1975– Dominican-American baseball player Dulé Hill 1975– American actor Eva Longoria 1975– American actress Garrison Starr 1975– American singer-songwriter and producer

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