Hugh Dancy

Hugh Dancy's biography

Hugh Dancy is 47 years old actor born at Stoke-on-Trent. He was born on Thursday 19th of June 1975. He is often nicknamed as Fancy Dancy. According to year of birth 1975 he belongs to Generation X. Birthday on 19th of June means he is Gemini. Gemini is a dual sign of Zodiac Belt. One born with this rising sign is very dual and creative in nature with lots of verbosity. They are the most expressive people as they love talking.

He is citizen of United Kingdom. His primary profession is to be actor. You can know him also as model, stage actor, film actor. He is recently known as television actor.

Hugh Dancy's dad

Hugh Dancy's father's name is Jonathan Dancy. He is known as philosopher. His father was born on Wednesday 8th of May 1946.

Hugh Dancy's family

Hugh Dancy's spouse

She is known as film actor. His spouse was born on Thursday 12th of April 1979 in Manhattan.

Hugh Dancy's ex spouse

Hugh Dancy's schools

We found 3 schools He attended. Complete list of schools: St Peter's College, Dragon School, Winchester College.

Detailed informations about his schools

• Graduated from Oxford University with a degree in English Literature & Language.

Hugh Dancy's career

His main focus is to be actor.

What Hugh Dancy has done for a first time

• [July 2012] Hugh and his wife, Claire Danes, are expecting their first child.
• [December 2012] First child, a boy named Cyrus Michael Christopher Dancy, was born on December 17, 2012.

Hugh Dancy's quotes

• Acting is not very good for relationships - but very good for when they are over.
• My dad is an academic but there was never any question of me following on that route. I'm thick.
• There's no one actor in particular that I want to model my career after, except for the people who have been able to keep their career varied and who choose things that interest them. That opportunity is all I really want.
• [on his shopping temptations] Mine are books. I will go into a book shop... that's the only shop I really like to browse in to kill time and will come away with too many.
• I don't think I'm any more insecure than the next person. I try not to let myself become too neurotic. To some extent, paranoia in this industry is just a realistic outlook, it comes with the territory, but I try not to drive myself totally insane.
• [on his greatest fears] Snakes, destitution.
• My parents have always supported me, so I was never waiting in fear for the day when they would call up and order me to get a proper job.
• [2007] [on being labeled as "the new Hugh Grant/Colin Firth"] You just keep plugging away, and the speciousness of that kind of analysis reveals itself. There's only so many New people you can be before people give up.
• The doubting part of me assumed that I would spend my career playing posh characters in costume dramas. At least one casting director told me bluntly that that's what I'd be doing, so get used to it.
• There are so many scripts where they don't allow the male lead any kind of flaw, which renders it very boring.
• I used to reassure myself by counting up the money I could have made from movies I turned down that I knew I shouldn't have done, sort of imagining some alternative universe version of myself who was richer but less satisfied.
• [on his favorite motto] "There is a time and a place for everything."
• I'm not the kind of actor that goes home and has to wrestle with my demons if I've been playing a troubled guy during the day.
• When you're starting out as an actor, 50 percent of it is the way you present yourself.
• [2012] I think in the last couple of years the gap between independent and studio films has widened. Finding the $20 to $30 million films seems harder and harder. It's either be in a comic book movie or take a punt on a much smaller budget.
• [on how he occupies his time during breaks on set] I find that a book is helpful in that respect - a good, long, gripping book, but something that doesn't rip you out of the world you're trying to construct.
• Becoming an actor [is the bravest thing I've done] because it's a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable, but very lucky. I think any time that you imagine that it's plain sailing for hereon in, then you're kidding yourself.
• [on his favorite childhood cartoons] Wacky Races, Looney Tunes, Road Runner and The Simpsons. I cried at the third Toy Story film.
• It took me a good few years to feel that I was in the right profession.
• [2013] At this point in my career, I have a fairly good bullshit detector.
• So much of [an actor's career] is about being able to sit in a room and make a connection with somebody. And then you get to actually demonstrate whether you can do the job or not. But if you can't do the first thing, you won't get to do the second thing.
• [Unless you produce or direct your own projects] the only power that you have as an actor over your career, in some sense, is to say no. The one thing that I think I have tried to be responsible about is actually being picky.
• I just really like to take roles that scare me.
• There's a part of me that wants to look nice and occasionally wants to be snappy, and the other part of me that just wants to wear the same sweater until I die. And I'm in constant conflict between those two sides.
• You know how typecasting works: you do one thing and then the doors open and you can just do it again and again.
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Hugh Dancy's body shape

Lets describe how Hugh Dancy looks. We will focus on his body shape. Body build is average.