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  • Dancy determined to make Danes marriage work - 3 November 2011
    -Actor Hugh Dancy spends his life criss-crossing the Atlantic to spend time with his American wife Claire Danes, but he is determined to make their long-distance marriage work.-The Confessions of a Shopaholic star met Danes on the set of their 2007 movie Evening and


  • Danes wants to act again with Dancy - 23 January 2010
    -Claire Danes wants more screen time with Hugh Dancy now they are married - admitting she's "curious" about the couple's onscreen chemistry.- -Newlyweds Danes and Dancy met on the set of 2007 drama Evening. The couple's relationship quickly turned serious and they m


  • Dancy destroyed pastor's antique during filming - 10 August 2009
    -British actor Hugh Dancy lost his cool during a scene in his new movie Adam - and trashed a pastor's home.- -Writer/director Max Mayer used a friend's New York house as a location to keep costs down, but feared the the budget would spiral when his star put his foot

Hugh Dancy - what members say


  • The Sleeping Dictionary
  • The Sleeping Dictionary review by AdrianWalsh from Lancaster, England
    Rated - 4.0 stars Jessica is Fantastic & oh so... talanted ;) 22 August 2005
    ...Jessica Alba and Hugh Dancy star in these brilliant historical love story. Hugh Dancy is an english officer sent to a remote tribe to tutor them he is then given a sleepi...   Read customer review
  • Ella Enchanted
  • Ella Enchanted review by from Notts, UK
    Rated - 5.0 stars Great! 25 October 2005
    ...an do. It was very much a feel-good film, I would definitly recommend it! Also, Hugh Dancy as Prince Char provides excellent eye-candy! ...   Read customer review
  • Shooting Dogs
  • Shooting Dogs review by from Wales
    Rated - 5.0 stars An outstanding piece of film making 1 April 2006
    ...l viewing - it is superbly written & John Hurts' performance is simply sublime, Hugh Dancy also renders an excellent well-nuanced perfomance. But most importantly this i...   Read customer review

Hugh Dancy - filmography


  • Coach on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Liane Balaban,  Mamie Gummer,  Gillian Jacobs
    Director: Will Frears
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    A slacker trust-fund type finds the motivation to become a coach of a middle school soccer team. Through an unlikely friendship with the team's thirteen-year-old star player, and a budding relationship with Gabrielle who questions his party-boy lifestyle, Nick begins to understand that growing up ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 801 members
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  • The Wildest Dream on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Conrad Anker,  Hugh Dancy,  Ralph Fiennes
    Director: Anthony Geffen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Uses astonishing visuals to tell the intersecting stories of George Mallory, the first man to attempt a summit of Mount Everest, and Conrad Anker, the mountaineer who finds Mallory's frozen remains 75 years later.
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 191 members
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  • Adam on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Hugh Dancy,  Rose Byrne,  Peter Gallagher
    Director: Max Mayer
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    In movies, when two twentysomethings serendipitously wind up under the same Manhattan roof, witty repartee usually transpires, then sparks fly, and eventually they fall into bed. But the boy and the girl in Adam are no ordinary characters, and their romance is anything but familiar. Soon after ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 4,818 members
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  • Confessions of a Shopaholic - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Isla Fisher,  Hugh Dancy,  Joan Cusack
    Director: P.J. Hogan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    In the glamorous world of New York City, Rebecca Bloomwood is a fun-loving girl who is really good at shopping--a little too good, perhaps. She dreams of working for her favorite fashion magazine, but can't quite get her foot in the door--until ironically, she snags a job as an advice columnist for ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 4,890 members
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  • Confessions of a Shopaholic on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Isla Fisher,  Hugh Dancy,  Joan Cusack
    Director: P.J. Hogan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    In the glamorous world of New York City, Rebecca Bloomwood is a fun-loving girl who is really good at shopping--a little too good, perhaps. She dreams of working for her favorite fashion magazine, but can't quite get her foot in the door--until ironically, she snags a job as an advice columnist for ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 39,696 members
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  • Savage Grace on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Julianne Moore,  Stephen Dillane,  Eddie Redmayne
    Director: Tom Kalin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    The true story of the beautiful and charismatic Barbara Daly, who married above her class to Brooks Baekeland, heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune. Their only child is a failure in his father's eyes, and as he matures and becomes increasingly close to his lonely mother, the seeds for tragedy are sown.
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 4,650 members
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  • Evening on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Claire Danes,  Toni Collette,  Vanessa Redgrave
    Director: Lajos Koltai
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A drama exploring the romantic past and emotional present of Ann Grant and her daughters, Constance and Nina. As Ann lays dying, she remembers, and is moved to convey to her daughters, the defining moments in her life 50 years prior, when she was a young woman. Harris is the man Ann loves in the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 5,323 members
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  • Elizabeth I (2 discs) on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Helen Mirren,  Jeremy Irons,  Patrick Malahide
    Director: Tom Hooper
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry VIII, reunited a nation divided by religious strife, faced down the Spanish Armada and, after an unprecedented 45-year reign, died one of England's best-loved monarchs. During her time as Queen, poets and playwrights wrote about her, artists painted her, composers ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 3,684 members
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  • Shooting Dogs on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Claire-Hope Ashitey,  John Hurt,  Hugh Dancy
    Director: Michael Caton-Jones
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on a true story. An exhausted Catholic priest (Hurt) and a young idealistic English teacher (Dancy) find themselves caught in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. They must now choose whether to stay with the thousands of Tutsis about to be massacred or to flee for safety.
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 16,940 members
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  • Elizabeth I - Part 2 (2005)
    Starring: Helen Mirren,  Hugh Dancy,  Toby Jones
    Director: Tom Hooper
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this drama about Gloriana, the Virgin Queen, who re-united a divided country, sent the Armada packing and encouraged a flowering of poetry, prose, art and music, we see the grimy, lustful underbelly behind the opulence and formality of the English court - and the men she loved...
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  • Elizabeth I - Part 1 (2005)
    Starring: Helen Mirren,  Hugh Dancy,  Toby Jones
    Director: Tom Hooper
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The story of Elizabeth I's love life is told in this drama of the life of Britain's most famous queen, which looks at the woman behind the crown. Her thoughts of marrying a French prince, being refused permission to marry the man she loved and her passionate affair with a younger man are all revealed.
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  • Ella Enchanted on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Anne Hathaway,  Hugh Dancy,  Cary Elwes
    Director: Tommy O'Haver
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Ella is under a spell to be constantly obedient, a fact she must hide from her new step-family in order to protect the prince of the land, her friend for whom she's falling.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 14,715 members
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  • Tempo (2003)
    Starring: Melanie Griffith,  Rachael Leigh Cook,  Hugh Dancy
    Director: Eric Styles
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Melanie Griffith stars in this thriller as Sarah, an expatriate American living dangerously in France for a black market dealer. Along with her much younger boyfriend, fellow American Jack (Hugh Dancy), Sarah hatches a plot to rob a jewellery shop. However, when a beautiful and seemingly innocent ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 38% from 1,266 member
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  • The Sleeping Dictionary on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Hugh Dancy,  Jessica Alba,  Brenda Blethyn
    Director: Guy Jenkin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jessica Alba plays beautiful young and sultry Selima--the so-called SLEEPING DICTIONARY--who is forced to teach the art of sex in colonial Sarawak. Young, handsome British graduate John Truscott (BLACK HAWK DOWN's Hugh Dancy) is her pupil. Inevitably they become real lovers but must deny their ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 3,331 members
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  • Daniel Deronda on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Hugh Dancy,  Romola Garai,  Hugh Bonneville
    Director: Tom Hooper
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The title character of this Masterpiece Theater presentation is the illegitimate son of a wealthy British aristocrat. With a secretive past and an unlimited supply of cash, he turns to gambling where he meets Gwendolyn, a beautiful woman in desperate need of money. From their meeting at a roulette ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 459 members
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  • Black Hawk Down on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Ewan McGregor,  Kim Coates,  Gabriel Casseus
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    On October 3, 1993, Army Rangers and members of the elite Delta Force participated in a covert operation in Mogadishu, Somalia that went horribly wrong. Sent to abduct two lieutenants of a vicious Somali warlord, the soldiers found themselves surrounded by hostile militia. Two Black Hawk ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 30,336 members
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  • Black Hawk Down - Blu-ray (2001)
    Starring: Ewan McGregor,  Kim Coates,  Gabriel Casseus
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    On October 3, 1993, Army Rangers and members of the elite Delta Force participated in a covert operation in Mogadishu, Somalia that went horribly wrong. Sent to abduct two lieutenants of a vicious Somali warlord, the soldiers found themselves surrounded by hostile militia. Two Black Hawk ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 5,407 members
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  • David Copperfield on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Hugh Dancy,  Sally Field,  Michael Richards
    Director: Peter Medak
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    An exceptional star-studded cast of actors brings to life Charles Dickens's classic story of orphan David Copperfield. Although the youngster is treated miserably by his brutish stepfather, he is able to rise above his environment and become a successful author. Along the way, he meets a gallery of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 617 members
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  • Madame Bovary on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Frances O'Connor,  Hugh Bonneville,  Eileen Atkins
    Director: Tim Fywell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The young daughter of a farmer marries a dull doctor ten years her senior and soon becomes frustrated and bored herself. As a result she embarks on a series of affairs in her quest for real sexual fulfilment. In the process she bankrupts her husband and starts along the route to her own self-..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,152 member
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Hugh Dancy facts

5 most recent films

Martha Marcy May Marlene - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Martha Marcy May Marlene - 3.5 stars
The Wildest Dream - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Coach - 3.0 stars
The Wildest Dream - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Black Hawk Down - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Daniel Deronda - 3.5 stars
Shooting Dogs - 3.5 stars
Elizabeth I - 3.5 stars
Martha Marcy May Marlene - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Martha Marcy May Marlene - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Tempo - 2.0 stars
Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction - 2.5 stars
Savage Grace - 2.5 stars
Blood And Chocolate - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Ioan Gruffudd - 5 times - show films
Toby Jones - 5 times - show films
Ewen Bremner - 5 times - show films
William Fichtner - 5 times - show films
Gabriel Casseus - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Tom Hooper - 8 times - show films
Ridley Scott - 5 times - show films
P.J. Hogan - 3 times - show films
T. Sean Durkin - 2 times - show films
Michael Caton-Jones - 2 times - show films