---
name: "Will Keen"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/will-keen"
fi1m_id: "will-keen"
imdb_id: "nm0444617"
tmdb_id: 51119
wikidata_id: "Q8002916"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "4 March 1970"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 68
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-24T19:35:22.865220+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Will Keen

## Identity

Will Keen

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/will-keen
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** will-keen
- **IMDb ID:** nm0444617
- **TMDB ID:** 51119
- **Wikidata ID:** Q8002916
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Keen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8002916, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0444617/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/51119

Actor. Born 4 March 1970 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 4 March 1970, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England UK
- **Active:** 2015–present
- **Also known as:** 威尔·基恩, William Keen, 威爾·基恩
- **Average Fi1m score:** 68, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 86 (1), 2020s 50 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Keen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8002916, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0444617/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/51119

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Wizard of the Kremlin*](https://film.one/film/the-wizard-of-the-kremlin.md) (50)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Will Keen is an English actor. Born William Walter Maurice Keen on 4 March 1970 in Oxford, he studied English literature at the University of Oxford and began working in theatre in the 1990s.

He has appeared in numerous stage productions and is known for playing Vladimir Putin in the play *Patriots* (2022–2024), for which he received an Olivier Award for best supporting actor. His screen credits include Michael Adeane in *The Crown* (2016), Father MacPhail in *His Dark Materials* (2019–2022), roles in *Victor Frankenstein* (2015), *Operation Mincemeat* (2022) and *The Man Who Killed Don Quixote* (2018), and Boris Berezovsky in the film *The Wizard of the Kremlin* (2025).

Keen is married to the Spanish actress and director María Fernández Ache; their daughter is the actress Dafne Keen.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Wizard of the Kremlin* (2026), Fi1m 50, as Boris Berezovsky — [page](https://film.one/film/the-wizard-of-the-kremlin.md)
- *Wolf Hall* (2015), Fi1m 86, as Thomas Cranmer — [page](https://film.one/tv/wolf-hall.md)

## Complete filmography (42)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Star City* (2026), series, as Konstantin Filonov
- *The Wizard of the Kremlin* (2026), as Boris Berezovsky — Fi1m 50, [page](https://film.one/film/the-wizard-of-the-kremlin.md)
- *Dope Girls* (2025), series, as Frederick Asquith-Gore
- *My Lady Jane* (2024), series, as Norfolk
- *Dead Shot* (2023), as Woodville
- *A Wind from the South* (2023), as Robert
- *The Gold* (2023), series, as Hugh Vincent QC — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-gold.md)
- *Consecration* (2023), as John
- *The Man from Rome* (2022), as Archbishop Corvo
- *The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power* (2022), series, as Lord Belzagar
- *The Sandman* (2022), series, as Older Shakespeare
- *Operation Mincemeat* (2022), as Salvador Gomez-Beare
- *Ridley Road* (2021), series, as David Epstein
- *Dime Quién Soy: Mistress of War* (2020), series, as Albert James
- *His Dark Materials* (2019), series, as Father MacPhail, Father President MacPhail, Father/Cardinal MacPhail
- *Watergate* (2018), series, as John Ehrlichman
- *The Winter's Tale - Live at Shakespeare's Globe* (2018), as Leontes
- *The Man Who Killed Don Quixote* (2018), as Producer
- *Genius* (2017), series, as Paul Rosenberg
- *The Crown* (2016), series, as Michael Adeane — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-crown.md)
- *Victor Frankenstein* (2015), as Surgeon
- *The Refugees* (2015), series, as Samuel
- *Wolf Hall* (2015), series, as Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop Cranmer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/wolf-hall.md)
- *Ghosts* (2014), as Pastor Manders
- *Titanic* (2012), series, as Chief Officer Wilde
- *Silk* (2011), series, as Michael Connolly
- *Sherlock* (2010), series, as Major Reed — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/sherlock.md)
- *The Color of Magic 2in1* (2010), as Ganmack Treehallett
- *Garrow's Law* (2009), series, as Fullerton
- *The Colour of Magic* (2008), series, as Ganmack Treehallett
- *Love and Other Disasters* (2006), as David Williams
- *Elizabeth I* (2005), series, as Francis Bacon
- *When I'm Sixty-Four* (2004), as Doctor
- *New Tricks* (2004), series, as Ronnie Glazebrook
- *Foyle's War* (2002), series, as Alan Deakin
- *Murphy's Law* (2001), series, as Anthony Brody
- *The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz* (2000), as Cuthbert
- *Midsomer Murders* (1997), series, as Preaching Pete Kubatski — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/midsomer-murders.md)
- *Martin Chuzzlewit* (1994), series, as Todgers' Lodger
- *If Love Should Die*, Actor
- *The Return of Stanley Atwell*, Actor
- *La Cathédrale*, Actor

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