<Li> Eleanor Marion Perks (mother) </Li> <P> Walter Charles Dance, OBE (born 10 October 1946) is an English actor, screenwriter, and film director . </P> <P> Dance typically plays assertive bureaucrats or villains . Some of his most high - profile roles are Tywin Lannister in HBO's Game of Thrones, Guy Perron in The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Sardo Numspa in The Golden Child (1986), Jonathan Clemens in Alien 3 (1992), Benedict in Last Action Hero (1993), the Master Vampire in Dracula Untold (2014), Lord Havelock Vetinari in Terry Pratchett's Going Postal (2010) and Alastair Denniston in The Imitation Game (2014). </P> <P> Charles Dance was born in Redditch, Worcestershire, the son of Eleanor Marion (née Perks), a cook, and Walter Dance, an engineer who had previously served during the Boer War in South Africa . Growing up in Plymouth, he attended Widey Technical School for Boys (it closed when known as Widey High School in 1988) in Crownhill . Dance later attended The Leicester College of Arts (now known as De Montfort University), where he studied Graphic Design and Photography . </P>

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