Charles Dance, OBE (born 10 October 1946) is an English actor, screenwriter, and film director.Dance typically plays assertive bureaucrats or villains. Some of his most high-profile roles are Guy Perron in The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Sardo Numspa in The Golden Child (1986), Dr. Jonathan Clemens in Alien 3 (1992), Benedict in Last Action Hero (1993), the Master Vampire in Dracula Untold (2014), Alastair Denniston in The Imitation Game (2014), and Tywin Lannister in HBO's Game of Thrones.