Birth Name: Walter Charles Dance
Place of Birth: Redditch, Worcestershire, England, UK
Date of Birth: 10 October 1946
Ethnicity:
*English, Irish (father)
*English (mother)
Walter Charles Dance is an English actor. He is known for his portrayal of Tywin Lannister in HBO’s Game of Thrones.
Dance was born in Redditch, Worcestershire, the son of Eleanor Marion (née Perks), a cook, and Walter Dance, an engineer. His father was of English and Irish descent and his mother was of English ancestry.
Charles’s paternal grandparents were Walter Dance (the son of John Charles Dance and Emma Eade) and May Kane. Walter was born in Surrey, England. May was born in Ireland.
Charles’s maternal grandparents were James George Perks and Marion Elizabeth Gold (the daughter of George Futvoye Gold and Elizabeth Jane Gooch). James and Marion were both born in Middlesex, England. George Gold was the son of George Gold, from Warwickshire, and Emma Futvoye, from Middlesex. Elizabeth Gooch was the daughter of Charles Henry Gooch, from Suffolk, and Elizabeth, from Hertfordshire.
Source: Genealogy of Charles’s maternal great-great-grandmother, Emma Futvoye – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
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