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Ian McShane

Sep 29, 1942 (82 years old) in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK

Ian David McShane (born 29 September 1942) is a Scottish-English actor. His television performances include the title role in the BBC series Lovejoy (1986–1994), Al Swearengen in Deadwood (2004–2006) and its 2019 film continuation, and Mr. Wednesday in American Gods (2017–2021). For the original series of Deadwood, McShane won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama and received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. As a producer of the film, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie.

His film roles include Harry Brown in The Wild and the Willing (1962), Charlie Cartwright in If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969), Wolfe Lissner in Villain (1971), Teddy Bass in Sexy Beast(2000), Frank Powell in Hot Rod (2007), Blackbeard in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), and Winston Scott in the John Wick franchise (2014–present).

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Known For

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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Toby Moore
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Game of Thrones
Brother Ray
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Deep Cover
Metcalfe
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The Simpsons
Artemis (voice)
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Ballerina
Winston
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The West Wing
Nikolai Ivanovich
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Dallas
Don Lockwood
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American Horror Story
Leigh Emerson
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Magnum, P.I.
David Norman
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Columbo
Leland St. John

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