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Walter Charles Dance OBE (born 10 October 1946) is an English actor, screenwriter, and director. He typically plays strict, authoritarian characters or villains. He is best known for his roles as Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones, Kitchener in The King's Man, Martin Benson in Amazon Prime's The Widow, Lord Mountbatten in Netflix's The Crown (for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series), Thomas in Underworld: Awakening and Underworld: Blood Wars, Harold Fillmore in Ghostbusters (2016), Mr. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Frankenstein in Victor Frankenstein, Master Vampire in Dracula Untold, Conrad Knox in the Cinemax series Strike Back, Raymond Stockbridge in Gosford Park, one-eyed hitman Benedict in Last Action Hero, Clemens in Alien³, Sardo Numpsa in The Golden Child, and Guy Perron in The Jewel in the Crown. He started his career on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) before appearing in film and television. For his services to drama, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2006. He made his directorial film debut with the drama film Ladies in Lavender (2004), which he also wrote and executive produced.
The 9th main entry of the Final Fantasy franchise, originally released on PS1 in 2000, FFIX tells the story of a band of thieves who are hired to kidnap Garnet, the princess of Alexandria. One of thieves, Zidane is the protagonist of the story who winds up falling in love with Garnet, who is later nicknamed Dagger. Many other characters inhabit this story such as the black mage Vivi, the captain of the Pluto Knights Steiner, the always hungry Qu Quina, the Burmecian rat Freya, the loner assassin Amarant, the child summoner Eiko, the mysterious antagonist Kuja, Zidane’s thief brothers (Blank, Cinna, Marcus, Baku, the Nero brothers & Ruby) and the twin jesters Zorn & Thorn
