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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.
On a freezing winter night, a mysterious hitman known as The Confessor steps into a quiet church and demands that a priest hear his confession. What begins as a tense, uneasy exchange quickly turns into a psychological duel as the two men argue about guilt, punishment, morality, and faith. Through fragmented glimpses of the hitman’s past, it becomes clear that he has lived a life shaped by violence but also unexpected moments of restraint. The priest challenges him, searching for a spark of remorse, while the hitman pushes back, determined to expose uncomfortable truths about human nature—and about the priest himself. As the night unfolds, their conversation grows darker and more personal, building toward a revelation that forces both men to confront the deepest parts of who they are. By the time the confession ends, neither the priest nor the confessor will leave the encounter unchanged.
