Will Keen


William Walter Maurice Keen is an English actor. He has worked in theatre and television in both Britain and Spain. He was formerly a trustee of the James Menzies Kitchin Award — an award set up for young theatre directors in memory of the director with whom Keen collaborated early in his career.

Personal life

Keen was born in Oxford, the son of Charles William Lyle Keen and Lady Priscilla Mary Rose Curzon, daughter of Edward Curzon, 6th Earl Howe. His sisters are poet Alice Oswald and Laura Beatty. He studied at Eton College and has a first class degree in English literature from Oxford University. He is married to Galician actress, theatre director, and writer Maria Fernandez Ache with whom he has a daughter, Dafne Keen, who is also an actress.

Career

Some of his notable British theatre credits include Ghosts, Waste, Tom and Viv, Five Gold Rings, Huis Clos, Macbeth, The Changeling, The Arsonists, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Rubenstein Kiss, Hysteria, Don Juan, Man and Superman, Pericles, The Prince of Homburg, The Duchess of Malfi, The Coast of Utopia, Mary Stuart, Hove, The Two Noble Kinsmen, The Tempest, Dido Queen of Carthage, The Seagull, Present Laughter, The Tempest, and Quartermaine's Terms, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Elton John's Glasses.
His TV credits include Wolf Hall, The Musketeers, Midsomer Murders, Silk, Sherlock, The Impressionists, Wired, Casualty 1907, Elizabeth, New Tricks, Titanic, Foyle's War, The Colour of Magic, and The Refugees. His film credits include Nine Lives of Tomas Katz and Love and Other Disasters. In 2016, he played the role of the Queen's longtime Private Secretary, Michael Adeane, in the Netflix series The Crown. In 2019 he appeared in the BBC TV series His Dark Materials, based on the critically acclaimed book trilogy by Philip Pullman, as Father MacPhail. Terry Prachett's Sky TV Christmas Specials.
In Spain, he has performed plays in Spanish, Traición and Cuento de Invierno as well as directing Hamlet and Romeo y Julieta. In the musical field, he has recorded the "Seven Scenes from Hamlet" by the Spanish composer Benet Casablancas, in collaboration with the Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, conducted by José Ramón Encinar.