Ian McShane

Acting · Born 1942-09-29 in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK

Biography

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…

Filmography

• Sexy Beast as Teddy Bass
• Kung Fu Panda as Tai Lung (voice)
• Coraline as Mr. Sergei Alexander Bobinsky / Other Bobinsky (voice)
• John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum as Winston
• John Wick: Chapter 4 as Winston
• Kung Fu Panda 4 as Tai Lung (voice)
• John Wick as Winston
• Ballerina as Winston
• John Wick: Chapter 2 as Winston Scott
• Scoop as Joe Strombel

TV

• Columbo as Leland St. John
• Deadwood as Al Swearengen
• The Simpsons as Artemis (voice)
• Jesus of Nazareth as Judas Iscariot
• The Pillars of the Earth as Waleran Bigod
• American Horror Story as Leigh Emerson
• The West Wing as Nikolai Ivanovich
• Game of Thrones as Brother Ray
• ONE PIECE as Narrator (voice)
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Toby Moore