Brian and Maggie
2025 · TV Show
as Nigel Lawson
Ivan Kaye
1961-07-01
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Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK
Ivan Kaye is internationally best known for his role as King Aelle in Vikings (2013-17). More recently, he has appeared as the goon leader Yankee in Gunpowder Milkshake (2021). Kaye has been interested in acting from early childhood. A remarkably versatile actor, he already had a successful stage career in London's West End in dramatic and musical theatre before starting his work in television and film in his early thirties. Since the beginning of the 1990s, he has been featured in over 50 roles in TV and film. Due to his enormous versatility, Ivan Kaye has been featured in a wide array of roles encompassing lead and main parts as well as antagonists, outright villains, and comical characters. Recent major productions and roles include: drug baron Polo Yakur in Assassination Games (2011), the Duke of Milan Ludovico Sforza in The Borgias (2011-2013), Joshua Collins (father of the main character played by Johnny Depp) in Dark Shadows (2012), Ivar the Boneless in Hammer of the Gods (2013), King Aelle of Northumbria in Vikings (2013-2017), pub landlord Mick Sturrock in The Coroner (2015-2016) and goon leader Yankee in Gunpowder Milkshake (2021). All of these productions have reached an international audience and have been dubbed in several languages. Kaye has also appeared in Layer Cake (2004) and is well-known in the UK as herdsman Bryan in BBC’s comedy series The Green Green Grass. From October 2017 to January 2018 he returned to theatre after almost twenty years, starring as Tom Kettle in the critically acclaimed multi-award-winning stage play The Ferryman at the Gielgud Theatre London. Kaye has also worked as a voice artist in several video games such as Star Wars The Old Republic, Stuntman, C-12 and more. As a founder and director of Comedy Ink Productions together with actor/writer Douglas McFerran, he has produced and acted as a lead in short comedic offerings such as the mini-series Brilliant! (2007), the short film Sherlock Holmes Confidential (2013) and his recent dark comedy short Acter (2020). Kaye has a reputation of being especially kind and appreciative towards his fans on social media and in person. He is a supporter of the Hounslow Urban Farm (where 'Green Green Grass' was partially filmed) and, with several other actors, the Justice for Andrew campaign, seeking justice for the murder of a young Liverpudlian. He has two grown-up daughters and lives in London.
Filmography
Apocalypse Clown
2023 · Movie
as The Great Alphonso
Sister Boniface Mysteries
2022 · TV Show
as Ted Button
The Dead Collectors
2021 · Movie
as Peter
End of Term
2021 · Movie
as Garth Stroman
Gunpowder Milkshake
2021 · Movie
as Yankee
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The Dark Tower
2020 · Movie
as Mayor Hart Thorin
The King
2019 · Movie
as Scrope
For Love or Money
2019 · Movie
as Patrick
Cliffs of Freedom
2019 · Movie
as Ghazi Khalif
The Woman in White
2018 · TV Show
as Pesca
Undercover
2015 · TV Show
as Garabed
The Coroner
2015 · TV Show
as Mick Sturrock
Vikings: Athelstan's Journal
2015 · TV Show
as King Aelle (archive footage)
Hammer of the Gods
2013 · Movie
as Ivar
Vikings
2013 · TV Show
as King Aelle
Dark Shadows
2012 · Movie
as Joshua Collins
Tortoise in Love
2012 · Movie
as Sean
Assassination Games
2011 · Movie
as Polo Yakur
The Borgias
2011 · TV Show
as Duke Ludovico Sforza, Ludovico Sforza
Injustice
2011 · TV Show
as DS Harry Bowman
The Green Green Grass
2005 · TV Show
Control
2004 · Movie
as Norton
Layer Cake
2004 · Movie
as Freddie Hurst
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Photo Finish
2004 · Movie
as Herbie Harris
Inside the Mind of Paul Gascoigne
2003 · Movie
as Narrator
Lenny Blue
2002 · Movie
as DI Ron Featherstone
Dinotopia
2002 · TV Show
Lenny Blue
2002 · TV Show
as DI Ron Featherstone
A Dinner of Herbs
2000 · TV Show
as Dan Bannaman
Bad Girls
1999 · TV Show
as Charlie Atkins
Microsoap
1998 · TV Show
as Roger
Solomon
1997 · Movie
as Adonijah
Solomon
1997 · TV Show
as Adonijah
Cold Comfort Farm
1995 · Movie
as Reuben Starkadder
Bugs
1995 · TV Show
Faith in the Future
1995 · TV Show
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Sam Saturday
1992 · TV Show
as DI Sam Saturday
The Paradise Club
1989 · TV Show
as Arthur Burns
Casualty
1986 · TV Show
as Guy
The Bill
1984 · TV Show
