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Will Keen

“Theatre is my great love”
Will Keen at this year’s Oliviers, where he won best supporting actor award for Patriots. Photo: Joanne Davidson
Will Keen at this year’s Oliviers, where he won best supporting actor award for Patriots. Photo: Joanne Davidson
As he reprises his role as Putin in the West End transfer of the Almeida’s Patriots, a performance that won him his first Olivier award last month, the actor tells Fergus Morgan about a varied career in which he has racked up an impressive list of stage and screen credits and now reconnected with his main passion – British theatre – after living in Spain for more than a decade

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