Ivan Kaye
Acting

Ivan Kaye

Born 1 July 1961 · Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK
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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.

Known for

Vikings
Dark Shadows
The King
Layer Cake
Gunpowder Milkshake
The Borgias
Assassination Games
Control
Hammer of the Gods
Cold Comfort Farm
For Love or Money
The Coroner
Apocalypse Clown
The Dead Collectors
End of Term
Gunpowder Milkshake
The King
For Love or Money
Cliffs of Freedom
Hammer of the Gods
Dark Shadows
Tortoise in Love
Assassination Games
Control
Layer Cake
Inside the Mind of Paul Gascoigne
Solomon
Cold Comfort Farm
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