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Ivan Kaye

Ivan Kaye

Known For Acting
Birthday Jul 01, 1961 (64)
Birthplace Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK
Popularity 0.9 (history)
Updated Aug 10, 2025
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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Biography

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 c ... areer 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.

Known For

Filmography

Apocalypse Clown

Apocalypse Clown

2023

as The Great Alphonso

The Dead Collectors

The Dead Collectors

2021

as Peter

End of Term

End of Term

2021

as Garth Stroman

Gunpowder Milkshake

Gunpowder Milkshake

2021

as Yankee

For Love or Money

For Love or Money

2019

as Patrick

Cliffs of Freedom

Cliffs of Freedom

2019

as Ghazi Khalif

The King

The King

2019

as Scrope

Hammer of the Gods

Hammer of the Gods

2013

as Ivar

Tortoise in Love

Tortoise in Love

2012

as Sean

Dark Shadows

Dark Shadows

2012

as Joshua Collins

Assassination Games

Assassination Games

2011

as Polo Yakur

Control

Control

2004

as Norton

Layer Cake

Layer Cake

2004

as Freddie Hurst

Lenny Blue

Lenny Blue

2002

as DI Ron Featherstone

Solomon

Solomon

1997

as Adonijah

Cold Comfort Farm

Cold Comfort Farm

1995

as Reuben Starkadder

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Organization Category Movie
Television Credits

The Coroner

as Mick Sturrock

Episodes: 20

First Aired: Nov 16, 2015

Microsoap

as Roger

Episodes: 13

First Aired: Sep 30, 1998

Vikings

as King Aelle

Episodes: 12

First Aired: Mar 03, 2013

Undercover

as Garabed

Episodes: 6

First Aired: Jun 16, 2015

A Dinner of Herbs

as dan bannaman

Episodes: 6

First Aired: Nov 24, 2000

The Woman in White

as Pesca

Episodes: 5

First Aired: Apr 22, 2018

Sister Boniface Mysteries

as Ted Button

Episodes: 4

First Aired: Mar 11, 2022

The Borgias

as Ludovico Sforza

Episodes: 3

First Aired: Apr 03, 2011

Bad Girls

as Charlie Atkins

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Jun 01, 1999

Vikings: Athelstan's Journal

as King Aelle (archive footage)

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Jan 30, 2015

Brian and Maggie

as Nigel Lawson

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Jan 29, 2025

Solomon

as Adonijah

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Dec 15, 1997

The Borgias

as Duke Ludovico Sforza

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Apr 03, 2011

Casualty

as Guy

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 06, 1986

The Paradise Club

as Arthur Burns

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 19, 1989

Injustice

as DS Harry Bowman

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jun 06, 2011

The Green Green Grass

Episodes: 32

First Aired: Sep 09, 2005

Faith in the Future

Episodes: 22

First Aired: Nov 17, 1995

Trial & Retribution

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Oct 19, 1997

Bugs

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Apr 01, 1995

The Bill

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 16, 1984

Dinotopia

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Nov 28, 2002

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