Ian McShane

Ian McShane is a British actor who portrayed Edward Teach Blackbeard in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides in 2011. Although he has starred in a number of films, it is by his television roles that he is generally known, starting with the BBC's Lovejoy and particularly in the HBO Western drama Deadwood. In 2009 he starred in the NBC series Kings as King Silas Benjamin.