David Dawson
Acting
Born: 1982-09-07 in Widnes, Cheshire, England, UK
Biography
David Robert Dawson (born 7 September 1982) is an English actor. He has had a varied career on television, including roles in The Road to Coronation Street (2010), series 2 of Luther (2011), Ripper Street (2012–2016), The Secret Agent (2016), as King Alfred in The Last Kingdom (2015–2018) and as Joseph Merrick ("The Elephant Man") in Year of the Rabbit (2019). On stage, Dawson received a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for playing Smike in the 2007 production of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Other notable performances have been in the 2009 production of Comedians, the 2010 production of Posh, and the 2011 production of Luise Miller.
Known For
Peaky Blinders
Roberts
The Last Kingdom
Alfred
The Borgias
The French Ambassador
Ripper Street
Fred Best
Luther
Toby Kent
Falling
Phil
Secret Diary of a Call Girl
Byron
The Hollow Crown
Poins
Maigret
Marcel Moncin
Dancing on the Edge
Horton
All the Old Knives
Owen Lassiter
Elsinore
Derek Jarman
Year of the Rabbit
Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man
London Boulevard
Big Issue Seller
The Secret Agent
Vladimir
My Policeman
Younger Patrick
The Burning Girls
Aaron Marsh
Banished
Captain Collins
This Town
Robbie Carmen
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Bazzard
The Experiment
The Complete Walk: Love's Labour's Lost
Berowne
The Road to Coronation Street
Tony Warren
Damage
Tom Byrne
The Rise of the Nutters
Affers
Gracie!
Harry Parr Davies
The Duchess of Malfi
Ferdinand