David Dawson
Actor
Born September 7, 1982 in Widnes, Cheshire, England, UK
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.
Filmography
Falling
This Town
Robbie Carmen
The Burning Girls
Aaron Marsh
My Policeman
Younger Patrick
All the Old Knives
Owen Lassiter
Year of the Rabbit
Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man
The Complete Walk: Love's Labour's Lost
Berowne
The Secret Agent
Vladimir
Maigret
Marcel Moncin
The Last Kingdom
Alfred
Banished
Captain Collins
The Duchess of Malfi
Ferdinand
Peaky Blinders
Roberts
Dancing on the Edge
Horton
Ripper Street
Fred Best
The Hollow Crown
Poins
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Bazzard
The Borgias
The French Ambassador
London Boulevard
Big Issue Seller
The Road to Coronation Street
Tony Warren
Luther
Toby Kent
Gracie!
Harry Parr Davies
Secret Diary of a Call Girl
Byron
Damage
Tom Byrne
The Rise of the Nutters
Affers
The Experiment