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David Dawson (Actor) Height, Weight, Age, Family, Biography, Facts

David Dawson Quick Info
Height5 ft 9 in
Weight67 kg
Date of BirthSeptember 7, 1982
Zodiac SignVirgo
Eye ColorBlue

David Dawson is an English actor, writer, and theatre artist who has appeared in projects like The Road to Coronation Street, The Last Kingdom, Year of the Rabbit, Ripper Street, Peaky Blinders, Gracie!, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Doc Martin, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, London Boulevard, Luther, Dancing on the Edge, The Secret Agent, The Smoke, Banished, The Borgias, and The Thick of It. In addition to that, he has gained acclaim as a theatre artist and received a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for playing Smike in the 2007 production of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby as well as a “Best Supporting Actor” nomination at the What’s On Stage awards in 2010 for his role as Gethin Price in Comedians.

Born Name

David Robert Dawson

Nick Name

David

Sun Sign

Virgo

Born Place

Widnes, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom

Nationality

English

Education

David Dawson studied at Fairfield High School and Warrington Collegiate Institute. After that, he was accepted into an acting program in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in 2002.

Occupation

Actor, Writer, Theatre Artist

Family

  • Sibling – James (Younger Brother)

Manager

David Dawson has been repped by United Agents Ltd., Talent Agency, London, England, United Kingdom.

Build

Slim

Height

5 ft 9 in or 175 cm

Weight

67 kg or 147.5 lbs

Race / Ethnicity

White

Hair Color

Dark Brown

Eye Color

Blue

Sexual Orientation

Straight

Distinctive Features

Thin frame

David Dawson Facts

  • He was 17 years old when he wrote a play titled Divorced and Desperate. It ran at the Queen’s Hall Theatre, Widnes, for 3 nights.
  • After Divorced and Desperate, David Dawson wrote another play called The Boy in the Bed the following year and starred in it at the Tower Theatre, Islington, with financial backing from Barbara Windsor and Julie Walters to whom he had written for help.
  • David was a member of the Musketeer Theatre Company while at secondary school and played Dogberry in William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. He was also cast in several other roles.
  • He played Tony Warren, an English television screenwriter best known for creating the ITV soap opera Coronation Street, in the BBC Four drama The Road to Coronation Street in 2010. Dawson’s performance drew in much critical acclaim and New Statesman‘s Rachel Cooke wrote: “I think he’s going to be a huge star. When he is doing his thing, it is hard to take your eyes off him”.
  • In 2010, he made his first theatrical film appearance as Big Issue Seller in the British independent crime film, London Boulevard, starring Colin Farrell, Keira KnightleyAnna Friel, and Ray Winstone. However, his role went uncredited.
  • He was cast as Roberts in a few episodes of the period crime drama television series, Peaky Blinders, in 2013.
  • David Dawson portrayed the character of King Alfred, king of the West Saxons from 871 to c.886 and king of the Anglo-Saxons from c.886 to 899, in the historical fiction television series, The Last Kingdom, from 2015 to 2018.
  • Featured Image by Doubleshiny / Wikimedia / CC BY 3.0

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    Update: 2024-05-22