David Dawson

Acting

Born September 7, 1982, 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

• 2026Elsinore — Derek Jarman
• Falling — Phil
• This Town — Robbie Carmen
• The Burning Girls — Aaron Marsh
• 2022All the Old Knives — Owen Lassiter
• 2022My Policeman — Younger Patrick
• Year of the Rabbit — Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man
• Maigret — Marcel Moncin
• 2016The Complete Walk: Love's Labour's Lost — Berowne
• The Secret Agent — Vladimir
• Banished — Captain Collins
• The Last Kingdom — Alfred
• 2014The Duchess of Malfi — Ferdinand
• Dancing on the Edge — Horton
• Peaky Blinders — Roberts
• Ripper Street — Fred Best
• The Hollow Crown — Poins
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood — Bazzard
• The Borgias — The French Ambassador
• 2010London Boulevard — Big Issue Seller
• Luther — Toby Kent
• 2010The Road to Coronation Street — Tony Warren
• 2009Gracie! — Harry Parr Davies
• 2007Damage — Tom Byrne
• Secret Diary of a Call Girl — Byron
• 2007The Rise of the Nutters — Affers
• The Experiment
• The Flaw