David Oakes is a British actor who trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and graduated in 2007. He is represented by Jeremy Conway at Conway Van Gelder Grant Inc. Before training professionally as an actor he studied at Manchester University where he received a first class degree in English and Drama. David was also on the board of governors for the Conservatoire of Dance and Drama. He went to school in Salisbury, Wiltshire, where he eventually became the head boy at Bishop Wordsworth's Grammar School.

Filmography

• Vikings: Valhalla — Earl Godwin
• 2020Shuttlecock: Sins of a Father — Martin Prentis
• 2019The Garden of Evening Mists — 1950s Frederik Gemmell
• 2017Cold Skin — Friend
• The Living and the Dead — William Payne
• Victoria — Prince Ernest, Duke of Coburg
• 2015If I Tell You I Have to Kill You — Lionel
• 2015Night Feed — Young Dad
• 2014Goblin? — Harry
• 2014Kim Philby: His Most Intimate Betrayal — Kim Philby
• 2014Love by Design — Adrian
• Endeavour — Joss Bixby
• The White Queen — George Plantagenet
• Ripper Street — Victor Silver
• 2012Truth or Dare — Justin
• The Borgias — Juan Borgia
• The Pillars of the Earth — William Hamleigh
• 2010Wigger
• Trinity — Ross Bonham
• 2008Walter's War — Oswald Hennessey
• 2001Pat Metheny Group: We Live Here — Producer
• 2000You: Story and Glory of a Masterpiece — Brandon Miller
• Power Rangers — Comic #2

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2016Murder Games: The Life and Death of Breck Bednar — Himself - Narrator (voice)