David Harewood OBE was born on 8 December 1965 and is a British actor and presenter.
37 Facts About David Harewood
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David Harewood's father was a lorry driver, while his mother was a caterer.
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David Harewood has a sister, Sandra, and two brothers, Rodger and Paul.
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David Harewood attended St Benedict's Junior School and Washwood Heath Academy.
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David Harewood was a member of the National Youth Theatre.
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David Harewood began acting in 1990 and has appeared in The Hawk, Great Moments in Aviation, Harnessing Peacocks, Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Blood Diamond, The Merchant of Venice and Strings.
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David Harewood is known for his television appearances on Ballykissangel, The Vice and Fat Friends.
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David Harewood appeared in the BBC film adaptation of the Philip Pullman novels The Ruby in the Smoke and The Shadow in the North, both of which are titles from the Sally Lockhart Mysteries.
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In 2009, David Harewood appeared in the BBC single drama Mrs Mandela, playing Nelson Mandela.
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David Harewood played Brother Tuck in the third series of Robin Hood.
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David Harewood appeared in the Doctor Who story "The End of Time".
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David Harewood next appeared in two episodes of Chris Ryan's Strike Back as Colonel Tshuma.
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David Harewood played Martin Viner in an episode of New Tricks.
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David Harewood narrated Welcome to Lagos, a BBC documentary about Lagos, Nigeria.
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David Harewood starred in British independent film The Hot Potato, the film starred Ray Winstone, Colm Meaney and Jack Huston.
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David Harewood played Frankenstein's monster in the TV live event Frankenstein's Wedding.
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In October 2013, David Harewood voiced an interactive video campaign for the British Lung Foundation aiming to ban smoking in cars with children on board in the United Kingdom.
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In 2017, David Harewood was in London to attend the BT British Urban Film Festival at BT Tower.
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David Harewood was included in the 2019 edition of the Powerlist, ranking the 100 most influential Black Britons.
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Psychosis and Me, a documentary hosted and produced by David Harewood received a BAFTA Television Award nominated for Single Documentary.
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In October 2021, it was revealed that David Harewood will make his feature directorial debut with For Whom The Bell Tolls, a boxing film about the rivalry between Chris Eubank and Nigel Benn.
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David Harewood was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to drama and Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to drama and charity.
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David Harewood married his long-term girlfriend Kirsty Handy in February 2013 in Saint James, Barbados.
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David Harewood is an avid supporter of Birmingham City Football Club.
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In 2007, David Harewood appeared on a BBC Look North programme which marked the bicentenary of the 1807 Slave Trade Act's passage through Parliament.
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In March 2023, it was announced that a portrait of David Harewood was commissioned and would be hung in the David Harewood house.
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In 2007, David Harewood donated his bone marrow and as a result saved the life of a patient.
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David Harewood is a mental health ambassador and has been open about his own struggles, confessing that he used to self-medicate with alcohol to deal with his bipolar-like symptoms, discarding the medication given to him by doctors.
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David Harewood was sectioned under the Mental Health Act, spent time on the Whittington Hospital psychiatric ward, and was prescribed the antipsychotic drug chlorpromazine.
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David Harewood subsequently expanded on his experiences, hosting a 2019 BBC documentary titled David Harewood: My Psychosis and Me.
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David Harewood appeared in Soccer Aid 2018 as England's celebrity goalkeeper.
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David Harewood saved two penalties during the penalty shootout, helping England to win the charity match.
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David Harewood voiced the character of the American character Thurman Berkley in series one of the BBC radio series Chambers on the 4th May 1996.
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David Harewood played Patroclus in the 1998 BBC radio trilogy Troy.
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David Harewood played Henry Tilney in the Northanger Abbey radio adaptation.
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David Harewood played the Marquis de Carabas in the BBC Radio 4 Radio Play of Neverwhere.
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In 2022, David Harewood voiced Destruction of the Endless in Act III of Audible's full-cast audibook adaptation of Neil Gaiman's comic, The Sandman.