David John Threlfall was born on 12 October 1953 and is an English stage, film and television actor and director.
24 Facts About David Threlfall
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David Threlfall is best known for playing Frank Gallagher in Channel 4's series Shameless.
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David Threlfall's introduction to drama came from school and two English teachers, Alan Johnson and Frank Casey, at Wilbraham High School, where he was a contemporary of the younger Lorraine Ashbourne.
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David Threlfall studied at art college in Sheffield, but only stayed for a year.
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David Threlfall has notched up a wide range of film and television credits since his 1977 acting debut in "The Kiss of Death".
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David Threlfall was in the original Play for Today version of the film Scum as the eloquent Archer.
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David Threlfall had regular roles in the situation comedies Nightingales, and Men of the World, and guest appearances in dramas such as Cutting It, The Knock, CI5: The New Professionals and Spooks.
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David Threlfall played Prince Charles in Diana: Her True Story and his father Prince Philip in The Queen's Sister.
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David Threlfall played the central character of Frank Gallagher in Paul Abbott's Shameless, shown on Channel 4 for 11 series between 2004 and 2013.
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David Threlfall was in the 2006 film Alien Autopsy and played the character Martin Blower acting alongside Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in the British comedy film Hot Fuzz.
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David Threlfall starred as the lead role in the fifth episode of the BBC docu-drama series Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire as the Emperor Constantine I Threlfall voiced the part of Iago in Othello for the Arcangel audio production of same.
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David Threlfall voiced the detective Paolo Baldi in BBC Radio 4's Baldi, and read Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness for a radio adaptation.
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David Threlfall played Jack in When the Whales Came, opposite Paul Scofield and Helen Mirren.
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In 2013, David Threlfall played retired London detective Len Harper in the short murder mystery BBC series What Remains alongside Russell Tovey and Amber Rose Revah.
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In 1980, David Threlfall played Smike in the eight-hour stage version of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby for the Royal Shakespeare Company in both London and New York.
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David Threlfall received an Olivier nomination in Frank McGuiness' "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" at the Ambassador's Theatre in 2005.
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David Threlfall appeared in Beckett's rarely performed "The Old Tune" with Niall Buggy, directed by Trevor Nunn at Jermyn Street Theatre in 2019.
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In March 2016, David Threlfall appeared as the lead in Don Quixote, at the Swan Theatre, Stratford, for the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he is an Associate Artist.
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David Threlfall is a director of ATS, started by Amanda Redman to help give young actors who cannot afford full-time drama school fees get exposure to training from industry professionals.
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David Threlfall was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Manchester Metropolitan University on 15 July 2013.
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David Threlfall has a SWET Award, two TONY nominations and an EMMY nomination, The Clarence Derwent Award, five RTS Awards and a BAFTA for Housewife49 with Victoria Wood.
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David Threlfall received two Sony Radio Awards for playing Spike Milligan in 2018 and Ken Dodd in 2020.
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David Threlfall has been married to Bosnian actress Brana Bajic since 1995.
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David Threlfall has said that despite his Shameless character being a chain smoker, in real life he is a non-smoker who has a dislike for nicotine.