2026Nominee
Best Performance
Elsinore
David Dawson
Actor
Widnes, Cheshire, England, UK
September 7, 1982
Biography
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.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2022Nominee
Best Performance
All the Old Knives
2010Nominee
Best Performance
London Boulevard
Career Highlights
2022Highlight
Best Performance
My Policeman
2007Highlight
Best Performance
The Rise of the Nutters
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All the Old Knives
London Boulevard
My Policeman