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David Wilmot

David Wilmot

ActingDublin, Ireland

Biography

David Wilmot is an award-winning Irish stage, screen, and television actor. Wilmot's theatre credits include Six Characters in Search of an Author at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, As You Like It with the Druid Theatre Company in Galway, and Juno and the Paycock in London's West End. He originated the role of Padraic in The Lieutenant of Inishmore at The Other Place in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2001, played it at the Barbican Center in 2002, then joined the 2006 off-Broadway Atlantic Theater Company production, which later transferred to Broadway. He was nominated for the 2006 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play, the Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance, and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play and won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor and the Theatre World Award for his performance.

Wilmot portrayed Dr. Ed Costello in sixteen episopdes of The Clinic on RTÉ. He was nominated for the Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actor in a TV Drama. Wilmot's screen credits include Michael Collins (1996), I Went Down (1997), The Devil's Own (1997), The Tale of Sweeney Todd (1998), Intermission (2003), Laws of Attraction (2004), King Arthur (2004), and Six Shooter (2006). He was named Best Supporting Actor in Film and nominated Best New Talent for Intermission at the 2003 Irish Film and Television Awards.

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Acting History

Future
2026
Hokum
as Jerry
Industry
TVas Edward Burgess1 eps
2025
Hamnet
as John
House of Guinness
TVas Bonnie Champion8 eps
Small Town, Big Story
TVas Keith McCurdle6 eps
2024
Bodkin
TVas Seamus Gallagher7 eps
2023
Lies We Tell
as Silas
Embers
as Gary
2022
The Wonder
as Sean Ryan
2021
Station Eleven
TVas Clark Thompson10 eps
2020
Barkskins
TVas Constable Bouchard
2019
Little Joe
as Karl
Resistance
TVas Patrick Mahon
The Crown
TVas Arthur Scargill1 eps
2018
Mother's Day
as Arthur McHugh
Genius
TVas José Ruiz y Blasco1 eps
The Alienist
TVas Captain Connor10 eps
2017
Breathe
as Paddy
Vera
TVas Mal Hinkin1 eps
2016
War on Everyone
as Pádraic Power
Murder
TVas Clyde Harris3 eps
2014
Calvary
as Father Leary
'71
as Boyle
Gold
as Ray
2013
Vikings
TVas Olaf Andwend1 eps
2012
Saving the Titanic
as Joseph Bell
Anna Karenina
as Nikolai
Shadow Dancer
as Kevin Mulville
Ripper Street
TVas Donald Artherton25 eps
Treasure Island
TVas William O'Brien
2011
The Guard
as Liam O'Leary
2010
Parked
as Peter
2009
The Tudors
TVas Sir Ralph Ellerker3 eps
2008
Dorothy Mills
as Colin Garrivan
2007
Middletown
as Sammy
2006
Studs
as Bubbles
2004
King Arthur
as Woad Killed by Lancelot
2003
Intermission
as Oscar
2000
Rat
as Phelim Spratt
The Second Death
as Chess Player
Flick
as Des Fitzpatrick
1997
The Last Bus Home
as Bus Conductor
1996
Michael Collins
as Squad Youth #2
1991
The Treaty
as Niall
1990
The Field
as Boy at Dance

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Dublin, Ireland