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Dublin, Ireland

David Wilmot

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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Known For

Acting

2025

Small Town, Big Story as Keith McCurdle

2024

Bodkin as Seamus Gallagher

2023

Lies We Tell as Silas

2022

The Wonder as Sean Ryan

2021

Station Eleven as Clark Thompson

2020

Barkskins as Constable Bouchard

2019

Little Joe as Karl
Ordinary Love as Peter
Resistance as Patrick Mahon

2018

Mother's Day as Arthur McHugh
The Alienist as Captain Connor

2017

Breathe as Paddy
Genius as José Ruiz y Blasco

2016

War on Everyone as Pádraic Power
Murder as Clyde Harris
The Crown as Arthur Scargill

2014

Calvary as Father Leary
Gold as Ray
'71 as Boyle

2013

Vikings as Olaf Andwend

2012

Shadow Dancer as Kevin Mulville
Saving the Titanic as Joseph Bell
Anna Karenina as Nikolai
Ripper Street as Donald Artherton
Treasure Island as William O'Brien

2011

The Guard as Liam O'Leary
Vera as Mal Hinkin

2010

Parked as Peter

2008

Dorothy Mills as Colin Garrivan

2007

Middletown as Sammy
The Tudors as Sir Ralph Ellerker

2006

Studs as Bubbles

2004

King Arthur as Woad Killed by Lancelot

2003

Intermission as Oscar

2000

Rat as Phelim Spratt
Flick as Des Fitzpatrick
The Second Death as Chess Player

1998

1997

I Went Down as Anto
The Devil's Own as Dessie
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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Embers as Gary
House of Guinness as Bonnie Champion