David Threlfall
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| David Threfall | |
| Born | October 12, 1953 (age 53) Manchester, England |
| Years active | 1977 - present |
| Notable roles | Frank Gallagher in Shameless |
David Threlfall (born 12 October 1953, Manchester) is a British actor known for his role as Frank Gallagher in the Channel 4 comedy-drama series Shameless.
Threlfall has notched up a wide range of film and television credits since his screen debut in Scum in 1977. Television appearances include Edgar in the 1984 Granada Television King Lear, 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. He played Prince Charles in Diana: Her True Story in 1993 and his father Prince Philip in the 2005 drama The Queen's Sister. He also played the domineering husband of wartime diarist Nella Last, in the 2006 TV drama Housewife, 49
Film credits include John le Carré's The Russia House, Patriot Games, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World and Hot Fuzz.
He voiced the detective Paolo Baldi in BBC Radio 4's Baldi.
He played Smike in the ten hour stage version of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby for the Royal Shakespeare Company in both London And New York. He subsequently played the same role in the television adaptation of said play.
Other notable stage performances include Riddley Walker, Oedipus, Macbeth and Peer Gynt at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, Bolingbroke in Richard II and Orgon in Tartuffe at the National Theatre in London.
He also had a small role in the 2006 film Alien Autopsy, and played the character Mr Blower in the 2007 film Hot Fuzz, starring alongside the likes of Simon Pegg and Bill Bailey.
He is married to the actress Brana Bajic, who has appeared alongside him in Shameless, and has two children.
[edit] References
- Baldi: Seres 4. Retrieved on February 16, 2006.
