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. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Wilmot, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Known For

Man

Six Shooter

Anto

I Went Down

Bubbles

Studs

Colin Garrivan

Dorothy Mills

Liam O'Leary

The Guard

Kevin Mulville

Shadow Dancer

Peter

Parked

Joseph Bell

Saving the Titanic

Julian

All Good Children

Silas

Lies We Tell

Phelim Spratt

Rat

Tom

The Tale of Sweeney Todd

Father Leary

Calvary

Woad Killed by Lancelot

King Arthur

Squad Youth #2

Michael Collins

Des Fitzpatrick

Flick

Gary

Embers

Ray

Gold

Boyle

'71

Oscar

Intermission

Dessie

The Devil's Own

Niall

The Treaty

Chess Player

The Second Death

Pádraic Power

War on Everyone

Sammy

Middletown

Nikolai

Anna Karenina

Boy at Dance

The Field

Mark

Come and Get Me

Bus Conductor

The Last Bus Home

Paddy

Breathe

Arthur McHugh

Mother's Day

Portkey Tout

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Assassin

The General

Karl

Little Joe

Peter

Ordinary Love

Hector

Calm with Horses

Brendan

Laws of Attraction

Sean Ryan

The Wonder

Hokum

Tom

Eliot & Me

John

Hamnet