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David Wilmot

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Place of birth: Dublin, Ireland

Known for: Acting

Also known as: 데이비드 윌멋

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.​

Movie Credits

Six Shooter
3.6

Six Shooter

2004-10-14

Overwhelmed by grief following the death of his wife, Donnelly shares a train carriage home with a t

I Went Down
3

I Went Down

1997-10-03

Fresh out of prison, Git rescues a former best friend (now living with Git's girlfriend) from a beat

Studs
2.5

Studs

2006-03-16

The hot-tempered, unruly players of this pub league soccer team are in dire straits after having los

Dorothy Mills
3

Dorothy Mills

2008-08-06

When a gloomy, God-fearing island community is rocked by the assault of an infant, a psychiatrist is

The Guard
3.5

The Guard

2011-07-07

When a small-town Irish cop with a crass personality is partnered with a straight-laced FBI agent to

Shadow Dancer
3

Shadow Dancer

2012-02-12

In 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.

Parked
3.3

Parked

2010-09-01

Fred Daly returns to Ireland with nowhere to live but his car. Then dope-smoking 21-year-old Cathal

Saving the Titanic
4

Saving the Titanic

2012-04-15

In the hours after the Titanic struck an iceberg 100 years ago, a team of shipbuilders and engineers

All Good Children
2.9

All Good Children

2010-12-27

After experiencing a tragedy, Irish brothers Dara and Eoin move to rural France, where they become f

Lies We Tell
3.5

Lies We Tell

2023-10-13

An orphaned heiress is forced to embrace her family's dark legacy.

Rat
3

Rat

2000-10-06

After a night of drinking Guiness at the local watering hole, an ordinary, working-class, family man

The Tale of Sweeney Todd
2.9

The Tale of Sweeney Todd

1998-08-30

The fictional tale of the murderous 19th century barber (Ben Kinglsey) who sold his kills to a neigh

Calvary
3.5

Calvary

2014-04-11

After being threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closin

King Arthur
3.2

King Arthur

2004-07-07

The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legen

Michael Collins
3.4

Michael Collins

1996-10-25

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but

Flick
1.5

Flick

2000-09-08

Jack Flinter is skating on thin ice. Known to his friends as "Flick", he is drifting through life, d

Embers
0

Embers

Amy, a sexual surrogate, is employed to help a high-security psychiatric patient overcome his intima

Gold
3.1

Gold

2014-02-20

An offbeat comedy about an estranged father who returns to his hometown after an absence of ten year

'71
3.4

'71

2014-10-10

A young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him du

Intermission
3.1

Intermission

2003-08-29

A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty go

The Devil's Own
3.1

The Devil's Own

1997-03-13

Frankie McGuire, one of the IRA's deadliest assassins, draws an American family into the crossfire o

The Treaty
3

The Treaty

1991-12-05

How the Anglo-Irish Treaty between the unrecognised Irish Republic, represented by Michael Collins,

The Second Death
3

The Second Death

2000-01-29

On a lonely country road, James Mangan hears a voice from his past and comes to realise he is damned

War on Everyone
2.9

War on Everyone

2016-10-07

Two corrupt cops in New Mexico set out to blackmail and frame every criminal unfortunate enough to c

Middletown
2.1

Middletown

2007-03-02

Having spent most of his life in religious instruction, Gabriel returns to his hometown as its new p

Anna Karenina
3.4

Anna Karenina

2012-09-06

In Imperial Russia, Anna, the wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On t

The Field
3.5

The Field

1990-09-21

"Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing much in the name of the land.

Come and Get Me
0

Come and Get Me

A darkly comic thriller about a burglar who breaks in on a murder scene, implicating himself in the

The Last Bus Home
0.5

The Last Bus Home

1997-10-17

Though it is late in the punk rock movement, four Dublin youths get together in 1979 to form their o

Breathe
3.7

Breathe

2017-10-13

Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a drama

Mother's Day
3.8

Mother's Day

2018-09-03

On the day before Mother's Day 1993, Colin and Wendy Parry's lives are torn apart when their younges

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
3.4

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

2018-11-14

Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevatin

The General
3.4

The General

1998-05-01

The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robber

Little Joe
2.9

Little Joe

2019-11-01

Alice, a single mother who is more dedicated to her work as a genetic engineer than to her teenage s

Ordinary Love
3.4

Ordinary Love

2019-12-06

An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer

Calm with Horses
3.1

Calm with Horses

2020-03-13

In darkest rural Ireland, ex-boxer Douglas 'Arm' Armstrong has become the feared enforcer for the dr

Laws of Attraction
2.9

Laws of Attraction

2004-04-04

Amidst a sea of litigation, two New York City divorce lawyers find love.

The Wonder
3.3

The Wonder

2022-11-02

Haunted by her past, a nurse travels from England to a remote Irish village in 1862 to investigate a

Hokum
0

Hokum

A horror novelist visits a remote Irish inn to spread his parents’ ashes, unaware the place is rumou

Eliot & Me
0

Eliot & Me

2011-12-20

Lucy struggles to come to terms with her parents' separation. She rescues a dog Eliot from the local

Hamnet
0

Hamnet

2025-11-27

The powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece