David Threlfall

Born: 1953-10-12, Burnage, Manchester, England, UK

Biography

Born in Burnage, Manchester in 1953, David Threlfall is a celebrated actor of stage, film and television. In the latter, he is perhaps best known as the feckless Frank Gallagher in Channel 4's Shameless. In 1994 whilst working on a production of The Count of Monte Cristo at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, Threlfall met Bosnian actress Brana Bajic and the pair subsequently married a year later.

Filmography

• Screen Two (1985)
• Spooks (2002)
• Ripper Street (2012)
• Troy: Fall of a City (2018)
• Playhouse (1974)
• ScreenPlay (1986)
• The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin (2024)
• Hot Fuzz (2007)
• Patriot Games (1992)
• Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
• Cutting It (2002)
• Black Sea (2014)
• Conspiracy (2001)
• Funny Woman (2023)
• The Russia House (1990)
• A Dinner of Herbs (2000)
• Nowhere Boy (2009)
• Objects of Affection (1982)
• Like Minds (2006)
• Alien Autopsy (2006)
• Midwinter of the Spirit (2015)
• The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1982)
• The Clothes in the Wardrobe (1993)
• Housewife, 49 (2006)
• Red Monarch (1983)
• The Queen's Sister (2005)
• Mary, Mother of Jesus (1999)
• Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This (2014)
• Faith Healer (2020)