David Avery

David Avery
Avery at Kill Your Friends premiere, London 2015
Born	Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2009–present

David Avery is a British film, television and theatre actor. He is best known for The Night Manager, Starred Up and Borderline.

Avery is from Birmingham, England. He studied acting for one year at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Avery's first on screen role came in 2009 by starring in the third series of Sofia's Diary. He joined the lead cast as Flex featuring throughout the series. Sofia's Diary, produced by Sony Television Pictures International, was one of the first online web series to make the transition to UK television. Avery then landed his first feature film role in Fit written and directed by Rikki Beadle-Blair. Avery played Marios the older brother of lead character Lee. Shortly after, his big break came when he landed the part of Nicos in The Inbetweeners Movie. The film went on to break UK box office records for the opening weekend. In 2012 Avery took part in the June edition of Monologue Slam UK. Actors take to the stage to compete against each other by performing monologues to a professional industry panel. Avery won first prize for his performance, "The monologue that David performed captivating the room was 'Nowhere in America' by Bathsheba Doran".

Avery is also notable for playing lead character Marcus Graham in the multi-award winning web-to-television series Brothers With No Game. The series amassed a huge international following when the first episode was released online in June 2012. Avery and the cast later returned for a second series with the public demand being so high and winning six awards at the LA Web Festival 2013. The shows popularity got the attention of a new television channel London Live (TV channel) and went on to be broadcast in 2014. The lead cast of the show also went on to win Favourite Web Series Ensemble at the first ever Screen Nation Digital-iS awards.