David Threlfall
| David Threlfall | |
|---|---|
| Born |
12 October 1953 Burnage, Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK |
| Occupation | Actor, director |
| Years active | 1977–present |
| Spouse(s) | Brana Bajic (m. 1995) |
| Children | 2 |
David Threlfall (born 12 October 1953) is an English stage, film and television actor and director. He played Frank Gallagher in Channel 4's series Shameless. He has also directed several episodes of the show. In April 2014, he portrayed comedian Tommy Cooper in a television film entitled Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This. In 2014, he starred alongside Jude Law in the thriller Black Sea.
The son of a plumber, Tommy Threlfall and his wife Joyce, David was born in Burnage, Manchester, Lancashire. His introduction to drama came from school and two English teachers, at Wilbraham High School, where he was a contemporary of the younger Lorraine Ashbourne. Encouragement from those teachers led to his playing the male lead in a four-performance school production of Ann Jellicoe's Rising Generation in 1971. December that year saw him playing John Proctor in a school production of The Crucible and then to his getting involved with Manchester Youth Theatre.
He studied at art college in Sheffield (now Sheffield Hallam University), but only stayed for a year. A few months of labouring and thinking followed. Then, having consulted a magazine in a public library which listed drama colleges, Threlfall successfully applied to Manchester Polytechnic School of Drama. By graduation, he had an audition with Mike Leigh.
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