Darrell Fitzgerald D'Silva (born 5 January 1964) is a British film and theatre actor, notable for his work with the

Royal Shakespeare Company The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The company employs over 1,000 staff and produces around 20 productions a year. The RSC plays regularly in London, St ...

Early life and education

D'Silva was born in

Rotherham Rotherham () is a large minster and market town in South Yorkshire, England. The town takes its name from the River Rother which then merges with the River Don. The River Don then flows through the town centre. It is the main settlement of ...

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. He is of Italian, Portuguese, Greek, French, Dutch and English background, the son of Earle D'Silva, a glass factory worker and Jackie Haig, a hairdresser. D'Silva was part of the 1980s' Sheffield music scene, playing with

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Group and Hula before becoming an actor. He graduated from the

Drama Centre London Drama Centre London (often abbreviated as Drama Centre) was a British drama school in King's Cross, London, where it moved in 2011 after a major reshaping of the University of the Arts London. It was part of Central Saint Martins, a constitue ...

Career

D'Silva first joined the RSC in 1996 to play Kilroy in Steven Pimlott's production of

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's '' Camino Real''. He has appeared in plays with the company for over 20 years and was made Associate Artist in 2011. He has toured the world with the RSC and was nominated for ''

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'' Helen Hayes Award for most Outstanding Performance for his role as Siward in ''Dunsinane'' by David Greig. His work at the Royal National Theatre includes ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''Closer''. He also starred in a series of short films. ''Show Pieces'' was written by

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and directed by Mitch Jenkins; ''Jimmy's End'' and ''His Heavy Heart'' were written by Moore as introduction sections to a much larger project planned by Moore & Jenkins called ''The Show''. In 2006, he played Johann Lindeman, captain of the ''Gouverneur Generaal Loudon'', a ship that survived the 1883 explosion of Krakatoa in the BBC docu-drama '' Krakatoa: The Last Days''. In 2015, he played Max Scullion in ''

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'' episode 3.5 "The Last Man" and in 2016 he played Geoff Craven in '' Endeavour'' episode 3.3 "Prey" and an Ironborn in the

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series ''

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'' in

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. In 2018, he appeared in three episodes of the six-episode BBC drama miniseries ''

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''. From 2020 to the present, D'Silva stars as pathologist Hendrik Davie in Company Pictures relaunch of ''

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''. In 2021, he played the part of Mike in

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's action thriller ''

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'', starring

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. In the same year, he acted as

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in the TV series '' Domina''.

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* Living people 1964 births British male stage actors British male film actors Actors from Rotherham Male actors from Yorkshire Alumni of the Drama Centre London English people of Portuguese descent English people of Italian descent English people of Dutch descent English people of Greek descent English people of French descent {{UK-actor-stub