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Daniel Mays (born 31 March 1978) is an English actor.


Early life

Born in
Epping, Essex Epping is a market town and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of the County of Essex, England. The town is northeast from the centre of London, is surrounded by the northern end of Epping Forest, and on a ridge of land between the Rive ...
, the third of four boys, Mays was brought up in
Buckhurst Hill Buckhurst Hill is an affluent suburban town in the Epping Forest District, Epping Forest district of Essex, England. It is part of the Greater London Urban Area and adjacent to the northern boundary of the London Borough of Redbridge. The area de ...
, Essex, by his electrician father and bank cashier mother. He attended the
Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts The Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts is a performing arts conservatoire based in Woking, England. It was founded in 1911 by Italia Conti, an actress. The first production at Italia Conti Academy was the play ''Where the Rainbow Ends''. For ...
before going on to win a place at the
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA; ) is a drama school in London, England, that provides vocational conservatoire training for theatre, film, television, and radio. It is based in the Bloomsbury area of Central London, close to the Sen ...
(RADA).Paddock, Terri
"20 Questions With… Daniel Mays"
''WhatsOnStage.com'', (Retrieved: 23 August 2009)


Acting career

Mays graduated from RADA in 2000."Alumni: Who Trained at RADA – Graduate Directory"
''RADA.org'' (Retrieved: 23 August 2009)
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cast him in both '' All or Nothing'' and ''
Vera Drake ''Vera Drake'' is a 2004 British period drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh and starring Imelda Staunton, Phil Davis, Daniel Mays and Eddie Marsan. It tells the story of a working-class woman in London in 1950 who performs illegal abor ...
'' and Mays has said that working with Leigh was decisive in making him the kind of actor he wanted to be. "You leave no stone unturned in the pursuit of truthful, believable characters." In 2005 he was cast in the
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drama ''Rehab''"''Funland'' Starts this autumn on BBC THREE"
BBC Press Office, 27 September 2005 (Retrieved: 23 August 2009) and in 2008 played the role of Michael Myshkin in
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's adaptation of
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's ''
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'' trilogy. His appearance in the independent British film '' Shifty'', co-starring
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, earned him a nomination for best supporting actor at the
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. Mays starred as Eddie O'Grady in the 2010 film ''
Made in Dagenham ''Made in Dagenham'' is a 2010 British comedy-drama film directed by Nigel Cole and starring Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Miranda Richardson, Geraldine James, Rosamund Pike, Andrea Riseborough, Jaime Winstone, Daniel Mays and Richard Schiff. ...
.'' In the same year, he played DCI Jim Keats in the third series of '' Ashes to Ashes'', in which he portrayed a character that was the antagonist of
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's
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. Mays appeared in the BBC sci-fi series '' Outcasts''. He had roles in ''No One Gets Off in This Town'' and a supporting role in the
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film '' The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn''. He then played a criminal on a curfew after serving a 10-year sentence for the murder of his girlfriend when he was 19 in the programme ''Public Enemies'', which aired on
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in early January 2012. He played
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in a 5-part drama called ''
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''. For much of the latter half of 2013, Mays performed on stage. Performing in Nick Payne's ''Same Deep Water As Me'' at the Donmar Warehouse alongside Nigel Lindsay and in the first major revival of Jez Butterworth's debut play ''Mojo'' at the Harold Pinter Theatre. He starred alongside
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,
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,
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and
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. Mays starred in Series 3 of BBC drama ''
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'' as Sergeant Danny Waldron, an armed response officer whose troubled and abusive childhood comes under investigation as part of wider investigation of police corruption throughout the serial. He was nominated for a BAFTA Television Award for Supporting Actor for his role. In 2016 Mays played the part of Aston in
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's play ''
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'' directed by
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at
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Theatre in London opposite
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and George MacKay. Mays portrayed Tivik in the film '' Rogue One: A Star Wars Story''. He starred as lead investigator Detective Chief Inspector Peter Jay in the three-part television drama miniseries ''
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'', about the 1983 arrest of Scottish
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, first screened on
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on 14 September 2020 in the UK.


Personal life

Mays has a son and a daughter with makeup artist Louise Burton. As of 2005, he was living in
Crouch End Crouch End is an area of North London, approximately from the City of London in the western half of the borough of Haringey. It is within the Hornsey postal district (N8). It has been described by the BBC as one of "a new breed of urban villag ...
, an area in the
London Borough of Haringey The London Borough of Haringey (pronounced , same as Harringay) is a London borough in North London, classified by some definitions as part of Inner London, and by others as part of Outer London. It was created in 1965 by the amalgamation of t ...
. A keen football fan, he is a supporter of
Leyton Orient Leyton Orient Football Club is a professional football club based in Leyton, East London, England, who compete in , the fourth tier of the English football league system. They are the second oldest football club in London to play at a professio ...
. He is a friend of
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, lead singer of rock band Feeder, and appeared in the 2012 music video for the band's single "Idaho".


Filmography


Film


Television


References


External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mays, Daniel 1978 births Alumni of the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Living people English male stage actors English male film actors English male television actors Male actors from Essex 20th-century English male actors 21st-century English male actors People from Epping People from Buckhurst Hill