David Threlfall

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Acting

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

• Unforgivable (2025)
• Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration (2024)
• Dodger Special: Bad Egg (2023)
• Dodger Special: Train (2022)
• Faith Healer (2020)
• Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune) (2020)
• The Ark (2015)
• Black Sea (2014)
• Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This (2014)
• Evidently... John Cooper Clarke (2012)
• Nowhere Boy (2009)
• The Millionaire and the Murder Mansion (2009)
• Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
• Hot Fuzz (2007)
• Housewife, 49 (2006)
• Like Minds (2006)
• Alien Autopsy (2006)
• The Queen's Sister (2005)
• Benefit to Mankind (2004)
• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
• Chunky Monkey (2003)
• Conspiracy (2001)
• Mary, Mother of Jesus (1999)
• Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll (1999)
• The Clothes in the Wardrobe (1993)
• Diana: Her True Story (1993)
• A Statement of Affairs (1993)
• Patriot Games (1992)
• A Murder of Quality (1991)
• The Russia House (1990)
• He's Asking For Me (1990)
• A Casualty of War (1989)
• Seeing in the Dark (1989)
• Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story (1989)
• When the Whales Came (1989)
• Paradise Postponed (1986)
• Dog Ends (1984)
• Red Monarch (1983)
• King Lear (1983)
• Rolling Home (1982)
• Mike Leigh: Making Plays (1982)
• The Brylcreem Boys (1979)
• Scum (1977)
• The Kiss of Death (1977)
• I Want to Be Like You (1976)
• 1000 AD