Oct 12, 1953

Manchester, England

David Threlfall is a British actor known for his role as Frank Gallagher in the Channel 4 comedy-drama series Shameless.

Threlfall has notched up a wide range of film and television credits since his screen debut in Scum in 1977. Television appearances include Edgar in the 1984 Granada Television King Lear, regular roles in the situation comedies Nightingales and Men of the World, and guest appearances in dramas such as Cutting It, The Knock, CI5: The New Professionals and Spooks. He played P... ... (read more...) rince Charles in Diana: Her True Story in 1993 and his father Prince Philip in the 2005 drama The Queen's Sister. He also played the domineering husband of wartime diarist Nella Last, in the 2006 TV drama Housewife, 49
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Film credits include John le Carré's The Russia House, Patriot Games, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.

He voiced the detective Paolo Baldi in BBC Radio 4's Baldi.

He played Smike in the ten hour stage version of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby for the Royal Shakespeare Company in both London And New York. He subsequently played the same role in the television adaptation of said play.

Other notable stage performances include Riddley Walker, Oedipus, Macbeth and Peer Gynt at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, Bolingbroke in Richard II and Orgon in Tartuffe at the National Theatre in London.

He also had a small role in the 2006 film Alien Autopsy.

He is married to the actress Brana Bajic, who has appeared alongside him in Shameless, and has two children.