Liam Cunningham (born 2 June 1961) is an Irish stage and screen actor.
He is known for playing Davos Seaworth in the HBO epic-fantasy series
Game of Thrones.Cunningham has been nominated for the London Film
Critics' Circle Award, the British Independent Film Award, has won two
Irish Film & Television Awards, and shared a BAFTA with Michael
Fassbender, for their crime-drama short film Pitch Black Heist. His
film roles include A Little Princess (1995), Jude (1996), Dog Soldiers
(2002), The Crooked Man (2003), The Wind That Shakes the Barley
(2006), Hunger (2008), The Escapist (2008), Good Vibrations (2013),
Let Us Prey (2014) and The Childhood of a Leader (2015). In 2020, he
was listed at number 36 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest
film actors.Cunningham was born in East Wall, which is an inner city
area of the Northside of Dublin. He grew up in Kilmore West with his
three sisters and a brother. Cunningham left secondary school at 15
and pursued a career as an electrician. In the 1980s, Cunningham moved
to Zimbabwe for three years where he maintained electrical equipment
at a safari park and trained Zimbabwean electricians. After returning
to Ireland, Cunningham became dissatisfied with his work as an
electrician and decided to pursue his interest in acting. He attended
acting classes and began to work in local theatre, including Royal
Shakespeare Company. He appeared in a production of Studs at The
Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn, London.
He is known for playing Davos Seaworth in the HBO epic-fantasy series
Game of Thrones.Cunningham has been nominated for the London Film
Critics' Circle Award, the British Independent Film Award, has won two
Irish Film & Television Awards, and shared a BAFTA with Michael
Fassbender, for their crime-drama short film Pitch Black Heist. His
film roles include A Little Princess (1995), Jude (1996), Dog Soldiers
(2002), The Crooked Man (2003), The Wind That Shakes the Barley
(2006), Hunger (2008), The Escapist (2008), Good Vibrations (2013),
Let Us Prey (2014) and The Childhood of a Leader (2015). In 2020, he
was listed at number 36 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest
film actors.Cunningham was born in East Wall, which is an inner city
area of the Northside of Dublin. He grew up in Kilmore West with his
three sisters and a brother. Cunningham left secondary school at 15
and pursued a career as an electrician. In the 1980s, Cunningham moved
to Zimbabwe for three years where he maintained electrical equipment
at a safari park and trained Zimbabwean electricians. After returning
to Ireland, Cunningham became dissatisfied with his work as an
electrician and decided to pursue his interest in acting. He attended
acting classes and began to work in local theatre, including Royal
Shakespeare Company. He appeared in a production of Studs at The
Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn, London.
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