Dominic Mafham
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Dominic Mafham is an English actor. He was born on 11 March 1968.
He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
.
Dominic began his career at The Royal Shakespeare Company
in 1990. He was with the RSC for four years.
He first came to prominence when he played Nigel Hawthorn's emotionally damaged son Daniel Pascoe in Paula Milne's The Fragile Heart. The drama was screened on Channel 4
in the UK in 1996. It won the 1997 BAFTA award for Nigel Hawthorne
as Best Actor, and was nominated for several awards including Best Drama Serial. It was also nominated in the Royal Television Society
awards that year.
Mafham played the central character - a high tech assassin in the Swiss Alps stricken with a conscience - in Duncan Jones
first film 'Whistle'. The film gathered a cult following after showing at various international film festivals, but finally gained a larger audience when it was included on the DVD of Jones' first full length feature Moon
.
Mafham played Mortimer Lightwood in the BBC
's 1998 adaptation of Charles Dickens
' 'Our Mutual Friend
'. Much of the story is seen from Mortimer's perspective. 'Our Mutual Friend' was acclaimed worldwide, and won four BAFTA's including Best Serial. It was nominated for four more as well as awards from the Royal Television Society, the Broadcasting Press Guild
and The San Francisco International Film Festival.
Since then Mafham has appeared in over forty productions, including the films The English Patient
and Shooting Fish
; the ITV medical drama Always and Everyone
(A&E); the killer in the first episode of Foyles War; Kingdom
(as Stephen Fry
's errant brother Simon Kingdom), and The Clinic.
In Autumn 2011 Mafham joins the BBC drama Land Girls
as Dr Richard Channing.
was a multi award winning prime time Sunday night drama for RTE
in Ireland
. It ran for seven series from 2003-2009 to critical acclaim. Mafham played the womanising, scheming and manipulative English plastic surgeon Dan Woodhouse. He appeared in every episode.
. His menu earned him four out of five stars.
In February 2010, Mafham presented The Afternoon Show
, RTÉ television's flagship daytime show.
Mafham has been the voice of the World Vision
UK television campaign for several years.
From February 2011 Mafham played Osborne in the 2011 National Tour of David Grindley’s award winning production of RC Sherriff’s Journey's End
. The production transferred to the Duke of York's Theatre
in the West End in July 2011.
(2009) Nomination - Best Actor in a Leading Role
He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, opened by Laurence Olivier in 1946, is an affiliate of the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama, an organisation securing the highest standards of training in the performing arts, and is an associate school of the Faculty of Creative Arts of the University of the...
.
Dominic began his career at The Royal Shakespeare Company
Royal Shakespeare Company
The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The company employs 700 staff and produces around 20 productions a year from its home in Stratford-upon-Avon and plays regularly in London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and on tour across...
in 1990. He was with the RSC for four years.
He first came to prominence when he played Nigel Hawthorn's emotionally damaged son Daniel Pascoe in Paula Milne's The Fragile Heart. The drama was screened on Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
in the UK in 1996. It won the 1997 BAFTA award for Nigel Hawthorne
Nigel Hawthorne
Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne, CBE was an English actor, perhaps best remembered for his role as Sir Humphrey Appleby, the Permanent Secretary in the 1980s sitcom Yes Minister and the Cabinet Secretary in its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister. For this role he won four BAFTA Awards during the 1980s in the...
as Best Actor, and was nominated for several awards including Best Drama Serial. It was also nominated in the Royal Television Society
Royal Television Society
The Royal Television Society is a British-based educational charity for the discussion, and analysis of television in all its forms, past, present and future. It is the oldest television society in the world...
awards that year.
Mafham played the central character - a high tech assassin in the Swiss Alps stricken with a conscience - in Duncan Jones
Duncan Jones
Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones , also known as Zowie Bowie is an English film director, best known for directing the science fiction films Moon and Source Code .-Childhood and family life:...
first film 'Whistle'. The film gathered a cult following after showing at various international film festivals, but finally gained a larger audience when it was included on the DVD of Jones' first full length feature Moon
Moon (film)
Moon is a 2009 British science fiction drama film about a man who experiences a personal crisis as he nears the end of a three-year solitary stint mining helium-3 on the far side of the Earth's moon. It is the feature debut of director Duncan Jones. Sam Rockwell stars as the employee Sam Bell, and...
.
Mafham played Mortimer Lightwood in the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
's 1998 adaptation of Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic...
' 'Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining psychological insight with social analysis. It centres on, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller, "money, money, money, and what money can make of life" but is also about human...
'. Much of the story is seen from Mortimer's perspective. 'Our Mutual Friend' was acclaimed worldwide, and won four BAFTA's including Best Serial. It was nominated for four more as well as awards from the Royal Television Society, the Broadcasting Press Guild
Broadcasting Press Guild
The Broadcasting Press Guild is a British association of journalists who specialise in writing and broadcasting about television, radio and the media generally....
and The San Francisco International Film Festival.
Since then Mafham has appeared in over forty productions, including the films The English Patient
The English Patient (film)
The English Patient is a 1996 romantic drama film based on the novel of the same name by Sri Lankan-Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje. The film, written for the screen and directed by Anthony Minghella, won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture...
and Shooting Fish
Shooting Fish
Shooting Fish is a 1997 British film co-written by Richard Holmes and Stefan Schwartz. Holmes produced and Schwartz directed. It co-starred Dan Futterman and Stuart Townsend as two con men with Kate Beckinsale as their unwilling assistant. It was produced by Winchester Films and partly funded by...
; the ITV medical drama Always and Everyone
Always and Everyone
Always and Everyone was a British television drama that ran from 1999 to 2002. It dramatised the hectic everyday lives of the doctors and nurses running the Accident and Emergency department of the large, busy city hospital, St. Victor's. The series has never been released commercially on VHS or...
(A&E); the killer in the first episode of Foyles War; Kingdom
Kingdom (TV series)
Kingdom is a British television series produced by Parallel Film and Television Productions for the ITV network. It was created by Simon Wheeler and stars Stephen Fry as Peter Kingdom, a Norfolk solicitor who is coping with family, colleagues, and the strange locals who come to him for legal...
(as Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry
Stephen John Fry is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter and film director, and a director of Norwich City Football Club. He first came to attention in the 1981 Cambridge Footlights Revue presentation "The Cellar Tapes", which also...
's errant brother Simon Kingdom), and The Clinic.
In Autumn 2011 Mafham joins the BBC drama Land Girls
Land Girls (2009 TV series)
Land Girls is a British television period drama series, first broadcast on BBC One on 7 September 2009. Land Girls was created by Roland Moore and commissioned by the BBC to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. The programme was BBC Daytime's first commission of a...
as Dr Richard Channing.
The Clinic
The ClinicThe Clinic (TV series)
The Clinic is an award-winning Irish primetime television medical drama series produced by Parallel Film Productions for RTÉ. It debuted on RTÉ One in 2003 to positive reviews and proved to be one of the network's most popular shows. The show ran for seven seasons between September 2003 to November...
was a multi award winning prime time Sunday night drama for RTE
RTE
RTÉ is the abbreviation for Raidió Teilifís Éireann, the public broadcasting service of the Republic of Ireland.RTE may also refer to:* Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, 25th Prime Minister of Turkey...
in Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
. It ran for seven series from 2003-2009 to critical acclaim. Mafham played the womanising, scheming and manipulative English plastic surgeon Dan Woodhouse. He appeared in every episode.
Other work
Mafham appeared as a celebrity chef in the television series The RestaurantThe Restaurant
The Restaurant is a reality television series that aired on NBC in 2003, with a second season broadcasting in 2004. The series had encore presentations on CNBC and Bravo....
. His menu earned him four out of five stars.
In February 2010, Mafham presented The Afternoon Show
The Afternoon Show
The Afternoon Show was Raidió Teilifís Éireann's live flagship daytime show. It ran from 2004 until May 2010. The programme was dropped by RTÉ as part of its new season of television in 2010, to be replaced by two afternoon programmes 4 Daily presented by Maura Derrane and The Daily Show hosted by...
, RTÉ television's flagship daytime show.
Mafham has been the voice of the World Vision
World Vision
World Vision, founded in the USA in 1950, is an evangelical relief and development organization whose stated goal is "to follow our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in working with the poor and oppressed to promote human transformation, seek justice and bear witness to the good news of the Kingdom of...
UK television campaign for several years.
From February 2011 Mafham played Osborne in the 2011 National Tour of David Grindley’s award winning production of RC Sherriff’s Journey's End
Journey's End
Journey's End is a 1928 drama, the seventh of English playwright R. C. Sherriff. It was first performed at the Apollo Theatre in London by the Incorporated Stage Society on 9 December 1928, starring a young Laurence Olivier, and soon moved to other West End theatres for a two-year run...
. The production transferred to the Duke of York's Theatre
Duke of York's Theatre
The Duke of York's Theatre is a West End Theatre in St Martin's Lane, in the City of Westminster. It was built for Frank Wyatt and his wife, Violet Melnotte, who retained ownership of the theatre, until her death in 1935. It opened on 10 September 1892 as the Trafalgar Square Theatre, with Wedding...
in the West End in July 2011.
Awards and nominations
Irish Film and Television AwardsIrish Film and Television Awards
The Irish Film and Television Awards were first awarded in 2003. Its sole aim is to celebrate Ireland's notably talented film and television community...
(2009) Nomination - Best Actor in a Leading Role
External links
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- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0535582/ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0535582/
- http://www.rte.ie/tv/theclinic/ http://www.rte.ie/tv/theclinic/