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Dominic Mafham (born 11 March 1968) is an English stage, film and television actor. He trained at the
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.


Career

Dominic Mafham trained at the National Youth Theatre and then the
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. Mafham began his career at The Royal Shakespeare Company in 1990. He was with the RSC for four years. Mafham first came to prominence when he played Nigel Hawthorne's emotionally damaged son Daniel Pascoe in Paula Milne's ''
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''. The drama was screened on
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in the UK in 1996. It won the 1997 BAFTA award for
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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
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's first film ''Whistle''. The film gathered a cult following after showing at various international film festivals, and finally gained a larger audience when it was included on the
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of Jones's first full-length feature ''
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''. Mafham played Mortimer Lightwood in the
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's 1998 adaptation of
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's '' Our Mutual Friend''. Much of the story is seen from Mortimer's perspective. ''Our Mutual Friend'' was acclaimed worldwide, and won four BAFTAs including Best Serial. It was nominated for four more BAFTAs, as well as awards from the Royal Television Society, the
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and the San Francisco International Film Festival. In 1999 he played Grahame Tranter in the '' Midsomer Murders'' episode "Death of a Stranger”. Since then, Mafham has appeared in more than 60 productions, including the films ''
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'' and ''
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'', and the ITV medical drama ''
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'' (''A&E''). He played the killer in the first episode of ''
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'',
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's errant brother Simon Kingdom in ''
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'', and Dr Richard Channing in the BBC World War Two drama '' Land Girls''. He also appeared in two episodes of ''
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'' and starred in '' The Clinic''. He appeared in ''Midsomer Murders'' “Not in My Backyard” as James Otley in 2011. His more recent television appearances includes the opening episode of the second series of the BBC drama ''
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'', playing General De Foix; an episode of the BBC series ''
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'', playing a Tory minister suspected of murder; and ''
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'' on
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and
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, as recurring character Chief Superintendent Shaw. His more recent feature films include playing Dr Wangel in ''Heart of Lightness'', a film directed by Jan Vardøen set in Arctic Norway based on Henrik Ibsen's play ''The Lady From The Sea''. He played Sir Horsa in ''Dragonheart, Druid's Curse'', the third in
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' ''
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'' series, directed by
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; and Guy 'Bullet Face' Bidwell in '' Sniper: Legacy'', a Sony Pictures film with
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, directed by
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. Mafham returned as Bidwell in the next instalment of the ''Sniper'' film series released in 2016. In February 2016 he appeared in the BBC TV series ''
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'' as Sir Malcolm Braithwaite in episode 4.6, "The Rod of Asclepius". Mafham appeared as Jerry Waldegrave, a guest lead, in the new HBO/BBC television series ''
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's detective novels. He played
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in Claire McCarthy's film ''
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''. The film stars
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, Clive Owen, George MacKay and
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. Mafham appeared in season three of ''
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'' playing Charles Kruger, the accountant to The Twelve. It was announced on 17 November 2021 that Mafham is filming '' Golda'' starring Helen Mirren. Academy Award winner Guy Nattiv directs. Mafham plays
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, the general responsible for the southern front in the Yom Kippur war of 1973.


''The Clinic''

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Theatre and other work

From February 2011 Mafham played Osborne, to critical acclaim, in the 2011 National Tour of David Grindley's award-winning production of RC Sherriff's ''
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''. The production transferred to the
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in the West End in July 2011. Mafham received an award nomination for Best Supporting Actor In spring 2015 Mafham played Antonio in ''
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'' at
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Theatre.
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played Shylock. The production was revived for a major tour in 2016, visiting New York, Washington and Chicago in the U.S. and several cities in China before returning to Shakespeare's Globe in October and culminating in a run in Venice at the Teatro Goldoni. The production received rave reviews. In autumn 2017 Mafham appeared in ''
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'' (as Albany), at the
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. Ian McKellen played Lear and featured Sinéad Cusack as a female Kent. The production transferred to the West End in 2018. In October 2011 Mafham took part in the new Bush Theatre's inaugural event Sixty-Six Books, in a two-handed play by
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based on the
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. The play's title was ''James Oliver'' and he starred opposite
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. Mafham appeared as a celebrity chef in the television series '' The Restaurant''. His menu earned four out of five stars. In February 2010, Mafham guest-presented ''
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'', RTÉ television's flagship daytime show. Mafham has been the voice of the
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UK television campaign for several years, and is a widely used voice-over artist. He has recorded several books for
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. On 6 June 2014 Mafham took part in the BBC Radio 2
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70th-anniversary concert at the Royal Albert Hall. The concert was broadcast live on Radio 2 and at over 150 cinemas across the UK. The event was presented by
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. Sir
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. Mafham appeared in the play ''Linda'', written by Penelope Skinner and directed by Michael Longhurst, which opened on 26 November 2015 at the
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in London. He played Neil, the husband of Linda, played by
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who replaced
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after she left the production in the final week of rehearsals, citing "doctor's orders".


Radio

Mafham has appeared in several radio plays including the BBC Millennium Shakespeare production of ''Hamlet'', playing Laertes. He played
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in the
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adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel of the same name; Hugh Cazalet in the mammoth serialisation of
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's wartime saga ''The Cazalets''; the Duke of Buckingham in the dramatisations of ''The Stuarts'', and most recently Geoffrey Marshall, a factory owner in Tyneside, in the Radio 4 series ''
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''. He has also contributed to the BBC Radio 3 programme ''Words and Music'' twice, most recently in August 2021 in the episode themed 'The Dance'.


''Doctor Who''

Mafham appeared in the Big Finish audio ''Companion Chronicle'' adventure ''
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'' which was a two hander with
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. He featured in the fourth ''Doctor'' adventures with
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, ''The
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Contract'' and ''The Final Phase'', released in June and July 2013.


Awards and nominations

* Irish Film & Television Awards (2009) nomination – Best Actor in a Leading Role, ''The Clinic'' * Broadway World Awards (2011) nomination – Best Actor in a Featured Role, ''Journey's End''


References


External links

*
Official site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mafham, Dominic 1968 births Living people English male stage actors English male television actors English male film actors Royal Shakespeare Company members Alumni of Bristol Old Vic Theatre School Actors from Staffordshire People from Stafford 20th-century English male actors 21st-century English male actors National Youth Theatre members