Darrell Fitzgerald D'Silva is a British actor, best known for his role as Hendrik Davie in ITV series ''

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'' and notable for his work with the

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Early life and education

Darrell Fitzgerald D'Silva was born in

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. D'Silva was part of the 1980s

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music scene, playing with

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and Hula before becoming an actor. He graduated from the

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Career

Stage

D'Silva first joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in 1996 to play Kilroy in Steven Pimlott's production of

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's '' Camino Real''. He has appeared in plays with the company for over 20 years, touring the world, and was made associate artist in 2011. His work at the

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includes ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''Closer''.

Film and television

From 1995 to 1996, he was a regular on the BBC crime drama '' Out of the Blue''. In 2006, he played Johann Lindeman, captain of the ''Gouverneur Generaal Loudon'', a ship that survived the 1883 explosion of Krakatoa in the BBC docu-drama '' Krakatoa: The Last Days''. In 2014, he played Gunnar in Northmen: A Viking Saga. In 2015, he played Max Scullion in ''

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'' episode 3.5 "The Last Man" and in 2016 he played Geoff Craven in '' Endeavour'' episode 3.3 "Prey", and an Ironborn in the

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series ''

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'' in

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. In 2018, he appeared in three episodes of the six-episode BBC drama miniseries ''

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''. Since 2020, D'Silva stars as hard drinking, saxophone playing pathologist Hendrik Davie in Company Pictures' relaunch of ''

''. In 2021, he played the part of Mike in

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's action thriller ''

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'', starring

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. In the same year, he acted as

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in the TV series '' Domina''. He also starred in a series of

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s. ''Show Pieces'' was written by

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and directed by

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; ''Jimmy's End'' and ''His Heavy Heart'' were written by Moore as introduction sections to a much larger project planned by Moore and Jenkins called ''

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''.

Awards

D'Silva was nominated in 2016 for ''

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for most Outstanding Performance for his role as Siward in ''Dunsinane'' by David Greig.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:D'Silva, Darrel Living people 1964 births British male stage actors British male film actors British male television actors Actors from Rotherham Male actors from South Yorkshire Alumni of the Drama Centre London English people of Portuguese descent English people of Italian descent English people of Dutch descent English people of Greek descent English people of French descent