David Oakes
Born	Rowan David Oakes 14 October 1983 (1983-10-14) (age 26)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2007–present
Official website

David Oakes (born 1983, Fordingbridge, New Forest, England) is a British actor. He attended the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School^[1] from 2005 to 2007. He is the son of a Church of England Canon and a Professional Musician.

David has just been cast as William Hamleigh in the new television adaptation of Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth to be produced by Ridley Scott's production company^[2].

Contents 1 Career 1.1 Television 1.2 Radio 1.3 Stage 2 Interesting facts 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Career

[edit] Television

Year	Channel / Production Company	Title	Role	Other notes
2009	Scott Free / Tandem Communications	The Pillars of the Earth	William Hamleigh	In Production
2009	ITV2 / Roughcut TV[3]	Trinity	Ross Bonham
2009	Channel Four	Henry VIII: Mind of a Tyrant	George Cavendish
2008	BBC Four	Walter's War	Oswald Hennessey
2008	BBC One	Bonekickers	Alfred Lord Tennyson	Episode 6, Follow the Gleam

[edit] Radio

• 2008: A Dance to the Music of Time as Charles Stringham (BBC Radio 4)

[edit] Stage

David was most recently seen on stage as Raleigh in Journey's End at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester:

"David Oakes's beautifully measured performance as Raleigh - the young, newly arrived officer who has managed to get himself placed under the command of his boyhood hero, Stanhope, three years his senior at school - has an effeminate, coy emphasis." ^[4] Dominic Cavendish, The Daily Telegraph, 30 Apr 2008

Later that year the show was reported as one of the top ten shows of 2008 by The Daily Telegraph:

"Sometimes a regional theatre gets it spot-on. Tony Casement's revival of R. C. Sherriff's monument to the First World War slain at the Mercury Colchester gave us ensemble playing at its nuanced best, catching the doomed soldiers' inward terror and outward British bravado to perfection." ^[5] 17 Dec 2008

• 2009: All The Little Things We Crushed (World Premiere) by Joel Horwood as Hugh (Almeida Theatre, London)
• 2008: Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller as Mortimer (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh)
• 2008: Journey's End by R. C. Sherriff as Raleigh (Mercury Theatre, Colchester)
• 2008: Old Vic New Voices: The Twenty-four Hour Plays as Davide (Old Vic Theatre)
• 2007: We the People (World Premiere) by Eric Schlosser as Charles Pinckney and Gunning Bedford Jnr (Shakespeare's Globe)
• 2007: Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare as Dumaine (Shakespeare's Globe & International Tour)

David is a founding member of the Theatre Company DOG ATE CAKE^[6], a company dedicated to reinterpreting Victorian Farce and undiscovered comedy.

[edit] Interesting facts

• David is an avid follower of Folk Music, and continues to support the Bristol Folk Group Sheelanagig.

• He is also a successful Theatre Director creating shows for various festivals as well as assisting on shows at the Birmingham Rep and Manchester's Contact Theatre.

• He plays both the Clarinet and Bass Clarinet, and is a strong Bass singer.

• He was Head Boy at Bishop Wordsworth's School and graduated with a first in English Literature from the University of Manchester.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• David Oakes at the Internet Movie Database
• David Oakes at the London Theatre Database
• David Oakes Artist's Website

Persondata
NAME	Oakes, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rowan
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actor
DATE OF BIRTH	14 October 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH	Salisbury, England
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH