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Liam Cunningham, born in Dublin, Ireland on the 2nd of June 1961, is an Irish stage and screen actor. His debut film role came in Into the West (1992), where he played a police officer. His on-screen acting continued with roles in War of the Buttons (1994), and A Little Princess (1995), before making his role as Phillotson in Jude (1996). He continued with character roles in Falling for a Dancer  (1998), RKO 281 (1999), Shooting the Past (1999), When the Sky Falls (2000) and Stranded (2002). Cunningham came to international prominence with his role as Captain Ryan in the critically acclaimed, independent horror film, Dog Soldiers (2002).

Cunningham starred in well-received films such as The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival; Hunger; The Escapist (both 2008); The Guard ; and Black Butterflies (both 2011). He also had roles in many high budget British and American films including The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005), The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008), Harry Brown (2009), Clash of the Titans, Centurion (both 2010). On television, he appeared as President Richard Tate in the BBC programme Outcasts. Cunningham was producer Philip Segal’s first choice to portray the eighth doctor in the TV movie of Doctor Who (1996), but was vetoed by Fox executives.

In 2012, Cunningham joined the main cast for the second season of HBO's Game of Thrones portraying former smuggler Davos Seaworth, and in 2013 he starred in The Numbers Station alongside John Cusack. He was also cast in season 5 of the BBC series Merlin as a sorcerer. He featured in the music video for "High Hopes" by Irish alternative rock band Kodaline from their EP The High Hopes. In April 2013, he appeared in the seventh series of Doctor Who in the episode "Cold War", where he played Captain Zhukov, the commander of a Russian submarine in 1983 facing one of the Ice Warriors. He guest starred in the second season of the VH1 television series Stay Closer, with Sandra Bullock and Jessica Chastain. In 2015, Cunningham played the father in Brady Corbet's directorial debut film, The Childhood of a Leader. In 2021, Cunningham starred in the SKY’s historical limited drama series, Domina.

FILMOGRAPHY

2021 Masters of the Universe: Revelation (TV Series)
Man-At-Arms / Duncan / Hooded Pilgrim (5 episodes)

2021 Domina (TV Series)
Livius (8 episodes)

 2020 The Vault
Walter Moreland

2019 Rick and Morty (TV Series)
Balthromar (voice - 1 episode)

 2019 The Hot Zone (TV Mini-Series)
Wade Carter

2012-2019 Game of Thrones (TV Series)
Davos Seaworth (42 episodes)

2017 Electric Dreams (TV Series)
General Olin (1 episode)

 2017 24 Hours to Live
Wetzler

 2016 Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel (Short)
Willie McNeive

 2016 Fir Bolg (TV Series)
Gerry Burke (1 episode)

 2015 The Childhood of a Leader
The Father

 2015 Dusha shpiona
Hillsman

 2015 Pursuit
Fionn

 2015 Ladygrey
Angus

 2015 The Musketeers (TV Series)
Belgard (1 episode)

 2014 I Am Here (Short)
Father

 2014 Let Us Prey
Six

 2014 Noble
Thomas

 2013 Vera (TV Series)
Sam Harper (1 episode)

 2013 SLR (Short)
Elliot Pane

 2013 The Square of the Cube (Short)
Narrator (voice)

 2013 Doctor Who (TV Series)
Captain Zhukov (1 episode)

 2013 The Numbers Station
Grey

 2013 Kodaline: High Hopes (Video short)
Man

 2012 Merlin (TV Series)
Ruadan (2 episodes)

 2012 Good Vibrations
Davy

 2012 Titanic: Blood and Steel (TV Mini-Series)
Jim Larkin

 2012 Safe House
Alec Wade

 2011 War Horse
Army Doctor

 2011 Pitch Black Heist (Short)
Liam

 2011 Strike Back (TV Series)
Daniel Connolly (2 episodes)

 2011 The Silence of Joan
Le capitaine anglais

 2011 Camelot (TV Series)
Colfur (1 episode)

 2011 Outcasts (TV Mini-Series)
Richard Tate

 2011 Black Butterflies
Jack Cope

 2011 The Guard
Francis Sheehy-Skeffington

 2010 The Whistleblower
Bill Hynes

 2010 Clash of the Titans
Solon

 2010 Centurion
Brick

 2009 Harry Brown
Sid Rourke

 2009 Perrier's Bounty
The Mutt

 2009 The Tournament
Powers

 2009 The Street (TV Series)
Tom Miller (1 episode)

 2009 Blood: The Last Vampire
Michael Harrison

 2008 The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Maguire

 2008 Atlantic (Short)
Matt

 2008 Paris Noir (Short)
Douglas

 2008 Hunger
Father Dominic Moran

 2008 The Escapist
Brodie

 2007 The Catherine Tate Show (TV Series)
Father (1 episode)

 2007 Anner House (TV Movie)
Neil Barry

 2007 Northanger Abbey (TV Movie)
General Tilney

 2007 The Wild West (TV Mini-Series)
Wyatt Earp

 2006 Afterlife (TV Series)
Jonathan (1 episode)

 2006 Murphy's Law (TV Series)
Drew Johnstone (3 episodes)

 2006 Showbands II (TV Movie)
Tony Golden

 2006 Last Night (Short)
Frank

 2006 The Wind that Shakes the Barley
Dan

 2006 Hotel Babylon (TV Series)
Adrian McBride (1 episode)

 2005 The Clinic (TV Series)
Malcolm Keown (5 episodes)

 2005 Breakfast on Pluto
1st Biker

 2005 The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
Director

 2005 Showbands (TV Movie)
Tony Golden

 2004 Messiah: The Promise (TV Mini-Series)
Pace Tierney

 2004 The Card Player
John Brennan

 2003 The Crooked Man (TV Movie)
Hamilton

 2003 Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness (TV Mini-Series)
Robert West

 2003 Mystics
Sean Foley

 2003 Final Demand (TV Movie)
David Milner

 2002 Shadow Man (Short)

 2002 The Abduction Club
John Power

 2002 Dog Soldiers
Capt. Ryan

 2002 Stranded (TV Movie)
David Robinson

 2001 Superintendent Winter (TV Series)
MacDonald (2 episodes)

 2001 The Island of the Mapmaker's Wife
John Wyndham

 2001 Revelation
Ft. Ray Connolly

 2001 Attila (TV Mini-Series)
King Theodoric

 2001 Rebel Heart (TV Mini-Series)
Michael Malone

 2000 A Likeness in Stone (TV Movie)
Bill Armstrong

 2000 The Second Death (Short)
James Mangan

 2000 When the Sky Falls
John Cosgrave

 1999 RKO 281 (TV Movie)
Gregg Toland

 1999 A Love Divided
Sean Cloney

 1999 Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke (TV Mini-Series)
Alec Cunningham-Reid

 1999 Shooting the Past (TV Movie)
Christopher Anderson

 1998 Falling for a Dancer (TV Movie)
Mossie Sheehan

 1998 Sweety Barrett
Detective Bone

 1997 Police 2020
DCI Billy O'Connell

 1997 The Life of Stuff
Alex Sneddon

 1996 Jude
Phillotson

 1994-1995 Roughnecks (TV Series)
Chris (13 episodes)

 1995 Cracker (TV Series)
Stuart Grady / Grady (2 episodes)

 1995 First Knight
Agravaine

 1995 A Little Princess
Capt. Crewe / Prince Rama

 1994 Undercurrent
Greg Laughton

 1994 War of the Buttons
The Master

 1993 A Handful of Stars (TV Movie)
Stapler

 1993 Poor Beast in the Rain (TV Movie)
Danger Doyle

1992 Heaven Only Knows (Short)
Paul Clarke

 1992 Into the West
Policeman