# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-suchet
# Generated: 2026-09-01T09:18:57.443Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born 2 May 1946, David Suchet built his career on stage first, earning nine Olivier Award nominations over decades of theatre work. Television brought wider notice: he played Edward Teller in Oppenheimer in 1980, then won RTS and BPG awards for Augustus Melmotte in The Way We Live Now in 2001. But it was Agatha Christie's Poirot, which he inhabited from 1989 to 2013, that made him internationally recognizable — a performance so committed it earned him a 1991 BAFTA nomination for Best Actor and turned him into the standard against which all other Poirots are measured. He was knighted for services to drama and charity.