# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-threlfall
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:10:55.254Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-threlfall"
name: "David Threlfall"
slug: "david-threlfall"
description: "David John Threlfall is an English stage, film and television actor and director. He is best known for playing Frank Gallagher in Channel 4's series Shameless. He has also directed several episodes of the show. In April 2014, he portrayed comedian Tommy Cooper in a television film entitled Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This. In 2014, he starred alongside Jude Law in the thriller Black Sea. In 2024 he played Paul Peveril in the six-part BBC drama Nightsleeper."
tagline: "English stage, film and television actor and director (born 1953)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Threlfall_in_character_2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1953-10-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.008802816901408451
  historical:           14.51104133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0861915/"
    handle:    "nm0861915"
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    title: "David Threlfall"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump