David Suchet

English actor

  • Fame60.5
  • Momentum1.4
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Born 1946 · age 80United Kingdom

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  • Age
    80
    Born 1946
  • Known for
    Flushed Away
    2006
Summary
Updated 2026-08-30

For a generation, he didn't just play Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot — he became the definitive version, holding the role across 24 years and fixing the fastidious Belgian detective in the public mind more completely than any actor before or since.

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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 servic…

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  • Knight Bachelor
  • Commander of the Order of the British Empire
  • Malice Domestic Poirot Award
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60.5
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Momentum1.4
Historical26.9
Source confidence70.0
Completeness80.0
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