Oliver Dimsdale’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro British actor
Is Actor 
Film actor 
Television actor 
From United Kingdom 
Type Film, TV, Stage & Radio 
Gender male
Birth 28 October 1972, Aylesbury, United Kingdom
Age: 47 years
Star sign Scorpio
Family
Spouse: Zoe Tapper 
Education
Eton College
Dragon School
Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Oliver Dimsdale (born 28 October 1972) is an English actor, known for portraying Louis Trevelyan in the BBC TV serial He Knew He Was Right.

Early life and education

Born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, he was brought up in Hertfordshire. Dimsdale is the son of a Swiss mother. He has a sister, Anna. He developed a stammer at age six which he has since partially brought under control through speech therapy. Dimsdale attended the Dragon School and then Eton College, and went on to study French and Economics at university. He trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, graduating in 1999.

Career

Dimsdale began his performing career at the age of thirteen in a radio play for the BBC. He has lent his voice to the radio productions In The Company of Men and Sharp Focus. His film credits include RocknRolla (2008), Cosi (2010) and the short film Pest.

On television, he played the lead roles of Louis Trevelyan in the 2004 adaptation of He Knew He Was Right, and Dr Felix Quinn in the 2008 ITV1 medical drama Harley Street. He has also made guest appearances in Doctors, Casualty and Lark Rise to Candleford.

Dimsdale is the co-founder and co-Artistic Director of Filter Theatre. His theatre work includes Great Expectations, The Changeling, Five Finger Exercise and The Tempest.

Personal life

Dimsdale married actress Zoe Tapper on 30 December 2008. In April 2011, she gave birth to their daughter, Ava.

Awards

Dimsdale won Best Fringe Performer in the 2002 Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards, for the Royal Exchange performance of Paul Herzberg’s The Dead Wait.

Theatre

  • Water, Lyric Hammersmith, October – November 2007
  • Pravda, Chichester Festival Theatre, September 2006 (playing Andrew May)
  • The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Cottesloe Theatre, March – April 2006, (playing Fat Prince)
  • Twelfth Night, Tricycle Theatre, September 2008 (playing Toby Belch)
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