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He was awarded Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to drama and charity in London, Greater London, England.

He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2011 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to drama.

On the TV special David Suchet on the Orient Express (2010), Suchet tells said one of his Great-Grandfathers was from Lithuania.

He received a honorary Doctorate from the Univeristy of Chichester (PHD in Theatre) - October 2008.

He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2002 Queen Elizabeth II's Birthday Honors List for his services to drama.

He was nominated for Broadway's 2000 Tony Award as Best Actor (Play) for portraying Antonio Salieri in a revival of Peter Shaffer's "Amadeus.".

Mayer in RKO 281 (1999), Cardinal Wolsey in Henry VIII (2003)), vampire nemesis Van Helsing in Dracula (2006) and Robert Maxwell in Maxwell (2007).

He was nominated for a 1997 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actor in a Play of 1996 for his performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?".

Suchet's memorable theatre incarnations have included Shakespearean interps of Iago in "Othello", Tybalt in "Romeo and Juliet", Caliban in "The Tempest" and the title role of "Timon of Athens," as well as vibrant classical roles such as George in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1996), as composer Salieri in "Amadeus" (1998), a mesmerizing performance that earned both Olivier and Tony nominations, as Joe Keller in "All My Sons" (2010), as James Tyrone in "Long Day's Journey Into Night" (2012) (and in the 2014 film), as Lady Bracknell in "The Importance of Being Earnest" (2015) (and in the 2015 film) and as Gregory Solomon in "The Price" (2019). Long wed to former actress Sheila Ferris, the couple has a son and daughter. His older brother is BBC newscaster-turned-journalist John Suchet.

He is best known as Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot (1989) on British television. He also appeared in the television movie of Agatha Christie's Thirteen at Dinner (1985) as Inspector Japp.

Widely regarded as one of the England's finest stage, screen and TV actors, short, stocky, balding David Suchet's international reputation has only grown over the years, greatly enhanced by his definitive interpretation of Agatha Christie's suave Belgian super-sleuth Hercule Poirot, a character he played for nearly 25 years in various TV episodes (1988-2013).

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This was followed by a versatile range of film roles that also express the width of his acting nationalities, such as a Middle Eastern terrorist in The Little Drummer Girl (1984), a Russian operative in The Falcon and the Snowman (1985), a French hunter in Harry and the Hendersons (1987), a Polish bishop in To Kill a Priest (1988) and the emperor Napoleon in Sabotage! (2000).

Suchet's masterful work in television roles also includes portrayals of historical, biblical, entertainment and fictional figures, such as Sigmund Freud in Freud (1984), news reporter William L.

His first cinematic detective was as a Greek inspector in the Disney mystery-comedy Trenchcoat (1983).

In classical tradition, his first television movie was Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities (1980).

He then studied for three years at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts and, after a significant route in repertory work, became a company member of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1973 where he evolved into one of its most dominant players.

In the 1970s Suchet also began to come into his own on British television.

He attended the National Youth Theatre in the 1960s.

Born in London on May 2, 1946, the son of actress Joan Patricia Jarché and renowned Lithuanian-Jewish obstetrician and gynecologist Jack Suchet, David, following boarding school, took an early desire in acting and was given a membership with the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain at age 16.