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My Take
Daniel Mays is the definition of an actor's actor, the man you've seen in everything from Line of Duty to Rogue One without ever quite registering as a star, which is its own kind of skill. He's danced between gritty British TV, Mike Leigh films like Vera Drake, and big studio fare without losing that twitchy, working-class authenticity. I love that his face carries instant working-man credibility; casting directors clearly trust him to ground a scene. He rarely gets the lead, but he elevates whatever he's in. England has a deep bench of character actors, and Mays is near the top of it.
Overview
Daniel Mays (born 31 March 1978) is an English actor who has had television roles in EastEnders (2000), Rehab (2005), Red Riding (2008), Ashes to Ashes (2010), Outcasts (2011), Mrs Biggs, Line of Duty, Des and White Lines (2020), and film roles in Pearl Harbor (2001), All or Nothing (2002), Vera Drake (2004), Shifty, Made in Dagenham, Byzantium (2012), Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) and The Thursday Murder Club…
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Daniel Mays
- Name (Japanese)
- ダニエル・メイズ
- Reading
- だにえる・めいず
- Born
- March 31, 1978 (age 48)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aries / Horse
- Origin
- Epping, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / stage actor / film actor / television actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttps://www.danielmays.co.uk/
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%83%8B%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%82%BA
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.