Daniel Mays

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.

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

Occupation

actor / stage actor / film actor / television actor

• Official sitehttps://www.danielmays.co.uk/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Mays
• 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
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q579571

Tags

• actor
• stage actor
• film actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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