Nick Dunning (born 1957 in London) is an English actor.
He is a well known theatre actor who attended RADA (Dip Hons) 1977, where he won the Ronson Prize for Most Promising Young Actor. He has appeared on stage in the West End in London and at the Gate Theatre in Dublin. He has won two Irish Times Theatre Awards. He has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Court Theatre. To date, he is best known for his role as Thomas Boleyn in The Tudors, a Showtime original series, for which he won an IFTA award for Best Supporting Actor. He has also appeared in numerous popular British TV shows such as Waking the Dead, Kavanagh QC, and the Midsomer Murders episode Death's Shadow. Coronation Street. He is currently starring in a production of Dangerous Liaisons at the Gate Theatre.
As head of development at (defunct) website www.screenwritingonthenet.com, he wrote two books on screenwriting. He also wrote the screenplay for The Lorelei, directed by Terry Johnson, BBC Screen Two. He has developed several works for TV. He is currently writing a play with the Gate Theatre and developing a screenplay with a freelance TV and film director.
Dunning attended a private school in London and a comprehensive school in Leicester. He actually went to Coppets Wood Primary School in North London, before going to Woodhouse Grammar in North Finchley in 1968,
and from there, moved to Minchenden School in Southgate in about 1970.
Dunning has been married to Lise-Anne McLaughlin since 1992. Their children are Kitty and Phoebe. He lives in Dalkey, Dublin.
2023
as Eunan Brady
2023
as Television Newsreader
2021
as Drake
2021
as Chief Dunning (voice)
2020
as Superintendent Stirling
2019
as Michael Horgan
2018
as William Napier
2017
as Dr. Bangs
2016
as General Lazer
2014
as Malachy Griffin
2013
as William Bayley
2012
as Jim
2012
as Lord charles wimsgrove
2012
as Preacher Dyke Garrett
2010
as Peter Dixon
2009
as Dr. Hersbach
2008
as Doctor
2008
as Vic Hallums
2007
as Colonel Ferguson
2007
as Thomas Boleyn
2004
as Attalus
2003
as Tony
2003
as Gynaecologist
2002
2001
as Declan Keane
1998
as Wenham
1997
as Jack Cornelius
1997
as Ian Eastman
1995
as Dad
1995
as Simon Bayliss
1994
as 1st Hotel Guy/Smiler
1994
as Jack Carlyon
1993
as Tony Byard
1992
1991
as Faulkner
1991
as David Freeman
1991
as Barry
1991
as Frank Bromley
1990
1989
as Simon
1987
as Alistair
1986
as Jack Paice
1986
as Brian Harper
1984
1982
as TV Reporter
1982
as Chris (as Nick Durring)
1979
as Keef