Daniel Mays
Birthday: 1978-03-31
Place of Birth: Epping, Essex, England, UK
Biography: Daniel Mays was born on March 31, 1978 in Epping, Essex, England as Daniel Alan Mays. He is an actor, known for The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (2011), The Bank Job (2008) and Atonement (2007). He has performed five plays at the Royal Court Theatre in London including two in the theatre's 50th Anniversary year in parts that were specifically written for him. He won the Best Actor prize at the Palmare Television Festival 2003 for his performance in the hard hitting improvised BBC film Rehab. He has made two films with the acclaimed British director Mike Leigh. All or Nothing (2002) and the 1950s abortion drama, Vera Drake (2004), which received 3 Academy Award Nominations, the Golden Lion Award for Best Film, 3 Bafta Awards and 6 British Independent Film Awards including Best British Independent Film. Son of Toni Mays.
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The Secret Life of Words
A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig....
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Vera Drake
Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a con...
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Shifty
Shifty, a young crack cocaine dealer in London, sees his life quickly spiral out of control when his...
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The Firm
Set in the 1980s, Dom is a teenager who finds himself drawn into the charismatic world of football '...
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The Bank Job
Terry is a small-time car dealer trying to leave his shady past behind and start a family. Martine i...
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A Good Year
Failed London banker Max Skinner inherits his uncle's vineyard in Provence, where he spent many chil...
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All or Nothing
Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and...
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Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Nanny McPhee appears at the door of a harried young mother who is trying to run the family farm whil...
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Made in Dagenham
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out i...
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The Adventures of Tintin
Intrepid young reporter, Tintin, and his loyal dog, Snowy, are thrust into a world of high adventure...
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Middletown
Having spent most of his life in religious instruction, Gabriel returns to his hometown as its new p...
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Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
A band of fearless chickens flock together to save poultry-kind from an unsettling new threat: a nea...
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Consuming Passion
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the popular romance publishing phenomenon Mills & Boon, a colou...
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Class of '76
Inspector Tom Monroe (Robert Carlyle) investigates the mysterious death of several people that the o...
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Welcome to the Punch
When notorious criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London, it gives detective Max Lewins...
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Dead Casual
The only things Wayne cares about are that Chelsea wins at the football, how much beer there is in t...
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Byzantium
Residents of a coastal town learn, with deadly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious...
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Mrs Biggs
The true story of Charmian Biggs (née Powell), the rebellious product of a strict 1950s upbringing, ...
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Your Christmas or Mine 2
They've swapped Christmas – again. Can Hayley and James' relationship survive another turbulent fami...
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Maryland
Two women named Mary -- both recently sexually assaulted by the same man -- meet at the police stati...
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The Rhythm Section
When she discovers the plane crash that claimed the lives of her family was no accident, Stephanie P...
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Common
When 17-year-old Johnjo gives his cousin and his friends a lift, he finds himself implicated in a st...
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White Girl
Debbie, a working class single mother from Leeds, moves her family to Bradford, where they find them...
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Victor Frankenstein
Eccentric scientist Victor Von Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific...
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Mr. Nobody
Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mort...
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The Infiltrator
A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar....
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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
Yorkshire, 1974. Fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie jou...
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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
Detective Chief Superintendent Maurice Jobson is forced to remember the very similar disappearance o...
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Dad's Army
A cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad's Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon de...
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Atonement
As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives whe...
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The Thursday Murder Club
A group of senior sleuths passionate about solving cold cases get plunged into a real-life murder my...
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Rehab
TV drama - following Adam Bishop, a petty criminal, as he leaves prison for a drugs rehabilitation p...
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Half Broken Things
A middle aged house-sitter meets two tearaways, and together they form a surrogate family...
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Beneath the Skin
Based on the chilling novel by Nicci French, a police officer struggles to unravel the murderous plo...
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The Limehouse Golem
A series of murders has shaken the community to the point where people believe that only a legendary...
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Pearl Harbor
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the ...
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Consent
Work colleagues Becky and Steve get drunk at a work party at an up-market hotel and end up having se...
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Against the Law
United Kingdom, March 24, 1954. Ten years before the decriminalization of homosexuality, journalist ...
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The Best Man
When writer's block derails the literary dreams of Olly Pickering, he has to move in with his friend...
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a mission to steal the Death Star plans and bring a ne...
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Two for Joy
A troubled family's problems come to a head during a stay in a seaside town....
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Swimming with Men
A man who is suffering a mid-life crisis finds new meaning in his life as part of an all-male, middl...
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Mother's Day
On the day before Mother's Day 1993, Colin and Wendy Parry's lives are torn apart when their younges...
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Fisherman's Friends
Ten fishermen from Cornwall are signed by Universal Records and achieve a top ten hit with their deb...
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My Dinner with Hervé
An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor H...
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The Interrogation of Tony Martin
Norfolk, England, 1999. During three days, farmer Tony Martin is questioned by police following the ...
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1917
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deli...
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The Kemps: All True
Spandau Ballet global superstars Gary and Martin Kemp, their lives, and their careers....
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Your Christmas or Mine?
Students Hayley and James are young and in love. After saying goodbye for Christmas at a London trai...
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Saddam's Tribe
The invasion of Iraq in 2003 brought a dramatic end to Saddam Hussein's brutal regime. But behind th...
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The Awakening
Intrigued by waking up daily with muddy feet, a clean-living man records himself sleeping, with nigh...
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Shelter
Mason lives in recluse at a remote setting by the sea. When he chooses to rescue a young girl from d...
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Treasure Island
In this adaptation of the classic adventure novel, young Jim Hawkins is the only one who can direct ...
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