David Oakes

Rowan David Oakes (born 14 October 1983) is an English actor and environmentalist. He is best known for his roles in the series The Pillars of the Earth, The Borgias, The White Queen and Victoria and for his discursive Natural History podcast, Trees A Crowd.

David Oakes
Oakes in 2011
Born	Rowan David Oakes[1] 14 October 1983 Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
Alma mater	Bristol Old Vic Theatre School University of Manchester
Occupation	Actor, Artist, Presenter
Years active	2008–present
Website	www.davidoakes.co.uk

Early life and education

Oakes was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire in 1983,[2] the son of Jeremy Charles Oakes, a Church of England canon[3] and Fiona Brockhurst (née Cunningham), a professional musician. He grew up in Fordingbridge, Hampshire.[4]

Oakes was head boy at Bishop Wordsworth's School, in Salisbury, where he was also heavily involved with the Salisbury Playhouse and their youth theatre, Stage 65. He graduated with a First in English Literature from the University of Manchester.[3]

He attended the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School from 2005 to 2007.[5]

Career

David began his career at Shakespeare’s Globe, before taking roles at the Almeida Theatre and the Old Vic, but he came to prominence when he played the villainous William Hamleigh in the television miniseries The Pillars of the Earth (2010), produced by Ridley Scott's production company.[6] David was present to accept the Jury Prize at the 2011 Romy Awards in Vienna alongside Donald Sutherland and Natalia Wörner.

The following year, Oakes was cast in the television series The Borgias (2011), airing on Showtime.[7] He played Juan Borgia opposite Jeremy Irons. Whilst shooting the second season, David performed a cameo in the sequel to The Pillars of the Earth, World Without End (2012).

Continuing a career on television playing morally dubious characters, Oakes had a role in The White Queen for BBC One and Starz playing George, Duke of Clarence. It was broadcast in mid-2013.

In an attempt to distance himself from his "TV Period Bad Boy" image, in 2013 David played Mr Darcy in an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice at Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park. He said, "I've been playing bad guys back to back, so Darcy's a bit of an antidote!"[8] He followed this by more stage work, appearing in the world premiere of Shakespeare in Love at the Noël Coward Theatre as Christopher Marlowe.

In a return to TV period dramas in 2015, Oakes guest-starred in both the third season of Endeavour with Shaun Evans and in BBC's limited series The Living and the Dead with Colin Morgan.

The role of Prince Ernest, brother of Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert, went to Oakes in 2016 in the ITV series Victoria. The role reunited Oakes with his Trinity co-star Tom Hughes, and Pillars of the Earth co-star Rufus Sewell.

In 2017, Oakes starred in the film adaptation of Albert Sánchez Piñol's novel Cold Skin, directed by Xavier Gens and co-starring Ray Stevenson and Aura Garrido. He also starred as Thomas Novachek in the London West End premiere of David Ives's play Venus in Fur at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. This production was directed by Patrick Marber and co-starred Natalie Dormer as Vanda.[9]

In 2019, Oakes continued his love for playing in open air venues by playing Hamlet at Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre, York. Critics were united in their praise of his Hamlet, saying that he “plays Hamlet with natural ease: he is clearly comfortable with the cadences of the language and he conveys meaning well.”[10] “David Oakes’s interpretation of the Danish Prince is charming, clever and quick-witted...”,[11] “...establishes an excellent rapport with the audience... and his final rising to the role of hero-avenger is splendidly done...”[12] and that his performance was ”...elegant in movement, golden tongued, sometimes still, yet as likely to surprise as quicksand, witty, bright yet brittle.”[13]

On 26 Jan 2021, it was announced Oakes was to play Earl Godwin in Vikings: Valhalla for Netflix, the spin-off of the hit show Vikings.

Television

Year	Title	Role	Director	Channel	Notes
2008	Bonekickers	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Iain B. MacDonald	BBC One	Episode 6 "Follow the Gleam"
	Walter's War	Oswald Hennessey	Alrick Riley	BBC Four	Television movie
2009	Henry VIII: The Mind of a Tyrant	George Cavendish		Channel 4	Episode 3 "Lover"
	Trinity	Ross Bonham	Colin Teague	ITV2	Episodes 1, 2, 3
2010	The Pillars of the Earth	Lord William Hamleigh	Sergio Mimica-Gezzan	Starz Channel 4	TV miniseries nominated for several TV Emmys and Golden Globe Awards
2011–2012	The Borgias	Juan Borgia	Neil Jordan, John Maybury, David Leland, John Amiel, Kari Skogland, Jeremy Podeswa et al.	Showtime Sky Atlantic	Season 1 & 2
2012	World Without End	Bishop Henri	Michael Caton-Jones	Channel 4	The sequel to The Pillars of the Earth. David appears as a secret cameo alongside Charlotte Riley. David was back in Budapest filming The Borgias, so the producers of World Without End thought it would be a fun 'nod' to the original series.
2013	Ripper Street	Victor Silver	Andy Wilson	BBC BBC America	Episode 8 What Use Our Work?
	The White Queen	George, Duke of Clarence	James Kent, Jamie Payne and Colin Teague	BBC Starz	Episodes 1 - 7
2014	Kim Philby: His Most Intimate Betrayal	Kim Philby		BBC2	Two-part drama documentary by Ben MacIntyre
2015	Endeavour	Jocelyn "Joss" Bixby	Sandra Goldbacher	ITV & Mammoth Productions	Season 3: "Ride"
	The Living and the Dead	William Payne	Sam Donovan	BBC	Episodes 4 - 6
2016–2017	Victoria	Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha	Tom Vaughan, Sandra Goldbacher, Oliver Blackburn, Lisa James Llarsson, Geoff Saxe, Jim Loach & Daniel O'Hara	ITV & Mammoth Productions	Season 1 and 2
2021	Vikings: Valhalla	Earl Godwin		Netflix

Film

Year	Title	Role	Producer/Director	Notes
2012	Truth or Dare	Justin	Corona Pictures / Rob Heath	Also known as "Truth or Die" in the USA
	100Dniowk@	David Potter	Agresywna Banda / Alessandro Leone	Polish-language feature film – for which David learned Polish
2013	Love By Design	Adrian	Solar Junction / Michael Damien	Romantic comedy with Jane Seymour and Olivia Hallinan
	Goblin?	Harry	Multi Story Film / Christian James	Short film with Holliday Grainger
	Who Shall I Play With Now?	Gregory	Dog Ate Cake / Henry Bell	UK premiere on 29 June 2013 at the Wimbledon Shorts Festival
2014	Sins of a Father	Martin	Sea Lion Films / Andrew Piddington	A partially re-shot, re-edited version of the 1991 film Shuttlecock with Alan Bates and Lambert Wilson
2015	Night Feed	Husband	Channel 4 / Christian James	A short film made by Channel 4 with Alice Lowe for Film Four Frightfest
2017	Cold Skin	Friend	Babieka / Xavier Gens	An adaptation of the novel co-starring Ray Stevenson
2018	The Garden of Evening Mists	Frederick	HBO Asia / Tom Lin	An adaptation of Tan Twan Eng's Booker Prize winning novel, also starring John Hannah, nominated for 9 Golden Horse awards
2019	You	Brandon Miller	Moolmore / Nicola Abbatangelo

Radio

• Oakes has performed with The Fitzrovia Radio Hour
• 2008: A Dance to the Music of Time as Charles Stringham (BBC Radio 4)
• 2017: Foiled as Richie (BBC Radio Wales)—written by David Charles and Beth Granville, based on the Edinburgh Fringe show of the same name
• 2018: Season two of Foiled
• 2019: Season three of Foiled
• 2021: Season four of Foiled

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Theatre	Director
2006	Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare	Claudio & Verges	Royal Shakespeare Company & Bristol Old Vic Theatre School	John Hartoch
2007	Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare	Dumaine	Shakespeare's Globe & International Tour	Dominic Dromgoole
	We the People (world premiere) by Eric Schlosser	Charles Pinckney & Gunning Bedford Jnr	Shakespeare's Globe	Charlotte Westenra
2008	Old Vic New Voices: The Twenty-four Hour Plays	Davide	Old Vic Theatre
	Journey's End by R. C. Sherriff	Raleigh	Mercury Theatre, Colchester	Tony Casement
	Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller	Mortimer	Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh	Aida Karic
2009	All The Little Things We Crushed (world premiere) by Joel Horwood	Hugh	Almeida Theatre, London	Simon Godwin
2011	Three Farces ("Slasher and Crasher", "A Most Unwarrantable Intrusion" & "Grimshaw, Bagshaw and Bradshaw") by John Maddison Morton	Samson Slasher & John Bagshaw	Orange Tree Theatre, London	Henry Bell
2013	Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen adapted by Simon Reade	Darcy	Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, London	Deborah Bruce
2014-2015	Shakespeare in Love (world premiere) by Marc Norman & Tom Stoppard adapted by Lee Hall	Christopher Marlowe	Noël Coward Theatre, West End, London	Declan Donnellan
2015	The Trial of Macbeth by Jonathan Myerson	Banquo	Noël Coward Theatre, West End, London	Christopher Haydon
2017	Venus in Fur (West End premiere) by David Ives	Thomas Novachek	Theatre Royal Haymarket, West End, London	Patrick Marber
2019	Hamlet by William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre, York	Damian Cruden

• In 2006, David performed a 90-minute abridged version of Much Ado About Nothing as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's "Complete Works" festival along with his final year graduates from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He alternated between playing Claudio and Verges alongside fellow graduate Matt Barber.[14]
• Since appearing at Shakespeare's Globe at the outset of his career, David has frequently performed in numerous rehearsed readings as part of their "Read Not Dead" initiative, including their landmark 200th reading of Philip Massinger's A New Way To Pay Old Debts; David played Wellborn alongside a cast including Benjamin Whitrow, Alan Cox, and Nicholas Rowe.[15]
• Other performances between 2008 and 2013 for "Read Not Dead" include an early quarto edition of Henry IV: Part One as Prince Hal opposite Benjamin Whitrow's Falstaff, Calderon's Life is a Dream (La Vida Es Sueno) as Segismundo, Taming Of A Shrew as Aurelias, The Spanish Tragedy as Lorenzo, The Return from Parnassus as Ingenioso, Bassianus as Geta, Gorboduc as a "smooth, almost oily"[16] Arostus, John Lyly's Love's Metamorphosis as Montanus, and Thomas Middleton's Your Five Gallants as Tailby.[17]
• Oakes set up a theatre company called Dog Ate Cake with a long-term theatrical collaborator, Henry Bell[18]
• David was nominated for both WhatsOnStage and Broadway World awards for his performance in Shakespeare in Love in 2015. The production was also nominated for an Olivier Award.
• In 2015 David starred as Banquo in a charity fundraiser for the Shakespeare Schools Festival.[19] The event was largely improvised by the actors and lawyers involved, but based on a framework written by Jonathan Myerson. The cast also included Christopher Eccleston as Macbeth, Haydn Gwynne as Lady Macbeth, Paterson Joseph as MacDuff, and Pippa Bennett-Warner as one of the Weird Sisters. The event interrupted the events of the original play following the death of Duncan, placing Macbeth on trial for murder. David, Patterson, and Haydn appeared as witnesses for the prosecution and Christopher and Pippa as witnesses for the defence. The event was overseen by High Court Judge, Sir Michael Burton; the QCs were John Kelsey-Fry, Jonathan Laidlaw, Dinah Rose, and Ian Winter, and the foreman of the jury was Jeremy Paxman.[20]

Theatre direction

Oakes has directed a number of theatre pieces alongside his acting career. In 2003 he took a stage adaptation of The Wicker Man to the Epping Forest Theatre Festival. Rehearsing in and around his hometown of Salisbury, Oakes "got kicked out of the [Cathedral] Close for rehearsing pagan rituals for [his] open-air production of The Wicker Man."[21]

At University he directed numerous plays including Martin McDonagh's Beauty Queen of Leenane, Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter and Anthony Minghella's Whale Music.[22]

Also whilst at University in 2005, Oakes assisted director Natalie Wilson on a production of Smilin' Through that was co-produced by the Truant Company, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, and Contact Theatre, Manchester. Later that year, Oakes once again turned to literary adaptation, taking a production of Stephen King's The Boogeyman to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.[22]

With his and Bell's theatre company, Dog Ate Cake, in 2009 Oakes directed a small tour revival of John Maddison Morton's Box and Cox.[23]

Oakes frequently directs at Shakespeare's Globe extending their "Read Not Dead" series, a study devoted to performing fully staged readings of the entirety of the Early Modern Canon of Drama. Most recently Oakes directed Robert Greene's The Honourable History of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay[24] and Lewis Theobald's "Happy Ending" version of John Webster's Duchess of Malfi, "The Fatal Secret".[25]

David recently directed an extract of Robert Daborne's A Christian Turn'd Turk as part of a special "Read Not Dead" event at Shakespeare's Globe. Four directors with four scholars were teamed up with actors and presented their arguments and selected scenes at a special hustings event on Thursday 29 May 2014. Winning the event, teamed with Dr Emma Smith of Oxford University, Oakes directed the full play on Sunday 5 October 2014 in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.

Podcasts

In February 2018, David was interviewed for the PBS Masterpiece Podcast in relation to his role in Victoria.[26] On 17 February 2019 David appeared on the ‘Smashing Sundays’ podcast - hosted by Lucy Pinder and, David's Co-star from ‘Foiled’, Beth Granville.[27]

In 2020, David narrated an episode of Historic Royal Palaces' 'Outliers' podcast.[28] He appeared as Thomas Phelippes, a spy and code breaker in the court of Elizabeth I plotting the downfall of Mary, Queen of Scots.

The 'Trees A Crowd' Podcast

David is the presenter of the Natural History podcast, 'Trees A Crowd'.[29] The first episode was released on 25 February 2019 and featured Mark Frith.

• 25 February 2019 - Mark Frith, BAFTA-winning documentary maker and Artist
• 11 March 2019 - Polly Morgan, Artist and Taxidermist
• 25 March 2019 - David Fettes, Wildlife Photographer[30]
• 8 April 2019 - Astrid Goldsmith, Animator and Model-maker
• 15 April 2019 - Dr Katherine Brent, amongst other things, a morris dancer and badger saboteur. This episode was released as a thematic response to the interview with Astrid Goldsmith.
• 22 April 2019 - Dr Steve Etches MBE - Fossil collector[31]
• 29 April 2019 - Dr Ellinor Michel, molluscan systemetist and ecologist at the Natural History Museum
• 6 May 2019 - Dr Fay Clark, animal welfare scientist at Bristol Zoo
• 20 May 2019 - Dr Guy Stevens, CEO and Co-Founder of the Manta Trust.
• 3 June 2019 - The Maldives Underwater Initiative, which includes a dozen Marine Biologists based on Laamu Atoll including some that work for the Blue Marine Foundation, the Manta Trust and the Olive Ridley Project.
• 17 June 2019 - Bella Hardy, folk singer and songwriter.
• 1 July 2019 - Wolfgang Buttress and Dr Martin Bencsik, co-creators of numerous multi-sensory artworks including the bee-inspired HIVE and BEAM.[32]
• 15 July 2019 - Beccy Speight, the then CEO of the Woodland Trust, now the CEO of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
• 29 July 2019 - Dr Terry Gough M.V.O., Head of Estates and Gardens at Hampton Court Palace.
• 12 August 2019 - Dr Jess French, television presenter, veterinarian and author.
• 26 August 2019 - Chris Watson (part one), musician and sound recordist specialising in natural history.
• 9 September 2019 - Chris Watson (part two).
• 23 September 2019 - Tannis Davidson, curator of Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at University College London.
• 7 October 2019 - Harry Barton, CEO of the Devon Wildlife Trust.
• 14 October 2019 - Recorded live at the 70th Cheltenham Literature Festival in partnership with the Woodland Trust, a discussion on “The Art of Trees” with Prof. Christiana Payne and Dr Angela Summerfield.[33]
• 21 October 2019 - Amanda Owen, the 'Yorkshire Shepherdess'.
• 4 November 2019 - Sir John Lawton, Biologist, fellow of the Royal Society, president of the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and chair of the Endangered Landscapes Programme.
• 18 November 2019 - Dr Jo Elworthy, botanist and head of interpretation at the Eden Project, Cornwall.
• 2 December 2019 - Dr Richard Benwell, CEO of the Wildlife and Countryside Link
• 16 December 2019 - Victoria Bromley, wildlife filmmaker and documentary maker.
• 23 December 2019 - Joanna Lentini, wildlife photographer.
• 6 January 2020 - Mark Carwardine, zoologist who achieved widespread recognition for his Last Chance to See conservation expeditions with Douglas Adams. Since then he has become a leading and outspoken conservationist, and a prolific broadcaster, columnist and photographer.
• 20 January 2020 - Dr Catherine Barlow of the South of Scotland Golden Eagle Project.
• 3 February 2020 - Dr Bryce Stewart, marine ecologist and fisheries biologist, currently a lecturer for the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of York.
• 17 February 2020 - Ingrid Newkirk, president and co-founder of PETA.
• 2 March 2020 - Rob Rose and Natalie Stoppard of Rosewood Farm on the Yorkshire Ings.
• 16 March 2020 - Tim Pears, novelist and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
• 30 March 2020 - Dr Helen Pheby, head of curatorial programming at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
• 13, 15 & 17 April 2020 - Three interviews from the Castle Howard estate, with Nick Howard (the castle's inhabitant), Nick Cooke (the head of forestry) and Alastair Gunn (head of landscapes and gardens).
• 27 April 2020 - Alastair Humphreys, adventurer and writer.
• 11 & 18 May 2020 - Eanna Ni Lamhna, Irish environmentalist, educator and broadcaster (a two-part interview).
• 25 May 2020 - Dara McAnulty, writer and naturalist who, at 15 years old, was the youngest recipient of the RSPB Medal.
• 8, 15 & 22 June 2020 - "Wildflower Women"; three interviews with ethnobotonist Jennie Martin, the founder of the Woodmeadow Trust, Rosalind Forbes Adam, and shakespearian actor, Serena Manteghi.
• 6 July 2020 - Dr William C. Tweed, writer, historian and chief naturalist of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.
• 20 & 27 July 2020 - Prof. Kate Jones, Professor of Ecology and Biodiversity at University College London[34] with a special interest in bats, and past chair of the Bat Conservation Trust.[35][36]
• 5 Aug 2020 - Prof. Rowan Lockwood & Dr Bryce Stewart of William and Mary University and University of York respectively, talk of the benefits of preserving the world’s Oyster population.
• 17 Aug 2020, Will Travers, OBE, President and Co-founder of the Born Free Foundation.
• 31 Aug 2020, Georgina Lamb, CEO of David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation, and granddaughter of David Shepherd.
• 14 Sept 2020 - Mark Carwardine returned to talk about his experiences on anti-poaching patrols.
• 17 Sept 2020 - Doug Allan, wildlife cameraman and photographer best known for his work in polar regions and underwater. Dr Guy Stevens from the Manta Trust launches the inaugural 'World Manta Day'.
• 28 Sept & 5 Oct 2020 - Dr George McGavin, entomologist, author, academic, television presenter and explorer.

Personal life

David is an environmentalist and an ambassador for the Woodland Trust.[37] His podcast Trees A Crowd is a series of informal conversations with artists, scientists and enthusiasts; a mutual celebration of the beauty of the environment and the way it inspires them as human beings. Each episode explores how the countryside has inspired their careers as they reflect on how growing up within the natural world became working for the natural world. Growing up in the New Forest and the Purbeck Jurassic Coast, David Oakes launched this podcast as a passion project to explore his lifelong fascination with the wild people and the wildlife that makes our planet its home.[38]

Oakes plays both the clarinet and bass clarinet, and is a strong bass singer.[18]

He is an avid follower of folk music, and continues to support the Bristol folk group Sheelanagig.[4]

He has an extensive collection of canoes and is currently developing a comedy pilot based on this interest. His preferred canoe method is kayak but he also enjoys Canadian canoeing.

Art

Oakes is an avid fine line sketcher. He is increasingly known for sketching on-set animals upon coloured pages of script reissues and giving them to production members.[39] In May 2015 he exhibited as part of the Dulwich Artists Open House Festival[40] alongside artist and designer Sarah Hamilton. He has also contributed a chapter on Charity Cards for Ms Hamilton's book, House of Cards.

In 2016, Oakes was commissioned by Michael Howells to draw a portrait of actress Margaret Clunie, in character as Duchess Harriet Sutherland, to be used in the TV show Victoria.[41]

Charity Work and Advocacies

British Lung Foundation

David, following his infant niece being diagnosed with a lung condition, has been heavily involved with raising awareness for and fundraising on behalf of the British Lung Foundation.

In 2013, Oakes collaborated with his Borgias castmate Holliday Grainger to make the short comedy film "Goblin". Directed by Christian James, the film was screened at the 2014 Film 4 Fright Fest in their Shorts Showcase,[42] and all profits from the sale of this film were donated to the British Lung Foundation.[43]

Later in 2014, Oakes ran the length of the country to raise awareness for infant lung diseases for both the British Lung Foundation and ChILD Lung Foundation UK.[44] More recently he joined with the BLF to promote their new Children's Hub to provide families with information and support.[45]

Alongside this, in 2016, 2017 & 2018 he created the charity's Christmas card.

Arts charities: Anno's Africa & Shakespeare Schools Festival

Since 2014, Oakes has also been a friend of Anno's Africa,[46] an arts-based charity working with Kenyan orphans and slum children, and has supported the UK based Shakespeare Schools Festival, most notably with and surrounding their "Trial of Macbeth" and "Trial of Richard III".[19] In 2019, David helped organise, and alongside Michael Palin, Twiggy and others, appeared in the ‘Just A Book’ poster campaign on the London Underground. The campaign was created to support independent businesses and bookshops on British highstreets and also to raise funds for Anno’s Africa.[47]

Environmental Activism

Since 2019, David has been an Ambassador for the Woodland Trust.[48] On 9 October 2019 David hosted a discussion at the 70th Cheltenham Literature Festival on the subject of "The Art of Trees".[49] In the press release for the event, David said:

Books and woods are entwined throughout history – literally the word book descends from the word for beech. Symbolically, both offer an opportunity to escape, to switch off from the pressures of the manufactured society around us and free our senses to dream, imagine and think. A woodland walk is an opportunity to immerse ourselves in places where myths, legends and stories are born. Our ancient trees and forests, and the wildlife that lives within them, are irrevocably bound up in tales from the past and will continue to feature as long as they exist.[50]

Writing in an editorial for the Sunday Times on 2 November 2019, David said:

Trees give us so much: if you can come up with a better technology and material that is cheap, enhances wellbeing, stimulates happy childhood memories, sequesters CO2, boosts biodiversity and even just looks as pretty as a copper beech, a hawthorn or a horse chestnut, then I’ll bow to you.[51]

On Thursday 30 January 2020 David was a co-signatory, with the CEOs of The Wildlife Trusts, the National Trust, the Woodland Trust, the RSPB, the World Wide Fund for Nature, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Buglife and Butterfly Conservation, and other notable environmental ambassadors and activist, on a letter written to Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, and published in The Times, to get the UK government to rethink its stance on the second UK High Speed Rail Link along environmental and biodiversical lines.[52]

On 21 June 2020 David co-hosted the live-stream event, The Big Wild Quiz, for The Wildlife Trusts as part of their “30 Days Wild” campaign.[53] Nine days later, on 30 June, alongside environmentalists and activists, including Chris Packham and Ellie Goulding, David took part in the Climate Coalition's mass virtual lobby to focus the MPs to put people, climate and nature at the heart of the British nation’s recovery.[54]

On 26 November 2020 Oakes became an ambassador for The Wildlife Trusts. [55] He also painted the 2020 Christmas card for the Woodland Trust. [56]

See also

• List of British actors

References

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External links

• davidoakes.co.uk, Oakes's official website
• David Oakes at IMDb
• Dog Ate Cake Official Website
• David Oakes Prints
• David Oakes at the London Theatre Database