David Dawson

David Dawson is a gay British actor who has been open about his sexuality and has brought LGBTQ+ stories to audiences through both his personal visibility and his choice of roles. He is known to British audiences for supporting turns in prestige television — Aethelred in "The Last Kingdom," Billy Kimber in "Peaky Blinders," and Augustus in "Ripper Street" — before gaining wider international attention in the gay romance drama "My Policeman" (2022), in which he starred opposite Harry Styles as Patrick Hazel, a museum curator whose secret affair with a married police officer spans decades. The film, based on Bethan Roberts's novel, excavates the costs of closeted love in 1950s England. Dawson has spoken about the importance of telling such stories truthfully and without apology. He married author Josh Silver in 2023. His other credits include the film "1917" (2019) and the Agatha Christie adaptation "The ABC Murders."