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Darrell Fitzgerald D'Silva is a British film and theatre actor, best known for his role as Hendrik the hard drinking , saxophone playing pathologist in TV series Van der Valk and notable for his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Darrell Fitzgerald D'Silva is a British film and theatre actor, best known for his role as Hendrik the hard drinking , saxophone playing pathologist in TV series Van der Valk and notable for his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Darrell Fitzgerald D'Silva was born in Rotherham, South Yorkshire.[ citation needed ]
D'Silva was part of the 1980s Sheffield music scene, playing with The Anti-Group and Hula before becoming an actor. He graduated from the Drama Centre London.[ citation needed ]
D'Silva first joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in 1996 to play Kilroy in Steven Pimlott's production of Tennessee Williams's Camino Real . He has appeared in plays with the company for over 20 years, touring the world, and was made associate artist in 2011.
His work at the Royal National Theatre includes The Rose Tattoo , The Royal Hunt of the Sun , and Closer.
From 1995 to 1996, he was a regular on the BBC crime drama Out of the Blue .
In 2006, he played Johann Lindeman, captain of the Gouverneur Generaal Loudon, a ship that survived the 1883 explosion of Krakatoa in the BBC docu-drama Krakatoa: The Last Days .
In 2015, he played Max Scullion in Father Brown episode 3.5 "The Last Man" and in 2016 he played Geoff Craven in Endeavour episode 3.3 "Prey", and an Ironborn in the HBO series Game of Thrones in season 6. In 2018, he appeared in three episodes of the six-episode BBC drama miniseries Informer .
Starting in 2020, D'Silva stars as pathologist Hendrik Davie in Company Pictures relaunch of Van der Valk . In 2021, he played the part of Mike in Guy Ritchie's action thriller Wrath of Man , starring Jason Statham. In the same year, he acted as Piso in the TV series Domina .
He also starred in a series of short films. Show Pieces was written by Alan Moore and directed by Mitch Jenkins; Jimmy's End and His Heavy Heart were written by Moore as introduction sections to a much larger project planned by Moore and Jenkins called The Show .
D'Silva was nominated in 2016 for The Washington Post Helen Hayes Award for most Outstanding Performance for his role as Siward in Dunsinane by David Greig. [1]
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