Daniel Mays
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.3992 |
| Birthday | 1978-03-31 |
| Place of Birth | Epping, Essex, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Daniel Alan Mays, Danny Mays, 丹尼爾·梅斯, 丹尼爾.梅斯, دانیل میز, |
2005
The Secret Life of Words
6.978/226
A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.
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The Secret Life of Words
2004
Vera Drake
7.195/398
Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
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Vera Drake
2008
Shifty
5.8/37
Shifty, a young crack cocaine dealer in London, sees his life quickly spiral out of control when his best friend returns home. Stalked by a customer d...
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Shifty
2009
The Firm
5.7/86
Set in the 1980s, Dom is a teenager who finds himself drawn into the charismatic world of football 'casuals,influenced by the firm's top boy, Bex. Acc...
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The Firm
2008
The Bank Job
6.843/2589
Terry is a small-time car dealer trying to leave his shady past behind and start a family. Martine is a beautiful model from Terry's old neighbourhood...
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The Bank Job
2006
A Good Year
6.678/1621
Failed London banker Max Skinner inherits his uncle's vineyard in Provence, where he spent many childhood holidays. Upon his arrival, he meets a woman...
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A Good Year
2002
All or Nothing
7.087/167
Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two children,...
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All or Nothing
2010
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
6.313/1938
Nanny McPhee appears at the door of a harried young mother who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war. But once she’s arriv...
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Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
2010
Made in Dagenham
6.674/328
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
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Made in Dagenham
2011
The Adventures of Tintin
6.919/5781
Intrepid young reporter, Tintin, and his loyal dog, Snowy, are thrust into a world of high adventure when they discover a ship carrying an explosive s...
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The Adventures of Tintin
2007
Middletown
4.8/5
Having spent most of his life in religious instruction, Gabriel returns to his hometown as its new preacher. The town is full of drinkers and gamblers...
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Middletown
2023
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
6.933/878
A band of fearless chickens flock together to save poultry-kind from an unsettling new threat: a nearby farm that's cooking up something suspicious.
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Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
2008
Consuming Passion
6.4/7
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the popular romance publishing phenomenon Mills & Boon, a colourful and camp drama which charts the witty and mov...
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Consuming Passion
2005
Class of '76
5.7/10
Inspector Tom Monroe (Robert Carlyle) investigates the mysterious death of several people that the only thing they have in common is being classmates....
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Class of '76
2013
Welcome to the Punch
5.868/693
When notorious criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London, it gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to take down the man he's alway...
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Welcome to the Punch
2002
Dead Casual
10/1
The only things Wayne cares about are that Chelsea wins at the football, how much beer there is in the fridge, and his son's viewing habits. When Wayn...
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Dead Casual
2013
Byzantium
6.288/955
Residents of a coastal town learn, with deadly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought refuge at a local boarding...
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Byzantium
2012
Mrs Biggs
7.8/8
The true story of Charmian Biggs (née Powell), the rebellious product of a strict 1950s upbringing, and her whirlwind romance with Ronald Biggs leadin...
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Mrs Biggs
2023
Your Christmas or Mine 2
6.2/113
They've swapped Christmas – again. Can Hayley and James' relationship survive another turbulent family Christmas or has their future together gone off...
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Your Christmas or Mine 2
2022
Maryland
7/2
Two women named Mary -- both recently sexually assaulted by the same man -- meet at the police station and enter into the world that victims of assaul...
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Maryland
2020
The Rhythm Section
5.5/659
When she discovers the plane crash that claimed the lives of her family was no accident, Stephanie Patrick enters the dark, complex world of internati...
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The Rhythm Section
2014
Common
6.5/26
When 17-year-old Johnjo gives his cousin and his friends a lift, he finds himself implicated in a stabbing.
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Common
2008
White Girl
5.6/4
Debbie, a working class single mother from Leeds, moves her family to Bradford, where they find themselves in an ethnic minority. Daughter Leah must a...
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White Girl
2015
Victor Frankenstein
5.9/2267
Eccentric scientist Victor Von Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
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Victor Frankenstein
2009
Mr. Nobody
7.796/6190
Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.
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Mr. Nobody
2016
The Infiltrator
6.7/1800
A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.
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The Infiltrator
2009
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
6.7/283
Yorkshire, 1974. Fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for...
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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
2009
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
6.973/187
Detective Chief Superintendent Maurice Jobson is forced to remember the very similar disappearance of Clare Kemplay, who was found dead in 1974, and t...
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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
2016
Dad's Army
5.027/219
A cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad's Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German...
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Dad's Army
2007
Atonement
7.635/4672
A young girl irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
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Atonement
2025
The Thursday Murder Club
6.593/981
A group of senior sleuths passionate about solving cold cases get plunged into a real-life murder mystery in this comic crime caper.
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The Thursday Murder Club
2003
Rehab
7/1
TV drama - following Adam Bishop, a petty criminal, as he leaves prison for a drugs rehabilitation programme in order to turn his life around.
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Rehab
2007
Half Broken Things
6.5/14
A middle aged house-sitter meets two tearaways, and together they form a surrogate family
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Half Broken Things
2005
Beneath the Skin
6.75/6
Based on the chilling novel by Nicci French, a police officer struggles to unravel the murderous plot of a methodical stalker targeting three women.
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Beneath the Skin
2016
The Limehouse Golem
6.248/729
A series of murders has shaken the community to the point where people believe that only a legendary creature from dark times – the mythical Golem – m...
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The Limehouse Golem
2001
Pearl Harbor
6.937/6963
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love...
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Pearl Harbor
2007
Consent
7/1
Work colleagues Becky and Steve get drunk at a work party at an up-market hotel and end up having sex. She claims it was rape; he claims it was consen...
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Consent
2017
Against the Law
6.8/26
United Kingdom, March 24, 1954. Ten years before the decriminalization of homosexuality, journalist Peter Wildeblood and his friends Lord Montagu and...
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Against the Law
2005
The Best Man
5.3/76
When writer's block derails the literary dreams of Olly Pickering, he has to move in with his friend Murray after losing all his money. Things start t...
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The Best Man
2016
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
7.505/16321
A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a mission to steal the Death Star plans and bring a new hope to the galaxy.
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
2018
Two for Joy
7.5/13
A troubled family's problems come to a head during a stay in a seaside town.
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Two for Joy
2018
Swimming with Men
6.1/84
A man who is suffering a mid-life crisis finds new meaning in his life as part of an all-male, middle-aged, amateur synchronised swimming team.
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Swimming with Men
2018
Mother's Day
7.6/5
On the day before Mother's Day 1993, Colin and Wendy Parry's lives are torn apart when their youngest son Tim is killed in a terrorist attack by the I...
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Mother's Day
2019
Fisherman's Friends
6.73/191
Ten fishermen from Cornwall are signed by Universal Records and achieve a top ten hit with their debut album of Sea Shanties. Based on the true-life s...
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Fisherman's Friends
2018
My Dinner with Hervé
6.288/137
An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toti...
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My Dinner with Hervé
2018
The Interrogation of Tony Martin
6.2/8
Norfolk, England, 1999. During three days, farmer Tony Martin is questioned by police following the violent death of Fred Barras, a teenage burglar wh...
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The Interrogation of Tony Martin
2019
1917
7.987/13465
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hu...
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1917
2020
The Kemps: All True
8/2
Spandau Ballet global superstars Gary and Martin Kemp, their lives, and their careers.
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The Kemps: All True
2022
Your Christmas or Mine?
6.4/205
Students Hayley and James are young and in love. After saying goodbye for Christmas at a London train station, they both make the same mad split-secon...
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Your Christmas or Mine?
2007
Saddam's Tribe
0/0
The invasion of Iraq in 2003 brought a dramatic end to Saddam Hussein's brutal regime. But behind the headlines lay an even more extraordinary story o...
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Saddam's Tribe
2024
The Awakening
0/0
Intrigued by waking up daily with muddy feet, a clean-living man records himself sleeping, with nightmarish results.
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The Awakening
2026
Shelter
6.793/611
A man living in self-imposed exile on a remote island rescues a young girl from a violent storm, setting off a chain of events that forces him out of...
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Shelter
2026
Making of Lord of the Flies
10/1
A trippy tale capturing the creative vision of writer Jack Thorne and director Marc Munden, as a British crew and young cast film this timely adaptati...
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