Dominic Mafham

Dominic Mafham is an English actor born in 1968 who studied at the National Youth Theatre and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He started out at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1990 and stayed for four years. He gained early attention as Daniel Pascoe, the emotionally damaged son of Nigel Hawthorne's character, in The Fragile Heart, and then portrayed Mortimer Lightwood in the 1998 BBC version of Our Mutual Friend. On television he played surgeon Dan Woodhouse in the Irish series The Clinic, which brought an Irish Film and Television Award nomination for Best Actor, and he appeared in Humans and Vigil. His film work includes Polonius in Ophelia (2019) and Haim Bar-Lev in Golda (2023). On stage, he was Osborne in a touring production of Journey's End, earning a BroadwayWorld UK Award nomination, and Antonio in The Merchant of Venice at Shakespeare's Globe.