Daniel Gosling

Daniel James Gosling is an English actor and writer. He was born in England and studied at Bretton Hall College. He made his London stage debut playing Lucius in a fringe theatre production of Shakespeare's tragedy Titus Andronicus at The Courtyard Theatre in King's Cross. Following on from this he formed his own theatre company, producing and starring in plays at The Union Theatre, The Southwark Playhouse and The Cochrane Theatre in London as well as at venues on tour across the UK. He went on to spend two years touring the UK and Europe performing Shakespeare in the open air, before making his West End debut in 2004. Gosling made his West End debut, taking over the lead role of Christian in Festen at the Lyric Theatre. The production, directed by Rufus Norris, was nominated for five Olivier Awards in 2005. It also won both the Evening Standard and Critics Circle Best Director Awards and the Evening Standard Best Designer award, in addition to the Whatsonstage Theatregoer's Choice Award for Best New Play. Following Festen, Gosling appeared in Phaedra's Love, Sarah Kane's modern adaptation of Seneca's Phaedra. Produced by the Young Vic, this was to be the first professional production of this controversial play since it premiered, directed by the author, in 1996 at London's Gate Theatre. Gosling has performed in plays at The Barbican, Bristol Old Vic, The Arts, The Tristan Bates, The New End, The Battersea Arts Centre, Theatre 503, The Pleasance in London and in productions at the Edinburgh Festival. In 2010 he performed with the National Theatre in Thea Sharrock's multi award winning revival of Terence Rattigan's After the Dance. The production, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, was nominated for 6 Olivier Awards in 2011, wining 4, including Best Revival. In 2013 he played Sir Peter Teazle in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's play, 'The School for Scandal', directed by Jessica Swale - part of the inaugural season at The Park Theatre, London, England On screen, notable film appearances include; Ridley Scott's: All the Money in the World; Abner Pastoll's: Homicide: Division B, which was selected by Jason Reitman as a finalist in the Project Direct! film competition and Harold's Going Stiff - Keith Wright's refreshing take on the zombie movie, which won the Narrative Feature Award at the Austin Film Festival in 2011. In 2019 he worked once more with Abner Pastoll on Oscar Nominated writer Ronan Blaney's: A Good Woman is Hard to Find, about a recently widowed young mother will go to any lengths to protect her children, as she seeks the truth behind her husband's murder, staring Sarah Bolger. He will shortly be seen in Philipa Lowthorpe's: Misbehaviour, about a group of women who hatch a plan to disrupt the 1970 Miss World beauty competition in London, starring Keira Knightley. He made his television debut playing the Young Issac Newton in the BBC TV Mini-Series Light Fantastic and has gone on to appear in the long running British daytime soap opera Doctors; the BBC Television Movie adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel The Lady Vanishes and the BBC America series The Musketeers. He played David Walker in Series 2 of the BAFTA Award winning ITV Drama Unforgotten and Hugo in Sam Yates, Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar. In 2020 he will appear alongside Olivia Colman and Tobias Menzies in Season 4 of The Crown. As a writer Gosling in one half of the writing partnership that is Rusty Goose, developing television and radio comedy with fellow actor Russell Bentley. He also has a number of feature films in development. Gosling lives with Director Jennie Paddon. They have a son and a daughter.