--- name: "Daniel Ings" canonical: "https://film.one/person/daniel-ings" fi1m_id: "daniel-ings" imdb_id: "nm3958526" tmdb_id: 1131724 wikidata_id: "Q5217576" roles: ["Actor"] born: "30 November 1985" reviewed_on_fi1m: 7 average_fi1m_score: 65 average_as: "actor" average_over: 7 updated: "2026-10-07T18:49:45.111128+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Daniel Ings ## Identity Daniel Ings - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/daniel-ings - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** daniel-ings - **IMDb ID:** nm3958526 - **TMDB ID:** 1131724 - **Wikidata ID:** Q5217576 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ings, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5217576, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3958526/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1131724 Actor. Born 30 November 1985 in Wiltshire, England, UK. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 30 November 1985, Wiltshire, England, UK - **Active:** 2011–present - **Also known as:** 丹尼爾・艾格斯, دنیل اینگز, Daniel Jonathan Ings, Dan Ings - **Average Fi1m score:** 65, as actor, over 7 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 62 (2), 2020s 66 (5) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 70 to 66 across 6 titles - **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 2 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 1 of 2 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Drama 5, Action 2, Adventure 2, Crime 2, Action & Adventure 1, Comedy 1 - **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $1,253m across 2 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ings, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5217576, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3958526/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1131724 ## Coming up - *Prima Facie* (2026-11-13), as Julian - *Star Wars: Starfighter* (2027-05-26) - *Jason Statham Stole My Bike* (2027-08-06) ## Streaming the US now - **HBO Max:** [*I Hate Suzie*](https://film.one/tv/i-hate-suzie.md) (82) - **The Roku Channel:** [*Kill Jackie*](https://film.one/tv/kill-jackie.md) (34) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Daniel Ings > Daniel Ings plays the posh man you should not like and then makes you like him, mostly by letting the child show through the cad. It is a real skill, and television keeps asking him to do only that. Watch Daniel Ings wait for a laugh. He lets a pause run a beat longer than is comfortable, the eyebrows go up, and then comes the grin, the wide guilty one of a man who knows what he has done and hopes you will find it funny too. It is a comedian's kit and he is honest about it: "I'm kind of a comedy hack really," he said in an interview about *The Gentlemen*. The trick is that the grin is never quite adult. Somewhere behind it there is a boy who expected to be caught. That boy is his whole career. He came up in British comedy, small parts in *Peep Show*, *Psychoville* and *The Café*, before *Lovesick* (2014) made him Luke Curran, a womaniser the audience was invited to forgive every week and did. *The Crown* (2016) cast him as Commander Mike Parker, the friend who leads Prince Philip astray, and the mould was set: well-spoken, well-dressed, not to be trusted with your sister. *I Hate Suzie* (2020) was the exception, Cob Betterton, a husband curdled with resentment opposite Billie Piper, and it is the part critics reach for when they want to argue he can do more than charm. Guy Ritchie then gave him the lead in *The Gentlemen* (2024), Freddy Horniman, an aristocrat who cannot be left alone with anything, and Ings played him at full volume, improvising where Ritchie lets actors improvise. *A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms* (2026) handed him Ser Lyonel Baratheon, a lord written to be loud. What he does, and what other actors of his type do not, is refuse the sneer. Ings has said he goes looking for the child in the villains he is offered, and the people who watched Freddy Horniman wreck one room after another came away fond of him. The cost is that television has noticed and now orders the same dish every time. He has said himself that the posh cad can feel limiting, and from the outside the limit is plain. Too many of the parts are a man in a good jacket who cannot keep his hands to himself. *Kill Jackie* (2026) is what happens when the grin is confiscated. Ings plays Sam, Jackie's friend and lawyer, buttoned up and sorry about it, and he spends eight hours apologising, mostly to Catherine Zeta-Jones and occasionally to us. We felt for him. Deprived of the pause and the eyebrows he has nothing to do except look worried, and looking worried for eight hours is not a performance. It is not his fault; the series did not know what it wanted from anyone. He has *Star Wars: Starfighter* and an adaptation of *Prima Facie* on the way. The thing to watch is not whether he can be funny, which is settled. It is what he does the next time nobody writes him a grin. ## Biography Daniel Ings is a British actor. He studied theatre at Lancaster University, graduating in 2008, and trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and the National Youth Theatre. He is known for playing Luke Curran in the series *Lovesick* (2014–2018) and Freddy Horniman in *The Gentlemen* (2024). Other credits include *The Crown* (2016–2017), *Sex Education* (2019–2023), *I Hate Suzie* (2020) and *The Gold* (2023). Ings is set to appear as Sam in the series *Kill Jackie* (2026) and as Ser Lyonel Baratheon in *A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms* (2026). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (7) - *A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms* (2026), Fi1m 73, as Ser Lyonel 'The Laughing Storm' Baratheon — [page](https://film.one/tv/a-knight-of-the-seven-kingdoms.md) - *Kill Jackie* (2026), Fi1m 34, as Sam — [page](https://film.one/tv/kill-jackie.md) - *The Gold* (2023), Fi1m 80, as Archie Osborne — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-gold.md) - *The Marvels* (2023), Fi1m 63, as Ty-Rone — [page](https://film.one/film/the-marvels.md) - *I Hate Suzie* (2020), Fi1m 82, as Cob — [page](https://film.one/tv/i-hate-suzie.md) - *The Crown* (2016), Fi1m 78, as Mike Parker — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-crown.md) - *Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides* (2011), Fi1m 45, as Guard — [page](https://film.one/film/pirates-of-the-caribbean-on-stranger-tides.md) ## Complete filmography (44) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Jason Statham Stole My Bike* (2027), Actor - *Star Wars: Starfighter* (2027), Actor - *Prima Facie* (2026), as Julian - *Kill Jackie* (2026), series, as Sam — Fi1m 34, [page](https://film.one/tv/kill-jackie.md) - *Plastic Surgery* (2026), as Intercom - *A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms* (2026), series, as Ser Lyonel 'The Laughing Storm' Baratheon — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/tv/a-knight-of-the-seven-kingdoms.md) - *The Woman in Cabin 10* (2025), as Adam Sutherland - *Dressed to the Nines* (2025), as Ron - *Film and TV Charity 'Break the Cycle'* (2025), as Star - *The Gentlemen* (2024), series, as Freddy Horniman - *The Winter King* (2023), series, as Owain - *The Marvels* (2023), as Ty-Rone — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/the-marvels.md) - *The Gold* (2023), series, as Archie Osborne — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-gold.md) - *I Hate Suzie Too* (2022), as Cob Betterton - *Why Didn't They Ask Evans?* (2022), series, as Roger Bassington-ffrench - *The Dinner Party* (2021), as Elliott - *Zog and the Flying Doctors* (2021), as Gadabout (voice) - *I Hate Suzie* (2020), series, as Cob — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/i-hate-suzie.md) - *The English Game* (2020), series, as Francis Marindin - *Sex Education* (2019), series, as Dan — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/sex-education.md) - *Instinct* (2018), series, as Andy - *Contractor 014352* (2017), as Boss - *The Crown* (2016), series, as Mike Parker — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-crown.md) - *Agatha Raisin* (2016), series, as Paul Bladen - *Eddie the Eagle* (2016), as Zach - *Lovesick* (2014), series, as Luke Curran - *W1A* (2014), series, as Matt Taverner - *National Theatre Live: Macbeth* (2013), as Porter/Murderer - *Frankenstein: A Modern Myth* (2012), as Readings (voice) - *Black Mirror* (2011), series, as David Gilkes — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/black-mirror.md) - *The Café* (2011), series, as John Streatfield - *Mount Pleasant* (2011), series, as Robbie - *Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides* (2011), as Guard — Fi1m 45, [page](https://film.one/film/pirates-of-the-caribbean-on-stranger-tides.md) - *Vera* (2011), series, as Simon — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/vera.md) - *National Theatre Live: Frankenstein* (2011), as Servant - *Psychoville Halloween Special* (2010), as Kelvin - *The Third One This Week* (2010), Actor - *Psychoville* (2009), series, as Kelvin - *Peep Show* (2003), series, as Doctor — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/peep-show.md) - *The Husbands*, series, as Michael - *Last Christmas*, as Steve / Santa - *Mr. Sunny Sky*, Actor - *The Rachel Incident*, series, as Dr. Fred Byrne - *The Two Week Wait*, as Tom ## Gallery - ![Daniel Ings](https://film.one/media/person/95524/gallery-5c080d5004df.jpg) Daniel Ings — Margaret Gardiner, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Daniel_Ings_2024.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Daniel Ings and Theo James in 'The Gentlemen, Theo James, Daniel Ings, Why mum left the screening, humiliating family, cozy homes', uploaded to Youtube by the i (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/95524/gallery-7d366cb80bd4.jpg) Daniel Ings and Theo James in 'The Gentlemen, Theo James, Daniel Ings, Why mum left the screening, humiliating family, cozy homes', uploaded to Youtube by the i (2024) — Margaret Gardiner, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Daniel_Ings_and_Theo_James_interview_2024.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Daniel Ings](https://film.one/media/person/95524/gallery-6e0449e3c326.jpg) Daniel Ings — Image via TMDB - ![Daniel Ings](https://film.one/media/person/95524/gallery-a35a75aec471.jpg) Daniel Ings — Image via TMDB - ![Daniel Ings](https://film.one/media/person/95524/gallery-5021daef9818.jpg) Daniel Ings — Image via TMDB - ![Daniel Ings](https://film.one/media/person/95524/gallery-0a03998d4829.jpg) Daniel Ings — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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