Biography
Dave Chapman is an English actor, presenter, puppeteer and voice artist. He trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, graduating in 1992, and with the Jim Henson Company in 1994.
Chapman is known for his puppeteering work on the Star Wars films, including performing BB-8 in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), as well as other characters in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018). He performed various characters, including Gurjin and the Emperor, in the Netflix series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2019). His other credits include voice and puppet work on Muppet Treasure Island (1996), Muppets Most Wanted (2014) and Andor (2022), where he voiced B2EMO.
He has a long association with CBBC, creating and performing characters such as Otis the Aardvark and appearing in Dick & Dom in da Bungalow and other children's programmes.
