---
name: "Oliver Dimsdale"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/oliver-dimsdale"
fi1m_id: "oliver-dimsdale"
imdb_id: "nm1472522"
tmdb_id: 1012113
wikidata_id: "Q7087496"
roles: []
born: "28 October 1972"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-07T16:48:35.659619+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."
---

# Oliver Dimsdale

## Identity

Oliver Dimsdale

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/oliver-dimsdale
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** oliver-dimsdale
- **IMDb ID:** nm1472522
- **TMDB ID:** 1012113
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7087496
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Dimsdale, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7087496, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1472522/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1012113

Actor. Born 28 October 1972 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England, UK.

## Details

- **Born:** 28 October 1972, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Dimsdale, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7087496, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1472522/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1012113

## Biography

Oliver Dimsdale is an English actor. Born on 28 October 1972 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, he trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, graduating in 1999.

He is known for his television roles as Louis Trevelyan in the 2004 BBC adaptation of *He Knew He Was Right* and as Daniel Marlowe in *Grantchester* (2016–present). His other screen credits include appearances in *RocknRolla* (2008), *Good People* (2014), *Journey's End* (2017) and *The Last Czars* (2019), as well as the role of Simon in *Count Arthur Strong* (2015).

Dimsdale is co-founder and co-artistic director of Filter Theatre. He is married to actress Zoë Tapper.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, comedy.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Count Arthur Strong* (2013), Fi1m 62, as Simon — [page](https://film.one/tv/count-arthur-strong.md)
- *Utopia* (2013), Fi1m 83, as Greg Ashby — [page](https://film.one/tv/utopia.md)

## Complete filmography (26)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Hairdresser Mysteries* (2026), series, as Bob Cuttings
- *The Last Czars* (2019), series, as Pierre
- *Zoo* (2018), as Radio Voice
- *Journey's End* (2017), as Adjutant
- *Ransom* (2017), series, as Christian Bonnar
- *Cuffs* (2015), series, as Tim Baxendale
- *Grantchester* (2014), series, as Daniel Marlowe
- *Good People* (2014), as Superintendent Ray Martin
- *The Fold* (2014), as Daniel
- *Ambassadors* (2013), series, as French Ambassador
- *Count Arthur Strong* (2013), series, as Simon — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/tv/count-arthur-strong.md)
- *Utopia* (2013), series, as Greg Ashby — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/utopia.md)
- *Father Brown* (2013), series, as Ned Le Broc
- *First Night* (2010), as Phillip
- *Breaking the Mould* (2009), as Ernst Chain
- *Law & Order: UK* (2009), series, Actor
- *RocknRolla* (2008), as Posh Man In Shorts
- *Harley Street* (2008), series, Actor
- *Lark Rise to Candleford* (2008), series, Actor
- *Fallen Angel* (2007), series, as Michael
- *Nostradamus* (2006), as Michel Nostradamus
- *He Knew He Was Right* (2004), series, as Louis Trevelyan
- *Byron* (2003), as Percy Bysshe Shelley
- *Midsomer Murders* (1997), series, as Rev Sebastian Butts — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/midsomer-murders.md)
- *Dalziel and Pascoe* (1996), series, as Danny Latimer
- *Der Fall Nostradamus*, as Narrator

## Awards

### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- British Academy Games Award for Performer 2016: British Academy Games Award for Performer (nominated), for *Everybody's Gone to the Rapture*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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