David Suchet is an English actor, known for his work on British television. He is recognised for his RTS- and BPG award-winning performance as Augustus Melmotte in the 2001 British TV mini-drama The Way We Live Now, alongside Matthew Macfadyen and Paloma Baeza, and a 1991 British Academy Television Award (BAFTA) nomination.
He is perhaps best known, though, for his role as Agatha Christie's great detective Hercule Poirot in the long-running British TV dramatic series Poirot,
alongside Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson and Pauline Moran.
Suchet has an older brother, John Suchet, a British newsreader and television presenter. His father was Jack Suchet, who emigrated to England from South Africa in 1932, and trained to be a doctor at St Mary's Hospital, London.