The best Hercule Poirot ever. How David Suchet lives and looks now (8 photos)

Actor David Suchet brilliantly embodied the detective for almost 25 years Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie's Poirot. He managed to create such an accurate and reliable image that it is difficult to imagine it in another roles. In fact, David Suchet continues to this day with great success his film career and performs on the stage of the theater.





In the photo: David Suchet first from the left in the front row



David Suchet was born on May 2, 1946 in London, his father was a doctor, and his mother a theater actress. The father wanted the children to go in his footsteps into medicine. As a result, only the youngest of the three became a doctor. brothers, the eldest - a famous journalist, but the middle one - David - went in the footsteps of the mother.

David and his brothers studied at Grenham House boarding school. The boys languished there from melancholy, they did not like to gnaw at the granite of science. “Only handball, tennis and rugby kept us from finally falling into despondency, ”the actor recalled years later. The boy often visited his mother in theater, and everything he saw fascinated him. The first time he stepped on stage at the age of five.

Pictured: David Suchet in Shakespeare's comedy Love's Labour's Lost. 1975





After graduating from the theater academy, David Suchet became an actor at Watermill Theatre. The audience called his game brilliant. Talent let him in to the troupe of the Royal Shakespeare Company (he is a member of it to this day).

His debut on the stage of the theater was the production of "Romeo and Juliet, where he got the role of Mercutio. Played Suchet and on Broadway. Per The role of Salieri was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award. Total in theater the actor has performed more than fifty roles.

Pictured: David Suchet as Inspector Japp. Left - Peter Ustinov as Poirot. "Dinner for thirteen", 1985



From the mid-1960s, David Suchet began to appear intermittently on television, but in passing roles. However, his excellent work in theater nevertheless led to the fact that soon the actor began to act in the cinema worthy offers. One of them can be called fateful - Dry offered a role in the film adaptation of the novel by Agatha Christie "Dinner for thirteen." He agreed and brilliantly played ... London police inspector Japp.

The fact is that since the late 1970s, EMI Films Ltd. released full-length adaptations of the English writer, in which the role of Hercule Poirot until 1988 was played by the English actor Peter Ustinov. It was he who considered in David Suche the ideal performer of the role Poirot in the upcoming series, which was supposed to rethink the hero.

It is noteworthy that David Suchet himself considers the role of Inspector Japp the most unsuccessful in his career.

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In 1988, producer Brian Eastman began looking for actors for the series about Hercule Poirot. Agatha's daughter also worked on the project. Christy Rosalind Hicks. Eastman only saw David Suchet in the title role, with whom he had known for a long time. However, having made an offer to the actor, he received response to a wave of indignation: Suchet then considered himself primarily a theatrical actor, and participation in the series did not inspire him .. But after short persuasion agreed, and not in vain: critics and viewers called him Hercule Poirot the best in the world.

David Suchet approached the preparation for the role with great care. He read all the works about the character, made a list with his characteristics, having recorded everything - from manners of speaking to hell character. The actor studied the history of Belgium, hired tutors to learned to speak with the right accent. Suchet paid special attention to gait. his hero, who moved with short and quick steps. To to achieve mastery in movements, the actor clamped a coin between his thighs and walked so as not to drop it.

Before the start of the filming of the next episode, David Suchet for a few days reincarnated in character, talking and acting like Poirot even at home. The actor noted that he had a difficult character in many respects, the same pedantic, just like his character.



The series adapted absolutely all the stories of Agatha Christie and ended only in 2013. In the film adaptation of the novel "Curtain" 67-year-old David Suchet played the role of the Belgian detective for the last time. Poirot died, the actor said goodbye to the audience.

David SUshe said that with the death of his hero, he lost a truly close person.



In an interview, the actor admitted that his wife was not easy be with him for many years. But her love erased all the rough edges. David Suchet and stage actress Sheila Ferris married in 1976. four years after the start of their romance. David fell in love with a girl from the first glance, and it cost him considerable effort to persuade her on a first date.

The couple have a 41-year-old son, Robert, and a 39-year-old daughter, Katherine. AT In 2015, the actor's grandson Todd was born, but the boy's illness overshadowed his happiness. The baby was diagnosed with incurable tuberous sclerosis.

The actor is a member of the association for helping patients with this diagnosis. “There are drugs that can alleviate the patient’s condition, but they are not available. get it for free,” the actor said. There are a million reasons for refusal, and treatment should be started as early as possible. People who do not have the ability to pay high prices for drugs, become victims reigning in insurance medicine mess and incompetence.



David Suchet turns 76 in 2022. He is still popular actor. Over the past decade, viewers have seen many serials and films with his participation. And, of course, he, as before, pleases theatergoers with their work.