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He is renowned for extensively researching the personality and character of each role he plays. To prepare for the role of Hercule Poirot on Poirot (1989), Suchet has carefully read every description Agatha Christie ever wrote about the character, and adopted a soft Belgian accent.

He was Vice President of The Agatha Christie Society with Joan Hickson until her death.

He always stayed in character as Hercule Poirot when portraying him, even when the cameras were not rolling.

He is best known as Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) on British television. He is also appeared in the television movie Agatha Christie's Thirteen at Dinner (1985) as Inspector James Japp. In later years, Suchet has often said that his performance as Japp was the worst of his entire career.

Has two children with Sheila Ferris: Robert Suchet and Katherine Suchet.

His last name is pronounced 'Su-shay'.

He was nominated for the 1999 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award (1998 season) for Best Actor for his performance in "Amadeus".

On the television special David Suchet on the Orient Express (2010), Suchet said one of his great-grandfathers was from Lithuania.

He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2002 Queen's Birthday Honours List and the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2011 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to drama.

His father's family were Lithuanian Jewish immigrants to South Africa. His maternal grandfather, Fleet Street photographer James Jarché, was of Russian Jewish descent (from a family that had passed through France before settling in England). His maternal grandmother, Elsie Gladys Jezzard, was of English ancestry, and was the daughter of Walter Jezzard and Martha Finch.

As part of his Shakespearean experience in the theatre, he played the role of Shylock in the late '80s. Being of Jewish descent, he was criticized for agreeing to play a character who is commonly perceived as an anti-Semitic stereotype.

He was awarded the 1996 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre) for Best Actor for his performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?".

He received an honorary doctorate (Ph.D in Theatre) from the University of Chichester. (अक्तूबर 2008)

He was awarded Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to drama and charity in London, Greater London, England.

He was nominated for Broadway's 2000 Tony Award for Best Actor (Play) for playing Antonio Salieri in a revival of Peter Shaffer's "Amadeus".

Younger brother of ITN newscaster John Suchet. Uncle of Damian Suchet.

Has won the Critics Circle best actor award twice for his work on the London stage . Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and All my Sons.

He was awarded the 1999 Back Stage Garland Award for Outstanding Performance in "Amadeus" at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

He was nominated for the 1997 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actor in a Play of 1996 for his performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?".

He attended the National Youth Theatre in the 1960s.

He enjoys music, photography and boating around England.

He trained as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA).