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Dave Davis is an Italian-American actor who portrayed Gargulio in AMC's The Walking Dead.
Other Works
- Logan
- True Detective (season 1)
- Renfield
- The Big Short
- Emancipation
- Greyhound
- Tiny Beautiful Things
- The Vigil
- Hazard
- Bomb City
- The Domestics
Early life and education
Davis was born on June 7, 1989 in Princeton, New Jersey, into a Jewish family. He grew up in New Orleans. Davis graduated from the Lawrenceville School in 2007, and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in theatre from Tulane University in 2011. In fulfillment of his thesis, he starred in Kenneth Lonergan's This Is Our Youth.
Career
Davis spent five years with the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival, culminating with the critically acclaimed role of Hamlet in 2012. Davis then transitioned into screen acting. Based out of New Orleans, Davis starred in many original films for MTV and Syfy, including Ghost Shark, Leprechaun's Revenge, Ozark Sharks, and several others. Notably, he guest starred in True Detective and The Walking Dead, and acted in The Big Short and Logan.
Davis won the Special Jury Prize for Performance at the 2017 Nashville Film Festival for his lead role in the independent film Bomb City. In 2019, Davis starred in the horror film The Vigil, in which he plays a man tasked with watching over a deceased member of an Orthodox Jewish community.
Davis was a founding member of the comedy duo Bare Handed Bear Handlers, releasing a web miniseries, short films, and a number of music videos.
External links
Dave Davis at the Internet Movie Database
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