<Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> Colette Cunningham </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Children </Th> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <P> Liam Cunningham (born 2 June 1961) is an Irish stage and screen actor . He is known for playing Davos Seaworth in the HBO epic - fantasy series Game of Thrones . He has been nominated for the London Film Critics' Circle Award, the British Independent Film Award, has won two Irish Film & Television Awards, and shared a BAFTA with Michael Fassbender, for their crime - drama short film Pitch Black Heist . </P> <P> Cunningham was born in East Wall, which is an inner city area of the Northside of Dublin . He has three sisters and a brother, and was brought up in a Roman Catholic household . Cunningham dropped out of secondary school at 15 and pursued a career as an electrician . In the 1980s, Cunningham moved to Zimbabwe for three years where he maintained electrical equipment at a safari park and trained Zimbabwean electricians . After returning to Ireland, Cunningham became dissatisfied with his work as an electrician and decided to pursue his interest in acting . He attended acting classes and began to work in local theatre . He appeared in a production of "Studs" at The Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn, London . </P>

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