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Daniel Lapaine
Australian actor (born 1971)
Daniel Lapaine (born 15 June 1971) is an Australian stage, film and television actor, living in London. He first came to prominence in 1994, playing South African swimmer David Van Arkle in Muriel's Wedding (1994). He also works as a writer and director.
Other acting credits include 54 (1998), The 10th Kingdom (2000), Helen of Troy (2003), Death on the Nile (2004), Jericho (2006), Moon Shot (2009), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Black Mirror (2011 & 2017), Versailles (2015), Catastrophe (2015), The Durrells (2017), Upright (2019–2022), and Queen of Oz (2023).
Early life
[edit]Born in Sydney, New South Wales, to an Italian father and an Australian mother, Lapaine graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1992.[1]
Career
[edit]Television and film
[edit]His career started in 1994, when he played the South African swimmer David Van Arkle in P. J. Hogan's Muriel's Wedding.[2] Since then he has worked internationally in film, theatre, and television and is now based in London.[3]
Lapaine has made two appearances in the UK TV Show Black Mirror, six years apart.[4] First in 2011, as the morally dubious Max in "The Entire History o
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- David: What kind of person marries someone they don't know?
- Muriel: You did.
- David: I want to win. All my life I've wanted to win.
- Muriel: Me too.
- Muriel: I can't stay married to you, David. I have to stop lying now. I've told so many lies... I don't love you.
- David: I don't love you either, but I think I could like having you around.
- Coach Ken Blundell: Mariel, you've probably seen the news about the civil war in South Africa. Well, just as the South Africans seem to be doing the right thing by the blacks, the police open fire on a black soccer club, and that is bad news for David.
- Muriel: [to David, who is clearly a white South African] Are you black?
- David: What?
- [Muriel is being offered a deal to marry David Van Arkle, a South African Olympic swimming contender, so he can gain Australian citizenship]
- David Van Arkle: What about the black-haired one?
- Coach Ken Blundell: No, she was Turkish. She'd only been in the country five minutes.
- [to Muriel]
- Coach Ken Blundell: Now, whoever marries David will have to tell the immigration authorities that they're in love with him. Now there'll be media attention so they'll have to live with David in his flat for at least four months after the marriage.
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Daniel Lapaine Biography
Date of Birth:
Jun 15, 1971Birth Place:
Sydney, Original South Princedom, AustraliaBiography
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