David Suchet Net Worth

David Suchet's Quotes

• People ask me if I tried to make my Poirot popular. I didn't. All I did was to start to read Agatha Christie's novels. I wanted to be the Poirot that she would be proud of. So out went the funny costume designs and the huge moustaches. And in went everything that she had written. The morning suits. The little gifts of vases of flowers. The perfect moustache.
• I'm character. People don't know me as David Suchet, they know me by the characters I've played. A personality player is always himself: Cary Grant is always Cary Grant. But the only character Ive been in that situation was Poirot. And there's nobody more different from me. I was in disguise!
• I am London born and bred and very proud of it. I blow London's trumpet wherever I go. I think it is the greatest city in the world and, having played in most other cities, I know that it is the greatest city in the world for theatre. There are more venues per square mile here than anywhere else.
• I find it very hard. Please God it looks easy, but actually Poirot is really tough to play.
• The modern style of acting is all in the moment but Poirot isn't like that at all. I get out of the car already in his mindset and as soon as the moustache goes on, that's the trigger because I can't move my top lip as David Suchet any more. I've got a very big laugh, but if I laughed like me I would ping it off!

Interesting Facts about David Suchet

1. He is the younger brother of ITN newscaster John Suchet.
2. He has two children with Sheila Ferris: Robert Suchet and Katherine Suchet.
3. He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2002 Queen Elizabeth II's Birthday Honors List for his services to drama.
4. He is best known as Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot (1989) on British television. He also appeared in the television movie of Agatha Christie's Thirteen at Dinner (1985) as Inspector Japp.
5. He was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1999 (1998 season) for Best Actor for his performance in "Amadeus".
6. He was nominated for a 1997 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actor in a Play of 1996 for his performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?".
7. 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?".
8. He was nominated for Broadway's 2000 Tony Award as Best Actor (Play) for portraying Antonio Salieri in a revival of Peter Shaffer's "Amadeus.".
9. He attended the National Youth Theatre in the 1960s.
10. His last name is pronounced 'Su-shay'.
11. He received a honorary Doctorate from the Univeristy of Chichester (PHD in Theatre) - October 2008.
12. On the TV special David Suchet on the Orient Express (2010), Suchet tells said one of his Great-Grandfathers was from Lithuania.
13. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2011 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to drama.
14. He enjoys music, photography and boating around England.
15. 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.
16. He is the uncle of Damian Suchet.
17. In December 2010, he was living in Notting Hill, London.
18. He was Vice President of The Agatha Christie Society with Joan Hickson until her death.
19. 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.
20. He always stayed in character as Hercule Poirot when portraying him, even when the cameras weren't rolling.