He trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, where he now serves as a council member.

Suchet and his brothers, John and Peter, attended Grenham House boarding school in Birchington-on-Sea, Kent then, after attending another independent school, Wellington School in Somerset, he took an interest in acting and joined the National Youth Theatre at the age of 16. He was raised without religion, but became a practising Anglican in 1986, and was confirmed in 2006. David's mother was born in England and was Anglican (she was of Russian-Jewish descent on her father's side, and English Anglican on her mother's side). Suchet's father changed his surname to Suchet while living in South Africa. At some point, the family name was recorded as 'Schohet', a Yiddish word (from Hebrew shochet) defining the profession of kosher butcher. Suchet's father was of Lithuanian-Jewish descent, the son of Izidor Suchedowitz, originally from Kretinga in the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire. Jack emigrated from South Africa to England in 1932, trained to be a physician at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London, in 1933, and became an obstetrician and gynaecologist. Suchet was born in the Paddington area of London, the son of Joan Patricia ( née Jarché 1916–1992), an actress, and Jack Suchet. International acclaim and recognition followed his performance as Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989–2013), for which he received a 1991 British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) nomination. He portrayed Edward Teller in the television serial Oppenheimer (1980) and received the RTS and BPG awards for his performance as Augustus Melmotte in the British serial The Way We Live Now (2001). Sir David Courtney Suchet CBE ( / ˈ s uː ʃ eɪ/ SOO-shay born ) is an English actor known for his work on British stage and television. Recorded February 2009 from the BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs

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