Dan Fredenburgh
Known For: Acting
Biography
Dan Fredenburgh (born Daniel Rauff Fredenburgh, 1968, in Clapham, London, England) is a British actor and screenwriter, 6′ 2″ (188 cm) tall, raised on a commune and a North Londoner since age ten. He trained at the Arts Educational Schools in London and earned an Ian Charleson Award commendation for the title role in the Royal Shakespeare Company's The Prince of Homburg (2002). On stage he has performed in Stephen Daldry's An Inspector Calls, Aaron Sorkin's A Few Good Men (with Rob Lowe), Noises Off (Theatre Royal Bath), Pig Farm (St James Theatre, 2015, with Stephen Tompkinson), The Duchess of Malfi, Love's Labour's Lost (Rose Theatre Kingston), and Children of Lesser God (Salisbury Playhouse). His most notable film credits include Jimmy in The Bourne Ultimatum (2007, with Matt Damon), Jamie's Bad Brother in Love Actually (2003, with Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson), Osborne in Adults in the Room (2019, with Mark Rylance), Frank in The Courier (2019), Joss in Rise of the Footsoldier 3 (2017), and Jake in Broken Lines (2008, which he also co-wrote). On television he is best known as John Knightley in Emma (2009, BBC, 4 episodes), Armand in Spies of Warsaw (2013, 3 episodes), and series regular Greg Hunt in Bad Girls (2001), with additional credits in Holby City (2003–2013), Silent Witness (2007–2016, 4 episodes), Victoria (2017), The Missing (2014), Sons of Liberty (2015), Fifteen-Love (2023), This England (2022), A Confession (2019), and The Good Ship Murder (2023–present).
Filmography
2025
- The Shark Is Broken as Roy Scheider
2023
- The Good Ship Murder as Max King
- The Great Escaper as Police Sergeant
- Fifteen-Love as Rich Berrigan
2021
- A Christmas Number One as Josh
2019
- FX's A Christmas Carol as Mr Hooper
- The Resistance Fighter
- Adults in the Room as Osborne
2018
- Press as Greg
2017
- Rise of the Footsoldier 3 as Joss
2016
- Victoria as Chadwick
2015
- Kicking Off as Prof Jennings
2013
- Father Brown as James Trewlove
2009
- Emma as John Knightley
- Maybe One Day
2008
- Ashes to Ashes as Simon Neary
- Broken Lines as Jake
2007
- The Bourne Ultimatum as Jimmy
2003
- Love Actually as Jamie's Bad Brother
2002
- Al's Lads as Frankie
2001
- Waking the Dead as Ben Elwes
2000
- Brothers as Julian Davidson
1999
- Bad Girls as Greg Hunt
- Café D'Paris as Mickey
1997
- Lexx as Gordon