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Bill Dawes

Profession
Acting

Biography

Bill Dawes is an American actor and stand-up comic. He graduated cum laude with an aerospace engineering degree from Princeton University and holds an MFA In acting from NYU. While living in New York, Bill starred in 3 Broadway plays and over a dozen Off-Broadway plays as well as appearing in over 50 films and television shows. As a comic, he has toured nationally as well as internationally with the USO and considers the Hollywood Laugh Factory his home club. He is best known for "Mo," "Alaska Daily," "City on a Hill," "Damages," "Before the Sun Explodes," "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit," and "Encounter" with Riz Ahmed. Bill tours nationally and internationally as a headlining comic and considers the Laugh Factory his home club.

Known for

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit poster
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Series · 1999 · ★ 8.0
NCIS poster
NCIS
Series · 2003 · ★ 7.6
Sex and the City poster
Sex and the City
Series · 1998 · ★ 7.4
Elementary poster
Elementary
Series · 2012 · ★ 7.6
S.W.A.T. poster
S.W.A.T.
Series · 2017 · ★ 8.0
Law & Order poster
Law & Order
Series · 1990 · ★ 7.3
The Following poster
The Following
Series · 2013 · ★ 6.9
Rizzoli & Isles poster
Rizzoli & Isles
Series · 2010 · ★ 7.9
Adam poster
Adam
Film · 2009 · ★ 6.8
Encounter poster
Encounter
Film · 2021 · ★ 6.3
Law & Order: Criminal Intent poster
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Series · 2001 · ★ 7.6
The Good Fight poster
The Good Fight
Series · 2017 · ★ 7.5

Filmography