Daniel Mays – My Life On Film
The star of Mrs Biggs on working with Spielberg, improvisation and whacking people with rubber baseball bats…
_ Whether as a bat wielding football thug, a world-weary World War II solider or a police officer from the Discipline and Complaints Department who may or may not be the devil, 34-year-old Daniel Mays has proved himself to be one of Essex’s breakout stars of the past few years. This month you can catch him as infamous train robber Ronnie Biggs in the ITV drama Mrs Biggs, which focuses on the relationship with the criminal and his wife Charmain (played by Sheridan Smith) from their meeting on a train in 1957 to their escape to Australia in the last Sixties. Here he talks INDUSTRIA through his career highlights…