Liam Cunningham (born 2 June 1961) is an Irish actor. He is known for playing Davos Seaworth in the HBO epic-fantasy series "Game of Thrones".

Cunningham has been nominated for the London Film Critics' Circle Award, the British Independent Film Award, has won two Irish Film & Television Awards, and shared a BAFTA with Michael Fassbender, for their crime-drama short film "Pitch Black Heist". His film roles include "A Little Princess" (1995), "Jude" (1996), "Dog Soldiers" (2002), "The Crooked Man" (2003), "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" (2006), "Hunger" (2008), "The Escapist" (2008), "Good Vibrations" (2013), "Let Us Prey" (2014) and "The Childhood of a Leader" (2015). In 2020, he was listed at number 36 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.

Cunningham was born in East Wall, which is an inner city area of the Northside of Dublin. He grew up in Kilmore West with his three sisters and a brother. Cunningham left secondary school at 15 and pursued a career as an electrician. In the 1980s, Cunningham moved to Zimbabwe for three years where he maintained electrical equipment at a safari park and trained Zimbabwean electricians. After returning to Ireland, Cunningham became dissatisfied with his work as an electrician and decided to pursue his interest in acting.

Cunningham resides in Dublin with his wife Colette, with whom he has three children, daughter Ellen and sons Liam Jr. and Sean.

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