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Nicholas Pinnock

Nicholas Pinnock

Actor · b. 1973 · Balham, London, England, UK

Nicholas Andre Pinnock (born 2 September 1973) is a British actor. He is known for his role as lead character Aaron Wallace in the ABC legal drama For Life and as Truman Dawes in the Peacock crime drama Long Bright River. Nicholas Andre Pinnock was born in Balham, London, and is of Jamaican descent. He spent his early childhood living in Saudi Arabia. On his return to England, he was enrolled at Corona Stage Academy in Hammersmith, London at the age of 12. While there, in his first week, he made his professional debut, landing several jobs as a model and child actor in adverts, music videos, film and television. Continuing his vocational training, Pinnock attended a three-year musical theatre course at the London Studio Centre. After the first year, he decided acting was his first love and in the following years, concentrated on drama and contemporary dance. After graduating, Pinnock joined Lea Anderson's Contemporary Dance Company, the Featherstonehaughs, for several years before pursuing acting full time. In 1986, as a child actor, Pinnock starred in the fantasy drama TV serial Mr Magus is Waiting for You, based on the novel by Gene Kemp and following the adventures of four young children who become trapped in the fantasy world of a mysterious magician. A year later, he became one of The Pink Windmill Kids on Emu's World on CITV. In his 20s he regularly appeared in pantomime. He played guest roles in television programmes such as Grange Hill, EastEnders, The Bill, Dalziel and Pascoe, Footballers' Wives and Casualty. TV films followed, such as Kingdom of The Blind with Clive Owen and Diamonds with James Purefoy. Theatre work included As You Like It at Stafford Castle at the Staffordshire Shakespeare Festival, Hampstead Theatre's production of Born Bad directed by Kathy Burke, and San Diego, directed by David Grieg and Marisa Zanotti in the Edinburgh Festival. He appeared in Topdog/Underdog in Glasgow's Citizens Theatre in 2009. Pinnock appeared in his first Hollywood feature film, the 2011 summer blockbuster Captain America: The First Avenger, as a SHIELD Tech. That same year, he went on to play the role of Leon in a four-part drama Top Boy, which was broadcast on Channel 4 over four consecutive nights from 31 October 2011. After the 2011 England riots in London, Pinnock appeared in the BBC docudrama The Riots: In Their Own Words, The Rioters. The following year, Pinnock portrayed the role of Evan in the ITV drama The Ice Cream Girls. The three-part drama aired in April 2013. Pinnock portrayed a young Nelson Mandela in the ITV docudrama Mandela: The Prison Years, which aired on 15 December 2013, the day Mandela was buried.

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  • Movie7.0
  • Movie6.8

    The Assessment

    2025 · 491 votes

  • Movie5.8

    The Book of Clarence

    2024 · 146 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Here

    2024 · 728 votes

  • Movie5.5

    Hedda

    2025 · 131 votes

  • Movie5.8

    The Keeping Room

    2014 · 230 votes

  • Movie4.7

    Monsters: Dark Continent

    2014 · 407 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Reawakening

    2024 · 13 votes

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  • Movie5.4

    Dark Encounter

    2019 · 130 votes

  • Movie5.3

    Lock In

    2016 · 3 votes

  • Movie8.0

    Origami

    2019 · 1 votes

  • Movie8.0

    Four

    2020 · 1 votes

  • Movie8.0

    Run

    2018 · 1 votes

  • Movie4.2

    New World Disorder

    1999 · 9 votes

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    The Last Tree

    2019 · 28 votes

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    Going

    2024

  • Movie8.0

    Black Dog

    2023 · 3 votes

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  • TV6.2

    The Kelly Clarkson Show

    2019 · 73 votes

  • TV6.5

    Peak Practice

    1993 · 10 votes

  • TV6.7

    Grange Hill

    1978 · 26 votes

  • TV6.4

    Dalziel and Pascoe

    1996 · 29 votes

  • TV7.5

    Counterpart

    2017 · 463 votes

  • TV6.8

    Fortitude

    2015 · 328 votes

  • TV7.0

    Long Bright River

    2025 · 122 votes

  • TV6.9

    Marcella

    2016 · 296 votes

  • TV4.7

    Fightland

    2026 · 19 votes

  • TV7.8

    For Life

    2020 · 280 votes

  • TV5.4

    Footballers' Wives

    2002 · 20 votes

  • TV7.2

    Criminal: UK

    2019 · 263 votes

  • TV6.0

    Suspect

    2022 · 27 votes

  • TV5.6

    Django

    2023 · 47 votes

  • TV7.5

    Spine Chillers

    2003 · 2 votes

  • TV7.3

    Barbarians Rising

    2016 · 39 votes

  • TV4.7

    Two Weeks in August

    2026 · 12 votes

  • TV4.6

    Guerrilla

    2017 · 19 votes

  • TV6.7

    This Town

    2024 · 25 votes

  • TV6.6

    Midwinter of the Spirit

    2015 · 19 votes

  • TV6.6

    The Ice Cream Girls

    2013 · 9 votes

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