Meet the family of the legendary Poirot star David Suchet

He is most famous for his much loved alter ego, Hercule Poirot on mystery author Agatha Christie’s Poirot (1989 – 2013). For an outstanding 25 years, David Suchet played the iconic role as a quirky Belgian detective. Poirot has been portrayed by other actors through the years in various productions but none has captured the detective’s eccentricity and dry humor like Suchet in the long-running UK-based TV series.

Date of Birth: May 2, 1946

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

For a man who has played such a suave iconic role for decades, he says he had no ambitions as a child. He was born just after the war and at the young age of seven, he had been sent off to boarding school. The short-statured David recalled that he found school boring, tiring and all he excelled in was on the playing field. At 13, he moved to a new school where he fared better; the English teacher in his new school was very inspirational so in a short while, Suchet was winning reading prizes. This was how he found himself not just reading out plays but working hard to act our roles exceptionally.

The Bank Job (2008) actor has been a devout Christian now for over three decades after finding God as an adult. He had been brought up largely without religion in a family of Lithuanian Jewish heritage but David admits that he was “searching for something” all his life and he did not find it till he was 40. He had been in the bathtub of a Seattle hotel room thinking about his late grandfather who was also his “spiritual guide”. Suchet concluded that there was life after death and was led to read about Paul in the New Testament of the Bible. He joined the Church of England and has since then been vocal about his life in Christ. Keep reading to meet the family of this renowned British actor.