
Bill Dawes
Actor
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.
Filmography (31)
- Manhunt (2017, ★ 7.6)
- Encounter (2021, ★ 6.3)
- Operation Taco Gary's (2026, ★ 7)
- Adam (2009, ★ 6.8)
- Law & Order (1990, ★ 7.3)
- The Following (2013, ★ 6.9)
- The Other Two (2019, ★ 7)
- The Rookie: Feds (2022, ★ 7.1)
- Elementary (2012, ★ 7.6)
- Mo (2022, ★ 7)
- Lawmen: Bass Reeves (2023, ★ 7.1)
- Sex and the City (1998, ★ 7.4)
- City on a Hill (2019, ★ 7.2)
- NCIS (2003, ★ 7.6)
- Alaska Daily (2022, ★ 7.2)
- Rizzoli & Isles (2010, ★ 7.9)
- The Good Fight (2017, ★ 7.5)
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001, ★ 7.6)
- NCIS: Hawaiʻi (2021, ★ 7.7)
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999, ★ 7.9)
- S.W.A.T. (2017, ★ 8)
- Damages (2007, ★ 7.5)
- Fiona (1999, ★ 5.2)
- Before the Sun Explodes (2016, ★ 5.3)
- I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (2009, ★ 4.7)
- Too Tired to Die (1998, ★ 4.9)
- Just 4 Kicks (2003, ★ 3.7)
- Asylum Seekers (2009, ★ 3.6)
- How to Seduce Difficult Women (2009, ★ 4.4)
- Giving It Up (1999, ★ 3.9)