David E. Woodley

David Edwin Woodley was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia to Beryl Marcia (Bailey) and John Richard Woodley. His mother is of French and English decent and his father has English, Irish and French ancestry. After only having portrayed a french Can-Can Dancer in an high school Bastille Day celebration, Woodley, this time in pants, took to the stage later in life to perform in theatre. Woodley played the role of 'Dangles' in a national tour of Australian playwright Jack Hibberd's 'Dimboola', before being selected to join the infamous 'Grin and Tonic Theatre Troupe', performing many Shakespearean and Australian contemporary roles under the direction of renown theatre director, Bryan Nason AM. Woodley again performed under Nason's direction in dual roles as Ea and Utnapishtim, in the Royal Queensland Theatre Company's production of the 5000 year old epic of the Sumerian hero, 'Gilgamesh'. Woodley moved to the U.K. in 1990 to undertake acting studies at St Catherine's Drama Studio i