David Suchet (pron-en?su??e? respellSOOshay), OBE (Order of the British Empire) (born 2 May 1946) is an English (England) actor, known for his work on British (United Kingdom) television. He is recognised for his RTS (Royal Television Society)- and BPG (Broadcasting Press Guild Awards) award-winning performance as Augustus Melmotte in the 2001 British (United Kingdom) TV mini-drama The Way We Live Now (The Way We Live Now (2001 TV serial)), alongside Matthew Macfadyen and Paloma Baeza, and a 1991 British Academy Television Award (BAFTA) nomination.

He is perhaps best known, though, for his role as Agatha Christies great detective Hercule Poirot in the long-running British (United Kingdom) TV dramatic series Poirot (Agatha Christies Poirot), alongside Hugh Fraser (Hugh Fraser (actor)), Philip Jackson (Philip Jackson (actor)) and Pauline Moran.

Suchet has an older brother, John Suchet, a British newsreader and television presenter. His father was Jack Suchet, who emigrated to England from South Africa in 1932, and trained to be a doctor at St Marys Hospital, London.