
Bill Dawes
Department: Acting
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.
Known For

Just 4 Kicks
2003

Encounter
2021

Beautiful Violence
2021

EvenHand
2002

Born Loser
2001

Jacques
2023

One Night
2007

Shaman's Call
2021

Woods Witch
2023

Pay to Die
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Fiona
1999

Christmas Couples Retreat
2023

Operation Taco Gary's
2026

Before the Sun Explodes
2016

Asylum Seekers
2009

Adam
2009

How to Seduce Difficult Women
2009

On the Q.T.
1999

I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
2009

Mistletoe Massacre
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Saving Manhattan
2005

Gladys Brown
2017

Too Tired to Die
1998

Giving It Up
1999

How to Kill Your Family On Christmas
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Manhunt
2017

Law & Order
1990

The Following
2013

The Other Two
2019

The Rookie: Feds
2022

Elementary
2012

Gotham Comedy Live
2012

Mo
2022

Lawmen: Bass Reeves
2023

Sex and the City
1998

City on a Hill
2019

Law & Order
1990

The Beat
2000

NCIS
2003

Alaska Daily
2022

Rizzoli & Isles
2010

The Good Fight
2017

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001

NCIS: Hawaiʻi
2021

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999

S.W.A.T.
2017

Mo
2022

Damages
2007

Damages
2007