
Bill Dawes
Acting
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

NCIS
2003 · tv

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · tv

Law & Order
1990 · tv

S.W.A.T.
2017 · tv

Elementary
2012 · tv

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001 · tv

Sex and the City
1998 · tv

Rizzoli & Isles
2010 · tv

The Following
2013 · tv

The Good Fight
2017 · tv

Damages
2007 · tv

The Rookie: Feds
2022 · tv

NCIS: Hawaiʻi
2021 · tv

Manhunt
2017 · tv

Mo
2022 · tv

The Other Two
2019 · tv

City on a Hill
2019 · tv

Lawmen: Bass Reeves
2023 · tv

The Beat
2000 · tv

Alaska Daily
2022 · tv

Gotham Comedy Live
2012 · tv

Encounter
2021 · movie

Adam
2009 · movie

Operation Taco Gary's
2026 · movie

I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
2009 · movie

Too Tired to Die
1998 · movie

Before the Sun Explodes
2016 · movie

Giving It Up
1999 · movie

Asylum Seekers
2009 · movie

Woods Witch
2023 · movie