David Clark

Professional Trajectory

David Clark (born April 23, 1974, Anchorage, Alaska) is an American character actor based in France, active since the mid-2000s. Standing at 1.83 m, he has built a career in both English- and French-language productions, working frequently with director Olivier Megaton (on Colombiana and the Taken franchise). He is best known for his role as Marshall in Colombiana (2011), Cop Malankov Garage #1 in Taken 3 (2014), and Carl Stanley in The Killer (2024, with Nathalie Emmanuel and Omar Sy). He also voiced Captain Allen in the 2018 video game Detroit: Become Human. His filmography includes Traitor (2008), If You Don't, I Will (2014), Florida (2015, as Andrew Newman), Woods (2015, as John Stramen), Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017, uncredited), The Hermits (2023), and The American Dream (2026). On television he has appeared in Crossing Lines (2013), A Very Secret Service (2015), Scènes de ménages (2015), Plus belle la vie (2018), Missions (2017), and The Serpent Queen (2022).