The term POIROT PORTRAYER is a reference to the actor who portrayed the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in various adaptations of Agatha Christie's novels. The two crossword solutions for this term are USTINOV (7 letters) and DONSUCHET (9 letters). Peter Ustinov was an English actor, director, writer, and raconteur who played Poirot in the 1974 film Murder on the Orient Express and the 1978 television movie Death on the Nile. David Suchet is an English actor who is best known for his portrayal of Poirot in the long-running television series Agatha Christie's Poirot from 1989 to 2013.