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Douglas Henshall

Douglas Henshall

Actor · b. 1965 · Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Douglas Henshall was born in Glasgow, Scotland in November 1965. His mother was a nurse and his father a salesman. He is the youngest of three children and has two older sisters. He grew up in Barrhead and attended Barrhead High School. Whilst at school a friend asked him to join The Scottish Youth Theatre based in Glasgow. After leaving school, he moved to London to train at Mountview Theatre School. He returned to Glasgow after training where he joined the 7:84 theater company. Eventually, he went back to live in London where he received critical acclaim for his theater work, notably "Life of Stuff" at the Donmar Warehouse (1993) and "American Buffalo" at the Young Vic (1997). One of his first successful film roles was as Edgar in  Angels and Insects (1995) before going on to star in Orphans (1998), The Man with Rain in His Shoes (1998), Lawless Heart (2001) and It's All About Love (2003) . He has also starred in many television series and is known for his roles in  Psychos(1999), Kid in the Corner (1999), Loving You (2003) and Frances Tuesday (2004). Douglas has also performed in plays for BBC radio, including the role of Romeo in "Romeo and Juliet (1999), David in "The Long Farewell" (2002), Jack Parlabane in "Bampot Central" (2004) and Richard in "Richard III" (2004). In the summer of 2002, Douglas returned to the London stage where he performed the role of Michael Bakunin in  Tom Stoppard's new trilogy of plays, 'The Coast of Utopia', at The National Theatre. During 2004 he continued stage work starring as John Proctor in 'Arthur Miller' 's 'The Crucible' at The Crucible in Sheffield and Thomas Huxley in 'Darwin in Malibu' by Crispin Whittell, at the Hampstead Theatre. In 2005 Douglas made his West End debut at The Lyric, Shaftesbury Avenue playing Biff Loman in the critically acclaimed production of Arthur Miller' 's play 'Death of a Salesman', alongside  Brian Dennehy.

Series24

  • TV8.2

    Outlander

    2014 · 3K votes

  • TV5.8

    GMTV

    1993 · 14 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Bill

    1984 · 47 votes

  • TV6.6

    American Playhouse

    1982 · 8 votes

  • TV7.5

    Shetland

    2013 · 216 votes

  • TV7.6

    Lewis

    2007 · 123 votes

  • TV2.8
  • TV6.4

    Dalziel and Pascoe

    1996 · 28 votes

  • TV6.0

    Playhouse Presents

    2012 · 1 votes

  • TV7.5

    Primeval

    2007 · 351 votes

  • TV6.2

    Van der Valk

    1972 · 10 votes

  • TV8.0

    Sea of Souls

    2004 · 6 votes

  • TV7.0

    Who Is Erin Carter?

    2023 · 246 votes

  • TV5.2

    Murder Is Easy

    2023 · 44 votes

  • TV7.3

    Psychos

    1999 · 4 votes

  • TV7.0

    Common As Muck

    1994 · 8 votes

  • TV7.2
  • TV6.3

    The Silence

    2010 · 28 votes

  • TV5.8

    Black Work

    2015 · 33 votes

  • TV8.0

    Ghosts

    1995 · 2 votes

  • TV7.0

    Collision

    2009 · 35 votes

  • TV6.8

    Anna Karenina

    2000 · 12 votes

  • TV6.9

    South Riding

    2011 · 20 votes

  • TV4.0

    Forever Home

    2026 · 1 votes

Movies23

  • Movie6.2

    The Eagle

    2011 · 1.5K votes

  • Movie6.5

    The Salvation

    2014 · 999 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Dorian Gray

    2009 · 2.3K votes

  • Movie4.9
  • Movie5.0

    Kull the Conqueror

    1997 · 164 votes

  • Movie5.4

    It's All About Love

    2003 · 120 votes

  • Movie4.9

    The Big Man

    1990 · 22 votes

  • Movie5.0
  • Movie5.8
  • Movie5.6

    Ripley Under Ground

    2007 · 66 votes

  • Movie5.4

    This Year's Love

    1999 · 12 votes

  • Movie

    Angh

    2026

  • Movie5.6
  • Movie8.8

    Rose Red

    1994 · 5 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Angels and Insects

    1995 · 59 votes

  • Movie6.6
  • Movie9.0

    The Snipist

    2012 · 2 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Sharpe: The Legend

    1997 · 8 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Iona

    2015 · 10 votes

  • Movie5.9

    French Film

    2008 · 18 votes

  • Movie8.0
  • Movie6.6

    Orphans

    1998 · 41 votes

  • Movie