Douglas Henshall
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.
In 140 AD, twenty years after the unexplained disappearance of the entire Ninth Legion in the...
Movie page
The Salvation
as Sheriff MallickIn 1870s America, a peaceful American settler kills his family's murderer which unleashes the...
Movie page
Dorian Gray
as Alan CampbellSeduced into the decadent world of Lord Henry Wotton, handsome young aristocrat Dorian Gray...
Movie page
Kull the Conqueror
as DucalonA barbarian named Kull becomes ruler after defeating the old king in battle. In an effort to...
Movie page
It's All About Love
as MichaelThe story of two lovers and their attempts to save their relationship in a near-future world on...
Movie page
The Big Man
as Davie DawsonAn unemployed Scottish miner is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet.
Movie page
Free Jimmy
as Eddie (voice)Four stoners, five vegans, three mobsters, four hunters and a million reasons to free one junkie...
Movie page
Sharpe's Justice
as Captain George WickhamNapoleon has been exiled to Elba, the English have returned from the wars, and Major Richard...
Movie page
The Man with Rain in His Shoes
as Victor BukowskiVictor Bukowski is an out-of-work actor with problems. He's got a lousy agent, he has a habit of...
Movie page
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert
as T.E. LawrenceReceiving orders to assist the British in an attack on the ancient Middle Eastern desert town of...
Movie page
Lawless Heart
as TimIn a British seaside resort, several lives intertwine following the funeral of a gay restaurant...
Movie page
Ripley Under Ground
as DerwattAfter his friend, a hot young artist, is killed, a resourceful American man living in London...
Movie page
Gentlemen's Relish
as Cromwell MarshThe career of the once successful classical portraitist, Kingdom Swann, has hit bad times. When...
Movie page
Fast Food
as BennyA reformed young man with a steady job, Benny, returns to the city of his youth to find the girl...
Movie page
Orphans
as MichaelA group of four siblings reunite in Glasgow on the eve of their mother's funeral, and the...
Movie page
Angels and Insects
as Edgar AlabasterIn Victorian England, wealthy patriarch Sir Harald Alabaster invites an impoverished biologist,...
Movie page
Lezioni di volo
as AartoA pair of teen friends – known as "Chicken & Curry" because they are virtually inseparable –...
Movie page
Down Among the Big Boys
as Louie GibbonsSet in Glasgow, Louie, the detective son of an upright police sergeant, is about to marry. His...
Movie page
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
as Davis Dawson (Crossing the Line) (archive footage)In their second film compilation following their 'Boogeymen:The Killer Compilation' series,...
Movie page
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
as T.E. LawrenceFollowing World War I, Indy - now fluent in several languages - works as a translator at the...
Movie page
This Year's Love
as DannyThe big-screen debut from Scottish stage director David Kane, This Year's Love is a comedy about...
Movie page
Silent Scream
as News ReporterA biopic about convicted murderer Larry Winters.
Movie page
French Film
as MarcusJed prepares to interview French cineaste and self-appointed expert on the nature of love -...
Movie page
The Snipist
as HarkerThe struggle of a lone sniper in a dystopian future Britain plagued with rabies and ruled over...
Movie page
Susan Hill's Ghost Story
as Adam SnowAn antique book dealer finds himself haunted by the ghost of a young boy, he decides to...
Movie page
Doors Open
as Mike MackenzieHeist thriller and adaptation of Ian Rankin's book, which sees a bored millionaire plan to swap...
Movie page
Rose Red
as uncreditedSimon Pummell's (Bodysong) visually ravishing sci-fi thriller exploring the future of virtual...
Movie page
Iona
as DanielIona returns to the island where she was born with her teenage son to seek refuge from a violent...
Movie page
Sharpe: The Legend
as WickhamSeveral years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London...
Movie page
Crossing the Floor
as Clive ColvillePolitical satire closely mirroring real-life British politics of the time - a self-serving...
Movie page
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
as Sir Arthur Conan DoyleWhat led Arthur Conan Doyle to create, and then destroy the world famous detective, Sherlock...
Movie page
How I Was Stolen by the Germans
as Werner KrausHow I Was Stolen by the Germans (Serbian: Koko su me ukrali Nemci) is a Serbian movie. Alex...
Movie page
Silent Cry
as uncreditedA single mother's search for her stolen new born baby sends her on a journey through the...
Movie page
Wednesday
as uncreditedA global lockdown might feel like the perfect time to write a piece of reflective drama, but for...
Movie page
Outlander
as Taran MacQuarrieThe story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in...
TV Show page
Shetland
as DI Jimmy PerezCreated from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy...
TV Show page
GMTV
as SelfGMTV is the name of the national Channel 3 breakfast television contractor/licensee,...
TV Show page
The Bill
as uncreditedThe daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the...
TV Show page
Primeval
as Nick CutterWhen strange anomalies start to appear all over England, Professor Cutter and his team must...
TV Show page
Van der Valk
as Joep HuizingaVan der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV...
TV Show page
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
as SelfThe big names behind the big stories. Laura Kuenssberg talks to those making the news, inside...
TV Show page
Who Is Erin Carter?
as Daniel LongA British woman's tranquil life in Barcelona spirals out of control when an armed robbery at a...
TV Show page
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones
as T.E. LawrenceThe boyhood adventures of the greatest action hero of all time: Indiana Jones. Young Indy...
TV Show page
The Darkness
as PeturSpecial investigator DI Hulda Hermannsdóttir tackles one last cold case before forced into early...
TV Show page
Common As Muck
as Brian ForgetCommon As Muck is a gritty BBC comedy drama serial focusing on the lives of a crew of bin men...
TV Show page
The Secret of Crickley Hall
as Augustus CribbenA year after the disappearance of their son, Gabe and Eve Caleigh and their two daughters...
TV Show page
Black Work
as DCS Hepburn'Black Work' is the story of Jo Gillespie, a woman who's husband is shot dead in the line of...
TV Show page
Collision
as D.I. John TolinThe story of a major road accident and a group of people who have never met, but who all share...
TV Show page
Sea of Souls
as Robert DunbarSea of Souls follows para-psychologist Monaghan and his two sidekicks from a fictitious Scottish...
TV Show page
Murder Is Easy
as Major HortonEngland, 1954. On a train to London, Fitzwilliam meets Miss Pinkerton, who tells him that a...
TV Show page
Lipstick on Your Collar
as Corporal BerryDuring the Suez Crisis of 1956, two young clerks at the stuffy Foreign Office in Whitehall...
TV Show page
In Plain Sight
as William MuncieBased on the true story of Lanarkshire detective William Muncie’s quest to bring to justice...
TV Show page
The Silence
as JimDrama about a deaf girl who witnesses the audacious murder of a policewoman.
TV Show page
South Riding
as Joe AstellThe lives and loves of a 1930s Yorkshire town explored in a passionate tale of politics in small...
TV Show page
Secret Agent Selection: WW2
as NarratorThe training programme of one of World War Two's most covert organisations, the Special...
TV Show page
Anna Karenina
as LevinIn 19th century Russia, aristocrat Anna Karenina has a passionate extramarital affair with the...
TV Show page
Frances Tuesday
as Lucas PilgrimA gangsters moll changes her identity to go on the run after becoming informant on her...
TV Show page
Psychos
as uncreditedFocuses on a manic-depressive psychiatrist, Dr. Daniel Nash, and the mental hospital in Glasgow...
TV Show page
Kid in the Corner
as Alex LettsAs a couple struggles to cope with the difficulties of raising a child with Attention Deficit...
TV Show page
Mountain: Life at the Extreme
as NarratorA landmark 3-part series from the BBC's Natural History Unit revealing the extraordinary animals...
TV Show page
Power to the People
as NarratorDouglas Henshall narrates this series looking back on Scotland's 100-year war for worker power.
TV Show page