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 784 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 Its 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 Stoppards 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.

Movies unavailable from Douglas Henshall

Rose Red

Movie 1994

One Of Us

Movie

Gentlemen's Relish

Cromwell Marsh

Movie 2001

Fast Food

Benny

Movie 1998

Lezioni di volo

Aarto

Movie 2007

Orphans

Michael

Movie 1998

How I Was Stolen by the Germans

Werner Kraus

Movie 2011

The Salvation

Sheriff Mallick

Movie 2014

Dancing in the Dark

Movie 1990

This Year's Love

Danny

Movie 1999

Iona

Daniel

Movie 2015

Scotland In A Day

Movie 2014

The Snipist

Harker

Movie 2012

Silent Cry

Movie 2002

With Friends Like These

Phil

Movie

Silent Scream

News Reporter

Movie 1990

Wednesday

Movie 2020

Orphans Reunited

Movie 2019

Loving You

Dan

Movie 2003

Tv series unavailable from Douglas Henshall

The Bill

Tv 1984

Primeval

Nick Cutter

Tv 2007

Psychos

Tv 1999

GMTV

Self

Tv 1993

Power to the People

Narrator

Tv 2019

Mountain: Life at the Extreme

Narrator

Tv 2017

Secret Agent Selection: WW2

Narrator

Tv 2018

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

Self

Tv 2022