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 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  Psychos1999 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