Douglas Henshall

Douglas Henshall was born on Nov 19, 1965 in UK. Douglas Henshall's big-screen debut came with Crossing the Line directed by David Leland in 1990, strarring Davie Dawson (as Dougie Henshall). Douglas Henshall is known for Home directed by David Sant, Rufus Jones stars as Peter and Rebekah Staton as Katy. Douglas Henshall has got 1 awards and 3 nominations so far. The most recent award Douglas Henshall achieved is BAFTA Awards, Scotland. The upcoming new movie Douglas Henshall plays is The Small Hand (Ghost Story) which will be released on Dec 25, 2020.

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 Des anges et des insectes (1995) before going on to star in Orphans (1998), If Only... (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 Ennemi intime (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.