Ron Donachie

Ron Donachie

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Ron Donachie was born on Apr 26, 1956 in UK. Ron Donachie's big-screen debut came with Those Glory Glory Days directed by Philip Saville in 1983, strarring 1961 Spurs Team Member. Ron Donachie is known for Rocketry: The Nambi Effect directed by Madhavan, Madhavan stars as Nambi Narayanan and Simran as Meena Narayanan. Ron Donachie has got 1 awards and 1 nominations so far. The most recent award Ron Donachie achieved is CinEuphoria Awards. The upcoming new movie Ron Donachie plays is Rocketry: The Nambi Effect which will be released on Jul 01, 2022.

Ron Donachie was born Ronald Eaglesham Porter on April 26, 1956 in Dundee, Tayside, Scotland. He was educated at Madras College, St. Andrews and Glasgow University, from where he graduated with an M.A (Hons.) in English Literature and Drama in 1979. After a year working as a navvy, he joined the 7.84 theatre company for John Burrough's "One Big Blow", in which the cast mimicked a traditional, colliery band by singing in six part harmony. The success of the play led to the formation of the acapella band "The Flying Pickets", who had a Christmas number one in 1983. Donachie's decision not to stay with the band and thereby missing out on their success has been described by him as "one of my more brilliant career decisions."Throughout the 1980s, he was a prolific theatre performer all across the United Kingdom, working in Britain's now largely vanished repertory system. This afforded him the opportunity to act in many classical plays which are now rarely performed due to budget constraints and closed theatres. During this period, he appeared in over twenty plays at the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre under its famous triumvirate of Giles Havergal, Robert David Macdonald and Phillip Prowse. Like many performers with similar experience, he considers this the happiest, most fruitful and most influential phase of his career.In the 1990s, he became a regular performer on British television, and did not appear on stage again until unexpectedly asked to join the National Theatre company for "Scenes From the Big Picture" in 2003. This ended a gap in live performance of thirteen years. Since then, he has tried to return to the variety of his earlier years with regular live performances interspersing his television and film work. Married on St. Patrick's Day 1989 to Fiona Biggar, the couple have two children: Naomi Porter, a student of Russian, German and French, and Daniel Porter, who now performs in his own right under the name of Daniel Portman. His sister-in-law is the costume designer Trisha Biggar and his brother is the actor Stewart Porter.

  • Birthday

    Apr 26, 1956
  • Place of Birth

    Dundee, Tayside, Scotland, UK
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Awards

1 wins & 1 nominations

CinEuphoria Awards
2020
Merit - Honorary Award
Winner - CinEuphoria

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