Douglas Henshall Biography

Fast Facts

• Studied performing arts at the Scottish Youth Theatre during the early 1980s
• Actor David Hayman, who he later worked with on the television series Shetland, gave him his first job out of drama school and his Equity Card
• Played the role of Teach in American Buffalo at the Young Vic in 1997
• In 2005, performed as Biff in a stage production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman in the West End
• Was cast as Jerry in a production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal opposite Kristin Scott Thomas in the West End in 2011
• Taught a master class to acting students at his alma mater, Mountainview Academy of Theatre Arts