Cast profiles
Iain Glen is an accomplished stage and screen actor
who has won international acclaim for his performances in everything
from Shakespeare to sell-out contemporary theatre, to blockbuster feature
films.
Glen trained at Rada where he was awarded the Bancroft Gold Medal in
1986.
His theatre credits include The Seagull; A Streetcar Named Desire;
The Blue Room (directed by Sam Mendes), in which he starred opposite
Nicole Kidman; Henry V; Macbeth; and Hamlet.
Glen's film and television credits include Man to Man; The Kingdom
of Heaven (directed by Ridley Scott); Resident Evil: Apocalypse; Carla;
The Tyndale Bible; Song For a Raggy Boy; Darkness; Tomb Raider; Silent
Scream, for which he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the Berlin
Film Festival as well as a Scottish Bafta and the Michael Powell Award;
Mountains of the Moon, for which he was awarded Best Actor in the Evening
Standard Awards; Anchor Me; Glasgow Kiss; Wives and Daughters; Death
of a Salesman, for which he received a Bafta nomination; Rozencrantz
and Guildenstern are Dead, directed by Tom Stoppard; and Gorillas in
the Mist, directed by Michael Apted.
James Anthony Pearson has a BSc from Edinburgh University.
While at university he continued to be involved in Scottish Youth Theatre.
He played the lead in three series of 大象传媒 drama Jeopardy and has also
appeared in the 大象传媒 series Monarch of the Glen and Doctors.
His theatre credits include BFG and Vincent in Brixton; Jack and the
Beanstalk at the King's Theatre in Edinburgh; and the Edinburgh University
Footlights' productions of West Side Story, Crazy For You and Cabaret.
He won the Spirit of the Fringe Award at the 2001 Edinburgh Festival
for his portrayal of Sally Bowles in Cabaret.
He has performed in Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing and Cyrano de Bergerac
with the Scottish Youth Theatre.
Adrian Dunbar is an accomplished actor, writer and
director. His film credits include The General; Richard III; The Crying
Game; and Hear My Song, which he co-wrote with director Peter Chelsom
and played the lead role in.
His television credits include Suspicion; Tough Love; Cracker; Murder
in Mind; Melissa; Force of Duty; The Englishman's Wife; Drowning at
the Shallow End; Murphy's Law; and Growing Pains.
His theatre credits include The Shaughraun at Dublin's Abbey Theatre;
Real Dreams and the Danton Affair at the RSC; King Lear, Pope's Wedding,
Saved and Up To The Sun And Down To The Centre at The Royal Court Theatre.
Dunbar is working on new screenplays and recently directed a critically
acclaimed theatre production of Philadelphia Here I Come.
Gregor Fisher is one of Britain's most recognisable
character actors.
His extensive television career includes Rab C Nesbitt; appearances
in Scotch & Wry and Naked Video; and the dramas Blood Red Roses and
The Tales of Para Handy.
He won acclaim in the role of Perks in Carlton's production of The
Railway Children; the lead in 大象传媒 sitcom Brotherly Love; and he played
Mr Squeers in Company Television's Nicholas Nickleby.
His numerous theatre credits include As You Like It; The Cherry Orchard;
Juno and the Paycock; and The Homecoming.
Fisher's film credits include Another Time, Another Place; 1984; White
Mischief; and Richard Curtis's Love Actually.
He recently appeared in The Merchant of Venice with Jeremy Irons and
Al Pacino.
Paul McGann made his name as the lead in the 大象传媒 serial
The Monocled Mutineer and is best known for his performance as I in
the classic feature film Withnail and I.
Other film credits include The Rainbow (directed by Ken Russell); Dealers;
Paper Mask; Downtime; Alien 3; My Kingdom; and Queen of the Damned.
He has an international following for his role as the eighth doctor
in the popular television series Doctor Who, and starred with his actor
brothers Mark, Stephen and Joe in the television mini-series The Hanging
Gale.
Kirstin Coulter Smith has been acting since the age
of 13 when she appeared in My Life So Far with Colin Firth and Mary
Elizabeth Mastrantonio.
She has a number of theatre, film and television credits including
Sea of Souls; Higher History: Mary Queen of Scots; Sunset Song; Life
Support; The Last Musketeer; Taggart; Blood Lines; the short film First
It's Dark; and the theatre productions The Burning and The New.