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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 11, 1957
Place of Birth
Islington, London, England
Also Known As
- Trevor H. Laird
- Trevor H Laird
Trevor Laird
1.3 Popularity
Biography
Trevor Laird (born 11 July 1957, London, England) is a British actor. Born in Islington, London in 1957, Laird trained at the Anna Scher Theatre. Early roles included a 1976 role in a TV adaptation of the Peter Prince novel Playthings, directed by Stephen Frears, and several Play For Todays: Victims of Apartheid by Tom Clarke (1978),Barrie Keeffe's Waterloo Sunset (1979) and The Vanishing Army by Robert Holles (1980). Laird was a founder member of the Black Theatre Co-operative (now NitroBeat) in 1978 and performed in its inaugural play Welcome Home Jacko by Mustapha Matura the following year. He then had breakthrough roles in the 1979 film Quadrophenia - as Ferdy, a drug supplier for the main character Jimmy - and in Franco Rosso's 1980 cult classic Babylon as Beefy. He played the boy under the car in The Long Good Friday (1980) and appeared in Menelik Shabazz's black British film Burning an Illusion. Later appearances include the 1986 Doctor Who serial Mindwarp as the guard commander Frax. He later returned to Doctor Who in the role of Clive Jones, father of the Tenth Doctor's companion Martha Jones. In 1996 Laird played Hortense's brother in the Mike Leigh film Secrets & Lies. He played Wesley Carter in the TV series Undercover Heart, and Trevor in the British gangster film Love, Honour and Obey (2000). He played DI Mike Vedder “End of the Night”, S8:E4 of Waking the Dead (2009). In 2015, Laird appeared as Vince Thuram in the BBC TV series Death in Paradise. In March 2021, he appeared in an episode of the BBC soap opera Doctors as Samuel Asante.
Known For
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Gilbert
A Gangster's Kiss
2024
3.8
Rudy
To Be Someone
2021
8.0
Asthma Man
Cruella
2021
6.9
Augustin
Small Axe
2020
8.4
Denbo
Ted Lasso
2020
8.0
National Theatre Live: Small Island
2019
0.0
Polonius / Grave Digger 1
Hamlet
2016
🎬
7.0
Patriarch
2012
7.5
Vince Thuram
Death in Paradise
2011
6.3
Lloyd Boateng
National Theatre Live: One Man, Two Guvnors
2011
Credits
A Gangster's Kiss
as Gilbert
2024
0.0
To Be Someone
as Rudy
2021
3.8
Cruella
as Asthma Man
2021
8.0
Small Axe
as Augustin
2020
6.9
Ted Lasso
as Denbo
2020
8.4
National Theatre Live: Small Island
2019
8.0
Hamlet
as Polonius / Grave Digger 1
2016
0.0
🎬
Patriarch
2012
7.0
Death in Paradise
as Vince Thuram
2011
7.5
National Theatre Live: One Man, Two Guvnors
as Lloyd Boateng
2011
6.3
Trinity
as Barrington MacKenzie
2009
5.8
Totally Doctor Who
as Self
2006
6.5
Doctor Who
as Clive Jones
2005
7.6
Doctor Who Confidential
2005
8.2
The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey
as Le Mabé
2004
6.8
Dangerous and the Lonely Hearts
as Paddy Jones
2004
0.0
Peep Show
as Laurie
2003
8.0
The Last Detective
2003
7.7
Waking the Dead
as DI Mike Vedder
2001
7.2
🎬
Undercover Heart
as Wesley Carter
1998
10.0
Secrets & Lies
as Hortense's Brother
1996
7.6
Bernard and the Genie
as PC Parker
1991
7.3
Smack and Thistle
as Baron Greenback
1991
0.0
Birds of a Feather
as Andrew
1989
6.1
Slipstream
as Committee Member
1989
4.3
The New Statesman
as Lance Okum-Martin
1987
7.4
Doctor Who: Mindwarp
as Frax
1986
7.0
Call Me Mister
1986
5.0
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
as Floyd
1985
5.9
Flying Devils
as Sepp
1985
5.3
Water
as Pepito
1985
5.9
The Bill
1984
6.7
Easy Money
as Frederick
1982
0.0
Jake's End
as Heister
1982
0.0
Pocketful of Dreams
as Albert
1982
0.0
Burning an Illusion
as Pest
1981
5.2
Babylon
as Beefy
1980
6.9
The Long Good Friday
as Boy Under Car
1980
7.2
Quadrophenia
as Ferdy
1979
7.0
Waterloo Sunset
as Lester
1979
0.0
The Vanishing Army
as Sheldon
1978
0.0
Victims of Apartheid
as Bus conductor
1978
0.0
BBC2 Play of the Week
as Sheldon
1977
7.0
Play Things
as Harmon
1976
0.0
Playhouse
as Harmon
1974
7.0
Playhouse
as Albert
1974
7.0
Playhouse
as Heister
1974
7.0
Playhouse
as Frederick
1974
7.0
Doctor Who
as Frax
1963
7.9