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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 19, 1965
Place of Birth
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Also Known As
- 더글라스 헨셀
Douglas Henshall
1.0 Popularity
Biography
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 Angels and Insects (1995) before going on to star in Orphans (1998), The Man with Rain in His Shoes (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 Frances Tuesday (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.
Known For
7.3
Steve
The Revenge Club
2025
4.9
Petur
The Darkness
2024
5.7
Major Horton
Murder Is Easy
2023
7.0
Daniel Long
Who Is Erin Carter?
2023
2.7
Self
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
0.0
Wednesday
2020
4.2
Adam Snow
Susan Hill's Ghost Story
2019
0.0
Narrator
Power to the People
2019
🎬
0.0
Orphans Reunited
2019
6.4
Narrator
Secret Agent Selection: WW2
2018
Credits
The Revenge Club
as Steve
2025
7.3
The Darkness
as Petur
2024
4.9
Murder Is Easy
as Major Horton
2023
5.7
Who Is Erin Carter?
as Daniel Long
2023
7.0
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
as Self
2022
2.7
Wednesday
2020
0.0
Susan Hill's Ghost Story
as Adam Snow
2019
4.2
Power to the People
as Narrator
2019
0.0
🎬
Orphans Reunited
2019
0.0
Secret Agent Selection: WW2
as Narrator
2018
6.4
Mountain: Life at the Extreme
as Narrator
2017
6.0
In Plain Sight
as William Muncie
2016
6.9
Iona
as Daniel
2015
6.5
Black Work
as DCS Hepburn
2015
5.9
🎬
Scotland In A Day
2014
0.0
Outlander
as Taran MacQuarrie
2014
8.2
The Salvation
as Sheriff Mallick
2014
6.5
Shetland
as DI Jimmy Perez
2013
7.5
Doors Open
as Mike Mackenzie
2012
5.2
The Secret of Crickley Hall
as Augustus Cribben
2012
7.2
The Snipist
as Harker
2012
9.0
How I Was Stolen by the Germans
as Werner Kraus
2011
3.6
South Riding
as Joe Astell
2011
6.9
The Eagle
as Cradoc
2011
6.2
The Silence
as Jim
2010
6.3
Collision
as D.I. John Tolin
2009
7.0
Dorian Gray
as Alan Campbell
2009
6.0
French Film
as Marcus
2008
5.9
Primeval: Through the Anomaly
as Self
2008
0.0
The Making of Primeval
as Self
2007
0.0
Lezioni di volo
as Aarto
2007
6.2
Primeval
as Nick Cutter
2007
7.4
Ripley Under Ground
as Derwatt
2005
5.5
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2005
6.1
Frances Tuesday
as Lucas Pilgrim
2004
0.0
Sea of Souls
as Robert Dunbar
2004
7.6
🎬
Loving You
as Dan
2003
0.0
It's All About Love
as Michael
2003
5.4
Silent Cry
2002
2.8
Lawless Heart
as Tim
2002
4.9
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
as Davis Dawson (Crossing the Line) (archive footage)
2002
4.9
Gentlemen's Relish
as Cromwell Marsh
2001
4.4
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
as T.E. Lawrence
2000
5.8
Anna Karenina
as Levin
2000
6.5
Kid in the Corner
as Alex Letts
1999
0.0
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert
as T.E. Lawrence
1999
5.4
Psychos
1999
6.3
This Year's Love
as Danny
1999
5.0
The Man with Rain in His Shoes
as Victor Bukowski
1998
4.9
Fast Food
as Benny
1998
1.5
Orphans
as Michael
1998
6.5
Sharpe: The Legend
as Wickham
1997
5.0
Kull the Conqueror
as Ducalon
1997
5.0
Sharpe's Justice
as Captain George Wickham
1997
7.0
Crossing the Floor
as Clive Colville
1996
6.7
Angels and Insects
as Edgar Alabaster
1995
6.1
Three Miles Up
as Billy
1995
0.0
Common As Muck
as Brian Forget
1994
6.7
Rose Red
1994
9.0
Down Among the Big Boys
as Louie Gibbons
1993
7.0
Lipstick on Your Collar
as Corporal Berry
1993
6.9
GMTV
as Self
1993
5.6
The Big Man
as Davie Dawson
1990
4.8
Silent Scream
as News Reporter
1990
5.4
🎬
Dancing in the Dark
1990
0.0
The Bill
1984
6.7
Van der Valk
as Joep Huizinga
1972
5.8
🎬
One of Us
N/A
0.0
🎬
Angh
N/A
0.0
🎬
With Friends Like These
as Phil
N/A
0.0