1957-07-11 ( 67 years old ) in Islington, London, England
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.
Movies
A Gangster's Kiss
2024-06-24
To Be Someone
2021-07-09
Cruella
2021-05-26
National Theatre Live: Small Island
2019-06-27
Hamlet
2016-10-27
Patriarch
2012-12-31
National Theatre Live: One Man, Two Guvnors
2011-09-15
Secrets & Lies
1996-05-24
Bernard and the Genie
1991-11-23
Smack and Thistle
1991-04-20
Slipstream
1989-06-22
Doctor Who: Mindwarp
1986-10-25
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
1985-11-25
Flying Devils
1985-08-16
Water
1985-01-11
Easy Money
1982-05-28
Jake's End
1982-05-14
Pocketful of Dreams
1982-03-12
Burning an Illusion
1981-11-13
Babylon
1980-11-07
The Long Good Friday
1980-11-01
Quadrophenia
1979-09-14
Waterloo Sunset
1979-01-23
The Vanishing Army
1978-11-29
Victims of Apartheid
1978-10-24
Play Things
1976-05-07
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