Trevor Laird
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.
Fotos
Filmes (29)
A Gangster's Kiss
2024 · Gilbert
To Be Someone
2021 · Rudy
Classic Albums: The Who Sell Out
2021 · Self
Cruella
2021 · Asthma Man
National Theatre Live: Small Island
2019
Hamlet
2016 · Polonius / Grave Digger 1
Patriarch
2012
National Theatre Live: One Man, Two Guvnors
2011 · Lloyd Boateng
Doctor Who: Time of the Timelords
2007 · Clive Jones
Dangerous and the Lonely Hearts
2004 · Paddy Jones
Secrets & Lies
1996 · Hortense's Brother
Bernard and the Genie
1991 · PC Parker
Smack and Thistle
1991 · Baron Greenback
Slipstream
1989 · Committee Member
Doctor Who: Mindwarp
1986 · Frax
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
1985 · Floyd
Flying Devils
1985 · Sepp
Water
1985 · Pepito
Easy Money
1982 · Frederick
Jake's End
1982 · Heister
Pocketful of Dreams
1982 · Albert
Burning an Illusion
1981 · Pest
Babylon
1980 · Beefy
The Long Good Friday
1980 · Boy Under Car
Quadrophenia
1979 · Ferdy
Waterloo Sunset
1979 · Lester
The Vanishing Army
1978 · Sheldon
Victims of Apartheid
1978 · Bus conductor
Play Things
1976 · Harmon
Séries (24)
Small Axe
2020 · Augustin
Ted Lasso
2020 · Denbo
Sem Ofensa
2015 · Upjohn Henderson
The Job Lot
2013 · Delmar
Morte no Paraíso
2011 · Vince Thuram
Thorne: Scaredy Cat
2010 · Assistant Commissioner
Trinity
2009 · Barrington MacKenzie
Totally Doctor Who
2006 · Self
Doctor Who Confidential
2005
Doctor Who
2005 · Clive Jones
The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey
2004 · Le Mabé
Peep Show
2003 · Laurie
The Last Detective
2003
Waking the Dead
2001 · DI Mike Vedder
Undercover Heart
1998 · Wesley Carter
Birds of a Feather
1989 · Andrew
The New Statesman
1987 · Lance Okum-Martin
Call Me Mister
1986
The Bill
1984
Big Deal
1984 · Monty Riley
Struggle
1983 · Charlie
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977 · Sheldon
Playhouse
1974 · Harmon, Albert, Heister, Frederick
Doctor Who
1963 · Frax