Douglas Henshall
| Douglas Henshall | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Douglas James Henshall 19 November 1965 Glasgow, Scotland |
| Other names | Dougie Henshall Doug Henshall |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1989–present |
| Height | 1.79m (5 ft 10 in) |
| Spouse(s) | Tena Štivičić (2010-present) |
Douglas James Henshall (born 19 November 1965, Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish actor best known for his role as Professor Nick Cutter in the British science fiction series Primeval and as Jimmy Perez in crime drama Shetland.
Henshall's mother was a nurse and his father a salesman. He attended Barrhead High School. While studying there, he joined the Scottish Youth Theatre. After graduation, he moved to London and trained at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Later, Henshall joined the 7:84 theater company in Glasgow. He later returned to 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). He married his partner, Croatian writer Tena Štivičić, in Las Vegas in February 2010. They became parents to a daughter in late 2016.
In 1993, Henshall appeared in Dennis Potter's television adaptation of Lipstick on Your Collar. He also portrayed T.E. Lawrence in a recurring role in the American television series Young Indiana Jones (1992-1996). One of his first successful film roles was as Edgar in Angels and Insects (1995) before going on to star in Sharpe's Justice (1997), Orphans (1998), The Man with Rain in His Shoes (1998), The Lawless Heart (2001) and Silent Cry (2002). He has also starred in many television series and is known for his roles in Psychos (1999), Kid in the Corner (1999) (for which he won a gold nymph as best actor in a mini-series at the Monte-Carlo TV festival in 2000), Anna Karenina (2000), and Loving You (2003). He has also performed in plays for BBC radio, including the role of Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (1999) and David in The Long Farewell (2002). 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.
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