Douglas Henshall Biography
Douglas Henshall is a Scottish television, film and stage actor.
He is best known for his roles as Professor Nick Cutter in the science fiction series Primeval and detective Jimmy Perez in the crime drama Shetland. He has been working his way up in the British movie industry. He also appeared in some different productions and although he started to work as an actor since 1989, but hasn’t had the busiest of schedules.
Douglas Henshall Age
Douglas Henshall was born on 19 November 1965. (He is 53 years old as of 2018).
Douglas Henshall Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $67,947 per year. He accumulates his net worth from his professional career of acting. As per PayScale, the base salary of an actor or actress in any general movies or series
Douglas Henshall Height
He has an approximate height of 1.79 m
Douglas Henshall Parents
He was born to the family of professional of film industry where his father was a theatre artist and he owned a small company along with his mother. His parents raised him along with the other two kids in his hometown. He pursued his education from Barrhead High School and also earned the acting lesson from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.
Douglas Henshall Wife
He married Tena Štivičić. Who is a Croatian playwright and screenwriter? She proved to be a game changer and has taken part in theatre events such as Future Perfect, the Paines Plough Young Writers Programme and the Royal Court’s 50th Anniversary season.
Douglas Henshall Children
Douglas Henshall and Tena Štivičić are blessed with one beautiful daughter Grace who was born in 2016. Although the duo has the age gap of twelve years, they never tumbled down to relish the happy relationship but they diverted their gap as the bud of their blooming love life.
Douglas Henshall Education
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, He joined the 7:84 theatre company in Glasgow. He later returned to London where he received critical acclaim for his theatre work, notably Life of Stuff at the Donmar Warehouse and American Buffalo at the Young Vic
Douglas Henshall Career
He started acting in theater, while he was studying in London. He received acclaim for his performances in plays like ‘Life of Stuff’, staged at the Donmar Warehouse in 1993, and ‘American Buffalo’, staged in 1997, and later joined the pro-independence theater group 7:84.
He appeared in six episodes of ‘Lipstick on Your Collar’, a British television serial written by Dennis Potter. In the same year, he did two episodes of ‘The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles’, an American television series aired on ABC, and one episode of ‘Screen One’, a British television drama series, produced by BBC. One of his first successful films was the 1995 flick ‘Angels and Insects’, where he played the character of Edgar.
He returned to the London stage, where he was featured as Michael Bakunin in Tom Stoppard’s play, ‘The Coast of Utopia’, at the National Theatre. In the same year, he played Daniel Stone in ‘Silent Cry’, a British television crime thriller film, first broadcast on Channel 5. He played Marcus in the post-production British comedy film French Film, alongside Hugh Bonneville and Anne-Marie Duff. And took the starring role as scientist Professor Nick Cutter in the first three series of the science fiction series Primeval from 2007 to 2009.
He performed the role of Emma’s lover in Harold Pinter’s ‘Betrayal’ at the Comedy Theatre in London. He later, cast as Oliver Cromwell in the premiere of the play ‘55 Days’. In the same year, he appeared as Augustus Cribben in ‘The Secret of Crickley Hall’, and in the ITV television film adaptation of Ian Rankin’s novel ‘Doors Open’. He started playing the role of Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez in the BBC show ‘Shetland.’
He played the lead role in ‘In Plain Sight’ a Scottish television drama series about the crimes committed by the serial killer Peter Manuel in Lanarkshire, Scotland. He played Max Schumacher in the world premiere of National Theatre’s production of ‘Network’, directed by Ivo van Hove. The play was based on Lee Hall’s adaptation of the 1976 Academy Award-winning film of the same name by Paddy Chayefsky.
He played Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez in the BBC two-part drama Shetland filmed in Lerwick and Glasgow. He starred in the Scottish three-part television drama series.
Douglas Henshall TV Shows
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Year
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Film
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Role
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1989
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The Bill
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Manager
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1990
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Taggart
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Motor Cyclist
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Crossing the Line
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Davie Dawson
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Silent Scream
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News Reporter – 1963, Brixton, Soho
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1991
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4 Play
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Eric Shaw
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Jute City
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Sammy Kerr
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Boon
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Johnny
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1992
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Van der Valk
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Joep Huizinga
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Underbelly
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Haig
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Firm Friends
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Stephen
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1993
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Lipstick on Your Collar
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Corporal Berry
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The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
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T.E. Lawrence
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Screen One
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Louie Gibbons
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1994
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The Bill
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Stewart French
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Common as Muck
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Brian Forget
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Rab C. Nesbitt
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Donny
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Rose Red
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Man
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1995
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Ghosts
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Billy
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Angels & Insects
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Edgar Alabaster
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1996
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Screen Two
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Clive Colville
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Thief Takers
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Paul Valera
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1997
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Sharpe’s Justice
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Wickham
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Kull the Conqueror
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Ducalon
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1998
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The Man With the Rain in His Shoes
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Victor Bukowski
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Orphans
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Michael
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1998
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This Year’s Love
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Danny
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Fast Food
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Benny
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Psychos
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Dr. Daniel Nash
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Kid in the Corner
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Alex Letts
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2000
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Anna Karenina
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Levin
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2001
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Gentlemen’s Relish
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Cromwell Marsh
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Lawless Heart
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Tim
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2002
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Silent Cry
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Daniel Stone
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2003
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It’s All About Love
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Michael
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Loving You
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Dan
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Unscrew
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Sam
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2004
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Frances Tuesday
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Lucas Pilgrim
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2005
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Dalziel and Pascoe
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Tony Watson (including a cameo as Fagin singing in Oliver!)
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The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Ripley Under Ground
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Derwatt
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2006
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Free Jimmy
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Eddie
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Dead Long Enough
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Styx
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2007
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Flying Lessons
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Aarto
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Sea of Souls
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Robert Dunbar
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Primeval
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Nick Cutter
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2008
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French Film
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Marcus
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2009
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Primeval Evolved
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Nick Cutter
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Dorian Gray
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Alan Campbell
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Collision
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D.I. John Tolin
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2010
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The Silence
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Jim
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2011
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The Eagle
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Cradoc
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South Riding
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Joe Astell
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Lewis
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Alex Gansa
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How I Was Stolen by the Germans
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Werner Kraus
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2012
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The Kidnap Diaries
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Sean Langan
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Playhouse Presents
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Harker
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The Secret of Crickley Hall
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Augustus Cribben
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Doors Open
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Mike Mackenzie
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2013–present
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Shetland
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DI Jimmy Perez
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2014
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The Salvation
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Sheriff Mallick
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2015
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Outlander
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Taran MacQuarrie
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Iona
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Daniel
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Black Work
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DCS Hepburn
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2016
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In Plain Sight
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Sergeant William Muncie
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The lead role of Jimmy Perez is played by Douglas Henshall, while Alison O’Donnell portrays DS Alison “Tosh” Macintosh and Steven Robertson plays DC Sandy Wilson.
Mark Bonnar plays Duncan Hunter, Erin Armstrong returns as Jimmy’s stepdaughter Cassie Perez, and Julie Graham plays Rhona Kelly.
Series five also introduces some newcomers: Catherine Walker as love interest Alice, Rakie Ayola as Olivia Lennox, and Ryan Fletcher as Callum Dunwoody.
The series starts on a “windswept hillside” as a young man waits for someone. A few days later, a jogger on her morning run discovers a severed hand on the beach – and a holdall containing further body parts are found at an inlet nearby.
According to the BBC’s official synopsis, the investigation takes a “sinister turn” when the team identifies the victim and begins to start to scrutinize his emails and social media accounts. Perez finds himself in pursuit of deadly people traffickers who will stop at nothing to get what they want.
Shetland is based on the award-winning novels by writer Ann Cleeves.
While the story is set on the Scottish archipelago of Shetland, most (but not all) of the filming actually takes place on the Scottish mainland.
The port at Lerwick on the Shetland Islands has been used as a filming location, although the cast and crew are usually based in Glasgow. From there they travel to locations including Kilbarchan in Renfrewshire, Barrhead, Ayr and Irvine, and North Ayrshire.
This year, filming also took place on location in Glasgow as Perez traveled to the Scottish city on the hunt for people traffickers.
The fourth series of BBC detective drama Shetland saw the release of Tommy Malone, a local man imprisoned 23 years ago for the murder of local teenager Lizzie Kilmuir. When his conviction was overturned, a ripple effect was felt throughout the tight-knit local community as the case was re-opened – and a second murder took place.
The search for the truth took the team from Shetland Police all the way to Norway in their mission to find out who killed Lizzie, and who killed a local journalist called Sally McColl who was strangled on a kiln in a similar attack.
The personal and the professional collided for Perez as he had no choice but to bring his stepdaughter Cassie’s biological dad Duncan in for questioning. It finally emerged that Duncan had a long-ago affair with a woman called Donna Killick and had been found out by teenage Lizzie: Donna had then murdered her to keep things quiet so her own husband wouldn’t murder her (and her lovechild).
Drew, Sally’s father and a former police officer who led the investigation into Lizzie’s murder all those years ago, turned out to be a corrupt cop who sent the wrong person to jail to protect Donna. When Sally found out the truth, Drew killed his own daughter to protect the woman he loved: Donna.
Tommy Malone was cleared of both murders and died a free man.
Source:www.radiotimes.com
Note: This biography is based on the available information as of 2023, and real-time updates or developments are being updated by our editorial team.