Trevor Laird
- Acting
- July 11, 1957 · Islington, London, England
Biography
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.
Known for
Filmography
- A Gangster's Kiss · Gilbert
- To Be Someone · Rudy
- Classic Albums: The Who Sell Out · Self
- Cruella · Asthma Man
- Small Axe · Augustin
- Ted Lasso · Denbo
- National Theatre Live: Small Island
- Hamlet · Polonius / Grave Digger 1
- No Offence · Upjohn Henderson
- The Job Lot · Delmar
- Patriarch
- Death in Paradise · Vince Thuram
- National Theatre Live: One Man, Two Guvnors · Lloyd Boateng
- Thorne · Assistant Commissioner
- Trinity · Barrington MacKenzie
- Totally Doctor Who · Self
- Doctor Who Confidential
- Doctor Who · Clive Jones
- The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey · Le Mabé
- Dangerous and the Lonely Hearts · Paddy Jones
- Peep Show · Laurie
- The Last Detective
- Waking the Dead · DI Mike Vedder
- Undercover Heart · Wesley Carter
- Secrets & Lies · Hortense's Brother
- Bernard and the Genie · PC Parker
- Smack and Thistle · Baron Greenback
- Birds of a Feather · Andrew
- Slipstream · Committee Member
- The New Statesman · Lance Okum-Martin
- Doctor Who: Mindwarp · Frax
- Call Me Mister
- Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire · Floyd
- Flying Devils · Sepp
- Water · Pepito
- The Bill
- Big Deal · Monty Riley
- Struggle · Charlie
- Easy Money · Frederick
- Jake's End · Heister
- Pocketful of Dreams · Albert
- Burning an Illusion · Pest
- Babylon · Beefy
- The Long Good Friday · Boy Under Car
- Quadrophenia · Ferdy
- Waterloo Sunset · Lester
- The Vanishing Army · Sheldon
- Victims of Apartheid · Bus conductor
- BBC2 Play of the Week · Sheldon
- Play Things · Harmon
- Playhouse · Harmon, Albert
- Doctor Who · Frax