David Haig
David Haig (September 20, 1955, Aldershot, England, UK) is an English actor and writer. He is known for his versatility, having been successfully cast in dramatic, serio-comic and comedic roles, playing characters of varied social classes. He has appeared in stage productions all over the West End and has done numerous TV and film roles over the past 20 years.
Haig appeared in the 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral and had a secondary lead in the BBC television sitcom The Thin Blue Line playing Inspector Grim, the inept foil to Rowan Atkinson's Inspector Fowler.
Haig also appeared with Robbie Coltrane in the ITV TV drama Cracker, the BBC TV 1980 Doctor Who story The Leisure Hive and Blake's 7 episode entitled Rumours of Death.
He is one of only two male actors to have performed an Alan Bennett Talking Heads monologue on television, the other being Bennett himself.
Haig also won an Olivier Award for Best Actor In A New Play, for his performance in Our Countrys' Good at the Royal Court in Sloane Square.
More recently, Haig has appeared in several stage productions in London's West End, including Hitchcock Blonde at the Royal Court, Life X 3 at the Savoy Theatre, as the character "Osborne" in R.C. Sherriff's play Journey's End at the Comedy Theatre, and as Mr George Banks in Mary Poppins at the Prince Edward Theatre for which he received an Olivier Award nomination. He has also played the lead role, Christopher Headingley, in a revival of the comedy Donkeys' Years at the Comedy Theatre.[1]
Haig directed a production of Private Lives by Noel Coward which made a successful national tour in 2005.
He appears in the Richard Fell adaptation of the 1960s science fiction series A for Andromeda, on the UK digital television station BBC Four.
Haig is in a film adaptation of a play, written by himself, called My Boy Jack which will preview on ITV in November 2007. It will star himself as Rudyard Kipling and Daniel Radcliffe as his son, John.
Haig lives in Brockley, South London, and is a father of five and boyfriend to fellow actor Jane Galloway.
External links
- David Haig at the Internet Movie Database
- LAMDA, where Haig studied
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