Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 11, 1957
Place of Birth
Islington, London, England
Credits
51 titles
Trevor Laird
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
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
Clive Jones
Doctor Who Confidential
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