David Haig

For the biologist, see David Haig (biologist).

David Haig

David Haig (born 20 September 1955) is an Olivier Award-winning English actor and FIPA Award-winning 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 top roles in stage productions all over the West End and has done numerous TV and film roles over the past 20 years.

Career

Television & Film

He 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. In 2002 he played the brother of Four Weddings' co-star Hugh Grant in the romantic comedy Two Weeks Notice, alongside Sandra Bullock.

Haig also appeared with Robbie Coltrane in the ITV TV drama Cracker, with John Thaw in the 1992 episode of Inspector Morse called "Dead On Time", the BBC TV 1980 Doctor Who story "The Leisure Hive" and Blake's 7 episode entitled "Rumours of Death".On the 90s he appeared in the successful TV series "Soldier Soldier "

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 his play My Boy Jack which was shown on ITV on 11th November 2007. It stars himself as Rudyard Kipling and Daniel Radcliffe as his son, John.

Stage

He is one of only two male actors to have performed an Alan Bennett Talking Heads monologue on television, the other being Bennett himself. He also won an Olivier Award for Best Actor In A New Play, for his performance in Our Country's 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 was also nominated for playing Christopher Headingley in a revival of Michael Frayn's comedy Donkeys' Years at the Comedy Theatre. Having recently appeared in the role of 'Pinchwife' in the comedy The Country Wife at the Royal Haymarket Theatre in London, he is currently appearing in The Sea at the same theatre.

Haig directed a production of Private Lives by Noel Coward which made a successful national tour in 2005.

Personal Life

Haig was born in Aldershot, Hampshire and currently lives in London. He is father to five children.

Recent Theatreography

• Tom and Viv, (Royal Court and Broadway)
• Greenland, (Royal Court)
• The Recruiting Officer, (Royal Court)
• Our Country's Good, (Royal Court, Olivier Award - Best Actor In a New Play)
• Measure For Measure, (Young Vic and RSC tour)
• Dead Funny, (Hampstead Theatre and West End)
• My Boy Jack (Play), (Hampstead Theatre and National Tour, 2005)
• "Art", (Wyndham's Theatre and Broadway)
• Life x3, (Savoy Theatre)
• Hitchcock Blonde, (Royal Court and West End)
• Journey's End, (Comedy Theatre)
• Mary Poppins, (Prince Edward Theatre, Olivier Award Nomination)
• Donkey's Years, (Comedy Theatre, Olivier Award Nomination)
• The Country Wife, (Royal Haymarket Theatre)
• The Sea, (Royal Haymarket Theatre)

External links

• David Haig at IMDb
• LAMDA, where Haig studied