Trevor Laird

Known for ActingBorn 1957-07-11 (age 68)Islington, London, England

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Undercover Heart

Ted Lasso

National Theatre Live: Small Island

Cruella

Doctor Who Confidential

Peep Show

The Last Detective

Doctor Who

No Offence

Death in Paradise

Doctor Who: Mindwarp

Secrets & Lies

Doctor Who

The Job Lot

The New Statesman

Waking the Dead

Bernard and the Genie

Patriarch

Big Deal

Small Axe

The Long Good Friday

Smack and Thistle

The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey

Quadrophenia

BBC2 Play of the Week

Playhouse

Babylon

Thorne

The Bill

Totally Doctor Who

National Theatre Live: One Man, Two Guvnors

Birds of a Feather

Burning an Illusion

Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire

Trinity

Water

Call Me Mister

Flying Devils

Slipstream

To Be Someone

A Gangster's Kiss

Hamlet

Dangerous and the Lonely Hearts

Easy Money

Pocketful of Dreams

Jake's End

Waterloo Sunset

The Vanishing Army