David Haig
David Haig MBE ( born September 20, 1955 in Aldershot, Hampshire as David Haig Collum Ward) is an award-winning British actor in theater and in film and writer, whose career includes over 50 roles in international cinema, television films and television series. This includes productions such as The moon mold, Four Weddings and a Funeral or Two Weeks.
Life and career
David Haig was born in 1955 in Aldershot in the County of Hampshire. Haig began his acting career in the late 1970s as equerry Todman in Dorothea Brookings fantasy television miniseries The moon mold alongside fellow actors such as James Greene, Sarah Sutton, Caroline Goodall and John Abineri. In the following 35 years, he was seen in a variety of roles in British and American television films, television miniseries and TV series, including Doctor Who, Portrait of a Marriage, Soldier Soldier, Inspector Morse, Homicide Oxford, Cracker, Inspector Fowler, Keeping Mum, the Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, Hustle - dishonesty is the best policy, Midsomer Murders, Doc Martin or Chris Ryan's Strike Back.
In the movies he played in 1984 in the science fiction drama Dark Enemy by director Colin Finbow, in Mike Hodges sci-fi comedy Space Cracks 1985 in Mike Newell's social satire Four Weddings and a Funeral in 1994 and in Marc Lawrence's comedy Two Weeks Notice 2002 each at the side of fellow actor Hugh Grant.
In addition, we saw David Haig as a versatile stage actor in numerous character roles in London's West End and in many other British theaters. In 1988 he won the prestigious award of the Laurence Olivier Award as Best Actor of the Year in a new play for his performance in Our Country 's Good at the Royal Court Theatre. In 1997 he published the play My Boy Jack. Haig later toured in the UK with a stage version of his play, in which he himself plays the character of Rudyard Kipling. 2007 Furthermore, there appeared a mitproduzierter of him eponymous television film for which he wrote the script and also played the lead role.
Haig currently lives in South London. He is the father of five children and a patron of SANDS, a charity that deals with stillbirths and neonatal deaths.