Ken Stott
Kenneth Campbell Stott ( born 1955 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is a Scottish film and stage actor.
Biography
Ken Stott, son of a Scottish father and a Sicilian mother was, as a young member of the band Keyhole, of which some members later, the Bay City Rollers helped to create.
Stott was after he had attended the Mountview Theatre School in London in 1975 at the age of 20 years a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Two years later, in 1977, Stott made his debut in a production of the BBC for the first time on television. Ken Stott is a popular performer, especially in Great Britain, but was involved in Hollywood productions, including Plunkett & Macleane 1997 - Against Death and the Devil and 2004 in King Arthur. In 2005 he took on the role of Adolf Hitler in the TV movie The niece - Hitler's forbidden love. Stott saw the presentation as a special challenge, because he is Jewish. 2006 and 2007 played Stott in so far ten episodes Detective Inspector John Rebus in the series after the Rebus detective novels and short stories by Ian Rankin. In Peter Jackson's film adaptation of Tolkien 's novel The Hobbit, he has assumed the role of Balin.
Ken Stott is dating British actress Di Sherlock and has a son from a previous marriage divorced.