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Charisma is too wee a word for it: his is a vertiginous presence. There is a violence about him that changes the quality of the air. He's not acting. Douglas Henshall is stormy weather. After a decade of notable stage work, it is in the last 12 months that the 32-year-old Scot has enjoyed mainstream success. But if you've watched him you'll remember that luminous energy. When he's out of shot you miss him like a lover. It was his year of screen in 1999. He was with Kathy Burke and Jennifer Ehle in David Kane's Camden-set comedy of sexual manners This Year's Love and starred in Peter Mullan's award-winning Orphans as Michael Flynn, one of four siblings embarking on a night of destruction and redemption. On the small screen, he made distinctive contributions to two of Channel 4's flagship drama series, playing the mercurial Dr Danny Nash in Psychos, set in a Glasgow psychiatric ward, and in Tony Marchant's Kid in the Corner, as the father of a child with severe behavioural problems. Today he looks like a hero.
Douglas Henshall is a Scottish TV actor. He was born under the zodiac sign of Scorpio on 19 November 1965, in Glasgow, Scotland – his ethnicity is definitely white. He has starred in a variety of movies in the early 90s and 2000s; his most popular and best known role was in the science fiction movie "Primeval". He is married and has one daughter. Early Age and Beginnings He has spent all of his life in Glasgow. His mother was a nurse and his father a salesman, but they had an art company which was their main source of income. They both had very good wages so life for Douglas wasn't really that hard. He had everything that he asked for, and was in a really good environment and a good position to become a successful actor. He attended Barrhead High School, which is located in Eastern Glasgow, and in his last year applied to the Scottish Youth Theatre. After attending the theatre for two years and finishing his high school, he decided to move to London so he could attend the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, one of the leading schools of drama acting in Britain and the whole of Europe.
An initial forensic investigation reveals that the body parts all belong to the same victim. What events led up to this discovery? Spotted in Lerwick a few days before, the team use CCTV to trace the victim's last movements. Having identified him as a young Nigerian man, they start to scrutinise his emails and social media accounts. And it is then that the investigation takes a sinister turn… Douglas Henshall tried to explain the show's popularity: 'I think it's maybe to do with the fact that the writers of our show have really hit their stride as far as these characters and the format is concerned. 'One of the benefits of a long-running show is that the public get to care about these people and care about what happens to them. Also the writers get to properly explore the characters over a period of time; it's not like they're having to cram everything into one go and that's it. 'They get to put people in real situations and explore what they're like. And I think ultimately the public care about characters; it's the characters that people like.
It's a revealing choice. "There's something about Dougie that's very raw and very personal, " Sugg says. "He has a deep-thinking side to him and when you look at him, there is an anger. He likes to look for answers, he likes to be challenged, and he really engages with you. That's unusual in a person and even more unusual in an actor. " "Raw" isn't always a compliment: there is a subtext of out-of-control. But those who have worked with him praise his professionalism to the skies. Screenwriter Simon Ings remembers Henshall recording the over-dubbed soundtrack to a short film: "He had absolute control over his voice, like a singer. He would change a single inflection and it would be the right one. He's very economical. " Raw is also about where he comes from. Over the past five years, there has been a growing metropolitan media interest in an alleged "new breed" of young Scottish actor. "With Shallow Grave people realised that you could set a film in Scotland and it didn't have to be about leaky boats in the Highlands, " he explains.