Trevor Laird

Birthday: 1957-07-11
Birthplace: Islington, London, England
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned

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.

Credits

Year Title Character
2024-06-24 A Gangster's Kiss Gilbert
2021-07-09 To Be Someone Rudy
2021-05-26 Cruella Asthma Man
2019-06-27 National Theatre Live: Small Island
2016-10-27 Hamlet Polonius / Grave Digger 1
2012-12-31 Patriarch
2011-09-15 National Theatre Live: One Man, Two Guvnors Lloyd Boateng
1996-05-24 Secrets & Lies Hortense's Brother
1991-11-23 Bernard and the Genie PC Parker
1991-04-20 Smack and Thistle Baron Greenback
1989-06-22 Slipstream Committee Member
1986-10-25 Doctor Who: Mindwarp Frax
1985-11-25 Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire Floyd
1985-08-16 Flying Devils Sepp
1985-01-11 Water Pepito
1982-05-28 Easy Money Frederick
1982-05-14 Jake's End Heister
1982-03-12 Pocketful of Dreams Albert
1981-11-13 Burning an Illusion Pest
1980-11-07 Babylon Beefy
1980-11-01 The Long Good Friday Boy Under Car
1979-09-14 Quadrophenia Ferdy
1979-01-23 Waterloo Sunset Lester
1978-11-29 The Vanishing Army Sheldon
1978-10-24 Victims of Apartheid Bus conductor
1976-05-07 Play Things Harmon