Acting

Simon Weir

Born May 5, 1973 · Glasgow, Scotland, UK (age 53)

Simon is best known for playing bad boy mechanic Paul Lafferty in STV's HIGH ROAD from 1995 until 2003. He has also appeared in 6 episodes of BBC Scotland's RIVER CITY as gangster Graham MacLaverty, including the Christmas Special in 2008. He has appeared in 2 Irvine Welsh Feature Films, THE ACID HOUSE and T2 TRAINSPOTTING. Trained at the Dorothy Paul Studio from 1986 and Motherwell College, his s…

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T2 Trainspotting

T2 Trainspotting · 2017

T2 Trainspotting

MovieDramaComedy

After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.

Lélek

MovieDramaFantasy

An encounter with a woman from another timeline awakens buried memories within a grief-stricken man who, after losing his family during the witch trials, entered a supernatural bargain that changed the course of his existence forever.

Up/Down

Up/Down · 2025

MovieFantasyDrama

When the jury's out, which way will the pendulum swing? Life moves too fast. Will you let it slip away?

Buried

In a classic bonding exercise, city boy Alisdair and his estranged father Chris search the forest near their Scottish Highlands hometown for a fabled set of elk antlers.

Original Night

Original Night · 2026

MovieDocumentaryMystery

Told in two semi-fictional acts, this 16mm film serves as an elegy for Europe’s last wallabies — a marsupial animal from Australia, introduced in Scotland in the 1940s. Reflecting on humanity’s enduring urge to record animals, from prehistoric cave art to early cinema, Alasdair Asmussen Doyle links the extinction of species with the evolution of image-making.

The Acid House

The Acid House · 1998

MovieComedyDrama

A surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, the film reaches into the hearts and minds of the chemical generation, casting a dark and unholy light into the hidden corners of the human psyche.

Wuthering Heights: The House of the Damned

Wuthering Heights: The House of the Damned · 2026

Wuthering Heights: The House of the Damned

Mr. Lockwood arrives at the remote and storm-battered Wuthering Heights, unaware that Catherine's vengeful ghost walks its halls. Her obsessed lover, Heathcliff, feeds her bloodlust with human sacrifice, hoping to give her soul a new body to inhabit. As Lockwood grows sick and delusional, he is drawn deeper into their deadly, undying love, and must escape before he becomes their next victim.

Sardar Udham

Sardar Udham · 2021

MovieCrimeDrama

A young Sardar Udham Singh left deeply scarred by the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, escaped into the mountains of Afghanistan, reaching London in 1933-34. Carrying an unhealed wound for 21 years, the revolutionary assassinated Michael O’Dwyer on 13th March, 1940, the man at the helm of affairs in Punjab, April 1919 to avenge the lost lives of his beloved brethren.

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T2 Trainspotting

T2 Trainspotting · 2017

T2 Trainspotting

MovieDramaComedy

After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.

Jailhouse

Lélek

MovieDramaFantasy

An encounter with a woman from another timeline awakens buried memories within a grief-stricken man who, after losing his family during the witch trials, entered a supernatural bargain that changed the course of his existence forever.

Shop Owner

Up/Down

Up/Down · 2025

MovieFantasyDrama

When the jury's out, which way will the pendulum swing? Life moves too fast. Will you let it slip away?

Father Arthur Wilson

Buried

In a classic bonding exercise, city boy Alisdair and his estranged father Chris search the forest near their Scottish Highlands hometown for a fabled set of elk antlers.

Chris

Original Night

Original Night · 2026

MovieDocumentaryMystery

Told in two semi-fictional acts, this 16mm film serves as an elegy for Europe’s last wallabies — a marsupial animal from Australia, introduced in Scotland in the 1940s. Reflecting on humanity’s enduring urge to record animals, from prehistoric cave art to early cinema, Alasdair Asmussen Doyle links the extinction of species with the evolution of image-making.

The Animal Trainer

The Acid House

The Acid House · 1998

MovieComedyDrama

A surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, the film reaches into the hearts and minds of the chemical generation, casting a dark and unholy light into the hidden corners of the human psyche.

Tambo

Wuthering Heights: The House of the Damned

Wuthering Heights: The House of the Damned · 2026

Wuthering Heights: The House of the Damned

Mr. Lockwood arrives at the remote and storm-battered Wuthering Heights, unaware that Catherine's vengeful ghost walks its halls. Her obsessed lover, Heathcliff, feeds her bloodlust with human sacrifice, hoping to give her soul a new body to inhabit. As Lockwood grows sick and delusional, he is drawn deeper into their deadly, undying love, and must escape before he becomes their next victim.

Mr. Earnshaw

Sardar Udham

Sardar Udham · 2021

MovieCrimeDrama

A young Sardar Udham Singh left deeply scarred by the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, escaped into the mountains of Afghanistan, reaching London in 1933-34. Carrying an unhealed wound for 21 years, the revolutionary assassinated Michael O’Dwyer on 13th March, 1940, the man at the helm of affairs in Punjab, April 1919 to avenge the lost lives of his beloved brethren.

King George VI

Wigilia

Wigilia · 2014

A traditional Polish feast on Christmas Eve, Wigilia includes an extra place at the table should an unknown wandering pilgrim arrive.

Mark

Remnants

A self-absorbed lecturer returns to a remote part of the English countryside in the hope of burying an affair with a young asylum seeker. But an uncanny presence has other ideas.

Adrian

Postmortem

Postmortem · 1998

The only thing James wants is to remain away from Scotland. One day, however, he receives a fax, a printout of an unknown person's obituary. The next day, he is charged and arrested for the murder of this person.

Beverly’s Boyfriend

33-1 Before the Off

33-1 Before the Off · 1997

33-1 Before the Off

A portrait of gambling obsession

Ronnie Baxter

A Spanking in Paradise

A Spanking in Paradise · 2010

A Spanking in Paradise

Lawyer Justin visits his family in Scotland where they run an illegal brothel.

Rab

The Draw

The Draw · 2025

MovieScience FictionThriller

In an oppressive world, where free will is becoming a thing of the past, all analogue imagery is restricted and replaced by a new technology called ‘The EyeLight’. Alec and Jade must try to fight the system and the ever present show ‘The Draw’ which soon infiltrates their lives to pose a very real danger.

Bryan

The Leaf Blower

The Leaf Blower · 2020

The Leaf Blower

MovieComedyAction

A metal detectorist stumbles upon a conspiracy.

Sexy Canadian Intelligence

Psycho Sex Dolls

Psycho Sex Dolls · 2025

Psycho Sex Dolls

A filmmaker hires AI Sex Dolls to save his disrupted porn biz, but his fantasy of porn mogul dreams, soon turns into his worst nightmare.

Damien

Super November

Super November · 2018

MovieComedyRomance

An overly romantic librarian believes she's found the one after just three dates, but her friends are more concerned with political turmoil, which leads to a right wing coup.

Soldier

Piece in Dal Riata

Piece in Dal Riata

Piece in Dal Riata

An accidental invention by twins, Bobby and Bonnie, changes the kingdom of Dal Riata and the world as we know it.

King Tammy

Here Comes the Nun

Here Comes the Nun · 2025

Here Comes the Nun

A Glaswegian bouncer attempts to perform a sham exorcism for some fast cash.

Connect

Connect · 2019

MovieDramaRomance

In a small town in Scotland, a young man must overcome his depression and the voice that haunts him daily. From a cliff top, a man in a hoody leaps to his death.

Stevie Sparkles

1815

MovieHistoryDrama

During the Highland Clearances, a stubborn old tenant farmer and a young Waterloo veteran strike up a reluctant and uneasy bond in a relentless search through highlands; glimpsing the human cost of the clearances as they go.

Iain Macleod

A Friendly Man

A Friendly Man · 2019

Billy struggles with life as a pushover

Doctor Ness

Bad Beans

Bad Beans · 2022

MovieComedyDrama

trouble in a coffee shop

Tammy Ness

Outlander: Blood of My Blood

Outlander: Blood of My Blood · 2025

Outlander: Blood of My Blood

From the battlefields of World War I to the rugged Highlands of 18th century Scotland, two fated couples must defy the forces that seek to tear them apart, unfolding in surprising and unforeseen ways in this romantic saga that unfolds across time.

Minister

Patrick Melrose

Patrick Melrose · 2018

Patrick Melrose

A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist's harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult substance abuse and, ultimately, toward recovery.

Angus

Taggart

Taggart · 1983

SeriesCrimeDrama

Taggart is a Scottish detective television program. The series revolves around a group of detectives initially in the Maryhill CID of Strathclyde Police, though various storylines have happened in other parts of the Greater Glasgow area, and as of the most recent series the team have operated out of the fictional John Street police station across the street from the City Chambers.

Monarch of the Glen

Monarch of the Glen · 2000

Monarch of the Glen

SeriesDramaComedy

Archie MacDonald, a young restaurateur is called back to his childhood home of Glenbogle where he is told he is the new Laird of Glenbogle.

Stuart Macintosh

Guilt

SeriesComedyCrime

Two brothers seem to get away with a crime - but soon discover they can trust no-one, including each other, in a pitch-black, contemporary thriller.

Davie

Case Histories

Case Histories · 2011

SeriesDramaCrime

Case Histories is a British drama television series based on the Jackson Brodie detective novels by Kate Atkinson. It stars Jason Isaacs as Jackson Brodie.

Paul Bradley

Crime

SeriesCrimeDrama

Detective Inspector Ray Lennox investigates the disappearance of a schoolgirl while battling cocaine addiction and a mental breakdown.

Miles Combe

How Not to Live Your Life

How Not to Live Your Life · 2008

How Not to Live Your Life

SeriesComedyDrama

Sitcom about 20-something Don, a man with bad luck and even worse instincts. Don's overactive imagination is always in full flow in the form of quick-fire fantasy sequences as he imagines what he would really like to say.

Waiter

Blood of the Clans

Blood of the Clans · 2020

Blood of the Clans

SeriesDocumentary

Neil Oliver presents a drama-documentary series telling the tales of Scotland's most epic and bloody conflicts and the characters who made their mark in this memorable era of the country’s history.

Archibald Campbell