About
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...
Known for
Death in ParadiseSeries • 2011
Doctor WhoSeries • 2005
Ted LassoSeries • 2020
Doctor WhoSeries • 1963
The BillSeries • 1984
Waking the DeadSeries • 2001
PlayhouseSeries • 1974
Birds of a FeatherSeries • 1989
Peep ShowSeries • 2003
CruellaMovie • 2021
Doctor Who ConfidentialSeries • 2005
No OffenceSeries • 2015
BBC2 Play of the WeekSeries • 1977
The Eagle: A Crime OdysseySeries • 2004
The New StatesmanSeries • 1987
Small AxeSeries • 2020
ThorneSeries • 2010
The Long Good FridayMovie • 1980
The Job LotSeries • 2013
Secrets & LiesMovie • 1996
QuadropheniaMovie • 1979
WaterMovie • 1985
SlipstreamMovie • 1989
BabylonMovie • 1980