David Haig

David Haig Collum Ward (born 20 September 1955) is an English actor and playwright. He has appeared in West End productions and numerous television and film roles over a career spanning four decades.

Haig wrote the play '' My Boy Jack'', which premièred at the Hampstead Theatre on 13 October 1997. On Remembrance Day 2007, ITV broadcast a television drama based on the play, in which Haig played Rudyard Kipling and Daniel Radcliffe played Kipling's son, John. He went on to star as the Player in ''Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead'' alongside Radcliffe in 2017.

Haig's second play ''The Good Samaritan'' was also first staged at the Hampstead Theatre, opening on 6 July 2000. His third play ''Pressure'' premiered at the Chichester Festival in 2014, before being revived in 2018 on a UK Tour and then in the West End at the Ambassadors Theatre. In 2018, he portrayed Bill in the critically acclaimed BBC America thriller series ''Killing Eve''.

Haig was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to drama.

Early life

Haig was born on 20 September 1955 in Aldershot, Hampshire, the son of opera singer Shirley R. C. (née Brooks) and army officer (and later director of the Hayward Gallery) Francis W. He had a younger sister who died at 22 of a brain aneurysm when he was 26. He grew up in Rugby, Warwickshire where he attended Rugby School.

Career

Film and television

Haig appeared in the 1994 film ''Four Weddings and a Funeral'' and had a supporting role in the BBC television sitcom '' The Thin Blue Line'' playing Inspector Grim, the inept foil to Rowan Atkinson's Inspector Fowler. He also appeared in Love on a Branch Line, a TV series broadcast by the BBC in four episodes. In 2002 he played the brother of ''Four Weddings co-star Hugh Grant in the romantic comedy ''Two Weeks Notice''. In 2007, he appeared in a Comic Relief sketch called "Mr. Bean's Wedding" as the bride's father, reuniting with Atkinson.

Other TV work includes ''Doctor Who'' story ''The Leisure Hive'' (1980); ''Blake's 7'' episode "Rumours of Death" (1980); '' Diamonds'' (1981 TV series); '' Campion'' story ''Sweet Danger'' (1990); ''Inspector Morse'' episode "Dead on Time" (1992); and '' Cracker'' story ''To Say I Love You'' (1993). In the 1990s, he appeared in series 1 of the TV series ''Soldier Soldier''.

He appears in the Richard Fell adaptation of the 1960s science fiction series '' A for Andromeda'', on the UK digital television station BBC Four.
Haig wrote the play '' My Boy Jack'' and later appeared in the television adaptation as Rudyard Kipling, with Daniel Radcliffe playing Kipling's son, John.

In 2008, he appeared in the BBC
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