David Haig
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This article is about the actor David Haig. For other people, see David Haig (disambiguation).
David Haig (September 20, 1955) is an English actor and writer. He is known for his versatility, having been successfully cast in dramatic, serio-comic and comedic roles, playing characters of varied social classes. He has appeared in stage productions all over the West End and has done numerous TV and film roles over the past 20 years. Haig appeared in the 1994 feature film Four Weddings and a Funeral and had a secondary lead in the BBC television sitcom The Thin Blue Line playing Inspector Grim, the inept foil to Rowan Atkinson's Inspector Fowler.
Haig also appeared with Robbie Coltrane in the ITV TV drama Cracker. He was also in the BBC TV 1980 Doctor Who story The Leisure Hive.
He is one of only two male actors to have performed an Alan Bennett "Talking Heads" monologue on television, the other being Bennett himself.
Haig also won an Olivier Award for Best Actor In A New Play, for his performance in Our Countrys' Good at the Royal Court in Sloane Square.
More recently, Haig has appeared in several stage productions in London's West End, including Hitchcock Blonde at the Royal Court, Life X 3 at the Savoy Theatre, a superb performance as the character "Osborne" in R.C. Sherriff's play Journey's End at the Comedy Theatre, and a similarly fine performance as Mr George Banks in Mary Poppins at the Prince Edward Theatre for which he received an Olivier Award nomination. He is currently playing the lead role, Christopher Headingley, in the comedy Donkeys' Years at the Comedy Theatre.
Haig directed a production of Private Lives by Noel Coward which made a successful national tour in 2005.
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 is beginning filming for a film adaptation of a play, written by himslef, called My Boy Jack which will preview on ITV in November 2007. It will star himself as Rudyard Kipling and Daniel Radcliffe as his son John.
Haig lives in Brockley, South London, and is a father of five and partner to fellow actor Jane Galloway.
