Hilton McRae
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| Hilton McRae | |
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| Born | December 28, 1949  Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Spouse(s) | Lindsay Duncan |
Hilton McRae (born on 28 December 1949) is a Scottish actor in the fields of theatre, television and film.
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[edit] Career
McRae was part of the radical theatre group 7:84 before graduating from Edinburgh University, and by 1977 he had joined the Royal Shakespeare Company.
His most mainstream American film was his role as Green Leader, in Return of the Jedi.
He has performed in several musicals on the London stage, including Mamma Mia and Miss Saigon , in which he played the part of The Engineer.
More recently, he acted in Rabbit, a play by Nina Raine which opened at the Old Red Lion Theatre, in London, in 2006 and then transferred to the Trafalgar Studios (studio 2), [[Whitehall]. McRae then took on the role of Mr Stopnick in the UK premiere of Caroline, or Change at the National Theatre, which won the Best Musical Award from the London newspaper the Evening Standard.
He appeared in BBC1's Holby City on 10 April 2007, as Alan Simpson in the episode "Paranoid Android".
[edit] Personal Life
McRae was born in Dundee. He is married to the actress Lindsay Duncan with whom he has a son Cal McRae (born 1991).
[edit] Selected filmography
- Frances Tuesday (2004, TV)
- Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004)
- Silent Witness (2003, TV)
- Mansfield Park (1999)
- Voices (1995)
- Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1994, TV)
- The Secret Rapture (1993)
- King of the Wind (1989)
- Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
- Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)
- The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
