Angus MacFadyen

Born: 21 October 1963
Where: Scotland, UK

MacFadyen made an auspicious debut and gained international prominence as Robert the Bruce in Mel Gibson's Oscar-winning epic Braveheart.

Born in Scotland but raised in France, MacFadyen began his performing career as a child clown in a circus. He returned to Scotland to attend college and moved to London to attend drama school.

He began making appearances with the Edinburgh Fringe Theatre, and won the Questor Award for writing the play 1905, a sequel of sorts to Chekhov's Uncle Vanya.

MacFadyen found frequent employment in British TV productions ranging from the Scottish series Soldier, Soldier to The Lost Language of Cranes.

With Braveheart, MacFadyen displayed both a magnetic screen presence and dramatic versatility. He next portrayed a German prisoner-of-war held in an Irish internment camp in The Brylcreem Boys.

Subsequently, he was cast as an art gallery owner conned by Joanna Going in Still Breathing; played Amy Brenneman's estranged husband in the thriller Nevada; and was a warlord in the kidflick Warriors of Virtue.

MacFadyen next appeared as Orson Welles in Tim Robbins' period drama Cradle Will Rock and as Anthony Hopkins' son Lucius in Titus. He also had a starring role in A Woman's a Helluva Thing, screened at the Seattle Film Festival.