Ewen Bremner

Born: 1971
Where: Edinburgh, Scotland

The actor first attracted attention as the doomed Spud in Danny Boyle's Trainspotting.

He made his TV debut in 1985 in A Girl Named Sooner and his first feature was the drama Heavenly Pursuits.

Roles followed in Christine Edzard's As You Like It and Forget About Me and he played a Scotsman with a tick in Mike Leigh's Naked.

In 1994 was cast in Prince of Jutland and landed a minor role in Judge Dredd alongside Sylvester Stallone in 1995.

The following year came Trainspotting (he had originally played the role taken by Ewan McGregor in the stage version).

After this peak, Bremner's career slumped with the little seen Mojo and The Life of Stuff, which took a piffling £4,438 at the box office.

The Acid House was a pale imitation of Trainspotting but things looked brighter with his part as a schizophrenic in the Dogme film Julien Donkey-Boy.

After a cameo in Guy Ritchie's Snatch, Bremner starred in two Hollywood blockbusters - Pearl Harbor and Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down.

Subsequent appearances have included Skagerrak Richard Jobson's autobiographic Sixteen Years of Alcohol and Welcome to the Jungle with The Rock.

Recent roles have included The Reckoning and Around The World in 80 Days as a hapless police inspector alongside Jackie Chan and Steve Coogan.

His was also one of the only memorable performances in the big-budget sci-fi thriller Alien Vs Predator, in which he played a chemical engineer called Graeme Miller.