Jimmy Yuill

Jimmy Yuill

Birthday: 1956-01-01

Place of birth: Golspie, Scotland

Also known as:

imdb_id: nm0950788

Biography:

Jimmy Yuill is an actor, born in 1959, in Golspie, Scotland. He is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and later joined the Renaissance Theatre Company. He has appeared in many of Kenneth Branagh's films. His most recent work saw him play the Chief Constable in "The Raven"  along side John Cusack. Yuill was also the music composer for A Midwinter's Tale and Swan Song. Most of his acting work has been in theatre, although he has played police officers on television; he is best remembered for the character Doug Kersey in the British television show Wycliffe. In June 2006 Jimmy made his first appearance in EastEnders as the recurring character Victor Brown. In October 2007, Yuill took the lead in Sophocles' Antigone as Creon, King of Thebes at The Tron Theatre, Glasgow. In 2010, he was nominated for the award of Best Male Performance for his role in a play adaption of the Testament of Cresseid by the Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland.

Played in movies:

Henry V

Score: 7.2

National Theatre Live: Macbeth

Score: 7.0

Andrina

Score: 7.0

Much Ado About Nothing

Score: 6.9

Local Hero

Score: 6.8

The Road Dance

Score: 6.6

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Score: 6.4

The Kindred

Score: 6.4

Ladies in Lavender

Score: 6.4

A Sense of Freedom

Score: 6.4

Death Watch

Score: 6.3

The Raven

Score: 6.3

The Magic Flute

Score: 6.3

All Is True

Score: 6.1

Grushko

Score: 6.0

Discovering Hamlet

Score: 5.7

Paper Mask

Score: 5.7

Princess Kaiulani

Score: 5.7

As You Like It

Score: 5.7

Retreat

Score: 5.6

The Rocket Post

Score: 5.6

Artemis Fowl

Score: 5.5

Love's Labour's Lost

Score: 5.5

Within the Whirlwind

Score: 5.2

Strictly Sinatra

Score: 4.8

Extraordinary Rendition

Score: 4.8

Our Winnie

Score: 0.0

The Good Time Girls

Score: 0.0

Schneider's 2nd Stage

Score: 0.0

The Interrogation of John

Score: 0.0

The Picnic

Score: 0.0

Flat Lake

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Young James Herriot

Score: 7.6

Shetland

Score: 7.5

Hamish Macbeth

Score: 7.5

New Tricks

Score: 7.4

Going Postal

Score: 7.2

Rebus

Score: 7.1

Objects of Affection

Score: 7.0

Guilt

Score: 6.7

Wycliffe

Score: 6.0

Eurocops

Score: 5.0

EastEnders

Score: 4.2

Cloud Howe

Score: 0.0

Monsignor Renard

Score: 0.0