Brian McCardie

Brian McCardie is a Scottish actor. He appears in Jon Bairds Filth, based on the Irvine Welsh novel of the same name, playing Dougie Gillman and Jacob Engstrand in Richard Eyres production of Henrik Ibsens Ghosts at the Almeida Theatre then transferring to The Trafalgar Studios in the West End, then New York. He just played James Connolly, a Leader of the 1916 Irish Rising, for RT.

McCardie was born in Bellshill. He attended St. Athanasius Primary School in Carluke, then Our Ladys High School in Motherwell where he began acting in amateur drama before attending the National Youth Theatre then onto Rose Bruford College .

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