Trevor Laird (born 11 July 1957, London, England) is a British actor. Born in Islington, London in 1957, Laird trained at the Anna Scher Theatre. Early roles included a 1976 role in a TV adaptation of the Peter Prince novel Playthings, directed by Stephen Frears, and several Play For Todays: Victims of Apartheid by Tom Clarke (1978),Barrie Keeffe's Waterloo Sunset (1979) and The Vanishing Army by Robert Holles (1980). Laird was a founder member of the Black Theatre Co-operative (now NitroBeat) in 1978 and performed in its inaugural play Welcome Home Jacko by Mustapha Matura the following year. He then had breakthrough roles in the 1979 film Quadrophenia - as Ferdy, a drug supplier for the main character Jimmy - and in Franco Rosso's 1980 cult classic Babylon as Beefy. He played the boy under the car in The Long Good Friday (1980) and appeared in Menelik Shabazz's black British film Burning an Illusion. Later appearances include the 1986 Doctor Who serial Mindwarp as the guard commander Frax. He later returned to Doctor Who in the role of Clive Jones, father of the Tenth Doctor's companion Martha Jones. In 1996 Laird played Hortense's brother in the Mike Leigh film Secrets & Lies. He played Wesley Carter in the TV series Undercover Heart, and Trevor in the British gangster film Love, Honour and Obey (2000). He played DI Mike Vedder “End of the Night”, S8:E4 of Waking the Dead (2009). In 2015, Laird appeared as Vince Thuram in the BBC TV series Death in Paradise. In March 2021, he appeared in an episode of the BBC soap opera Doctors as Samuel Asante.

Filmography

• 2024A Gangster's Kiss — Gilbert
• 2021Cruella — Asthma Man
• 2021To Be Someone — Rudy
• Small Axe — Augustin
• Ted Lasso — Denbo
• 2019National Theatre Live: Small Island
• 2016Hamlet — Polonius / Grave Digger 1
• No Offence — Upjohn Henderson
• The Job Lot — Delmar
• 2012Patriarch
• Death in Paradise — Vince Thuram
• 2011National Theatre Live: One Man, Two Guvnors — Lloyd Boateng
• Thorne — Assistant Commissioner
• Trinity — Barrington MacKenzie
• Doctor Who — Clive Jones
• Doctor Who Confidential
• 2004Dangerous and the Lonely Hearts — Paddy Jones
• The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey — Le Mabé
• Peep Show — Laurie
• The Last Detective
• Waking the Dead — DI Mike Vedder
• Undercover Heart — Wesley Carter
• 1996Secrets & Lies — Hortense's Brother
• 1991Bernard and the Genie — PC Parker
• 1991Smack and Thistle — Baron Greenback
• Birds of a Feather — Andrew
• 1989Slipstream — Committee Member
• The New Statesman — Lance Okum-Martin
• Call Me Mister
• 1986Doctor Who: Mindwarp — Frax
• 1985Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire — Floyd
• 1985Flying Devils — Sepp
• 1985Water — Pepito
• Big Deal — Monty Riley
• The Bill
• Struggle — Charlie
• 1982Easy Money — Frederick
• 1982Jake's End — Heister
• 1982Pocketful of Dreams — Albert
• 1981Burning an Illusion — Pest
• 1980Babylon — Beefy
• 1980The Long Good Friday — Boy Under Car
• 1979Quadrophenia — Ferdy
• 1979Waterloo Sunset — Lester
• 1978The Vanishing Army — Sheldon
• 1978Victims of Apartheid — Bus conductor
• BBC2 Play of the Week — Sheldon
• 1976Play Things — Harmon
• Playhouse — Harmon, Albert, Heister, Frederick
• Doctor Who — Frax

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2021Classic Albums: The Who Sell Out — Self
• Totally Doctor Who — Self