David Elliot

David Elliot is a Scottish actor from Edinburgh who came to performing through the stage, writing and directing as well as acting in touring shows that included Decky Does a Bronco and Hangover. A newspaper, The Scotsman, praised his writing for one of those pieces. His breakthrough leading role came in the war film Kajaki (2014), in which he played Cpl Mark Wright, and it earned him a BAFTA Scotland award for best actor in a film, ahead of Robert Carlyle and David Tennant. He took another lead in Jackie van Beek's relationship drama The Inland Road, first shown at the Berlin Film Festival, and played Jonesy in the Sky One series Bulletproof. He has also written and directed, making the short Promenade, nominated for best short film, and he was a finalist in the BBC Writersroom Interconnected competition.