Gary McDonald

Gary McDonald is an English actor of Jamaican descent who came up through the theater. Born in London, he joined the Royal Court Theatre in 1979 and spent a year there in plays such as Hard Time Pressure, Hero's Welcome and Been So Long. In the 1980s he acted with Talawa Theatre Company, taking parts in A Raisin in the Sun, The Black Jacobins and The Importance of Being Earnest, and he later went to the Royal National Theatre for Macbeth, Black Poppies and Rhapsody in Black & White and to the Cottesloe for Blood Wedding. He broke into television in 1987, playing Darren Roberts in EastEnders, the BBC soap opera, and stayed a year. Other credits include The Bill, Between the Lines, South of the Border, Numb3ers and Brothers and Sisters, and he played Captain John Black in Dream Team from 1999 to 2006. He has also appeared in various films.