Raymond Mearns

Raymond Mearns is a Scottish actor and comedian who grew up in Glasgow's East End. He is best known for playing Happy Boab in the Scottish sitcom Legit. His acting debut came in the 1998 short film Home, in which he played one of the blind twins Troy and Roy Pettifer; the film won the BAFTA for Best Short Film in 1999. He appeared in two Ken Loach films, It's a Free World... (2007) and Ae Fond Kiss... (2004), and he starred in Next Time Ned. On television he appeared in a 2008 Rab C. Nesbitt Christmas special and in the Scottish-BAFTA-winning sketch series Limmy's Show. In 2024 he performed at the Glasgow International Comedy Festival, where he received a nomination for the Spirit of Glasgow award, which is named after Sir Billy Connolly.