Sean Biggerstaff

Biography

Sean Biggerstaff is a Scottish actor who began performing as a child and took his first professional stage role at ten, as MacDuff's son in Michael Boyd's Macbeth at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow. After spending six years with the Scottish Youth Theatre, he first appeared on screen in the 1996 television miniseries The Crow Road. At fourteen he was cast by Alan Rickman in The Winter Guest (1997), and he became best known for Oliver Wood in the Harry Potter films, with credits in Philosopher's Stone (2001), Chamber of Secrets (2002) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 (2011). His other work includes the feature Cashback (2006), the television film Consenting Adults (2007), which won him a BAFTA Scotland Award for best actor in television, Whisky Galore (2016) and Mary Queen of Scots (2013). He also worked in stage and audio productions.

43years old

Turns 44 on March 15in 134 days

Born March 15, 1983Glasgow
Star sign: PiscesThe sign runs February 19 to March 20

Movie Career

Films: 3
Career span: 19 years1997 to 2016

Every film, newest first

2016Whisky GaloreIMDb rating 5.9
2006CashbackIMDb rating 7.1
1997The Winter GuestIMDb rating 6.8

Genres

Did you know?!

Big break
Alan Rickman, later a Harry Potter colleague, gave Biggerstaff the part of Tom, a mischievous schoolboy, in The Winter Guest when the actor was 14. Biggerstaff said the Scottish Youth Theatre was where he was chosen for that movie.
Big break
Rickman later suggested Biggerstaff to Paul Lyon-Maris and the London acting agency International Creative Management. A week afterward, the Harry Potter castings were going out.