Steven Robertson

Steven Robertson is a Scottish actor from Vidlin in Shetland who became best known as Detective Sandy Wilson in the BBC One crime series Shetland, an adaptation of Ann Cleeves's books. He took his first major film role in 2004 in Inside I'm Dancing, playing a young man with cerebral palsy, then appeared as a priest in Kingdom of Heaven (2005) and had a larger part in the French war film Joyeux Noel (2005). Television work followed in Luther, where he played twin murderers who let a dice roll decide a victim's fate, the Channel 4 conspiracy thriller Utopia, and Being Human, as a government figure whose department protects the world from supernaturals. He played Wilson across seven series of Shetland, the character rising from constable to detective, and also appeared in The Bletchley Circle.