Tam Dean Burn

Tam Dean Burn is a Scottish actor who has performed a wide variety of roles on stage and screen. Born in Leith in 1958, he trained at the drama school of Edinburgh's Queen Margaret University. On television he took several parts in the detective series Taggart, played Retro in the science fiction thriller Life Force, and appeared as the gangster Thomas McCabe in River City. His stage work includes narrating a 2009 play about the artist Harry Horse, appearing in Headspace, Irvine Welsh's play, in 1997, and playing Captain Edgar in Strindberg's Dance of Death for Glasgow's Citizens Theatre in 2016. In 2018 he narrated a jazz treatment of Peter and the Wolf by Prokofiev, with Tommy Smith, recorded live by the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra. He has read 18 of Irvine Welsh's books as audiobooks since 2006, and he sings as a featured lead singer with Scars.