Trevor Laird

Trevor Laird is a British actor, born in Islington, London, who trained at the Anna Scher Theatre. He started on television in the 1970s, in an adaptation of Peter Prince's novel Playthings and several Play for Today dramas, and in 1978 he helped found the Black Theatre Co-operative, appearing in its first production, Mustapha Matura's Welcome Home Jacko. Breakthrough roles followed as Ferdy in Quadrophenia (1979) and Beefy in Franco Rosso's Babylon (1980). He went on to play Hortense's brother in Mike Leigh's Secrets & Lies (1996) and Trevor in the gangster film Love, Honour and Obey (2000). His other screen credits include the Doctor Who serial Mindwarp, the series Undercover Heart, Death in Paradise and an episode of Doctors, and he returned to Doctor Who as Clive Jones, Martha Jones's father.