David Haig Collum Ward was born on 20 September 1955 and is an English actor and playwright.
18 Facts About David Haig
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David Haig has appeared in West End productions and numerous television and film roles over a career spanning four decades.
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On Remembrance Day 2007, ITV broadcast a television drama based on the play, in which David Haig played Rudyard Kipling and Daniel Radcliffe played Kipling's son, John.
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David Haig went on to star as the Player in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead alongside Radcliffe in 2017.
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David Haig was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to drama.
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David Haig grew up in Rugby, Warwickshire where he attended Rugby School.
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David Haig appeared in the 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral, and had a supporting role in the BBC television sitcom The Thin Blue Line, playing Inspector Grim, the inept foil to Rowan Atkinson's Inspector Fowler.
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David Haig appeared in Love on a Branch Line, a TV series broadcast by the BBC in four episodes.
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David Haig appears in the Richard Fell adaptation of the 1960s science fiction series A for Andromeda, on the UK digital television station BBC Four.
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David Haig wrote the play My Boy Jack, and later appeared as Rudyard Kipling, alongside Daniel Radcliffe, in television adaptation.
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David Haig appeared in the Midsomer Murders, episode "The Glitch".
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In January 2013, David Haig started appearing as Jim Hacker in a re-make of classic 1980s comedy series Yes Prime Minister, broadcast on Gold TV in the United Kingdom.
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In 2012 a new sitcom pilot, starring David Haig and written by Ben Elton, was filmed for the BBC.
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An August 2018 announcement indicated that David Haig would be among the new cast to join the original actors in the Downton Abbey film which started principal photography at about the same time.
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David Haig won an Olivier Award in 1988 for Actor of the Year in a New Play, for his performance in Our Country's Good at the Royal Court in Sloane Square.
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David Haig toured Britain with the stage version of My Boy Jack, which he wrote, and in which he played Rudyard Kipling and directed a production of Private Lives by Noel Coward, which made a national tour in 2005.
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David Haig was nominated for playing Christopher Headingley in a revival of Michael Frayn's comedy Donkeys' Years at the Comedy Theatre.
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In September 2023, it was announced that Haig was adapting Philip K Dick's novella "The Minority Report" for the stage, to premiere at the Lyric Hammersmith the following spring.