Acting
Dec 31, 1979
Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK
Steven Robertson
Acting
Biography
Steven Robertson (born 1 January 1977, in Vidlin, Shetland Islands, Scotland) is a Scottish actor who overcame severe dyslexia to be named Student of the Year at Fife College in Kirkcaldy, before becoming the first Shetlander accepted to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. In 2004 he was nominated for an Ian Charleson Award for his role in Chekhov's The Seagull, and his first major film role came that same year opposite James McAvoy in Inside I'm Dancing (as Michael Connolly, a young man with cerebral palsy). His most notable film credits include an Angelic Priest in Kingdom of Heaven (2005), Jonathan in Joyeux Noël (2005), Sir Francis Throckmorton in Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007, directed by Shekhar Kapur), Minister Davit Kezerashvili in 5 Days of War (2011), Junior Technician Pinnock in The Tourist (2010, with Johnny Depp), Francis Begbie's lawyer in T2 Trainspotting (2017), and Jim in Tell It to the Bees (2018). On television he is best known as Detective Constable Sandy Wilson in Shetland (2013–present, 62 episodes, BBC One), Dominic Rook in Being Human (2008–2013, 7 episodes, BBC Three), Robert Oswald in Harlots (2017, with Heather Graham), Richard Pritchard in Doctor Who (2015), Sergeant Bob Fraser in Red Riding (2009), Cuthbert Clare in Tess of the D'Urbervilles (2008), Mark Bradwell in The Bay (2019, ITV, 6 episodes), and Ian in Channel Zero (2018, 6 episodes), with additional credits in Luther (2011), Ripper Street (2012), In the Flesh (2014), Utopia (2014), Vera (2018), Auggie (2021), and Survivor (2015).
Feature Films (24)
Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed when the maverick Rory O'Shea moves in.
Inside I'm Dancing
France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody no man's land that the French and the Scots dispute with the Germans…
Joyeux Noel
The crew of a bankrupt Scottish trawler turn to smuggling illegal immigrants over the stormy waters of the North Sea.
True North
NEDs (Non Educated Delinquents) is the story of a young man’s journey from prize-winning schoolboy to knife-carrying teenager. Struggling against the low expectations of those around him, John McGill changes from victim to avenger, scholar to NED, altar boy to glue sniffer. When he attempts to change back again, his new reality and recent past make conformity near impossible and violent self determination near inevitable.
Neds
Set in the immediate and random background of today’s London. THE COMEDIAN is a fresh, dramatic and funny debut feature about choices and how not to make them.
The Comedian
When Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by ruthless familial betrayal and Spain's invading army, she and her shrewd adviser must act to safeguard the lives of her people.
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Television & Series (17)
Family Liaison Officer Lisa Armstrong becomes a little too emotionally involved with a case (to the point where she might compromise it) concerning a pair of missing Morecambe twins to whose distraught parents she is assigned.
The Bay
Deciding to turn over a new leaf, a group of friends who also happen to be vampires and werewolves move into a house together, only to find that it is haunted by ghosts of people who have been killed under mysterious circumstances. As they deal with the challenges of being supernatural creatures, their desire to be human bonds them.
Being Human
Red Riding is a British crime drama limited series written by Tony Grisoni, based on the book series of the same name by David Peace. Comprised of the novels 1974 (1999), 1977 (2000), 1980 (2001), and 1983 (2002), with the first, third, and fourth of these became three feature-length television episodes, Red Riding 1974, Red Riding 1980 and Red Riding 1983. Three epic tales of murder, corruption and obsession. Utilising recurring characters and events, the Red Riding Trilogy recounts three series of gruesome crimes over a turbulent decade in Northern England.
Red Riding
A dark psychological crime drama starring Idris Elba as Luther, a man struggling with his own terrible demons, who might be as dangerous as the depraved murderers he hunts.
Luther
A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage.
