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Jimmy Yuill
Jimmy Yuill is an actor, born in 1959, in Golspie, Scotland. He is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and later joined the Renaissance Theatre Company. He has appeared in many of Kenneth Branagh's films. His most recent work saw him play the Chief Constable in "The Raven" along side John Cusack. Yuill was also the music composer for A Midwinter's Tale and Swan Song. Most of his acting work has been in theatre, although he has played police officers on television; he is best remembered for the character Doug Kersey in the British television show Wycliffe. In June 2006 Jimmy made his first appearance in EastEnders as the recurring character Victor Brown. In October 2007, Yuill took the lead in Sophocles' Antigone as Creon, King of Thebes at The Tron Theatre, Glasgow. In 2010, he was nominated for the award of Best Male Performance for his role in a play adaption of the Testament of Cresseid by the Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland.
As actor
The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford
The Road Dance
The Kindred
Artemis Fowl
All Is True
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
The Raven
Flat Lake
Retreat
Princess Kaiulani
Within the Whirlwind
Extraordinary Rendition
The Magic Flute
As You Like It
The Rocket Post
Ladies in Lavender
Schneider's 2nd Stage
Strictly Sinatra
Love's Labour's Lost
Grushko
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Much Ado About Nothing
Paper Mask
Discovering Hamlet
The Picnic
Henry V
Sales People from Hell
The Interrogation of John
A Sense of Freedom
Local Hero