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Kevin Mckidd

Birthday: Aug 9, 1973

Place of Birth: Moray, Scotland, UK

Bio: A Scottish actor whose heritage is betrayed as much by his pale skin and red hair as it is by his accent, Kevin McKidd first earned recognition in 1996 with parts in Trainspotting and Small Faces, two films that helped to put the Scottish film industry on the world cinema map. Born and raised in Elgin, a town in the northeast of Scotland, McKidd developed an interest in acting early on and was active with the Moray Youth Theatre throughout his childhood and adolescence. His time as an engineering student at the University of Edinburgh produced little in the way of engineering but did allow McKidd to rack up experience as part of the university's Bedlam Theatre. Finally deciding to chuck his course of study in order to pursue acting full-time, he enrolled in the Queen Margaret Drama School, where he trained until he graduated in 1994. Immediately after his graduation, McKidd auditioned for and won the lead role in The Silver Darlings, which was staged by Robert Carlyle's Rain Dog Theatre Company. This was followed by his casting as a vicious Glasgow gang leader in Gillies MacKinnon's Small Faces (1995) and his role as Tommy, an Iggy Pop-worshipping, AIDS-stricken heroin addict in Danny Boyle's Trainspotting (1996). The huge success of the latter film got McKidd noticed, although his performance was largely overshadowed by those of co-stars Ewan McGregor and Robert Carlyle. However, the actor soon found more work headed in his direction and spent the rest of the decade appearing in a steady stream of small art house pictures. Among the films he appeared in were Gilles MacKinnon's Hideous Kinky (1998), in which he had a cameo as a massively stoned traveler in Morocco and Rose Troche's Bedrooms and Hallways (1998), in which he starred as a gay man grappling with bisexual urges. In addition to his work on the screen, McKidd remained active on the stage, portraying the title character in the Almeida Theatre production of Jean Racine's Britannicus and starring alongside Jude Law in director Jonathan Kent's Albery Theatre production of John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. He worked steadily throughout the next decade in projects like Anna Karenina, Dog Soldiers, and the biopic De-Lovely. In 2005 he appeared in Ridley Scott's epic Kingdom of Heaven, and that same year he was cast in the historical series Rome. Two years later he had a major role in the Silence of the Lambs prequel Hannibal Rising. In 2010 he was cast as Poseidon, the father of the young hero in Percy Jackson & The Olympians. He joined the Pixar family in 2012 giving voice to Lord MacGuffin in Brave. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi

Filmography

Year	Title	Credit
2012	Brave	Lord MacGuffin
2012	Comes A Bright Day	Cameron
2011	Bunraku	Killer No. 2
2011	Catwalk	Actor
2011	The Great Ghost Rescue	Actor
2010	Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief	Poseidon
2008	Made of Honor	Colin
2007	Hannibal Rising	Kolnas
2007	The Last Legion	Wulfilla
2005	Kingdom of Heaven	English Sergeant
2004	De-Lovely	Bobby Reed
2004	The Purifiers	Moses
2003	16 Years of Alcohol	Frankie Mac
2003	The Rocket Post	Actor
2003	One Last Chance	Seany
2003	AfterLife	Actor
2002	Nicholas Nickleby	Actor
2002	Max	Actor
2002	Dog Soldiers	R/man Lawrence Cooper
1999	Topsy-Turvy	Lely
1998	Regeneration	Actor
1998	The Acid House	Johnny [A Soft Touch]
1998	Hideous Kinky	Actor
1998	Dad Savage	H
1998	Bedrooms and Hallways	Leo
1996	Trainspotting	Tommy
1996	The Leading Man	Actor
1995	Small Faces	Malky Johnson