birth_place article_title name years_active
glasgow , scotland brian mccardie
 brian mccardie 1990 -- present
brian mccardie

brian mccardie -lrb- born 22 january 1965 -rrb- is a scottish actor .
he appears in jon baird 's `` filth '' , based on the irvine welsh novel of the same name , playing dougie gillman and jacob engstrand in richard eyre 's production of henrik ibsen 's `` ghosts '' at the almeida theatre then transferring to the trafalgar studios in the west end , then new york .
he just played james connolly , a leader of the 1916 irish rising , for rtÉ .
