Gary McDonald
Known For
Acting
Born
1961-01-01 in London, England, UK
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gary McDonald (born in London in 1961) is an English actor of Jamaican descent. A student at Elliott school in Putney, McDonald played football for Wimbledon FC under Dario Gradi. He was a member of the Royal Court Theatre from 1979-80, appearing in various plays at the Court such as Hard time Pressure, Hero’s Welcome and Che Walker’s Been so Long. In the 1980’s he performed with the Talawa Theatre company in The Black Jacobins, The Importance of Being Earnest and A Raisin in the Sun with the Black Theatre. He appeared at the Royal National Theatre in Macbeth and Black Poppies, Rhapsody in Black & White and at The Cottlesloe in Blood Wedding. Other theatre credits include Scrape of the Black and Mike Leigh’s It’s a Great Big Shame at the Theatre Royal Stratford East. His first notable television role came in 1987 when he was cast as Darren Roberts in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. He left the role in 1988. He has also appeared in Numb3ers, The Bill, Between the Lines, South of the Border, as Captain John Black in Dream Team (1999-2006) and in Brothers and Sisters, among others. He has also appeared in various films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gary McDonald (actor),licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Known For
Death in Paradise
as Temmy Verga
EastEnders
as Darren
Numb3rs
as LAPD #1
Holby City
as Thomas Abara
Screen Two
as Gee
Dream Team
as John Black
Murder in Mind
as DC Jed Culshaw
The Tower
as Harry Bowman
Respect
#Unknown
as The Knight
The Shepherd: Border Patrol
as Billy Pawnell
Black Poppies
Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down
as Pilot Walsh
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
as Blackwood
Secrets & Lies
as Boxer
South Of The Border
as Harvatt
Outpost: Black Sun
as Abbot
Until Death
as Larenz
All or Nothing
as Neville
Thief Takers
as DC Alan Oxford