Tommy Flanagan Biography

Fast Facts

• Was persuaded to try acting by his friend and fellow actor Robert Carlyle
• Got his start with a theater company in his native Glasgow in the early 1990s after working as a dance-club DJ
• First TV roles were in a 1992 episode of the BBC anthology series Screen One and a '93 episode of Taggart, a long-running Scottish detective series
• His breakout movie was Braveheart (1995)
• The scars on his face are the result of a mugging by knife-wielding assailants, an incident that occurred before he began acting