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Mini Bio (1)

Ron Donachie was born Ronald Eaglesham Porter on April 26, 1956 in Dundee, Tayside, Scotland. He was educated at Madras College, St. Andrews and Glasgow University, from where he graduated with an M.A (Hons.) in English Literature and Drama in 1979. After a year working as a navvy, he joined the 7.84 theatre company for John Burrough's "One Big Blow", in which the cast mimicked a traditional, colliery band by singing in six part harmony. The success of the play led to the formation of the acapella band "The Flying Pickets", who had a Christmas number one in 1983. Donachie's decision not to stay with the band and thereby missing out on their success has been described by him as "one of my more brilliant career decisions."



Throughout the 1980s, he was a prolific theatre performer all across the United Kingdom, working in Britain's now largely vanished repertory system. This afforded him the opportunity to act in many classical plays which are now rarely performed due to budget constraints and closed theatres. During this period, he appeared in over twenty plays at the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre under its famous triumvirate of Giles Havergal, Robert David Macdonald and Phillip Prowse. Like many performers with similar experience, he considers this the happiest, most fruitful and most influential phase of his career.



In the 1990s, he became a regular performer on British television, and did not appear on stage again until unexpectedly asked to join the National Theatre company for "Scenes From the Big Picture" in 2003. This ended a gap in live performance of thirteen years. Since then, he has tried to return to the variety of his earlier years with regular live performances interspersing his television and film work. Married on St. Patrick's Day 1989 to Fiona Biggar, the couple have two children: Naomi Porter, a student of Russian, German and French, and Daniel Porter, who now performs in his own right under the name of Daniel Portman. His sister-in-law is the costume designer Trisha Biggar and his brother is the actor Stewart Porter.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Zoot Case.

Spouse (1)

Fiona Biggar (17 March 1989 - present) ( 2 children)

Trivia (15)

He played the character of Rebus on radio and has appeared in a few episodes of the television adaptation of it as well.





Brother-in-law of costume designer Trisha Biggar

Prolific voice over artist.



Brother of actor 'Stewart Porter (I)'.





Father of actor Daniel Portman

Has only ever worked professionally as Ron Donachie. The credit Tom Donachie in "Where the Heart Is" was a mistake by the production company.



Fermanagh: Filming 'Blandings' [April 2012]



Chicago, Illinois. Accepting the Hugo Award for best dramatic presentation with George R. R. Martin on behalf of Game of Thrones, series one. [September 2012]



Received rave reviews for his leading performance as Commandant Frank Butler in Brian Friel's "Living Quarters" at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh. [November 2007]



Currently appearing in commercials for Walkers Crisps' new Builder's Breakfast flavour as part of the Do Us A Flavour campaign. [January 2009]



Vienna: Finishing "The Beautiful Spy". [April 2012]



London: Recording the audio book of George R. R. Martin's "Fevre Dream" for Random House. [July 2012]



Attending rehearsals in Edinburgh for his role in the play "Six Characters in Search of an Author", to be performed at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh before moving on to the Citizens' Theatre in Glasgow. [January 2008]



Just finished playing Ser Rodrik Cassel in series one of "A Game of Thrones" for HBO. [December 2010]



Budapest filming "The Beautiful Spy". [March 2012]

