Simon Weir

Acting

Simon Weir

Born

1973-05-05 (53)

Place of birth

Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

36 titles

Simon is best known for playing bad boy mechanic Paul Lafferty in STV's HIGH ROAD from 1995 until 2003. He has also appeared in 6 episodes of BBC Scotland's RIVER CITY as gangster Graham MacLaverty, including the Christmas Special in 2008. He has appeared in 2 Irvine Welsh Feature Films, THE ACID HOUSE and T2 TRAINSPOTTING. Trained at the Dorothy Paul Studio from 1986 and Motherwell College, his stage work includes UK tours of KIDNAPPED as Alan Breck and SINGIN IM NO A BILLY HES A TIM as Tim. He won 'Best Acting' at the 48 Hour Film Festival in 2014.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 14 titles

A Lost Art poster
NR

Two career criminals risk it all on one last job for their ruthless boss, but their fall guy might just be the death of them.

A Lost Art

2026

Wuthering Heights: The House of the Damned poster
4.5

Mr. Lockwood arrives at the remote and storm-battered Wuthering Heights, unaware that Catherine's vengeful ghost walks its halls. Her obsessed lover, Heathcliff, feeds her bloodlust with human sacrifice, hoping to give her soul a new body to inhabit. As Lockwood grows sick and delusional, he is drawn deeper into their deadly, undying love, and must escape before he becomes their next victim.

Wuthering Heights: The House of the Damned

2026

Sardar Udham poster
7.2

A young Sardar Udham Singh left deeply scarred by the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, escaped into the mountains of Afghanistan, reaching London in 1933-34. Carrying an unhealed wound for 21 years, the revolutionary assassinated Michael O’Dwyer on 13th March, 1940, the man at the helm of affairs in Punjab, April 1919 to avenge the lost lives of his beloved brethren.

Sardar Udham

2021

Beyond Trainspotting: The World of Irvine Welsh poster
NR

After his pivotal novel Trainspotting was published in 1993, the debut work of Irvine Welsh quickly took the world by storm, spawning theatre productions, the iconic film by Danny Boyle, sequels and even an acclaimed stage musical.

Beyond Trainspotting: The World of Irvine Welsh

2023

Up/Down poster
NR

When the jury's out, which way will the pendulum swing? Life moves too fast. Will you let it slip away?

Up/Down

2025

Original Night poster
NR

Told in two semi-fictional acts, this 16mm film serves as an elegy for Europe’s last wallabies — a marsupial animal from Australia, introduced in Scotland in the 1940s. Reflecting on humanity’s enduring urge to record animals, from prehistoric cave art to early cinema, Alasdair Asmussen Doyle links the extinction of species with the evolution of image-making.

Original Night

2026

Buried poster
NR

In a classic bonding exercise, city boy Alisdair and his estranged father Chris search the forest near their Scottish Highlands hometown for a fabled set of elk antlers.

Buried

2025

Piece in Dal Riata poster
NR

An accidental invention by twins, Bobby and Bonnie, changes the kingdom of Dal Riata and the world as we know it.

Piece in Dal Riata

2026

The Draw poster
3.5

In an oppressive world, where free will is becoming a thing of the past, all analogue imagery is restricted and replaced by a new technology called ‘The EyeLight’. Alec and Jade must try to fight the system and the ever present show ‘The Draw’ which soon infiltrates their lives to pose a very real danger.

The Draw

2025

Here Comes the Nun poster
NR

A Glaswegian bouncer attempts to perform a sham exorcism for some fast cash.

Here Comes the Nun

2025

1815 poster
NR

During the Highland Clearances, a stubborn old tenant farmer and a young Waterloo veteran strike up a reluctant and uneasy bond in a relentless search through highlands; glimpsing the human cost of the clearances as they go.

1815

2022

Psycho Sex Dolls poster
10.0

A filmmaker hires AI Sex Dolls to save his disrupted porn biz, but his fantasy of porn mogul dreams, soon turns into his worst nightmare.

Psycho Sex Dolls

2025

The Leaf Blower poster
NR

A metal detectorist stumbles upon a conspiracy.

The Leaf Blower

2020

Bad Beans poster
NR

trouble in a coffee shop

Bad Beans

2022

2010s · 6 titles

Series credits

Outlander: Blood of My Blood poster
8.7

From the battlefields of World War I to the rugged Highlands of 18th century Scotland, two fated couples must defy the forces that seek to tear them apart, unfolding in surprising and unforeseen ways in this romantic saga that unfolds across time.

Outlander: Blood of My Blood

2025

Taggart poster
6.6

Taggart is a Scottish detective television program. The series revolves around a group of detectives initially in the Maryhill CID of Strathclyde Police, though various storylines have happened in other parts of the Greater Glasgow area, and as of the most recent series the team have operated out of the fictional John Street police station across the street from the City Chambers.

Taggart

1983

Monarch of the Glen poster
7.3

Archie MacDonald, a young restaurateur is called back to his childhood home of Glenbogle where he is told he is the new Laird of Glenbogle.

Monarch of the Glen

2000

Patrick Melrose poster
7.5

A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist's harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult substance abuse and, ultimately, toward recovery.

Patrick Melrose

2018

Case Histories poster
7.8

Case Histories is a British drama television series based on the Jackson Brodie detective novels by Kate Atkinson. It stars Jason Isaacs as Jackson Brodie.

Case Histories

2011

Crime poster
6.5

Detective Inspector Ray Lennox investigates the disappearance of a schoolgirl while battling cocaine addiction and a mental breakdown.

Crime

2021

Guilt poster
6.6

Two brothers seem to get away with a crime - but soon discover they can trust no-one, including each other, in a pitch-black, contemporary thriller.

Guilt

2019

How Not to Live Your Life poster
7.6

Sitcom about 20-something Don, a man with bad luck and even worse instincts. Don's overactive imagination is always in full flow in the form of quick-fire fantasy sequences as he imagines what he would really like to say.

How Not to Live Your Life

2008

Blood of the Clans poster
7.3

Neil Oliver presents a drama-documentary series telling the tales of Scotland's most epic and bloody conflicts and the characters who made their mark in this memorable era of the country’s history.

Blood of the Clans

2020