
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
8.7From 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
6.6Taggart 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
7.3Archie 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
7.5A 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
7.8Case 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
6.5Detective Inspector Ray Lennox investigates the disappearance of a schoolgirl while battling cocaine addiction and a mental breakdown.
Crime
2021
Film credits
2020s · 14 titles
NRTwo 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
4.5Mr. 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
7.2A 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
NRAfter 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
NRWhen the jury's out, which way will the pendulum swing? Life moves too fast. Will you let it slip away?
Up/Down
2025
NRTold 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
NRIn 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
NRAn 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
3.5In 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
NRA Glaswegian bouncer attempts to perform a sham exorcism for some fast cash.
Here Comes the Nun
2025
NRDuring 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
10.0A 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
NRA metal detectorist stumbles upon a conspiracy.
The Leaf Blower
2020
NRtrouble in a coffee shop
Bad Beans
2022
2010s · 6 titles
6.9After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.
T2 Trainspotting
2017
NRA traditional Polish feast on Christmas Eve, Wigilia includes an extra place at the table should an unknown wandering pilgrim arrive.
Wigilia
2014
NRAn overly romantic librarian believes she's found the one after just three dates, but her friends are more concerned with political turmoil, which leads to a right wing coup.
Super November
2018
5.0Lawyer Justin visits his family in Scotland where they run an illegal brothel.
A Spanking in Paradise
2010
5.5In a small town in Scotland, a young man must overcome his depression and the voice that haunts him daily. From a cliff top, a man in a hoody leaps to his death.
Connect
2019
NRBilly struggles with life as a pushover
A Friendly Man
2019
1990s · 3 titles
6.2A surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, the film reaches into the hearts and minds of the chemical generation, casting a dark and unholy light into the hidden corners of the human psyche.
The Acid House
1998
5.5The only thing James wants is to remain away from Scotland. One day, however, he receives a fax, a printout of an unknown person's obituary. The next day, he is charged and arrested for the murder of this person.
Postmortem
1998
NRA portrait of gambling obsession
33-1 Before the Off
1997
Undated · 3 titles
NRAn encounter with a woman from another timeline awakens buried memories within a grief-stricken man who, after losing his family during the witch trials, entered a supernatural bargain that changed the course of his existence forever.
Lélek
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NRA retired investigator for a memory dealing mob is coerced into returning to the punk streets of London in order to solve a string of killings with his estranged daughter's help.
Trace
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NRA self-absorbed lecturer returns to a remote part of the English countryside in the hope of burying an affair with a young asylum seeker. But an uncanny presence has other ideas.
Remnants
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Series credits
8.7From 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
6.6Taggart 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
7.3Archie 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
7.5A 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
7.8Case 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
6.5Detective Inspector Ray Lennox investigates the disappearance of a schoolgirl while battling cocaine addiction and a mental breakdown.
Crime
2021
6.6Two 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
7.6Sitcom 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
7.3Neil 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
