Bryan Larkin

Born in Glasgow, Scotland and raised by his parents in East Kilbride, his mother was a midwife and his father was a Royal Air Force Police mechanic and later a chief lecturer and engineer in prosthetics and orthotics at Strathclyde University. At a young age he started lifting weights and became a competitive junior Scottish bodybuilder, winning several championships in his late teens including the Junior Mr Caledonia and East of Scotland titles. He enrolled in evening acting classes and joined a local drama group before attending drama school in Glasgow. Shortly after he started work in the theatre, touring with Harold Pinter's classic, 'The Birthday Party', in the role of the menacing McCann followed by Jerry in Edward Albee's 'A Zoo Story', and Tambo in the world premiere of 'The Ringer', to rave reviews. He soon progressed to numerous T.V and film roles and making his own short films, notably Scene. (2006) playing a hapless actor trapped in a movie within a movie, for which he wo