Biography
Jimmy Yuill is a Scottish actor. Born James Evander Munro Yuill on 13 February 1956 in Golspie, he trained with the Royal Shakespeare Company before joining the Renaissance Theatre Company, where he first worked with Kenneth Branagh.
He has appeared in all five of Branagh's Shakespeare film adaptations, including as Jamy in Henry V (1989) and Friar Francis in Much Ado About Nothing (1993). Yuill is best known for playing Detective Inspector Doug Kersey in the television series Wycliffe (1994–1998). He has also appeared in films such as Local Hero (1983) and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), and in EastEnders as Victor Brown from 2006.
