Biographies

Stuart Laing

Eddy

Stuart Laing spent two years with the National Youth Theatre before going to the Drama Centre in London to study acting full time. His many theatre roles include Loot, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Bad Company and the lead in the critically acclaimed Hushabye Mountain by Jonathan Harvey which ran for six months at the Hampstead Theatre in London in 1998.

He was most recently seen in the critically acclaimed In A Land Of Plenty on BBC2 in which he played the character of Robert. He starred as Jack in the popular BBC series Berkeley Square and was subsequently named in Company Magazine's Top 100 Eligible Bachelors. Other TV work includes series such as Bob Martin, Kavanagh QC, Minder and The Bill, the Screen 2 film Blood and Peaches and BBC TV's Devil's Advocate in which he starred with Lena Headey. His two ads for Renault Clio ran for over a year.

Stuart has just returned from filming The Butterfly Man in Thailand, a tough drama about the sex trade. He has also completed Tom Hunsinger's The Lawless Heart, starring alongside Douglas Henshaw, and SW9, the second film from the producers of the cult independent hit Human Traffic. Other film work includes the short films Milk and In Between, and Gaston's War in which he starred with Olivia Williams. He starred with Frances Barber in Channel 4's Three Steps To Heaven and again on Channel 4 in director Suzanna Gent's Bedhead. Stuart was Mark in Simon Rumley's debut feature film, Strong Language which premiered at the National Film Theatre in 2000.

Stuart's character in The Truth Game is Eddy, frustrated novelist, Mr Popular, married man and eternal optimist. He's sociable, disorganised, likeable, and convinced his Big Break is on the way so that he can come off the dole, stop dealing drugs on the side, and help his wife Lilly (Selina Giles) pay the bills.

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