 One of the Scots who swaggered south in the '90s helping to invigorate British films, reddish-haired Douglas Henshall has done striking work in film and TV without a major hit to establish him firmly with audiences. On TV, he was brilliant as the sadistic Corporal Berry in Lipstick on Your Collar (Channel 4, 1993), the irresponsible father of the Kid in the Corner (Channel 4, 1999) and the troubled, ultimately serene Levin in Anna Karenina (Channel 4, 2000). On the big screen, he was equally riveting as the insolent, jeering Edgar, incestuously in love with his sister in Angels and Insects (UK/US, d. Philip Haas, 1995), the injured brother in Peter Mullan's inadequately seen Orphans (1997), a story of Glaswegian family torments, and the laddish, unfaithful tattooist in This Year's Love (d. David Kane, 1999). Brian McFarlane, Encyclopedia of British Film
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