John Gordon Sinclair is a Scottish actor and novelist, best known for playing Gregory in Gregory's Girl. There was a Gordon Sinclair already registered with Equity, so he took John Gordon Sinclair as his professional name.
Life and career
Gordon was born in Glasgow. At 15 he joined Glasgow's Youth Theatre after he visited one night and met fellow fan of Canadianprogressive rock group Rush, Robert Buchanan. As a result, he starred in a number of films by director Bill Forsyth, perhaps the most notable of which is 1981's Gregory's Girl, shot when he was 19 years old. He reprised the role nearly two decades later in Gregory's Two Girls, and also appeared in Forsyth's Local Hero. His other film roles included appearances in Britannia Hospital, The Girl in the Picture, and Erik the Viking. He has continued to act on stage and screen. Other roles include parts in Goodbye Mr Steadman, Mad About Alice and Roman Road. He was also in the first series of LWT's Hot Metal and both the radio and television sitcomAn Actor's Life For Me. He played Dan Weir in Espedair Street, the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of the Iain Banks novel, as well as playing the lead part of Dr. Finlay in the Radio 4 series entitled Adventures of a Black Bag. He also made a brief appearance in one episode of Bergerac 'Ninety percent proof' 1983. He appeared in the 1982 Scottish squad's World Cup song "We Have a Dream", a number 5 hit in the UK, which was written and performed by B.A. Robertson. Sinclair speaking his recollection of a dream about Scottish football success. He later revived this Scottish footballing connection by narrating the 2006–07 BBC Scotlanddocumentary seriesThat Was The Team That Was. Sinclair played Frank McClusky, a leading character, in the 1990 John ByrneTV serialYour Cheatin' Heart. He played one of the main characters in the Tesco TV adverts in the late 1990s and early 2000s alongside Prunella Scales and Jane Horrocks. He most recently appeared in the West End in The Producers playing the part of Leo Bloom alongside Fred Applegate. In 1998 of PB Bear and Friends of Penguins. He voiced all the male characters in HIT Entertainment's Rubbadubbers. He also played P.K. in the UK Version of Fraggle Rock. He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1995 for Best Actor in a Musical for his 1994 performance in "She Loves Me". Sinclair also performed the part of "Master of Ceremonies" in Mike Oldfield's premiere performance of Tubular Bells II at Edinburgh Castle in 1992. In 2013, he appeared in World War Z. In 2018 he played Richard, attorney for the title character in the film Nico, 1988. He narrates Biggleton on CBeebies replacing Eamonn Holmes.
Other
He had a novel Seventy Times Seven, a violent thriller set in 1992, published in 2012.
Personal life
In 2004 he married Shauna McKeon. They have two daughters.
