Biography

He performed his self-penned one-man play Connolly at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast but the cancellation of 2020's Edinburgh Festival meant he lost the opportunity to present it in a six-week run in Edinburgh's Cowgate, where James Connolly was born and raised.

Brian McCardie was a Scottish actor and writer, known for his role as John Thomas "Tommy" Hunter in the BBC police procedural series Line of Duty.

McCardie performed readings of his own poems at various venues around Ireland and was filming them for distribution online.

He attended St. Brendan's, then St. Athanasius Primary Schools before going on to attend Our Lady's High School in Motherwell.

Born on exactly the same date as Diane Lane ("Streets of Fire", "The Outsiders", "Judge Dredd").