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Troy Glasgow

Troy Glasgow

Acting

Biography

Troy Glasgow was born in Waterloo, London. He attended the BRIT School in 2001 and graduated in 2003. Whilst there he gained small roles in British television shows such as The Bill, Doctors and Holby City. He gained his first lead role in the Channel 4 one off drama Sex, footballers and videotape. After stints at the National Theatre, Birmingham Rep theatre and a cameo in Adulthood, he went on to appear in Skins, Doctor Who and The Day of the Triffids.

Known For

Doctor Who
7.6

The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.

Doctor Who

2005
Skins
8.1

Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.

Skins

2007
World War Z
6.8

Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.

World War Z

2013
M.I. High
6.1

A team of undercover teenage spies working for the fictional British secret intelligence agency MI9 who have to balance their school life with their jobs as secret agents.

M.I. High

2007
Ashes to Ashes
7.7

Crime drama series featuring Life On Mars' DCI Gene Hunt. After being shot in 2008, DI Alex Drake lands in 1981, where she finds herself in familiar company.

Ashes to Ashes

2008
The Day of the Triffids
5.9

After an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants which are feeding on people and animals.

The Day of the Triffids

2009
Adulthood
6.2

After serving six years for killing his schoolmate, a young man learns that someone is out for revenge.

Adulthood

2008
National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire
7.9

As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski.

National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire

2014
Shoot the Messenger
5.4

Shoot the Messenger follows one man's painful journey towards self-discovery. On the way he finds both his own attitudes and the expectations of his community challenged.

Shoot the Messenger

2006
Piggy
5.5

London, modern day: Joe, a mild mannered young man is bored by his life. When his beloved brother is murdered Joe finds solace in Piggy, one of his brother's old friends. Piggy helps Joe to cope with grief, intent on saving him and helping him get justice for his brother's killing. As their friendship grows Joe finds himself in an increasing dangerous and murky world of violence and revenge. As Joe life collapses around him he starts to question who Piggy really is, and how honest he's really been with him. When Joe confronts Piggy a series of events are put in place that lead to a disastrous climax.

Piggy

2012
Wonderkid
5.7

Wonderkid follows the inner turmoil of an unnamed football prodigy as he comes to terms with his own identity, struggling to reconcile his sexuality with his issues with alcohol and OCD.

Wonderkid

2016
London's Burning
N/A

Dramatisation of the 2011 London riots, focusing pre-dominantly on events that occured in and around Clapham and incorporating actual footage from CCTV cameras, civilians and journalists

London's Burning

2011
National Theatre Live: The Wife of Willesden
N/A

A proper local legend. Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend. Alvita will tell her life story to anyone in the pub – there's no shame in her game. The question is: are you ready to hear it? Because this woman's got the gift of the gab: she can rewrite mistakes into triumphs, turn pain into parables, and her love life's an epic poem. They call her The Wife of Willesden... A play that celebrates the human knack for telling elaborate tales, especially about our own lives. Zadie Smith transports Chaucer's The Wife of Bath to 21st Century North West London, directed by Kiln Theatre Artistic Director, Indhu Rubasingh. A production from Kiln Theatre.

National Theatre Live: The Wife of Willesden

2022
Out of Control
4.5

Drama following the lives of three teenage boys sent to a young offenders' institution.

Out of Control

2002
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N/A

A generational story set in East London exploring the journey and family life of an old man’s relationship with his Grandson, within the Sound System community.

Vibrations

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9.0

Sex, Footballers and Videotape depicts the footballing world full of licentious behaviour involving drug-taking and sex romps, all fuelled by the bumper wage packets enjoyed by modern footballers.

Sex, Footballers and Videotape

2004
Frantic Assembly’s Metamorphosis
N/A

Frantic Assembly’s Metamorphosis retells Franz Kafka’s account of human struggle as a young salesman finds himself morphed into an insect. Captured live at Lyric Hammersmith Theatre in 2024, this adaptation by poet Lemn Sissay OBE uses powerful lyricism, sound, and physicality to bring this tale of extraordinary transformation to life.

Frantic Assembly’s Metamorphosis

2024