Iain MacRae
Acting
Biography
Born 1955, Iain trained as an actor at Mountview Theatre school and has been working professionally in theatre, television, film and radio since 1984. He started writing in more recent years. Fantom was performed at Citizens theatre 2015. Taigh Sheonachain was awarded the Donald Meek prize for writing in 2017. Briseadh na Cloiche was performed at Webster’s theatre, broadcast on BBC Alba and screened at Glasgow Short Film festival, Faclan festival in Stornoway and Babel international film festival Sardinia 2018. His short story Mach an Geata won the Morton writing prize 2019. Turas Baidhseagail (2017) and Speuclairean (2020) won the Scottish Book Trust 50-word story prize. His poetry has been published in New Writing Scotland 36, Poets’ Republic 3, 6 and 8. As an actor, Iain’s proposal of an adaptation of Calum’s Road for stage resulted in two sell-out tours with National Theatre of Scotland/Communicado from 2013. He also toured with Tall Tales for Little People (NTS/Communicado) and later with Whisky Galore (NTS/Robhanis). Other theatre includes Heritage, Passing Places, Homers, Lazybed, Shimmer (all Traverse). TV includes Crowdie and Cream (BBC), Machair (STV), Bannan (BBC Alba).
Known For
The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
Outlander
Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the close knit island community. In this isolated and sometimes inhospitable environment, the team have to rely on a uniquely resourceful style of policing.
Shetland
Kat Crichton is a young Family Liaison Officer assigned to investigate the brutal murder of the wife of a local tycoon at a remote island mansion. The murder investigation unravels on the island of Lewis and Harris, from where Kat mysteriously fled ten years previously.
The Island
Case Histories is a British drama television series based on the Jackson Brodie detective novels by Kate Atkinson. It stars Jason Isaacs as Jackson Brodie.
Case Histories
A survivor recounts his memories of the tragedy of the Iolaire disaster which took place on New Year's Day 1919 off the coast of the Isle of Lewis.
Survivor
Docu-drama about the taking of the Stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey on Christmas morning of 1950 by a band of Scottish nationalist. The Stone of Scone is a holy relic (supposed to have been Jacob's Pillow when he dreamt of the Ladder to Heaven) on which the old kings of Scotland were crowned. It was stolen by Edward Longshanks - of Braveheart fame - in 1296 and had remained at the Abbey since.
Interrogation of a Highland Lass
The inhabitants of a remote Scottish village live and learn.
As an Eilean
A lawyer finds himself increasingly frustrated by the professional criminals he is called upon to defend, and hooks upon the idea of devising perfect crimes.
The Planman
During the Highland Clearances, a stubborn old tenant farmer and a young Waterloo veteran strike up a reluctant and uneasy bond in a relentless search through highlands; glimpsing the human cost of the clearances as they go.
1815
A young man cannot stop his boyhood quest for the truth - the truth behind the death of his parents and the truth behind his Grandfather's ancient, incredible, fearful stories. A quest that leads him to one of Scotland's most treacherous mountains, The Inaccessible Pinnacle.
Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle
An adaptation of the true life story from childhood of the author, Findlay J McDonald, who was born and brought up on the Isle of Harris. Set in the 1930s until he left the island after the Second World War to further his education on the mainland. The highland wit shines through despite the hardships of life on a small croft, a few acres for crops, a cow and a shed to house the loom to weave the traditional Harris Tweed.
Crowdie and Cream
Tempers begin to fray at a whaling station in the dying days of the industry.