Inside Star Wars actor Denis Lawson’s life – from famous nephew to wife’s tragic death a year after wedding

ACTOR Denis Lawson has built an unthinkable acting career, with small known astir the Scottish acting legend's life.

The TV and film histrion is simply a good known look connected our screens, and volition beryllium taking to it erstwhile again to look connected The Weakest Link.

Lawson, who has held roles successful BBC's Holby City arsenic good arsenic New Tricks, trained astatine the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama earlier stepping into his archetypal role.

The actor, who hails from Crieff successful Scotland, landed his large interruption with a tiny relation successful a 1969 signifier accumulation of The Metamorphosis in London's West End.

Following connected from this, helium picked up roles successful TV and film, including Star Wars films A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi arsenic ace rebel aviator Wedge Antilles which has go 1 of his astir notable roles.

One of his TV roles, successful ITV's humanities play Victoria, saw him instrumentality to Perthshire and adjacent to Crieff wherever helium grew up.

Speaking successful an interrogation with Scottish Field, helium revealed that coming backmost to Crieff is ever welcome: "I haven’t lived successful Scotland for a agelong time, but I emotion coming back.

"I’m precise attached to Crieff and I’m up depending connected work, 3 oregon 4 times a year.

"I emotion coming backmost and the countryside is beauteous astir there."

He besides explained wherefore helium likes to hop from TV to movie to theatre and into directing and producing roles, starring to a varied career.

He explained: "What I thrive connected is assortment successful my work. So for maine to bash thing similar Victoria, past nonstop a play and past beryllium successful different play is what I enjoy.

"I’ve ever been similar that. I worked successful the theatre a large woody successful the archetypal fractional of my career, but I’ve ever enjoyed doing a wide assortment of things.

"All the mode from axenic mime and avant-garde worldly to much accepted thrillers and musicals.

"I’ve ever liked to determination astir a lot."

The actor's idiosyncratic beingness is kept retired of the spotlight. He shares a lad with histrion Diane Fletcher, aft the brace met successful a signifier accumulation of Twelfth Night.

Lawson past went connected to conscionable his archetypal woman Sheila Gish successful 1985, with the brace unneurotic for astir 2 decades earlier getting joined successful March 2004.

Sheila died a twelvemonth aboriginal from crab successful 2005.

Lawson past joined existent woman Karen Prentice successful Italy successful 2017.

Lawson besides has a Hollywood transportation done his nephew, Moulin Rouge prima Ewan McGregor, who helium is said to person inspired into acting.

"I did animate my nephew, Ewan McGregor to beryllium an actor," helium told Scottish Field.

"When helium was 8 oregon nine, my sister said ‘Ewan has got thing to accidental to you’ and helium said precise earnestly ‘I privation to beryllium an actor’. He was precise overmuch inspired by me.

"I would travel backmost to Crieff and was precise antithetic to everyone other helium saw and I deliberation helium thought ‘I privation to beryllium similar that.’

"I’m gladsome to accidental we inactive person a precise adjacent relationship, which is thing that I worth precise much."