Stephen McMillan (actor)

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Boiling Point

Stephen McMillan is a Scottish actor.

Career

From Dundee, he attended St Paul's Roman Catholic Academy before he studied acting at Dundee College. McMillan made his screen debut in David MacKenzie film Outlaw King alongside Chris Pine. [1]

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He appeared in the award-winning short film Mind Yersel, by writer and director Bonnie MacRae, showing the reality of male suicide in Dundee, dubbed the ‘Scotland’s suicide capital’. [2] [3]

In 2021, he appeared as Jamie in the Stephen Graham restaurant based drama film Boiling Point , [4] and reprised the role in the 2023 television series sequel of the same name. [5] In 2021, he could also be seen as a vulnerable cabin boy in the BBC Two adaptation of the arctic whaling drama series The North Water alongside Colin Farrell and Stephen Graham. [6]

Film appearances in 2023 included Lynch in the Irish Republican Army drama Dead Shot , and as Richard E Grant’s son Bertie Sinclair in The Lesson . [7]

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
2018 Outlaw King Squire Drew Forfar
2020Mind YerselfShort film
2021 Boiling Point JamieFilm
2021 The North Water Joseph Hannah2 episodes
2023 Dead Shot Lynch
2023 The Lesson Bertie Sinclair
2023 Boiling Point JamieSeries

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References

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