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David Haig

British actor

For the Australian biologist, see David Haig (biologist). For other people, see David Haig (disambiguation).

David Haig Collum WardMBE (born 20 September 1955) is an English actor and playwright. He has appeared in West End productions and numerous television and film roles over a career spanning four decades.

Haig wrote the play My Boy Jack, which premièred at the Hampstead Theatre on 13 October 1997. On Remembrance Day 2007, ITV broadcast a television drama based on the play, in which Haig played Rudyard Kipling and Daniel Radcliffe played Kipling's son, John. He went on to star as the Player in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead alongside Radcliffe in 2017.

Haig's second play The Good Samaritan was also first staged at the Hampstead Theatre, opening on 6 July 2000. His third play Pressure premiered at the Chichester Festival in 2014, before being revived in 2018 on a UK Tour and then in the West End at the Ambassadors Theatre. In 2018, he portrayed Bill in the critically acclaimed BBC America thriller series Killing Eve (2018).

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David Haig (biologist)

Australian biologist

David Addison Haig (born 28 June 1958) is an Australian evolutionary biologist, geneticist, and professor in Harvard University's Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology.^[1] He is interested in intragenomic conflict, genomic imprinting and parent–offspring conflict, and wrote the book Genomic Imprinting and Kinship. His major contribution to the field of evolutionary theory is the kinship theory of genomic imprinting.

Significant papers

Haig, D. (1993). Genetic conflicts in human pregnancy. Quarterly Review of Biology, 68, 495-532.
Haig, D. (1997). The social gene. In Krebs, J. R. & Davies, N. B. (editors) Behavioural Ecology: an Evolutionary Approach, pp. 284-304. Blackwell Publishers, London.
Haig, D. (2000). The kinship theory of genomic imprinting. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 31, 9-32.
Wilkins, J. F. & Haig, D. (2003) .What good is genomic imprinting: the function of parent-specific gene expression. Nature Reviews Genetics, 4, 359-368.
Haig, D. (2004). Genomic
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David Haig
David Haig is a British actor and playwright. He was born in Aldershot, Hampshire, the son of an opera singer and an army officer. His stage plays include My Boy Jack (1997) and The Good Samaritan (2000), both of which Haig also performed in. His third play Pressure premiered at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh before transferring to the Minerva Theatre, Chichester in 2014. Haig also adapted My Boy Jack for TV in 2007, with a cast including Haig, Daniel Radcliffe and Kim Cattrall.
On stage, Haig has appeared in the West End in plays such as Yes, Prime Minister, Art, Journey’s End, The Country Wife, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and Our Country’s Good (for which he won the Olivier Awards for Best Actor). Haig was nominated for Olivier Awards for his performances in Donkeys’ Years, Guys and Dolls, The Madness of George III, and Mary Poppins. He has also regularly appeared at London’s National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
On TV and film, Haig’s appearances include Yes, Prime Minister, Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Th