Billy Connolly

ABOUT BILLY CONNOLLY

Scottish actor and comedian who appeared in The Last Samurai and Gulliver's Travels. He was nominated for a BAFTA for his role in Mrs. Brown and appeared in the 1996 film, Muppet Treasure Island , and in the 1999 cult classic film The Boondock Saints .

Raised in a tenement in Glasgow, he was sexually assaulted by his father from the age of ten to fifteen. He worked as a ship welder and was a talented banjo player.

The BBC made a six-part documentary about his tour through England on a motorcycle.

He had two children during his first marriage. He married his second wife, comedian and psychologist Pamela Stephenson , in 1989, and they had three children together.

He played the dwarf warrior Dain Ironfoot in the Peter Jackson Hobbit movies.