Martin Compston

Q: Has Martin Compston won any awards?

Yes, Martin Compston has won several awards, including the BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Actor for his role in 'Sweet Sixteen' in 2003.

Q: What was Martin Compston's first film?

Martin Compston's first film was 'Sweet Sixteen,' released in 2002, where he played the lead role of Liam.

Q: What television series is Martin Compston best known for?

Martin Compston is best known for his role as DS Steve Arnott in the critically acclaimed BBC series 'Line of Duty,' which has garnered a significant fanbase.

Q: What is Martin Compston's estimated net worth?

Martin Compston's estimated net worth is around $3 million, attributed to his successful acting career and various television projects.

Q: Is Martin Compston involved in any charities?

Yes, Martin Compston has been involved in various charitable activities, including supporting children's charities and organizations focused on mental health.

Q: What is a defining characteristic of Martin Compston's acting style?

Martin Compston is known for his ability to portray complex emotions authentically, often bringing a raw intensity to his roles that resonates with audiences.

Q: Where did Martin Compston grow up?

Martin Compston grew up in Greenock, Scotland, where he developed an early interest in football before pursuing a career in acting.

Known for

Sweet Sixteen (1983)

IMDb 5.1 / 10

1983 / Crime, Drama / 88mins

A beautiful lonely girl named Melissa tries to make new friends from a town she's currently living in. The only problem is, each of...

Mary Queen of Scots (2018)

IMDb 6.3 / 10

2018 / Drama, History / 119mins

In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne and menaces the future of Queen Elizabeth...

Name

Martin Compston

Height

5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)

Born

8 May 1983, Greenock, Scotland, UK

Spouses

Tianna Chanel Flynn (2019–present)

Children

2 children, names not publicly known

Parents

James Compston, Liz Compston

Estimated Net Worth

$3 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2025	TV The Revenge Club Six strangers are brought together by a divorce support group who quickly transform from therapy-seeking victims into architects of retribution....	Calum	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2025	TV Fear Excited to make a fresh start away from London, Martyn and Rebecca move into a beautiful house in Glasgow with...	Martyn Berwick	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2024	TV Red Eye London police officer DC Hana Li is escorting Dr Matthew Nolan back to Beijing where he has been accused of...	RSO Clay Brody	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2024	TV Martin Compston's Norwegian Fling Best buds Martin Compston and Phil MacHugh are back on the road enjoying a fling in the fjords. They visit...	Self	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2024	TV The Real Line of Duty The hit BBC drama Line Of Duty told the story of a fictional anti-corruption police unit. Now for the first...	Narrator	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2023	Movie Beyond Trainspotting: The World of Irvine Welsh After his pivotal novel Trainspotting was published in 1993, the debut work of Irvine Welsh quickly took the world by...	Self	Not rated
2023	TV The Rig When the crew of the Kinloch Bravo find themselves cut off from all communication with the Scottish mainland by a...	Fulmer Hamilton	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2022	TV Mayflies A friendship forged between James and Tully in a small Scottish town in 1986. One weekend, they make a vow...	Jimmy Collins	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2022	TV Martin Compston's Scottish Fling Proud Greenock lad Martin is coming home. He joins his mate Phil MacHugh on a riotous road trip showcasing the...	Presenter	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2022	TV Remembers… What are the secrets of our favourite TV shows? Famous names from both sides of the camera reflect on making...	Self	Not rated
2022	TV Our House Fi Lawson arrives home one day to find a family of strangers moving into her house and her husband, Bram,...	Bram Lawson	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2021	TV Vigil The mysterious disappearance of a Scottish fishing trawler and a death on-board the submarine HMS Vigil bring the police into...	Craig Burke	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2020	TV The Nest Happy couple Dan and Emily live in a huge house just outside Glasgow and want for nothing, save a baby...	Dan	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2019	TV Traces Set against the stunning Scottish landscape in and around Dundee, three compelling female characters — Emma Hedges, Prof. Sarah Gordon...	Daniel MacAfee	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2019	Movie Broony - Captain. Leader. Legend Scott Brown arrived at Celtic in 2007 as a raw midfield talent and in the 12 years since he has...	Narrator	Not rated
2019	Movie The Aftermath In the aftermath of World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during...	Burnham	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2018	Movie Mary Queen of Scots In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne and menaces the...	Earl of Bothwell	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2018	Movie Backstage At Live Aid Live Aid was not only “the day rock’n’roll changed the world,” it was also the source of countless backstage music...	Midge Ure	Not rated
2017	Movie The Hunter's Prayer An assassin forges an unlikely partnership with one of his targets: a woman seeking revenge for the murder of her...	Metzger	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2017	TV Urban Myths Our Urban Myths are stories that have been passed down over time and have now become part of urban folklore....	Midge Ure	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2016	TV In Plain Sight Based on the true story of Lanarkshire detective William Muncie’s quest to bring to justice notorious Scottish killer Peter Manuel.	Peter Manuel	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2016	TV Victoria The story of Queen Victoria, who came to the throne at a time of great economic turbulence and resurgent republicanism...	Dr. Traill	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2015	Movie The Legend of Barney Thomson Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go...	Chris	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2015	Movie Scottish Mussel Ritchie is a Glaswegian chancer with low hopes and no prospects. Disillusioned with city life, he goes undercover at a...	Ritchie	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2014	Movie Still Game: The Story So Far A celebration of the sitcom Still Game, featuring interviews with the cast, celebrities who have appeared on the show and...	Self	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2013	TV The Great Train Robbery 8 August 1963: Britain wakes up to news of the biggest robbery in the country’s history. A train has been...	Roy James	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2013	Movie Filth A bigoted junkie cop suffering from borderline personality disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way in a bid...	Gorman	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2013	TV The Ice Cream Girls In the summer of 1995, two vulnerable teenage girls are accused of murdering their schoolteacher. For seventeen years, the two...	Marcus	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2013	Movie The Wee Man The true life story of the rise to power of Glasgow gangster Paul Ferris.	Paul Ferris	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2012	TV Ripper Street A drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The action...	Edwin Havelock	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2012	TV Line of Duty A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.	DS Steve Arnott	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2012	Movie Piggy London, modern day: Joe, a mild mannered young man is bored by his life. When his beloved brother is murdered...	Joe	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2012	Movie Strippers vs. Werewolves Mickey, who happens to be a werewolf and a crime boss, gets all worked up and hairy during a private...	Scott	TMDB 3.9 / 10
2012	Movie Sister A drama set at a Swiss ski resort and centered on a boy who supports his sister by stealing from...	Mike	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2012	Movie When the Lights Went Out Yorkshire, 1974, the Maynard family moves into their dream house. It's a dream that quickly descends into a panic stricken...	Mr. Price	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2011	Movie How to Stop Being a Loser James is useless with women, but his luck changes under the tutelage of pick-up artist, Ampersand. As James learns the...	Adam	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2011	TV Death in Paradise A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island...	Dexter Allen	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2011	Movie Four The plan: Kidnap your wife's lover. Take him to a remote warehouse. Hurt him a little. Scare him a lot....	Lover	TMDB 2.0 / 10
2011	Movie 7lives A disgruntled married man called Tom believes that there is a better life for him out there somewhere. On his...	Rory	TMDB 4.1 / 10
2011	Movie Ghosted ‘GHOSTED’ tells a story of survival inside a British Prison. Jack a model prisoner, has kept his head down and...	Paul	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2010	Movie Paris/Sexy Greer is a girl on the cusp of womanhood. Like some curious fabled creature she lives in a remote, rundown...	Seamus	Not rated
2010	Movie Donkeys Alfred is 64. He's lost touch with his family and a threat to his health makes him realise he wants...	Stevie Blantyre	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2010	Movie SoulBoy 1974. Amidst power cuts, strikes and boot-boy aggro on the football terraces, Joe McCain is bored of a life that's...	Joe McCain	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2010	Movie Pimp A week in the life of Woody; a Soho pimp, as seen through the eyes of concealed documentary cameras: A...	Zeb	TMDB 4.5 / 10
2010	TV Five Daughters The stories of five young women who were tragically murdered in Ipswich in 2006.	John	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2009	Movie The Disappearance of Alice Creed A rich man's daughter is held captive in an abandoned apartment by two former convicts who abducted her and hold...	Danny	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2009	Movie The Damned United Taking over Leeds United, Brian Clough's abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players' dirty style of play make...	John O'Hare	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2008	Movie Red Mist A young doctor in a US hospital administers a powerful and untested cocktail of drugs to a coma victim. But...	Sean	TMDB 4.9 / 10
2008	Movie Doomsday The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarantine the country...	Joshua	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2008	Movie The New Ten Commandments The film was produced by Nick Higgins from Lansdowne Productions and Noémie Mendelle from the Scottish Documentary Institute and has...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 8.7 / 10
2007	Movie True North The crew of a bankrupt Scottish trawler turn to smuggling illegal immigrants over the stormy waters of the North Sea.	Sean	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2007	TV British Film Forever Running for seven weeks from July 2007, each week focused on a different genre, examining British film by genre. Presented...	Unknown character	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2006	Movie Red Road Jackie is a CCTV operator. One day, a man shows his face on her monitor, a man she hoped never...	Stevie	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2006	Movie A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints Dito Montiel, a successful author, receives a call from his long-suffering mother, asking him to return home and visit his...	Mike O'Shea	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2006	TV Soccer Aid Soccer Aid is a biennial British charity event that has raised £6.5 million in aid of UNICEF UK through ticket...	Self	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2006	Movie Carry On Ken A documentary on the films of Ken Loach. Interviews with cast and crew who worked with Loach over the years....	Self	Not rated
2005	Movie Wild Country A group of friends are pursued by a sinister force after rescuing an abandoned child.	Lee	TMDB 4.9 / 10
2005	Movie Tickets A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that...	Jamesy	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2004	TV Agatha Christie's Marple The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During...	Alfred Pollock	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2004	Movie Niceland (Population. 1.000.002) Jet lives a joyful life working at a factory with his girlfriend who he's deeply in love with. Shortly after...	Jed	TMDB 4.9 / 10
2003	TV The Royal Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter...	Jeffrey Carpenter	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2002	Movie Sweet Sixteen Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough...	Liam	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2002	TV Rockface In the fictional Scottish Highlands town of Glenntannoch, Dr Gordon Urquhart leads a mountain rescue team, whose major missions and...	Jason Farinelli	Not rated
2000	TV Monarch of the Glen Archie MacDonald, a young restaurateur is called back to his childhood home of Glenbogle where he is told he is...	Ewan Brodie	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1996	TV Silent Witness A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible.	DS Jason Ross	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1986	TV Casualty Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their...	Matty Howell	TMDB 6.2 / 10

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Got a question about Martin Compston?

What are Martin Compston's most successful films?

Martin Compston's most successful films include 'Sweet Sixteen' and 'The Disappearance of Alice Creed.' Both films received critical acclaim and showcased his acting range.

Has Martin Compston won any awards?

What was Martin Compston's first film?

What television series is Martin Compston best known for?

What is Martin Compston's estimated net worth?

Is Martin Compston involved in any charities?

What is a defining characteristic of Martin Compston's acting style?

Where did Martin Compston grow up?