Martin Compston
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Martin Compston (born 8 May 1984) is a Scottish actor and former professional footballer.
In the BBC crime drama Line of Duty, he is best known for his lead role as Anti-Corruption Unit Detective Sergeant Steve Arnott.
Liam in Ken Loach's Sweet Sixteen, Paul Ferris in The Wee Man, and Ewan Brodie in Monarch of the Glen are among his notable roles.
Personal life
In 2016, Compston married American actress Tianna Chanel Flynn. They live in Las Vegas as of 2020. Brodie, the couple's son, has a brother.
Compston was compelled to deny suspicion of sectarian singing after videos of him on stage at a Celtic supporter function surfaced on social media in June 2022.
Early life and football career
Compston, the younger of two sons of a Catholic family, was born in Greenock, Scotland, and went to St Columba's High School in neighboring Gourock.
As a child, he was a youth player for Aberdeen and after leaving school, he joined Greenock Morton, a promising footballer. Compston made two first-team appearances in the 2001–2002 season, during which the team was relegated to the Third Division. In both matches, he appeared as a substitute, and Morton lost 4–0 to Alloa Athletic and Queen of the South. He played for Greenock Juniors for a short time after leaving Morton.
Compston is a supporter of the Scottish National Party.
Acting career
Compston had never appeared before, and he had successfully auditioned for the lead role in Ken Loach's Sweet Sixteen, which was being shot locally. The film's success at the Cannes Film Festival gave him instant celebrity in Scotland. Both he and his co-star William Ruane had been nominated for Most Promising Newcomer at the British Independent Film Awards, with Compston winning the category.
He appeared in the BBC television series Monarch of the Glen on a regular basis. He appeared in three films, including Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (Jury Prize and Best Ensemble Cast at the Sundance Festival), and True North with Peter Mullan and Gary Lewis, for which he was nominated as Best Supporting Actor at the British Independent Film Awards; and Best Supporting Actor at the Sundance Festival; Robert Downey, Jr.
Compston appeared in the 2010 film Soulboy, co-starring Craig Parkinson, portraying Joe McCain. Private Newman appeared in the horror film "The 4th Reich" and made a cameo appearance in a low-budget web series, "Night is Day."
Compston appeared in "Grace" and "How Long" in The View's music video.
Compston starred in the lead role of Detective Sergeant Steve Arnott, a prosecutor on an anti-corruption squad on an anti-corruption squad in the BBC's Line of Duty in 2012, alongside Craig Parkinson once more. He appeared in the violent thriller Pisa last year as well. He stayed back to his Scottish roots in The Wee Man, directed by Ray Burdis, a film based on Paul Ferris' life in Glasgow. It was first introduced in the United Kingdom in January 2013.
Compston appeared in the ITV miniseries The Ice Cream Girls in April 2013. In The Great Train Robbery, Roy James appeared as Roy James.
Compston regained his lead role in five other series of police drama Line of Duty in 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2021.
In 2016, Peter Manuel, a serial murderer, appeared in the three-part Scottish television series In Plain Sight as serial murderer Peter Manuel. In 2020, he appeared alongside Sophie Rundle in the television series The Nest.
Compston appeared in Our House in March 2022. Louise Candlish's book Our House is the drama series.