Dougray Scott stars in the compelling psychological thriller, The Crow Girl, which is airing on Channel 5 tonight. The Scottish actor plays DI Lou Stanley in the six-part series, which follows Detective Jeanette Kilburn (Eve Myles) as she leads a chilling investigation into the discovery of unidentified dead bodies around Bristol.
© Photographer: Joss BarrattThe Scottish actor has racked up an impressive list of TV and film credits over his longstanding career, including My Week with Marilyn, Mission Impossible: 2 and Vigil. But how much do you know about the star's life off-screen?
Keep reading for more about Dougray's home life, including his marriage to actress Claire Forlani and his actor son following in his footsteps.
Meet Dougray Scott's wife Claire
Dougray is married to actress Claire Forlani, who rose to fame in the 1995 comedy film Mallrats, before going on to star in various TV series and films, including NCIS: Los Angeles and the 2003 action film, The Medallion, and the BBC drama, Industry.
Earlier this year, the couple co-starred in the BBC drama Crookhaven, based on J. J. Arcanjo's book series of the same name.
Dougray and Claire tied the knot in a private civil ceremony in Italy in 2007.
© Getty Images for BAFTASharing an insight into their big day, Dougray previously told PEOPLE: "It was very romantic. I feel so lucky to have met her. She's an amazing actress and human being.
"I'm very happy," he added.
In 2020, Dougray opened up about Claire's experiences with disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein, a "master manipulator" who she "escaped five times" in the late Nineties.
"Claire wrote very powerfully about it, she was so eloquent and very brave – all those women were," Dougray told The Telegraph.
When asked if his wife's career was negatively affected after she spurned Weinstein's advances, Dougray said: "Claire has an incredible personality, she is very strong in some respects, and wouldn't put up with that level of abuse from anyone."
© LISA O'CONNORHe continued: "But I am absolutely 100 per cent positive that it affected her career in some ways. Because she was so combative, she wouldn't acquiesce to bullies. She was brave enough to stand up to bullies. And did it affect her career? For sure. As it did all the women who stood up to sexual abusers," he said.
Before his relationship with Claire, Dougray was married to casting director Sarah Trevis for five years until 2005.
Dougray's home life
Dougray, who lives in north London, confessed that his life away from acting is quite "boring," and consists mostly of reading and gym sessions.
He also shared that he is an avid golfer. "I love golf. About twenty years ago I stopped all the things that are bad for you, like drinking and whatever, and I had to find something else to occupy myself with," he told Hunger. "Golf helped. Like football, it makes me feel connected with my dad. It takes me all the way back to when I was five or six and first started playing it with him. It's very meditative for me."
Dougray's children, including his actor son
Dougray shares twin son, Gabriel, and daughter, Eden, 28, with his first wife, Sarah. He's also a dad to adopted son Milo, who was born in 2014.
Opening up about his relationship with Milo, Dougray told The Guardian in 2018: "That one of my children is adopted makes no difference to the love I feel for them. The first time I set eyes on Milo, I thought: that is my son – and he is. I love him just as much as I do my biological children. There is no difference whatsoever.
© BBC"I would put my life on the line for him, as I would for the twins. My whole perception about adoption changed the moment I saw him. He is part of me, 100%."
Following in his father's professional footsteps, Dougray's eldest son, Gabriel, has carved out his own acting career with credits in House of the Dragon, Masters of the Air and Lockerbie: A Search for Truth.
© ITVThe pair have even collaborated on-screen twice: Gabriel played Dougray's nephew in season two of Crime and portrayed a younger version of Dougray's character, David, in Summerwater.
Regarding the "nepo baby" label often applied to children who pursue the same career as their parents, Dougray told The Telegraph: "I don't know what it means. My son is really talented. So you deny them an opportunity because you're worried about people saying there's nepotism involved? Well, it works emotionally for the piece, because he's playing my nephew, and he's my son, so there's a connection there that you can't act."
