Tam Dean Burn is a Scottish actor who has played a wide range of roles on stage and screen. On television this includes multiple roles on long-running detective series Taggart, youth sci-fi thriller Life Force, and on BBC Scotland's soap opera River City, where he played gangster Thomas McCabe. Burn currently performs as a featured lead singer alongside Scars.
His theatrical roles include being the narrator of the 2009 play Year of the Horse, about artist Harry Horse.
He starred on stage in Irvine Welsh's Headspace, in 1997. In 2016 he played Captain Edgar in August Strindberg's Dance of Death at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow. In 2018 he narrated Tommy Smith's jazz version of Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofieff with text specially adapted by Liz Lochhead. The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra recorded the piece live on 24 February 2018 at Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland. Since 2006, Burn has been the authentic 'Leither' voice narrating the audiobook versions of 18 of Irvine Welsh’s books.
| Date of Birth | 31st May 1958 |
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| Age | 66 Years |
| Zodiac Sign | Gemini |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Current City | Leith |
| Birth Place | Leith |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Education |
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| Queen Margaret University |
| Occupation | actor, television actor |
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