Welcome to Hugh Ross!
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Hugh Ross was born in Glasgow.
He went to Glasgow Academy where each summer a Shakespeare production was staged. Hugh’s first appearance was as Alice in Henry V , followed by Gertrude in Hamlet and Portia in The Merchant of Venice. Then his voice broke! Before he was 18 he had played Malvolio, Macbeth and Richard III. (Lady Macbeth was played by Neil MacGregor, now director of the British Museum)
Every Christmas there was a pantomime, which provided a very different discipline, and was a lot of fun.
Hugh’s passion for theatre was further inflamed when, aged 13, he was cast in Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People at the Citizens’ Theatre in Glasgow.
Both Hugh’s parents were doctors, and they persuaded him to go to St Andrews University, before embarking on what they considered to be a very precarious career in show-business. He played Hamlet in the Cathedral ruins, did very little studying, and after two years dropped out, and applied for drama schools in London. He was accepted by RADA, and began his studies there in 1966.