Jimmy Chisholm

{{Short description|Scottish actor (born 1965)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Jimmy Chisholm

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1956|9|16}}

| birth_place = Inverness, Scotland

| occupation = Actor

| yearsactive = 1977–

| spouse =

}}

Jimmy Chisholm (born 16 September 1956 in Inverness) is a Scottish actor in film, theatre and television. He trained as an actor at Queen Margaret University’s School of Drama in Edinburgh. He currently plays the part of Sonny Caplan in the BBC Scotland production, River City.{{cite web |url=https://brennanartists.com/clients/jimmy-chisholm/ |title=Jimmy Chisholm |publisher=Brennan Artists |location=Glasgow |accessdate=5 October 2020}} He played Jimmy Blair from 1980 to 1986 in Scottish Television's long-running soap opera Take the High Road.{{cite web |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1401179/index.html |last=McGowen |first=Alistair |title=Take the High Road (1980–2003) |publisher=BFI Screenonline |location=London |accessdate=6 October 2020}} In film, his credits include Braveheart (1995), as Faudron, and Mrs Brown (1997), as Mr Grant.{{cite web |url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/jimmy-chisholm/credits/656984/ |title=Jimmy Chisholm |publisher=CBS Interactive Inc. |location=San Francisco |accessdate=5 October 2020}} On the stage, Chisholm is mostly associated with the Royal Lyceum Theatre which he calls his "acting home".{{cite web |url=https://lyceum.org.uk/fiftieth-anniversary/entry/jimmy-chisholm |title=Jimmy Chisholm |publisher=Royal Lyceum Theatre Company Ltd |location=Edinburgh |accessdate=5 October 2020}}

Chisholm was Assistant Director for the Fifth Estate Theatre Company's production of Allan Sharpe's play The Burgher's Tale at the Netherbow Theatre in 1994.The Burgher's Tale theatre programme, Fifth Estate Theatre Company, 1994