David O’Hara Net Worth: Scottish Actor Earns $3 Million

David O’Hara is a Scottish actor with a net worth of $3 million. He made his film debut in Bill Forsyth’s Comfort and Joy in 1984 and appeared as a Scottish boy in The Monocled Mutineer in 1986. O’Hara’s big break came as Stephen, the rampaging Irishman who joins forces with William Wallace (Mel Gibson), in Braveheart in 1995. Two years later, he co-starred opposite Helen Mirren as a slightly independent policeman in Granada Television’s Prime Suspect V: Errors in Judgment, which aired on PBS’ Masterpiece Theatre.

In 2006, O’Hara appeared as Fitzy in the Oscar-winning film The Departed. In June 2009, he worked on The Tudors in Dublin. He played Albert Runcorn and Harry Potter disguised as Runcorn in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows—Part 1. O’Hara has also appeared in other films such as Trainspotting, Wanted, and The Matchmaker.

David’s interest in an acting career came while he was still in high school. O’Hara left Scotland to pursue the craft at the age of 17, studying at London’s Central School of Speech and Drama. Among David’s stage performances, he portrayed Tybalt in a 1986 open-air production of Romeo and Juliet and three years later took on the play’s more challenging role of Mercutio.

O’Hara’s career has spanned over three decades, and his talent has allowed him to work alongside some of the biggest names in the industry. Today, he is considered one of the most successful Scottish actors of his generation.

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