Greg McHugh

Greg McHugh is a Scottish actor and writer He is the creator writer and star of the BBC1 comedy series Gary Tank Commander He also played Howard in the Channel 4 comedy Fresh Meat Greg McHugh was born in Morningside Edinburgh on 5 January 1980 His father was a civil servant and his mother a teacher McHugh has two older brothers McHugh attended St Peters RC primary school and then St Thomas of Aquins High School He studied business at the University of Stirling and trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow Initially McHugh had intended to study sports science but found it too difficult McHughs native accent is a softer variation of the Edinburgh accent McHugh can be seen briefly on screen in the Still Game episode Faimly as a friend or relative visiting the patient in the bed beside Winston Ingram In 2010 McHugh appeared in the episode Don the Musical of the English sitcom How Not to Live Your Life He played Randy a local actor of amateur dramatics who played the Tom Cruise character Charlie Babbitt in a musical version of Rain Man He was in two 2010 episodes of Rab C Nesbitt as Liam OHagan The episodes were Muse and Candy McHugh was nominated for a Scottish BAFTA as writer of Gary Tank Commander Between 2011 2016 McHugh starred as Howard in the Channel 4 comedy Fresh Meat McHugh appeared in the 2013 Bad Education Christmas special as Bonehead a homeless man In 2014 McHugh appeared in the BBC film Marvellous playing the part of Malcolm the longtime friend of Neil Baldwin From 6 December 2014 to 11 January 2015 McHugh starred as the character of Smee in the pantomime production of Peter Pan at the Kings Theatre Glasgow In 2016 2017 2020 he appeared as Eddie Scott in the Cumbriabased BBC1 drama The A Word