Glasgow-born actor Joe McFadden was discovered by a talent scout from Scottish Television in his Holyrood Secondary School drama class. He made his acting debut, cast as an Edinburgh public schoolboy, in three episodes of the detective series "Taggart". Soon after, McFadden became a familiar face to many in his native Scotland through a regular role on the popular weekly serial "High Road", playing troubled teenager Gary McDonald for six years. In 1995, while still appearing on "High Road", he was cast in Gilles MacKinnon's "Small Faces", a low-key British film about a mother and her three
