Douglas Henshall has been married once. He is currently married to Croatian playwright Tena Štivičić. They got married in Las Vegas in February 2010 and have a daughter named Anja Grace.

Douglas Henshall is a Scottish television, film, and stage actor best known for his roles as Professor Nick Cutter in the science fiction series Primeval and Detective Inspector Jimmy Pérez in the crime drama Shetland.

Douglas Henshall starred in Harold Pinter’s Betrayal at the Comedy Theatre in London’s West End playing the lover of Emma in 2011. In 2016, he starred in the Scottish three-part television drama series In Plain Sight as the detective William Muncie.

In autumn 2012, he appeared as Oliver Cromwell in the premiere of the new play 55 Days. In 2015, Henshall starred as Taran MacQuarrie in the TV series Outlander.

Douglas Henshall also portrayed T. E. Lawrence in a recurring role in the American television series Young Indiana Jones (1992–1996). Douglas Henshall starred in Dorian Gray (2009) as the doctor Alan Campbell.