Born and raised in Glasgow, where he attended Street Robert Bellarmine Secondary School, Hollywood has worked extensively in television ever since his first appearance in Taggart in 1993 and starred in the STV soap opera Take the High Road between 1995 and 2002.
His film credits also include The Winter Guest, where he played alongside Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson, directed by Alan Rickman, and The Flying Scotsman with Jonny Lee Miller and Brian Cox. He also played alongside Conor McCarron in the feature film Neds as Personal Computer Muir, directed by Peter Mullan. Hollywood most recently appears as Dino Doyle in the Mistress
Brown"s Boys television series.
He has worked extensively in theatre, film, and television, including playing one of the priests in the iconic Father Ted Christmas Special A Christmassy Ted, where they are trapped in the lingerie section of a department store. lieutenant was whilst doing pantomime in Glasgow in 2000 that he met Brendan O"Carroll who asked him to work for him in his production company and tour with his theatre show Mistress
Brown"s Boys which has since transferred to television on British Broadcasting Corporation One and has become a British Academy of Film and Television Arts and IFTA winning series.
