Gary Hollywood was discovered at the age of twelve by the drama department of Scottish Television and cast in a major role in the popular detective series Taggart (1983). He has worked extensively in television ever since, and stars in the popular Scottish soap opera Take the High Road (1980). Hollywood completed his first American film, playing the young John Muir in Lawrence R. Hott's biopic about the Scots-born founder of Yosemite Park, The Boyhood of John Muir (1998).