Daniel Gerroll was born in London and educated in Switzerland, Scotland and London. After studying Law and Philosophy at Nottingham University, he trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London and subsequently spent some years in British theatre arriving in the West End in 1976 in "Once a Catholic". Following a major role in Chariots of Fire (1981) in 1980, he moved to New York, where his early work garnered a Theatre World Award and an Outer Critic Circle Award. Going to Hollywood in 1987 to appear in Big Business (1988), he stayed to play a variety of roles on TV and film. He later returned to New York in order to indulge his first love - the theatre. In 1999, he won an OBIE award for sustained excellence in theatre.