 Returning to short films in 2016, Rankin starred as Vance in Chloë Wicks' "The Wyrd", the story of a young couple in seventh century pagan England dealing with the introduction of Christianity.In 2008, while still in school at Langside College, Rankin portrayed Bothwell in Liz Lochhead's play "Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off" at the Citizen's Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland.The next year he was cast, opposite his brother Colin Harris, in the dark comedy "The Pillowman" for XLC Productions.