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Alexander Tulloch Macqueen (born 30 November 1973) is an English actor. He has appeared on television, film and radio in the UK in productions such as ''
Holby City
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'', ''
Doctor Who
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,'' ''
Hut 33
''Hut 33'' is a BBC Radio 4 sitcom set at Bletchley Park in 1941. It includes both the writer ( James Cary) and producer (Adam Bromley) from ''Think the Unthinkable'' and '' Concrete Cow''.
Production
The first six-part series was recorded at ...
'', ''
Peep Show
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'', ''
The Thick of It
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'', ''
Keeping Mum
''Keeping Mum'' is a 2005 British black comedy film co written and directed by Niall Johnson and starring Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith and Patrick Swayze. It was produced by Isle of Man Film, Azure Films and Tusk Produc ...
'', ''
Fate: The Winx Saga'', and ''
The Inbetweeners
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''. He also guest-starred in ''
The Durrells
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'' in Series 4.
Early life
Macqueen was born in
Epsom
Epsom is the principal town of the Borough of Epsom and Ewell in Surrey, England, about south of central London. The town is first recorded as ''Ebesham'' in the 10th century and its name probably derives from that of a Saxon landowner. The ...
, Surrey. He was educated at
St John's School, Leatherhead
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, and left to receive a
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in
English literature
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at
Collingwood College, Durham
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University. He went on to study for a
M.Phil at
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Pembroke College (officially "The Master, Fellows and Scholars of the College or Hall of Valence-Mary") is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college is the third-oldest college of the university and has over 700 ...
, graduating in 1998.
Professional career
Macqueen was a member of the
National Youth Theatre
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between 1992 and 1995, then trained as a barrister at the
Middle Temple
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. He worked as a Business Affairs Executive for
Granada International
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and has worked in the
House of Commons
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with a member of the Culture and Media Select Committee, during the creation of the Broadcasting Act 1996.
He played sarcastic consultant
anaesthetist
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Keith Greene
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in 75 episodes of ''Holby City'' between May 2005 and July 2010.
[ He appeared as Julius Nicholson, the "blue-skies advisor" to the Prime Minister in political satire '']The Thick of It
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'' and as Sir Jonathan Tutt, British Ambassador to the UN, in the film '' In the Loop'', both directed by Armando Iannucci
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. He also appeared in the Comic Relief
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special of Mr. Bean
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in 2007 as a vicar. He appeared as Kevin Sutherland
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Sutherland was born in Sacramento, California and graduated from Christian Brothers High School. He attended Fresno S ...
in E4's comedy, ''The Inbetweeners
''The Inbetweeners'' is a British coming-of-age television teen sitcom, which originally aired on E4 from 2008 until 2010 and was created and written by Damon Beesley and Iain Morris. The series follows the misadventures of suburban teenager ...
'' and as Howard, an anti-speed bump community campaigner in two episodes of BBC1's '' Outnumbered''.
Macqueen has appeared in television advertisements for Specsavers
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, Dell
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Dell sells personal computers (PCs), servers, data ...
, and Utterly Butterly
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. He appeared in the Comedy Central
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collaboration, ''
Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire
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'', in which he played Barnabus, the sidekick to the Chancellor Dongalor, played by
Matt Lucas
Matthew Richard Lucas (born 5 March 1974) is an English actor, comedian, writer, and television presenter. He is best known for his work with David Walliams on the BBC sketch comedy series ''Little Britain'' (2003–2006, 2020) and '' Come Fl ...
. He starred as Roy Tunt in ''
The Hide'', which premiered on
FilmFour
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in February 2009. He won the award for Best Actor at the
Marbella Film Festival
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in 2009 for this role.
Macqueen has appeared in a series of videos on YouTube as Clive Rudloe, a character who claims to be "the world's number one DJ". The videos are spoofs created by real-life DJs
Above and Beyond.
In late 2009, he starred in several episodes of ''
The News at Bedtime'' on
BBC Radio 4
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, in a variety of supporting roles.
In 2010, he appeared as the publisher Malcolm Dodds in
Woody Allen
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's ''
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
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''. That year he also had a small role in the comedy film ''
Four Lions
''Four Lions'' (originally titled ''We Are Four Lions'') is a 2010 British political satire black comedy film directed by Chris Morris (in his directorial debut) and written by Morris, Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong. The film, a jihad satire foll ...
''. In 2011, he appeared in "
The National Anthem", an episode of the
anthology series
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''
Black Mirror
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''.
In 2012, he appeared in a ''
Doctor Who
''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the u ...
'' spin-off ''
UNIT: Dominion'', published by
Big Finish Productions
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, in a role described as "the Other Doctor" who is revealed to be the Doctor's long-term adversary
The Master; the storyline establishes that Macqueen's Master is intended to be from a point between the Masters portrayed by
Eric Roberts
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and
Derek Jacobi
Sir Derek George Jacobi (; born 22 October 1938) is an English actor. He has appeared in various stage productions of William Shakespeare such as ''Hamlet'', ''Much Ado About Nothing'', ''Macbeth'', ''Twelfth Night'', ''The Tempest'', ''King ...
. He reprised this role in 2014 for ''
Dark Eyes 2'', ''Dark Eyes 3'' and ''Dark Eyes 4''. He reprised the role again in 2016 alongside
Geoffrey Beevers
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Career Theatre
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, who had played an earlier incarnation of the Master, in ''The Two Masters''. In 2021 MacQueen returned to the role in Masterful, a story published to celebrate the Master's 50th anniversary. He also appeared in a lead role as Edmund in
Julia Davis
Julia Charlotte L. Davis (born 25 August 1966) is an English actress, comedian, director and writer. She is known for writing and starring in the BBC Three comedy ''Nighty Night'' (2004–2005) and the comedies ''Hunderby'' (2012–2015) and ' ...
' black period comedy ''
Hunderby
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'', opposite Davis and
Alexandra Roach
Alexandra Elizabeth Roach (born 20 August 1987) is a Welsh actress best known for her roles as Becky in ''Utopia'' and DS Joy Freers in ''No Offence''. She has also made appearances in series including '' Being Human'', ''Inside No. 9'', ''Blac ...
.
He played the role of Hove in the 2015 BBC series ''
Pompidou'', starring alongside Matt Lucas. During the filming of Pompidou, Macqueen and
Matt Lucas
Matthew Richard Lucas (born 5 March 1974) is an English actor, comedian, writer, and television presenter. He is best known for his work with David Walliams on the BBC sketch comedy series ''Little Britain'' (2003–2006, 2020) and '' Come Fl ...
played the game devised by the two ‘Pumpidou’. Lucas however won no critical acclaim for ‘Pumpidou’, despite it being the key spin off to the show. However, Macqueen did receive a special recognition award for the 2015 edition of TOTY for his part in the success of ‘Pumpidou’. He played Luke, the senior doctor in the six-part ITV comedy ''
The Delivery Man
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''.
In 2015, he also played the royal crier in ''
Cinderella
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''. In 2016, he appeared opposite
Sir Michael Caine in the film ''
Youth
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'', and played the role of Patrick Jarvis MP in series 3 of ''
Peaky Blinders
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''.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Macqueen, Alex
1973 births
Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge
English male film actors
English male soap opera actors
Living people
People from Epsom
Male actors from Surrey
People educated at St John's School, Leatherhead
National Youth Theatre members
Alumni of Collingwood College, Durham