Alex McSweeney is a British actor, best known for playing

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in '' EastEnders'' from 2003 to 2005. Other programmes he has appeared in include '' Silent Witness'' and '' Holby City''. He also appeared in ''

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'', in 2007. He has also portrayed 'Captain Wilder' in the third series of the ITV show ''

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'' in 2009. He was also a regular guest actor on ''

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'' between 1994 and 2003, before taking on the role of series regular David Radford in 2004.

Career

Following training at London Academy of Performing Arts (LAPA), and the Academy Drama School, he appeared in such roles as 'One Ball Bill' in

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comedy-drama television series for the Fox network, alongside

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in 2003. He was in Steven Berkoff's groundbreaking production of ''On The Waterfront'' at the

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in 2008. In the summer of 2011, while performing in Steven Berkoff's "Oedipus" at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Alex directed a cast of young actors in the play ''

A Hero of Our Time ''A Hero of Our Time'' ( rus, Герой нашего времени, links=1, r=Gerój nášego vrémeni, p=ɡʲɪˈroj ˈnaʂɨvə ˈvrʲemʲɪnʲɪ) is a novel by Mikhail Lermontov, written in 1839, published in 1840, and revised in 1841. It ...

''. The play, written by Alex was a take on the Russian Novel by

Mikhail Lermontov Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (; russian: Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ˈjurʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈlʲɛrməntəf; – ) was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucas ...

and was generally received well by critics. He played the recurring role of D.S. Sykes in ''

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'' from 2013 until his character was killed by gangster

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in April 2014. He played a lecturer who has a motorbike accident in BBC '' Doctors'' in 2015. In an episode of ''

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'' (March 2016), he played Joe Blacker. Alongside his acting career, he is also a

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and lectures at two London Universities in English & Drama. Drama at

Kingston University , mottoeng = "Through Learning We Progress" , established = – gained University Status – Kingston Technical Institute , type = Public , endowment = £2.3 m (2015) , ...

and is a Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at London Southbank University. He wrote 'Out of the Cage' a play about women munition workers in the First World War in 2013/14. It subsequently got published and premiered at the Park Theatre London in January 2015. A national tour of the play was put in motion for 2017. He then appeared in Endeavour in 2017 as 'Terence Bakewell'.

Filmography

Films

TV

References

External links

* British male soap opera actors Living people Alumni of London South Bank University Year of birth missing (living people) Academics of Kingston University {{UK-tv-actor-stub