Paul James "Mackenzie" Crook (born 29 September 1971) is an English actor, comedian, director and writer. He played
Gareth Keenan
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in ''
The Office
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The original series of ...
'',
Ragetti
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Main characters Jack Sparrow
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in the
''Pirates of the Caribbean'' films, Orell in the
HBO
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series ''
Game of Thrones
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'', and the
title role
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of ''
Worzel Gummidge
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BBC Four
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Detectorists
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'' (2014–2022), for which he won two
BAFTA awards. He also plays major roles in TV series
''Britannia'', as the opposite leading druids Veran and Harka.
Early life
Crook was born on 29 September 1971 in
Maidstone
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,
Kent
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, and grew up in
Dartford
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is situated adjacent to the London Borough of Bexley to its west. To its north, across the Thames estuary, is Thurrock in ...
, Kent. He is the son of Michael Crook, a
British Airways
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employee, and Sheila Crook, a hospital manager.
[ As a child he received a course of ]hormone therapy
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for three years to treat a growth hormone deficiency
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.[ He attended ]Wilmington Grammar School for Boys
Wilmington Grammar School for Boys (WGSB) is a grammar school with academy status in Wilmington, Kent.
From 1954 to 1982, the school was called Dartford Technical High School. Today it is a specialist engineering school with a strong em ...
.
In the summers, he spent time at his uncle's tobacco farm in northern Zimbabwe
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, where he developed his love for painting.[
]
Career
Film and television career
One of Crook's earliest television appearances was in the 1998 Channel 4
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sketch show ''Barking
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** Municipal Borough of Barking, a historical local government dist ...
'', as a grotesque schoolteacher called Mr. Bagshaw who is said to be based on a variety of obnoxious, overbearing science teachers he was taught by while in school.[
He was offered his first major television role as a comedy sketch contributor on ]Channel 4
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's ''The Eleven O'Clock Show
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'' in 1998, from which Crook was later dropped.[ He was later a member of the main cast of the ]BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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sketch show ''TV to Go'' in 2001.