Paul James "Mackenzie" Crook was born on 29 September 1971 and is an English actor, comedian, director and writer.
34 Facts About Mackenzie Crook
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Mackenzie Crook played Gareth Keenan in The Office, Ragetti in the Pirates of the Caribbean films, Orell in the HBO series Game of Thrones, and the title role of Worzel Gummidge.
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Mackenzie Crook is the creator and star of BBC Four's Detectorists, for which he won two BAFTA awards.
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Mackenzie Crook plays major roles in TV series Britannia, as the opposite leading druids Veran and Harka.
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Mackenzie Crook is the son of Michael Crook, a British Airways employee, and Sheila Crook, a hospital manager.
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Mackenzie Crook was offered his first major television role as a comedy sketch contributor on Channel 4's The Eleven O'Clock Show in 1998, from which Crook was later dropped.
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Mackenzie Crook was later a member of the main cast of the BBC sketch show TV to Go in 2001.
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Mackenzie Crook has featured as himself in adverts for MTV and Film Four and as a voiceover artiste for motor insurance company Green Flag in 2007.
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Mackenzie Crook appeared as Launcelot Gobbo in Michael Radford's 2004 film adaptation of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and had a minor role in the 2004 film Finding Neverland as a theatre usher.
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Mackenzie Crook has starred in three of Tim Plester and Ben Gregor's short films: as Gary Tibbs in Ant Muzak, as Servalan in Blake's Junction 7, and as Glorious George in World of Wrestling.
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Mackenzie Crook has voiced in a television series called Modern Toss and has featured in I Want Candy as Mr Dulberg, a quirky university professor, and voiced a character called Rolli Bobbler in the English version of an animated film from Finland called Quest for a Heart.
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Mackenzie Crook performed a duet with Ricky Gervais in the 2007 Concert for Diana.
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Mackenzie Crook played the leading role of Paul Callow in the comedy film Three and Out, released on 25 April 2008.
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Mackenzie Crook provided his voice and movements to a character in Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, which began filming in January 2009 and was released in 2011.
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Mackenzie Crook starred in Wyndham Price's drama Abraham's Point as Comet Snape and appeared in City of Ember as Looper, and on TV was featured in the documentary Tattoos: A Scarred History.
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Mackenzie Crook appeared in Big Brother Celebrity Hijack and the ITV drama Demons as the vampire Gladiolus Hadilus Tradius Thrip.
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In January 2009, Mackenzie Crook featured in the second and third episodes of the third series of the E4 teen drama Skins, in which he played psychotic Bristol gangster Johnny White.
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Mackenzie Crook appeared in Merlin, for the first episode of the second season, as Cedric.
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Mackenzie Crook played Corporal Buckley, a brutal career soldier, in Jimmy McGovern's Accused, broadcast on BBC1 in November 2010.
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Mackenzie Crook wrote, directed and starred in the television comedy series Detectorists, which was first broadcast on BBC Four on 2 October 2014.
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In 2015, Mackenzie Crook won a British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Writing in a Comedy Series for the show, whilst the series won the British Academy Television Award for Best Situation Comedy.
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Mackenzie Crook then played the role of 'Nestor of Maddox' in the television fantasy-comedy series Yonderland, which was broadcast on Sky One, and was starring and written by the cast of the educational historical comedy series Horrible Histories.
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Mackenzie Crook plays the father of the main character Debbie, played by Martha Howe-Douglas, and appears in three episodes of series 2: episodes 1,2 and 4.
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Mackenzie Crook played Billy Bibbit in the 2004 London West End production of the stage play of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest opposite Christian Slater, and in 2006 he appeared in The Exonerated at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith.
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Mackenzie Crook starred in director Ian Rickson's production of The Seagull opposite Kristin Scott Thomas, as the troubled writer Konstantin for which he earned a nomination from the Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
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From 15 July to 15 August 2009 Mackenzie Crook appeared at the Royal Court Theatre in Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem.
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On 18 April 2010, Mackenzie Crook took part in the fund raising event We Are One, a celebration of tribal peoples, in aid of indigenous rights organisation Survival International, at the Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue.
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Mackenzie Crook appeared in the play "Aliens" at the Bush Theatre in October 2010 and in early 2012 appeared in The Recruiting Officer at the Donmar Warehouse.
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In 2021, Mackenzie Crook starred in the play "Jerusalem" at the Apollo Theatre.
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Mackenzie Crook has directed a music video for the London electro band Paw Paw.
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Mackenzie Crook appeared as a postman in the music video for Paul McCartney's single "Dance Tonight" alongside actress Natalie Portman.
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Mackenzie Crook has a deal with publisher Faber to illustrate and write a children's book.
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Mackenzie Crook narrated the audiobook version of the novel Charlotte Street by Danny Wallace.
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Mackenzie Crook made a public appeal on Good Morning Britain on 21 February 2023.