Alexander Tulloch Macqueen (born 30 November 1973) is an English actor and writer. He has appeared on television, film, and radio in the UK in productions such as ''

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'', ''

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,'' '' Hut 33'', '' Peep Show'', ''

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'', '' Keeping Mum'', '' Fate: The Winx Saga'', and ''

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''. He also guest-starred in '' The Durrells'' in series 4.

Early life and education

Alexander Tulloch Macqueen was born on 30 November 1973 in

Epsom Epsom is a town in 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 Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain ...

, Surrey. He was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead, from 1990 to 1992 and left to receive a first in

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at Collingwood College at

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. He went on to study for a M.Phil at

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, graduating in 1998.

Career

Macqueen played sarcastic consultant anaesthetist Keith Greene in 75 episodes of ''

'' between May 2005 and July 2010. He appeared as the Rt Hon Julius Nicholson, Lord Nicholson of Arnage, the bawdy and persistently peckish "blue-skies advisor" to the Prime Minister in political satire ''

'' television series and also played Sir Jonathan Tutt, the British Ambassador to the UN, in the spin-off film ''

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''; both were directed by

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. He also acted in the

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special of '' Mr Bean'' in 2007 as a vicar. He played Kevin Sutherland in E4's comedy, ''

''. In 2010, he starred as Howard, an anti-speed bump community campaigner in two episodes of '' Outnumbered'' on BBC One. He appeared in the

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collaboration, '' Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire'', in which he played Barnabus, the sidekick to the Chancellor Dongalor, played by

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. He starred as Roy Tunt in ''

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'', which premiered on FilmFour in February 2009. He won the award for Best Actor at the Marbella Film Festival in 2009 for this role. Macqueen acted in a series of videos on

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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

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, in a variety of supporting roles. In 2010, he appeared as the publisher Malcolm Dodds in

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's '' You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger''. That year he also had a small role in the comedy film '' Four Lions''. In 2011, was in " The National Anthem", an episode of the

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''. In 2012, he appeared in a ''

'' spin-off '' UNIT: Dominion'', published by

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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

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and

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. He reprised this role in 2014 for '' Dark Eyes 2'', ''Dark Eyes 3'', ''Dark Eyes 4'' and again in 2016 alongside

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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 again returned to the role in ''The Stuff of Legend'', an

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which was also staged as a live theatrical performance at

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in September 2024. Macqueen had a lead role as Edmund in

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's black period comedy ''

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'', opposite Davis and

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He played the role of Hove in the 2015 BBC series '' Pompidou'', starring alongside Matt Lucas. During the filming of ''Pompidou'', Macqueen and

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''. In 2015, he also played the royal crier in ''

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''. In 2016, he acted opposite Sir Michael Caine in the film ''

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'', and played the role of Patrick Jarvis MP in series 3 of ''

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''. In 2019, he appeared in '' Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans'' and in 2022, he starred as Stephen Gardiner in '' Becoming Elizabeth''. In 2023, he starred as Tindall in the

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series '' Hijack'', alongside

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and

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Filmography

Film

Television

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Macqueen, Alex 1973 births Living people 21st-century English male actors Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge English male film actors English male soap opera actors English male television actors Male actors from Epsom People educated at St John's School, Leatherhead National Youth Theatre members Alumni of Collingwood College, Durham