Danny Mac (born 26 February 1988) is an English actor. Known for a variety of roles on stage and screen. He has received a number of awards and nominations including Best Actor, Best Newcomer, Best Actor in a Visiting Production.

Early and personal life

Mac was born in

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, London and spent most of his childhood in the seaside town of

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. He studied Acting for two years at Chichester College before attending The

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in London, graduating in 2009 with a BA Hons degree and received subsequent training at

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(RADA) and personal coaching with Barbara Houseman. In 2011 he met actress Carley Stenson. The pair began dating and were married in 2017. Stenson gave birth to daughter Skye on 14 June 2021.

Career

Mac began his career at the age of nine when he played

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in the musical ''

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'' for a ten-week run in Southampton in 1998, and appeared in the role again in the West End in 1999. He performed again in the West End a decade later in the musical ''

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'' from May 2009 to February 2011. He then went on to join UK serial drama ''

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'' in a role that earned him a number of awards and nominations. In 2016, he took part in fourteenth series of

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's ''

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''. His professional dance partner was

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. In May 2017, he starred as Gabey in the musical '' On the Town'' at the

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in a production that ran until July of that year and was nominated for Best Musical Revival at the 2018

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. From September 2017 to April 2018 he starred as Joe Gillis in the multi award-winning touring production of

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’s ''

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'', a role for which he won 'Best Actor' at The Manchester Theatre Awards and was nominated for 'Best Actor' at the

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. The production also won 'Best Regional Production' at the 18th Annual

and 'Best Musical' at The Manchester Theatre Awards. In 2018, he appeared as Craig in the

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sitcom '' Trollied''. In December 2018 and January 2019, Mac starred as Bob Wallace in '' White Christmas'' at

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in Leicester. The production later transferred to the

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in the West End from November 2019 to January 2020. From May 2019 Mac toured the UK as Nino in the musical ''

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''. Mac returned to television, guest-starring in ''

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'' in 2019 and ''

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'' in 2020 and in 2024. In 2020, he played Edward in the London premiere of '' Pretty Woman: The Musical'' at the

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. Following the closure of theatres due to the

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, the production reopened at the

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in July 2021. In June 2023 he starred in

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’s musical ''

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'' as

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at the

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Filmography

Awards and nominations

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mac, Danny 1988 births Living people English male soap opera actors People from Bromley Actors from Bognor Regis Male actors from West Sussex Actors from the London Borough of Bromley Male actors from London