Paul Holowaty (born 7 March 1985) is an English actor. He was born in

Bolton Bolton ( , locally ) is a town in Greater Manchester in England. In the foothills of the West Pennine Moors, Bolton is between Manchester, Blackburn, Wigan, Bury, Greater Manchester, Bury and Salford. It is surrounded by several towns and vill ...

, and is probably most well known for his role as racist bully Steven "Macki" Mackintosh in popular soap opera ''

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''. In 2010, he made his West End debut in the musical Wolfboy at the

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. He made his debut on American television in 2016 appearing in NCIS. He is currently filming a series regular role in a new series about EDM DJs called CVNT5, written by and starring Gareth Emery.

Career

In 2000, he appeared in ''

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'' as

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's boyfriend Neil Fearns - he got her pregnant with daughter Bethany aged 13; but he was killed in a road accident in 2003. In April 2005, he was cast as a non-regular character Macki in ''

''. Story lines that involved him include blowing up the science lab, the racist bullying of Ali and Darlene Taylor and getting fatally

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by Ali before Ali himself was killed by an oncoming car. He appeared in 30 episodes. He then went on to appear as Gavin, a character with a STD in

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hospital drama ''

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''. Gavin was a young boy interested in

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, and was doing a course at

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in the subject.

References

1985 births Living people English male child actors English male soap opera actors Male actors from Bolton {{UK-tv-actor-1980s-stub