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Cal MacAninch | |
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Born | Calum Andrew Colquhoun MacAninch 24 November 1963 Govan, Glasgow, Scotland, UK |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1989–present |
Spouse | Shauna Macdonald |
Cal MacAninch (born 24 November 1963) is a Scottish actor,[1] who is known for portraying the character of DI John Keenan in police drama HolbyBlue[1] on BBC1 (from 2007 to 2008). Other notable appearances were his roles as Mr Thackeray in the ITV period drama, Mr Selfridge, and Henry Lang in Downton Abbey, but he has played many leading roles in British television and film over the last 30 years.
Biography
MacAninch played Rowan Collins in Series 4 of the ITV drama series Wild at Heart.[1][2] He returned to the show for its fifth series as a main cast member. He also played Tauren, a sorcerer in the BBC television series Merlin in the episode "To Kill the King". He starred in the 2001 BBC miniseries The Best of Both Worlds with Alice Evans. He appeared as Henry Lang, a valet, in the second series of Downton Abbey.[3]
Family, personal life
MacAninch and his wife, actress Shauna Macdonald, have three daughters and live in the Portobello district of Edinburgh.[4][5] MacAninch is a keen marathon runner.[1]
Radio
Date | Title | Role | Director | Station |
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23 April 2004 | The Lights | Liam | Toby Swift | BBC Radio 4 Friday Play |
11 June 2004 | Soft Fall the Sounds of Eden | Andy | Gaynor Macfarlane | BBC Radio 4 Friday Play |
11 July 2004 | How Many Miles to Basra? [6] | Toby Swift | BBC Radio 3 Drama on 3 | |
6 November 2005 | The Gunpowder Plot | King James I | David Hunter | BBC Radio 3 Drama on 3 |
31 October 2011 – 4 November 2011 | The Pillow Book (series 4) [7] | Yukinari | Lu Kemp | BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama |
30 September 2013 – 3 October 2013 | The Blackhouse | DI Fin Macleod | Kirsteen Cameron | BBC Radio Scotland |
1 June 2018 | The Poet and the Echo: Grey Evening [8] | Reader | Gaynor Macfarlane | BBC Radio 4 |
28 January 2019 – 1 February 2019 | Silence [9] | Erling Kagge | Eilidh McCreadie | BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1990 | Taggart | Heckler | Episode: "Hostile Witness" |
1990 | The Paradise Club | Angel Eyes | Episode: "Chinese Whispers" |
1991 | The Advocates | Milligan | 3 episodes |
1991 | Screen One | Axle | Episode: "Alive and Kicking" |
1991 | The Chestnut Soldier | Evan Llyr | TV miniseries |
1993–94 | The Riff Raff Element | Declan | TV series: main cast |
1995 | A Mind to Murder | Philip Tippett | TV film |
1995 | The Big One | Jeff | TV film |
1995 | Dangerous Lady | Geoff Ryan | TV miniseries |
1995 | Screen Two | Tom Kelso | Episode: "Nervous Energy" |
1996 | Taggart | Dr David Argylle | Episode: "Devil's Advocate" |
1998 | Cooking Pigeons | TV film | |
1999 | The Ruth Rendell Mysteries | Finn | Episode: "The Lake of Darkness" |
1999 | Warriors | Sgt Andre Sochanik | TV serial |
2000 | Little Bird | Tony O'Neill | TV film |
2001 | Best of Both Worlds | Mark Landucci | 3 episodes |
2001 | Waking The Dead | Alex Bryson/Sam Keel | Episode: "A Simple Sacrifice" |
2002–03 | Rockface | Ben Craig | TV series: main cast |
2003 | Silent Witness | Michael Patterson | Episode: "Fatal Error" |
2004 | Murphy's Law | DS Nic Winters | Episode: "Bent Moon on the Rise" |
2005 | The Ghost Squad | Mike | Episode: "Hardcore" |
2006 | Sorted | Radge | TV series: main cast |
2007–08 | HolbyBlue | DI John Keenan | TV series: main cast |
2008 | Merlin | Tauren | Episode: "To Kill the King" |
2009–10 | Wild at Heart | Rowan Collins | |
2010 | Strike Back | Major Chris Pemberton | Episode: "Iraq: Part One" |
2011 | Downton Abbey | Henry Lang | Episodes: "Matthew's Return" and "General Sir Herbert Strutt" |
2011 | Garrow's Law | Richard Lucas | 1 episode |
2013 | Midsomer Murders | Alan Robson | Episode: "The Sicilian Defence" |
2013 | Silent Witness | David Loader | Episode: "Legacy" |
2014–15 | Mr Selfridge | Mr Thackeray | 11 episodes |
2015 | Banished | Sergeant Timmins | TV serial |
2015 | DCI Banks | Detective Sergeant Martin Heston | Episode: "Ghosts" |
2015 | Katie Morag | Mr Cavendish | Episode: "Katie Morag and the Worst Day Ever" |
2016 | Scott & Bailey | Craig Widnes | Episodes: "Nobody's Fool" and "Change" |
2018 | Frontier | Angus | Season 3 |
2019 | The Victim | Christian Graham | TV miniseries |
2019 | The Small Hand | Hugo Snow | TV film |
2020 | Father Brown | George Oakley | Episode: "The Tower of Lost Souls" |
2020 | Vera | Thomas Walden | Episode: "Parent Not Expected" |
2020 | Des | Neil Sinclair | TV Mini-Series: 2 episodes |
2021 | Time | PO Galbraith | 3 episodes |
2021 | Vigil | Ben Oakley | TV serial |
2022 | Trigger Point | Inspector Lee Robins | 6 episodes |
2022 | The Essex Serpent | Michael Seaborne | Episode: "The Blackwater" |
2022 | Mayflies | Tibbs | [10] |
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1993 | Splitting Heirs | CID Officer | |
1997 | The Woodlanders | Dr. Fitzpiers | [11] |
1998 | Speak Like a Child | Billy, Age 30 | |
1998 | Sentimental Education | August | |
1999 | The Lost Son | Martin | |
2000 | Best | Paddy | |
2000 | Breathtaking | Mick Wilmott | |
2001 | The Point Men | Horst | |
2004 | Dear Frankie | Davey | |
2005 | Rag Tale | Paul (Mac) MacAvoy, Sports Editor | |
2007 | Jetsam | Jack | |
2011 | Screwed | Eddie | |
2018 | Calibre | Al McClay | |
2019 | Intrigo: Dear Agnes | Erich Neumann-Hansen | |
2019 | Intrigo: Samaria | Erich Neumann-Hansen | |
2020 | The Reckoning | Ben Tuttle | |
2021 | Nobody Has to Know | Peter |
Theatre
References
- ^ a b c d "A Lap With Cal MacAninch". Archived from the original on 31 January 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ^ "A quick chat with Wild at Heart's Cal Macaninch". What's on TV. 4 February 2010. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ^ Downton Abbey webpage Archived 3 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine, ITV.com, July 2011; retrieved 12 August 2014.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Stepping back in time – The Herald, 21 February 2012
- ^ Portobello residents rally in bid to buy Bellfield church – Edinburgh Evening News, 1 July 2016
- ^ BBC – Drama on 3 – How Many Miles to Basra?
- ^ BBC – Woman's Hour Drama – The Pillow Book (series 4)
- ^ BBC – The Poet and the Echo – Grey Evening
- ^ BBC – Book of the Week – Silence
- ^ "Mayflies – Meet the cast and creatives behind the drama that 'discovers the joy and the costs of love'". bbc.co.uk/mediacentre. 19 December 2022. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
- ^ film round-up – The Independent, 6 February 1998
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Cal MacAninch CV – Curtis Brown
- ^ THEATRE: Thebes of the North: Richard Loup-Nolan compares versions of the Oedipus myth in Edinburgh and Glasgow – Richard Loup-Nolan, The Independent, 16 March 1994
- ^ Good my lord, as Hamlet thinks afresh – Mark Fisher, The Herald, 17 September 1996
- ^ Review: THEATRE: The Wood Demon Playhouse, London – Paul Taylor, The Independent, 19 June 1997
- ^ Review: Under the Black Flag – Michael Billington, The Guardian, 20 July 2006
- ^ Betrayal – review, Four stars, Citizens, Glasgow – Mark Fisher, The Guardian, 12 Mar 2012
- ^ The Judas Kiss in Toronto. Toronto.Eventful.com. March 22, 2016 – May 1, 2016.
- ^ The Judas Kiss (theatre program). Brooklyn Academy of Music. 11 May – 12 June 2016.
- ^ My Eyes Went Dark – Daisy Bowie-Sell, Timeout, 28 August 2015
- ^ My Eyes Went Dark, theatre review: High-octane acting transcends its stage – Fiona Mountford, London Evening Standard, 10 September 2015
- ^ Review: The Mistress Contract, Tron, Glasgow, Four Stars – Neil Cooper, The Herald, 3 May 2019