Alec Newman

Alec Newman
Born	Mark Newman
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1991-present
Partner	Kelly Price
Parent	Sandy Newman (father)His father was in a successful 70s group marmalade

Alec Newman is a Scottish stage, television and film actor. He was born in Glasgow on 27 November 1974. Prior to joining the National Youth Theatre in London at age 17, he considered becoming a professional footballer. He trained at LAMDA.

His highest profile appearances are tied to science fiction works.

Career

Newman starred as Paul Atreides in the Sci Fi Channel 2000 miniseries adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune and reprised the role in its 2003 sequel, Children of Dune. Alec has had guest appearances on U.S. television series Angel, Star Trek: Enterprise and Tru Calling. He has recently had a guest appearance on the British spy drama Spooks and played the Rebus inspired Jim Buchan in BBC 4's acclaimed "The Reichenbach Falls". He also took the title role of "Victor Frankenstein" in the 2004 Frankenstein US TV miniseries.

Newman played the lead role in the award winning short film Staring at the Sun which premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, went on to play at over twenty other festivals around the world and won "Best Horror Short" at Stan Winston's "Screamfest LA" in 2005.

In 2004, he starred as "Barnabas Collins" in a pilot for a revival series of Dark Shadows on the WB Network that was not picked up. He played the role of Christian in The Gene Generation in 2007, and in 2008 guest-starred in the Dark Shadows audio dramas Clothes of Sand and The Ghost Watcher for Big Finish Productions. In 2010 he starred as Peter Carmody in "Run", a two part episode from series 13 of Silent Witness.

Newman starred in the BBC One series Hope Springs as Euan Harries. He also played the recurring role of Robert Ludlow in Casualty.

Newman voiced The Exiled Prince, Sebastian Vael in the Dragon Age sequel "Dragon Age 2". He will also appear in the British thriller "A Lonely Place to die", opposite Melissa George and Ed Speleers.

In 2010/11 he played Edmund in the Donmar warehouse's acclaimed production of Shakespeare's "King Lear".

Selected filmography

• Dragon Age II (Sebastian Vael) (2011)
• GoldenEye 007 (Valentin Zukovsky) (2010)
• A Lonely Place to Die (2010)
• Silent Witness (2010) - Peter Carmody
• The Gene Generation (2007) - Christian
• Reichenbach Falls (2007) - DI Jim Buchan
• Moonlight Serenade (2006) - Nate Holden
• Spooks (2006) - Richard Dempsey
• Constellation (2005) - Kent
• Four Corners of Suburbia (2005) - Benjamin Winters
• Staring at the Sun (2005) - Clay Roberts
• Star Trek: Enterprise (2004) - Malik (3 episodes)
• Frankenstein (2004) - Victor Frankenstein
• Bright Young Things (2003) - Tiger La Bouchère
• Frank Herbert's Children of Dune (2003) - Paul Atreides/Muad'Dib
• The Death of Klinghoffer (2003) - Young Benjamin
• The Principles of Lust (2003) - Paul
• Long Time Dead (2002) - Liam
• Night Flight (2002) - Young "Flash" Harry Peters
• Frank Herbert's Dune (2000) - Paul Atreides/Muad'Dib
• Murder Rooms (2000) - Thomas Neill
• G:MT – Greenwich Mean Time (1998) - Charlie
• Catherine Cookson's The Rag Nymph (1997) - Ben

References

• "10 Questions: Alec Newman, IGN FilmForce, 11 March 2003.

External links

• Alec Newman at IMDb
• Alec Newman at Memory Alpha
• Staring at the Sun official site of short