Arthur McBain

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Arthur McBain at London Fashion Week

Arthur McBain is a British screen actor and children's author. He played Alex Myer in ITV's The Trouble with Maggie Cole [1] and Snowy Fleet, in the ABC television series Friday On My Mind . [2] His debut children's book In The Dead Of The Night was published by Little Hare books in 2019. [3]

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Acting career

McBain trained at the Oxford School of Drama, graduating in 2013. He began his professional career in the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre of Scotland's production of Dunsinane by David Greig. [4] In 2017, McBain played Gordon 'Snowy' Fleet in ABC's television series Friday On My Mind , which tells the story of Australian rock band The Easybeats, [5] before joining the cast of Rupert Goold's film Judy . [6]

In 2019, McBain was cast as Alex Myer in ITV's The Trouble with Maggie Cole . [1]

In 2023, McBain played Jean Gabriel Marchand in Ridley Scott's film Napoleon . [7]

In October 2024, it was announced that McBain would be joining David Dawson and Ralph Little in a film adaptation of Antonis Samarakis' 1965 novel The Flaw. [8]

Books

Arthur McBain's first children's book, In The Dead Of The Night, Illustrated by Tom Knight, was released in 2019. [9] [3] His second book, Night of the Living Pasta, was released in 2023 and was illustrated by Chrissie Krebbs. [10]

Theatre

YearTitleRoleCompanyDirectorNotes
2011 Dunsinane George National Theatre of Scotland / Royal Shakespeare Company Roxana Silbertplay by David Greig

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleDirector
2015If I Told You the TruthKennyHimself
2017Blue EyesGabrielNeven Rufio
2019 Judy Askith Rupert Goold
2023 Napoleon Jean Gabriel Marchand Ridley Scott
2024Deep CoverSam Tom Kingsley
2025Surviving EarthRowanThea Gajic
TBAAubergenfeldMattJohn Jenkinson
TBAThe FlawTBATheophilos Papastylianos

Television

YearTitleRoleDirector
2017 Trust Me Junior Doctor Amy Neil
Friday On My Mind George "Snowy" Fleet Matthew Saville
2020 The Trouble with Maggie Cole Alex MyerBen Gregor
2023Never Let Me GoBlyth Mark Munden
2024 After the Flood Daniel EdenAzhur Saleem
2024Interview With The VampireDonny Emma Freeman

References

  1. 1 2 "Meet the cast of ITV's The Trouble with Maggie Cole". Radio Times. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
  2. "The Easybeats' story to hit TV". www.dailytelegraph.com.au. 2017-05-02. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
  3. 1 2 McBain, Arthur (October 2019). In the dead of the night. Knight, Tom. Richmond, Victoria. ISBN   9781760503413. OCLC   1110577827.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. February 2020, Daniel Falconer | 25. "Exclusive: Arthur McBain discusses his role in The Trouble With Maggie Cole, his music and more". www.femalefirst.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. "ABC announce their next TV miniseries is a groundbreaking Australian music band". 2017-05-02.
  6. Desborough, Jenny (2019-09-26). "Judy release date, cast, plot, trailer: All we know about Judy Garland biopic". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
  7. "Arthur McBain". IMDb. Retrieved 2022-10-16.
  8. Vourlias, Christopher (2024-10-21). "'The Last Kingdom's' David Dawson Headlines International Cast of Dystopian Drama 'The Flaw,' With Shooting Underway in Greece (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
  9. "In the Dead of the Night". Reading Time. 2019-10-09. Retrieved 2019-10-09.
  10. McBain, Arthur (2023). Night of the Living Pasta. UK: Hardie Grant Children's Publishing. ISBN   978-1761211942.