Cal MacAninch

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Cal MacAninch
Born
Calum Andrew Colquhoun MacAninch

(1963-11-24) 24 November 1963 (age 60)
Govan, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
OccupationActor
Years active1989–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.

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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

DateTitleRoleDirectorStation
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

Television
YearTitleRoleNotes
1990 Taggart HecklerEpisode: "Hostile Witness"
1990 The Paradise Club Angel EyesEpisode: "Chinese Whispers"
1991 The Advocates Milligan3 episodes
1991 Screen One AxleEpisode: "Alive and Kicking"
1991 The Chestnut Soldier Evan LlyrTV miniseries
1993‍–‍94 The Riff Raff Element DeclanTV series: main cast
1995 A Mind to Murder Philip TippettTV film
1995The Big OneJeffTV film
1995 Dangerous Lady Geoff RyanTV miniseries
1995 Screen Two Tom KelsoEpisode: "Nervous Energy"
1996 Taggart Dr David ArgylleEpisode: "Devil's Advocate"
1998Cooking PigeonsTV film
1999 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries FinnEpisode: "The Lake of Darkness"
1999 Warriors Sgt Andre SochanikTV serial
2000Little BirdTony O'NeillTV film
2001Best of Both WorldsMark Landucci3 episodes
2001 Waking The Dead Alex Bryson/Sam KeelEpisode: "A Simple Sacrifice"
2002‍–‍03 Rockface Ben CraigTV series: main cast
2003 Silent Witness Michael PattersonEpisode: "Fatal Error"
2004 Murphy's Law DS Nic WintersEpisode: "Bent Moon on the Rise"
2005 The Ghost Squad MikeEpisode: "Hardcore"
2006 Sorted RadgeTV 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 PembertonEpisode: "Iraq: Part One"
2011 Downton Abbey Henry Lang Episodes: "Matthew's Return" and "General Sir Herbert Strutt"
2011 Garrow's Law Richard Lucas1 episode
2013 Midsomer Murders Alan RobsonEpisode: "The Sicilian Defence"
2013 Silent Witness David LoaderEpisode: "Legacy"
2014‍–‍15 Mr Selfridge Mr Thackeray11 episodes
2015 Banished Sergeant TimminsTV serial
2015 DCI Banks Detective Sergeant Martin HestonEpisode: "Ghosts"
2015 Katie Morag Mr CavendishEpisode: "Katie Morag and the Worst Day Ever"
2016 Scott & Bailey Craig WidnesEpisodes: "Nobody's Fool" and "Change"
2018 Frontier AngusSeason 3
2019 The Victim Christian GrahamTV miniseries
2019 The Small Hand Hugo SnowTV film
2020 Father Brown George OakleyEpisode: "The Tower of Lost Souls"
2020 Vera Thomas WaldenEpisode: "Parent Not Expected"
2020 Des Neil SinclairTV Mini-Series: 2 episodes
2021 Time PO Galbraith3 episodes
2021 Vigil Ben OakleyTV serial
2022 Trigger Point Inspector Lee Robins6 episodes
2022 The Essex Serpent Michael SeaborneEpisode: "The Blackwater"
2022 Mayflies Tibbs [10]

Film

Film
YearTitleRoleNotes
1993 Splitting Heirs CID Officer
1997 The Woodlanders Dr. Fitzpiers [11]
1998Speak Like a ChildBilly, 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

DateTitleRoleDirector Company / Theatre
– Macbeth   [12] Macbeth Colin Ellwood Unnatural Acts Theatre
– How Like An Angel   [12] Peter Alan Sharpe Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
– Tis Pity She's A Whore   [12] [4] Grimaldi Philip Prowse Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
– Frankenstein   [12] [4] Walton/Clerval Jon Pope Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
1992 – Not About Heroes   [12] Wilfred Owen Stephen MacDonald Heroes Theatre Company
– The Cherry Orchard   [12] The Passer By Robert Robertson Dundee Repertory Theatre
– The Philanthropist   [12] John Neil Murray Dundee Repertory Theatre
– A Tale of Two Cities   [12] [4] Defence Philip Prowse Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
– Enrico Four   [12] [4] Arialdo Philip Prowse Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
16 March 1994 – 26 March 1994 Oedipus Rex   [12] [4] [13] Oedipus Claire Venables Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
27 September 1996 – 19 October 1996 Hamlet   [14] [4] Hamlet Philip Prowse Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
19 June 1997 – Oct 1997 The Wood Demon   [12] [15] Wood Demon Anthony Clarke Playhouse Theatre, London
– A Whistle in the Dark   [12] [4] Harry Carney Roxana Silbert Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
20 July 2006 – 12 August 2006 Under the Black Flag   [12] [16] John Silver Roxana Silbert Shakespeare's Globe
– The Bacchae   [12] [4] Pentheus John Tiffany National Theatre of Scotland
Lincoln Center, New York
– Peter Pan   [12] [4] Captain Hook John Tiffany National Theatre of Scotland
– Wee Andy   [12] [4] The Surgeon Paddy Cuneen Òran Mór, Glasgow
– Anna Karenina   [12] [4] Vronsky Nancy Meckler Shared Experience
– King Lear   [12] Duke of Cornwall Dominic Hill Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
2 March 2012 – 24 March 2012 Betrayal   [4] [17] Robert Dominic Hill Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
6 September 2012 – 13 October 2012 The Judas Kiss   [12] Robbie Ross Neil Armfield Hampstead Theatre
15 October 2012 – 20 October 2012 Gaiety Theatre, Dublin
22 October 2012 – 27 October 2012 Theatre Royal Bath
29 October 2012 – 3 November 2012 Richmond Theatre
5 November 2012 – 10 November Theatre Royal, Brighton
12 November 2012 – 17 November 2012 Cambridge Arts Theatre
9 January 2013 – 6 April 2013 Duke of York's Theatre, London
22 March 2016 – 1 May 2016 Ed Mirvish Theatre, Toronto [18]
11 May 2016 – 12 June 2016 Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York [19]
2015 My Eyes Went Dark   [20] [21] Nikolai Koslov Matt Wilkinson Finborough Theatre, London
2016 Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
2017 59E59 Theaters, New York
2019 – The Mistress Contract   [22] [12] Eve Nicol Tron Theatre, Glasgow

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "A Lap With Cal MacAninch". Archived from the original on 31 January 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
  2. ↑ "A quick chat with Wild at Heart's Cal Macaninch". What's on TV. 4 February 2010. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
  3. ↑ Downton Abbey webpage Archived 3 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine , ITV.com, July 2011; retrieved 12 August 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Stepping back in time – The Herald, 21 February 2012
  5. ↑ Portobello residents rally in bid to buy Bellfield church – Edinburgh Evening News, 1 July 2016
  6. ↑ BBC – Drama on 3 – How Many Miles to Basra?
  7. ↑ BBC – Woman's Hour Drama – The Pillow Book (series 4)
  8. ↑ BBC – The Poet and the Echo – Grey Evening
  9. ↑ BBC – Book of the Week – Silence
  10. ↑ "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.
  11. ↑ film round-up – The Independent, 6 February 1998
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Cal MacAninch CV – Curtis Brown
  13. ↑ 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
  14. ↑ Good my lord, as Hamlet thinks afresh – Mark Fisher, The Herald, 17 September 1996
  15. ↑ Review: THEATRE: The Wood Demon Playhouse, London – Paul Taylor, The Independent, 19 June 1997
  16. ↑ Review: Under the Black Flag – Michael Billington, The Guardian, 20 July 2006
  17. ↑ Betrayal – review, Four stars, Citizens, Glasgow – Mark Fisher, The Guardian, 12 Mar 2012
  18. ↑ The Judas Kiss in Toronto. Toronto.Eventful.com. March 22, 2016 – May 1, 2016.
  19. ↑ The Judas Kiss (theatre program). Brooklyn Academy of Music. 11 May – 12 June 2016.
  20. ↑ My Eyes Went Dark – Daisy Bowie-Sell, Timeout, 28 August 2015
  21. ↑ My Eyes Went Dark, theatre review: High-octane acting transcends its stage – Fiona Mountford, London Evening Standard, 10 September 2015
  22. ↑ Review: The Mistress Contract, Tron, Glasgow, Four Stars – Neil Cooper, The Herald, 3 May 2019
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