Steven Mackintosh

Steven Mackintosh
Born	(1967-04-30) 30 April 1967 (age 58) Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Occupation(s)	Actor, narrator
Years active	1983–present
Spouse	Lisa Jacobs ​ (m. 1988)​
Children	2, including Martha

Steven Mackintosh (born 30 April 1967) is an English actor and narrator. He is perhaps best known for his role as Andreas Tanis in the action horror films Underworld: Evolution (2006) and Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009).

Mackintosh received a British Academy Television Award nomination for his leading role in the BBC One television film Care (2000). His other notable roles were in the films Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and The Land Girls (1998), as well as the first series of Luther (2010).

Early life

Mackintosh was born in Cambridge, England, the son of Dorothy Parris and Malcolm Mackintosh. ^[1] He attended Icknield Primary School in Sawston, ^[2] living on 34 Queensway. He attended Sawston Village College until the age of 14, and Dramawise Theatre School, gaining 5 O-levels. ^[3] He made his stage debut, aged 14, in The Number of the Beast at the Bush Theatre in London, ^[4] then landed the lead role in the National Theatre production of Brighton Beach Memoirs. ^[5]

Career

Film

Mackintosh's first film appearance was in Prick Up Your Ears . He went on to star in Memphis Belle , Twelfth Night , and David Leland's Land Girls with Rachel Weisz and Anna Friel and co-starred with Rupert Graves in Different For Girls as a transgender woman. He played Winston in Guy Ritchie's film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels . His other notable films include Roger Michell's The Mother , The Jacket , Good with Viggo Mortensen, Underworld: Evolution and Underworld: Rise of the Lycans . He played Tony in Rupert Wyatt's feature The Escapist and Kertzer in Film 4's The Scouting Book For Boys . Mackintosh played Ivan Lewis in the big screen version of The Sweeney . He played Jack in Set Fire to the Stars with Elijah Wood and worked with Michael Caton Jones for the second time on his film Urban Hymn .

Radio

He played Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö's fictional police detective Martin Beck in the BBC Radio drama series The Martin Beck Killings.

Television

Mackintosh played a peasant boy, the Luck Child, who is prophecied to be king in Jim Henson's The StoryTeller, S1:E4. Mackintosh played DS Winter in the 10 part series Lucky Man, created by Stan Lee for Carnival films and Sky TV. He played Robbo in From There to Here by BAFTA winning writer Peter Bowker for the BBC and played John Coniston in the acclaimed Inside Men for BBC 1. His other numerous credits include: Luther , Lost Christmas , The Other Boleyn Girl , The Buddha of Suburbia , Prime Suspect and Our Mutual Friend . Mackintosh won Best Actor at the Royal Television Society Awards and a Best Actor Nomination at the BAFTAs for his role in Care for the BBC. In recent years^{[ when? ]} he has become a popular choice to narrate documentaries.^{[ citation needed ]} He replaced Jamie Theakston to narrate the BBC police documentary, Traffic Cops. He also narrates on the documentary Aircrash Confidential from Discovery Communications and Saving Lives at Sea on BBC 2.

Personal life

His sister Lynda married Graham Ellingham in June 1985. ^{[6] [7]}

He married the actress Lisa Jacobs, on 7 November 1988 in London. ^[8] They have two daughters, Martha Mackintosh (born 1992) and Blythe Mackintosh (born 1996). He is a fan of Manchester United.

Filmography

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1987	Prick Up Your Ears	Simon Ward
1990	Memphis Belle	Stan the Rookie
1991	London Kills Me	Muffdiver
1992	The Muppet Christmas Carol	Fred, Scrooge's Nephew
1994	Princess Caraboo	Harold
1995	The Grotesque	Sidney Giblet
	Blue Juice	Josh Tambini
1996	Twelfth Night	Sebastian
	Different for Girls	Kim Foyle	Brussels International Film Festival - Best Actor
1997	It's Good to Talk		Short
	House of America	Sid
1998	The Land Girls	Joe Lawrence
	It's Good to Talk		Short film
	Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels	Winston
1999	The Criminal	Jasper Rawlins
2000	Care	Davy Younger	BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Actor RTS Television Award for Best Actor Nominated — BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor
2001	Far from China	Noah
2002	Eddie Loves Mary		Short
2003	Strangers	Morgan	Short
	The Mother	Bobby
	The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story	Gunther Zeloty
	The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp	Gunther Zeloty
2004	The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea	Gunther Zeloty
	The Aryan Couple	Eichmann
2005	The Jacket	Dr Hopkins
	The Secret Life of Words	Doctor Sulitzer
2006	Underworld: Evolution	Andreas Tanis
	Rang de Basanti	Mr McKinley	Bollywood film
	Small Engine Repair	Bill
2007	First Born	Steven
	Sugarhouse	Tom
2008	The Escapist	Tony
	Good	Freddie
	The Daisy Chain	Tomas Conroy
2009	Underworld: Rise of the Lycans	Andreas Tanis
	The Scouting Book for Boys	Det. Insp. Kertzer
2011	The Great Ghost Rescue	Brad
2012	Elfie Hopkins	Michael
	The Sweeney	D.C.I. Ivan Lewis
2013	Z1	Guy	Short film
	Kick-Ass 2	Tommy's Dad
	The Thirteenth Tale	Dr Clifton
2014	Gold	Gerry
	The Jesus Mysteries	Narrator	Documentary
	Set Fire to the Stars	Jack
2015	Robot Overlords	Danny
	Bone in the Throat	McDougal
	A Song for Jenny	Greg
	Urban Hymn	David Hinton
2017	Modern Life Is Rubbish	Lenny
2019	Rocketman	Stanley Dwight
2020	The Postcard Killings	Rupert Pearce
2021	Calving	Gordon	Short film
2023	The Shepherd	Sgt Joe Marks	Short film

Television

Year	Film	Role	Notes	Ref.
1983	Nanny	Tony	Episode: "The Home Front"
1984	See How They Run	Willie Biggs	TV film
1985	The Browning Version	John Taplow	BBC TV film
	Doctor Who	Gazak	Episode: "Timelash"
	Summer Season		Episode: "Broken Homes"
	The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3⁄4	Nigel Partridge	6 episodes
1987	The Diary of Anne Frank	Peter Van Daan	3 episodes
	The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole	Nigel Partridge	6 episodes
1988	Tickets for the Titanic	Josh	Episode: "Everyone's A Winner"
	The Storyteller	Lucky	Episode: "The Luck Child"
1989	The Woman in Black	Rolfe	TV film
1990	Treasure Island	Dick	TV film
	Surgical Spirit	Martin	Episode: "Something in the Air"
	Screen One		Episode: "News Hounds"
	The Bill	Tony Martin	Episode: "Market Forces"
1991	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Newsboy	Episode: "The Plymouth Express"
	Van Der Valk	Koos	Episode: "The Little Rascals"
	Perfect Scoundrels	Young Kirby	Episode: "Ssh, You Know Who"
1992	Six Characters in Search of an Author	The Brother	TV film
	Inspector Morse	DS Cheetham	Episode: "Absolute Conviction" (Series 6)
	Between the Lines	P.C. Fulford	Episode: "Nothing Personal"
	The Ruth Rendell Mysteries	Nicholas Virson	Episode: "Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part 1"
1993	Maigret	Jacques Patillon	Episode: "Maigret and the Maid"
	Screenplay	Greg	Episode: "Safe"
	The Buddha of Suburbia	Charlie Kay	Miniseries
1994	Murder in Mind	Simon	TV film
	A Dark-Adapted Eye	Francis	TV film
	A Touch of Frost	Dean Hoskins	Episode: "Widows and Orphans"
	The Chief	Dean Mills	Episode No.4.9
	Cadfael	Liliwin	Episode: "The Sanctuary Sparrow"
	The Return of the Native	Diggory Venn	TV film
	Midnight Movie	Bertie	TV film
1996	Karaoke	Waiter (Film)	Miniseries (3 episodes)
	Prime Suspect	The Street	TV film
1998	The Ebb-Tide	Swanson	TV film
	Our Mutual Friend	John Rokesmith/John Harmon	Miniseries (4 episodes)
	Undercover Heart	Tom Howarth	Miniseries
1999	Bad Blood	Stephen Irving	TV film
2000	Lady Audley's Secret	Robert Audley	TV film
2001	Sweet Revenge	Sebastian Harper	TV film
	Swallow	Stuart Collins	3 episodes
2002	The Many Trials of One Jane Doe	Sean Dewart	TV film
2003	The Other Boleyn Girl	George Boleyn	TV film
2004	England Expects	Ray Knight	TV film
2006	Shiny Shiny Bright New Hole in My Heart	Jeremy	TV film
	The Amazing Mrs Pritchard	Ian Pritchard	6 episodes
2007	The Beckoning Silence	Narrator	TV film
	A Very British Sex Scandal	Narrator	TV film
2009	Criminal Justice	D.I. Chris Sexton	5 episodes
	The Queen	Narrator	5 episodes
2010	Mo	Peter Mandelson	TV film
	Luther	D.C.I. Ian Reed	6 episodes
2011	Camelot	Ewan	Episode No.1.5
	Aircrash Confidential	Narrator	12 episodes
	The Jury	Paul Brierley	5 episodes
2012	Inside Men	John	4 episodes	[9]
	Horizon – How Big Is the Universe?	Narrator	Episode 4
2013	What Remains	Kieron Moss	TV series
2014	Autopsy: The Last Hours of	Narrator	3 episodes
	Operation Cloud Lab		Miniseries
	From There to Here	Robbo	TV series	[10]
2015	The Game	Tom Mallory	Episode Two
2016	Stan Lee's Lucky Man	Detective Superintendent Winter	19 episodes	[11]
	Traffic Cops	Narrator	Series 14
2017	The Halcyon	Richard Garland	8 episodes	[12]
2018	Kiri	Jim Warner	Miniseries	[13]
	Wanderlust	Alan Richards	6 episodes
2020	Lawrence of Arabia: Britain's Great Adventurer	Narrator	TV documentary
	Soulmates	Brother Samson	Episode: "Break on Through"
2021	Dalgliesh	Wilfred Antsey	"The Black Tower"
2022	The Pact	Harry	Series 2
	The Confessions of Frannie Langton	John Langton	Miniseries
2023	Payback	Malky Roberts	6 episodes
	The Day the Queen Died: Minute by Minute	Narrator	Documentary	[14]
2024	Senna	Frank Williams	Miniseries

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Ref.
1982	The Number of the Beast	Randy	Bush Theatre, London	[15]
1986	Brighton Beach Memoirs	Eugene Jerome	Royal National Theatre, London	[16]
1988	The Tempest	Ariel; Ceres	Royal National Theatre, London	[17]
1990	Look Look	G 13 – Lee	Aldwych Theatre, London	[18]
1991	The Glory of the Garden	Maxie Greenwood	Duke of York's Theatre, London	[19]
2000	My Zinc Bed	Paul	Royal Court Theatre, London	[20]
2008	In a Dark Dark House	Drew	Almeida theatre, London	[21]
2019	Appropriate	Bo Lafayette	Donmar Warehouse, London	[22]

Audio

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2000	The Beach	Narrator	Audiobook	[23]
2013	A Martin Beck Mystery: Murder At The Savoy	Martin Beck	BBC Radio 4	[24]

References

1. "Steven Mackintosh Biography (1967-)". filmreference.com. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
2. "Actor Steven Mackintosh helps Icknield Primary School in Sawston to celebrate it's[sic] 40th anniversary". Haverhill Echo. 16 June 2012. Archived from the original on 23 June 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
3. Saffron Walden Weekly News Thursday 8 January 1976
4. "Production of the Number of the Beast" . Retrieved 2 May 2025.
5. Ross, Deborah (7 December 1998). "Interview: The sexiest bloke on the box" . The Independent . Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
6. Cambridge Daily News Friday 22 June 1984, page 10
7. Cambridge Daily News Wednesday 26 June 1985, page 6
8. Cambridge Daily News Thursday 3 November 1988, page 4
9. "Inside Men Media Pack" . Retrieved 12 May 2025.
10. "From There To Here Media Pack" . Retrieved 12 May 2025.
11. "Stan Lee's Lucky Man" . Retrieved 19 May 2025.
12. "The Halcyon Star Steven Mackintosh Mr Garland is More Than He Appears" . Retrieved 12 May 2025.
13. "Kiri" . Retrieved 19 May 2025.
14. "The Day the Queen Died" . Retrieved 22 May 2025.
15. "Production of the Number of the Beast" . Retrieved 2 May 2025.
16. "Production of Brighton Beach Memoirs" . Retrieved 12 May 2025.
17. "The Tempest at National Theatre" . Retrieved 6 May 2025.
18. "Look Look by Michael Frayn" . Retrieved 6 May 2025.
19. "Production of The Glory of the Garden" . Retrieved 2 May 2025.
20. "Variety Review" . Retrieved 1 May 2025.
21. "Official London theatre News" . Retrieved 1 May 2025.
22. "A First Look at Appropriate at the Donmar Warehouse" . Retrieved 2 May 2025.
23. "Alex Garland Read By Steven Mackintosh – The Beach" . Retrieved 18 June 2025.
24. "A Martin Beck Mystery: Murder At The Savoy" . Retrieved 18 June 2025.

External links

• Steven Mackintosh at IMDb
• Steven Mackintosh at the BFI 's Screenonline
• Steven Mackintosh Website