Alec Newman
Alec Newman ( born November 27, 1974 in Glasgow as Mark Newman) is a Scottish theater and film actor.
Life and career
Newman was born the son of Sandy Newman, a member of the Scottish 1970s music group The Marmalade, in Glasgow, Scotland. His family moved three years later to London, where he was an avid soccer player. A targeted professional career, he was forced to retire after a momentous broken leg.
At 17, Newman made her first appearance at the National Youth Theatre, where his countless roles, especially his portrayal of Iago in Shakespeare's Othello, stood out. There were other theater performances and guest roles in numerous British television series, which led, for which he received consistently positive reviews for his first major film appearance in Greenwich Mean Time ( 1999).
First, Newman returned to theater and played in Plenty, starring Cate Blanchett and in a re-enactment of Max Frisch's Andorra. This was followed by first leading roles in international film productions such as Dune - Dune (2000) and Frankenstein (2004) with Donald Sutherland and Julie Delpy. The role of Paul Atreides, he also starred in the sequel Children of Dune (2003), in which he ironically the father of James McAvoy plays character; in the British comedy drama Bright Young Things from the same year they play their peers. Also in American TV series like Angel - Hunters of darkness, and Star Trek: it has recurring guest roles Enterprise.
Alec Newman now lives in North London and is becoming an increasingly sought-after stage actor, without that he thereby waives a film career.