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Ian McNeice

Ian McNeice

Age
62
Birthday
Oct. 2nd, 1950
Born in
Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, UK
Height
5' 8"

Ian McNeice's Main TV Roles

Show Character(s)
Rome TV Show
Rome
Doc Martin (UK) TV Show
Doc Martin (UK)
Dune TV Show
Dune
Chef! (UK) TV Show
Chef! (UK)
Edge of Darkness (UK) TV Show
Edge of Darkness (UK)
Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant TV Show
Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant
Stay Lucky (UK) TV Show
Stay Lucky (UK)
 

Main Movie Roles

2008 - Day of the Dead
2008 - Valkyrie
2006 - The Black Dahlia
2005 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005 - Oliver Twist
2004 - The Rocket Post
2004 - Freeze Frame
2004 - Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
2004 - Around the World in 80 Days
2003 - Blackball
2001 - Town & Country
2001 - From Hell
2000 - The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz
1999 - The Cherry Orchard
1997 - A Life Less Ordinary
1995 - Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
1995 - Funny Bones
1995 - The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
1994 - No Escape
1992 - Year of the Comet
1990 - The Russia House
1989 - Valmont
1987 - Cry Freedom
1987 - 84 Charing Cross Road
1986 - Whoops Apocalypse
1984 - Top Secret!

Guest TV Roles

Show Name
Characters Played
Ep Count
Churchill
4
Hargreaves
2
Barry Wilkes
2
Rev King
1
Harrison
1
Doctor Peter Hunter
1
Canon Eluard
1
Michael Meadowcroft
1
Billy Wunder
1
[Complete List]



BIOGRAPHY:

Ian McNeice went to Taunton School in Somerset and then had two years at the Salisbury Playhouse as an Acting A.S.M. before going to L.A.M.D.A. 1971-74. The next few years were spent in theatre, including four years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, ending with "Nicholas Nickleby" on Broadway. His TV breakthrough was as Harcourt in the B.A.F.T.A award-wining series "Edge of Darkness" (1985). His American screen breakthrough was playing opposite Jim Carrey as Fulton Greenwall in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995).


TRIVIA:
  • McNeice's three children by 'Kate Nicholls (I)' (qv) - Travers, Angus, and 'Maisie McNeice' (qv) - live in the Bush, in Botswana, Africa. They have written a book called "The Lion Children" (to be published by Orion Books in September 2001). The book is about their life in the Bush with their mother and step father, who are lion researchers.
  • Has been in one episode each of both British historical fiction military characters Richard Sharpe and Horatio Hornblower.


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