Doon Mackichan

Doon Mackichan
Born	Sarah-Doon Mackichan 1962 Westminster, London, United Kingdom
Spouse	Anthony Barclay (divorced)

Doon Mackichan (born Sarah-Doon Mackichan in August 1962) is an English comedienne and actress.

Biography

Born in London, Mackichan was brought up in Surrey until the age of 9 when she moved with her family to Upper Largo, Fife. She is a graduate of Manchester University. She is probably best known as one of the writers and stars of the Channel 4 comedy series Smack the Pony and for appearing in a number of Chris Morris comedy series such as On The Hour, The Day Today and Brass Eye.

Mackichan has also appeared in the sitcom Beast. She also regularly appeared in Knowing Me, Knowing You... with Alan Partridge and The Mary Whitehouse Experience. She appeared in several of The Comic Strip Presents... films in the early '90s.

She was a contestant in the 2003 BBC charity singing contest, Comic Relief does Fame Academy, in which she came fourth. She also played Victoria Lender in the 1998 movie, The Borrowers, and appeared in the 1995 comedy Glam Metal Detectives. She appeared in the second series of the BBC comedy Bedtime, and teamed up with her former Smack the Pony co-stars in the film Gladiatress.

More recently, Mackichan appeared as Jane Thomason, the news producer for the BBC in Taking the Flak in 2009. She has narrated several TV series, including The Honey Trap and Bank of Mum and Dad. She portrayed Cherie Blair in the Channel 4 satirical drama A Very Social Secretary. She appeared in Channel 4 sitcom Nathan Barley as the "preposterous voice" of a thinly-veiled Annie Lennox parody. She also had a small role in Julia Davis' Comedy "Nighty Night" playing a chat-show host who interviews Jill Tyrell. The scene was later deleted and never aired but appears in the extras section of the Series-2 DVD.

In addition to her TV comedy appearances, her own BBC Radio show, Doon Your Way, was broadcast in 1996.

On a 2005 episode of the BBC quiz show QI, it was revealed that Mackichan swam the English Channel in 1998. She was a member of a six-person relay team.^[1]

She has also voiced characters in several animated series including Bob and Margaret, Stressed Eric, Don't Eat the Neighbours and Bromwell High.

Doon has fronted a TV ad campaign for Hallmark in the UK, and appeared with Matt Di Angelo and David Haig in the Joe Orton black farce Loot.

Doon portrayed a nightmarish BBC news presenter in series 4 of the Sarah Jane Adventures in 2010.

From 3 Jun - 9 July 2011, Doon will be performing alongside The Mighty Boosh's Julian Barratt in a new production of Nikolai Gogol's classic comedy The Government Inspector at the Young Vic Theatre in London.

Doon was married to the actor Anthony Barclay. They have three children, daughters India and Ella-Rose, and son Louis.

References

1. ^ "More About Us". waterbabes.co.uk. http://www.codegent.com/clients/waterbabes/about. 

External links

• Doon Mackichan at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Mackichan, Doon
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Date of birth	August 1962
Place of birth	Westminster, London, United Kingdom
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