Cal MacAninch

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.

Cal MacAninch
Born
Calum Andrew Colquhoun MacAninch

(1963-11-24) 24 November 1963
Govan, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
OccupationActor
Years active1989–present
SpouseShauna Macdonald
Children3

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 2004The LightsLiamToby SwiftBBC Radio 4 Friday Play
11 June 2004Soft Fall the Sounds of EdenAndyGaynor MacfarlaneBBC Radio 4 Friday Play
11 July 2004How Many Miles to Basra? [6]Toby SwiftBBC Radio 3 Drama on 3
6 November 2005The Gunpowder PlotKing James IDavid HunterBBC Radio 3 Drama on 3
31 October 2011 – 4 November 2011The Pillow Book (series 4) [7]YukinariLu KempBBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama
30 September 2013 – 3 October 2013The BlackhouseDI Fin MacleodKirsteen CameronBBC Radio Scotland
1 June 2018The Poet and the Echo: Grey Evening [8]ReaderGaynor MacfarlaneBBC Radio 4
28 January 2019 – 1 February 2019Silence [9]Erling KaggeEilidh McCreadieBBC Radio 4 Book of the Week

Television
Television
Year Title Role Notes
1990 Taggart Heckler Episode: "Hostile Witness"
1990 The Paradise Club Angel Eyes Episode: "Chinese Whispers"
1991 The Advocates Milligan 3 episodes
1991 Screen One Axle Episode: "Alive and Kicking"
1991 The Chestnut Soldier Evan Llyr TV miniseries
1993‍–‍94 The Riff Raff Element Declan TV series: main cast
1995 A Mind to Murder Philip Tippett TV film
1995 The Big One Jeff TV film
1995 Dangerous Lady Geoff Ryan TV miniseries
1995 Screen Two Tom Kelso Episode: "Nervous Energy"
1996 Taggart Dr David Argylle Episode: "Devil's Advocate"
1998 Cooking Pigeons TV film
1999 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries Finn Episode: "The Lake of Darkness"
1999 Warriors Sgt Andre Sochanik TV serial
2000 Little Bird Tony O'Neill TV film
2001 Best of Both Worlds Mark Landucci 3 episodes
2001 Waking The Dead Alex Bryson/Sam Keel Episode: "A Simple Sacrifice"
2002‍–‍03 Rockface Ben Craig TV series: main cast
2003 Silent Witness Michael Patterson Episode: "Fatal Error"
2004 Murphy's Law DS Nic Winters Episode: "Bent Moon on the Rise"
2005 The Ghost Squad Mike Episode: "Hardcore"
2006 Sorted Radge TV 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 Pemberton Episode: "Iraq: Part One"
2011 Downton Abbey Henry Lang Episodes: "Matthew's Return" and "General Sir Herbert Strutt"
2011 Garrow's Law Richard Lucas 1 episode
2013 Midsomer Murders Alan Robson Episode: "The Sicilian Defence"
2013 Silent Witness David Loader Episode: "Legacy"
2014‍–‍15 Mr Selfridge Mr Thackeray 11 episodes
2015 Banished Sergeant Timmins TV serial
2015 DCI Banks Detective Sergeant Martin Heston Episode: "Ghosts"
2015 Katie Morag Mr Cavendish Episode: "Katie Morag and the Worst Day Ever"
2016 Scott & Bailey Craig Widnes Episodes: "Nobody's Fool" and "Change"
2018 Frontier Angus Season 3
2019 The Victim Christian Graham TV miniseries
2019 The Small Hand Hugo Snow TV film
2020 Father Brown George Oakley Episode: "The Tower of Lost Souls"
2020 Vera Thomas Walden Episode: "Parent Not Expected"
2020 Des Neil Sinclair TV Mini-Series: 2 episodes
2021 Time PO Galbraith 3 episodes
2021 Vigil Ben Oakley TV serial
2022 Trigger Point Inspector Lee Robins 6 episodes
2022 The Essex Serpent Michael Seaborne Episode: "The Blackwater"
2022 Mayflies Tibbs [10]

Film
Film
Year Title Role Notes
1993 Splitting Heirs CID Officer
1997 The Woodlanders Dr. Fitzpiers [11]
1998 Speak Like a Child Billy, 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
DateTitleRoleDirectorCompany / Theatre
– Macbeth [12]MacbethColin EllwoodUnnatural Acts Theatre
– How Like An Angel [12]PeterAlan SharpeTraverse Theatre, Edinburgh
– Tis Pity She's A Whore [12][4]GrimaldiPhilip ProwseCitizens Theatre, Glasgow
– Frankenstein [12][4]Walton/ClervalJon PopeCitizens Theatre, Glasgow
1992 – Not About Heroes [12]Wilfred OwenStephen MacDonaldHeroes Theatre Company
– The Cherry Orchard [12]The Passer ByRobert RobertsonDundee Repertory Theatre
– The Philanthropist [12]JohnNeil MurrayDundee Repertory Theatre
– A Tale of Two Cities [12][4]DefencePhilip ProwseCitizens Theatre, Glasgow
– Enrico Four [12][4]ArialdoPhilip ProwseCitizens Theatre, Glasgow
16 March 1994 – 26 March 1994Oedipus Rex [12][4][13]OedipusClaire VenablesCitizens Theatre, Glasgow
27 September 1996 – 19 October 1996Hamlet [14][4]HamletPhilip ProwseCitizens Theatre, Glasgow
19 June 1997 – Oct 1997The Wood Demon [12][15]Wood DemonAnthony ClarkePlayhouse Theatre, London
– A Whistle in the Dark [12][4]Harry CarneyRoxana SilbertCitizens Theatre, Glasgow
20 July 2006 – 12 August 2006Under the Black Flag [12][16]John SilverRoxana SilbertShakespeare's Globe
– The Bacchae [12][4]PentheusJohn TiffanyNational Theatre of Scotland
Lincoln Center, New York
– Peter Pan [12][4]Captain HookJohn TiffanyNational Theatre of Scotland
– Wee Andy [12][4]The SurgeonPaddy CuneenÒran Mór, Glasgow
– Anna Karenina [12][4]VronskyNancy MecklerShared Experience
– King Lear [12]Duke of CornwallDominic HillCitizens Theatre, Glasgow
2 March 2012 – 24 March 2012Betrayal [4][17]RobertDominic HillCitizens Theatre, Glasgow
6 September 2012 – 13 October 2012The Judas Kiss [12]Robbie RossNeil ArmfieldHampstead Theatre
15 October 2012 – 20 October 2012Gaiety Theatre, Dublin
22 October 2012 – 27 October 2012Theatre Royal Bath
29 October 2012 – 3 November 2012Richmond Theatre
5 November 2012 – 10 NovemberTheatre Royal, Brighton
12 November 2012 – 17 November 2012Cambridge Arts Theatre
9 January 2013 – 6 April 2013Duke of York's Theatre, London
22 March 2016 – 1 May 2016Ed Mirvish Theatre, Toronto[18]
11 May 2016 – 12 June 2016Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York[19]
2015My Eyes Went Dark [20][21]Nikolai KoslovMatt WilkinsonFinborough Theatre, London
2016Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
201759E59 Theaters, New York
2019 – The Mistress Contract [22][12]Eve NicolTron Theatre, Glasgow

References
  1. "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. 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. 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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