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| Born | 18 September 1956 Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, England |
Tim McInnerny (born 18 September 1956) is an English actor. He is known for his roles in Blackadder as Percy, Duke of Northumberland (series one), Lord Percy (series two) and Captain Darling (series four). He decided not to reprise his role as Percy in series three due to a fear of being typecast, although he did appear in a guest role as half of the Scarlet Pimpernel in the episode "Nob and Nobility" (the other half being played by Nigel Planer). This made him the only person other than Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson to appear in all four series of Blackadder, though he did not appear in the one-off special Blackadder's Christmas Carol.
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Biography
Early life
"McInnerny" is stressed on the penultimate syllable (IPA: /mækɪˈnɝːnɪ/). McInnerny was born in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, the son of Mary Joan (née Gibbings) and William Ronald McInnerny.[1] He was brought up in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport in Cheshire, and Stroud, Gloucestershire, and educated at Marling School, Stroud, and Wadham College, Oxford.
Career
McInnerny has worked as a dramatic actor, appearing on stage in the original production of Pravda with Anthony Hopkins, and on television in Edge of Darkness (1985) where he played an anarchist. He has starred in Wetherby (1985), Erik the Viking (1989). He also starred in a film production of Shakespeare's Richard III (1995), FairyTale: A True Story (1997), Notting Hill (1999), 102 Dalmatians (2000), The Emperor's New Clothes (2001), and Severance (2006). He also played Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the 1990 West End production of The Rocky Horror Show, alongside Adrian Edmondson as Brad and Ed Tudor-Pole as Riff-Raff. His performance can be heard on the soundtrack album of this production. In 1989, he co-starred with Kate Bush in the music video for her song "This Woman's Work". He also appeared in the Westlife video for "Uptown Girl", along with Robert Bathurst, Crispin Bonham-Carter, Ioan Gruffudd and James Wilby. In 1999, he played Tony Hawes, a senior employee with Barings Bank alongside Ewan McGregor in the film Rogue Trader. In 2004, he joined the cast of the BBC/Kudos spy drama Spooks for its third season, playing Oliver Mace, a semi-regular character. This character recurred in Series 5 Episode 5 of the series. In 2006, he starred in the BBC adaptation of The Line of Beauty as Gerald Fedden. In summer 2007 he played Iago in Othello at Shakespeare's Globe on Bankside in London. He will guest star in a later episode of the fourth series of television drama Doctor Who next year in an as-yet unspecified role, alongside David Tennant, Catherine Tate and Freema Agyeman.
