| 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.
Mackichan was born in London and raised in Surrey until age 9, when she and her family moved to Upper Largo, Fife. A Manchester University graduate, 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. She also appeared in the sitcom Beast and was a regular performer 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 for 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, appeared in Channel 4 sitcom Nathan Barley as the "preposterous voice" of a thinly-veiled Annie Lennox parody, and 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, her own BBC Radio show, Doon Your Way, was broadcast in 1996.
A 2005 episode of the BBC quiz show QI 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. She 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, and 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 lives with her three children India, Ella-Rose, and Louis from a marriage to actor Anthony Barclay.