
Alun Armstrong
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Biography
Alun Armstrong is a prolific English character actor.
Armstrong grew up in County Durham in North East England. He first became interested in acting through Shakespeare productions at his grammar school. Since his career began in the early 1970s, he has played, in his words, "the full spectrum of characters from the grotesque to musicals... I always play very colourful characters, often a bit crazy, despotic, psychotic."
His numerous credits include six different Dickens adaptations and seven series as eccentric ex-detective Brian Lane in New Tricks.
Armstrong is also an accomplished stage actor who spent nine years with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He originated the role of Thénardier in the London production of Les Misérables and he won an Olivier Award for playing the title role in Sweeney Todd.
Known For

Married... with Children

MacGyver

BBC Play of the Month

Inspector Morse

Tales from the Crypt

Downton Abbey

The New Avengers

The Hollow Crown

A.D.

The Storyteller

Breeders

Sherwood

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

Bleak House

Enemy at the Door

Penny Dreadful

Braveheart

American Friends

Sleepy Hollow

Patriot Games

Messiah

David Copperfield

The Duellists

The Mummy Returns

Van Helsing

Blue Ice

Measure for Measure

Tom Jones

Eragon

Bedtime

Little Dorrit

The Saint

New Tricks

Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years

MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday

Sparkhouse

An Awfully Big Adventure

Shooting the Chandelier

Brazen Hussies

Dark Angel

Frontier

Sorry About Last Night

Possum

Garrow's Law

The Dinner Party

Murder in Eden
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