Michael McKell is an English

England

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 actor and singer/songwriter.

Television career

He is best known for appearing in two British soap operas, Doctors, in which he played Dr. Nick West from 2006 until the character was run over and killed in 2008, and Emmerdale

Emmerdale

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, in which he has played DC Nick Henshall over two separate periods from 2008 to 2011, until the character committed suicide. He has also appeared in a third soap opera, EastEnders

EastEnders

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as the hitman who supposedly killed Paul Trueman

Paul Trueman

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He is also known for playing D.S./D.I. Trevor Hands in two seasons of the ITV

ITV

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 drama MIT: Murder Investigation Team, two seasons of Channel 4's Totally Frank

Totally Frank

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and the BBC One series Blessed

Blessed (TV series)

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, playing Ronnie, a musician who appears to be modelled on Mick Jagger

Mick Jagger

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. He first came to prominence as the character of Tony in a series of British television commercials for the Peugeot 106

Peugeot 106

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 car, alongside Julie Graham

Julie Graham

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 and Annie Dunkley in the mid-1990s.

He has had guest appearances on A Touch of Frost

A Touch of Frost (TV series)

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and Kavanagh QC

Kavanagh QC

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. He also starred in the cult film Essex Boys

Essex Boys

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alongside Sean Bean

Sean Bean

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 as drug dealer Wayne Lovell.

Music career

McKell started his working life as a musician. He was the singer/songwriter for the band The Park, penning hits for Toyah

Toyah Willcox

Toyah Ann Willcox is an English actress and singer. In a career spanning more than thirty years Toyah has had 13 top 40 singles, released 22 studio albums, written two books, appeared in over forty stage plays and ten feature films, as well as voicing and presenting numerous television shows...

, Dollar

Dollar (band)

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 and Julien Clerc

Julien Clerc

Julien Clerc, , born as Paul Alain Leclerc on 4 October 1947 in Paris, Clerc's parents divorced when he was still young. He grew up listening to classical music in his father's home, while his mother introduced him to the music of such singers as Georges Brassens and Edith Piaf...

. His solo career after deals with Phomogram, WEA and EMI was cut short by a near fatal car crash in August 1991. Michael returned to the stage in Macbeth

Macbeth

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at The Lyric Hammersmith in the late 1990s. He has appeared in West End musicals, including Blood Brothers and fourteen months in the Rod Stewart

Rod Stewart

Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE is a British singer-songwriter and musician, born and raised in North London, England and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English ancestry....

 musical Tonight's the Night

Tonight's The Night (2003 musical)

Tonight's the Night is a "compilation musical" by comedian Ben Elton, based on the music of Rod Stewart. It opened in October 2003 at the Victoria Palace Theatre, and ran for just over a year...

, written and directed by Ben Elton

Ben Elton

Benjamin Charles "Ben" Elton is an English comedian, author, playwright and director. He was a leading figure in the British alternative comedy movement of the 1980s, as a writer on such cult series as The Young Ones and Blackadder, as well as also a successful stand-up comedian on stage and TV....

. Elton later went on to write the character Ronnie for McKell in his BBC comedy Blessed.

In 1985 he toured as Michael St James with French star Julien Clerc and worked with legendary French singer/songwriter Serge Gainsbourg

Serge Gainsbourg

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.

McKell released an EP, Shower Over Moon Street, in 2009 and performed tracks from his album Fragile at The Royal Albert Hall

Royal Albert Hall

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 in November 2009. Fragile was released 25 July 2010.

External links

• Michael McKell at the Internet Movie Database
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