Danny Mac

Danny Mac (born 26 February 1988) is an English actor, known for various roles across both stage and screen.

Danny Mac
Mac in 2017
Born
Danny Mac Greene

(1988-02-26) 26 February 1988[1]
Bromley, Greater London, England
OccupationActor
Years active1998–present
Spouse(s)
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(m. 2017)​

Early life

Mac was born in Bromley, Greater London,[2] but then grew up in the seaside town of Bognor Regis.[3] He trained for 2 years in Acting at Chichester College before attending The Arts Educational Schools in London graduating in 2009 with a BA Hons degree.[3]

Career

He played Gavroche in the musical Les Miserables for a ten-week run in Southampton in 1998, and appeared in the role again in the West End in 1999. He performed again in the West End a decade later in the musical Wicked from May 2009, where he stayed for 21 months and was an understudy for the role of Boq. He left to join Hollyoaks in February 2011. In 2016, he reached the final in the fourteenth series of BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing. His professional dance partner was Oti Mabuse. In week 9, after dancing a Charleston, he became the first contestant to both receive a score of ten from Craig Revel Horwood and to score a perfect 40 for the series. The next week, Mac became the first celebrity in the show's history to score a perfect 40 for a Samba.[4] This was also the earliest double 40 in the show's history. He eventually reached the final, where he finished as joint runners-up with Louise Redknapp and her partner Kevin Clifton, losing out to winners Ore Oduba and his partner Joanne Clifton.

In May 2017, he starred as Gabey in the musical On the Town at the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre in a production that ran until July of that year and was nominated for Best Musical Revival at the 2018 Olivier Awards. From September 2017 to April 2018 he starred as Joe Gillis in the multi award-winning touring production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard, a role for which he won 'Best Actor' at The Manchester Theatre Awards and was nominated for 'Best Actor' at the WhatsOnStage Awards. The production also won 'Best Regional Production' at the 18th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards and 'Best Musical' at The Manchester Theatre Awards.[5]

In 2018, he appeared as Craig in the Sky One sitcom Trollied. In December 2018 and January 2019, Mac starred as Bob Wallace in White Christmas at Curve in Leicester. The production will transfer to the Dominion Theatre in the West End from November 2019 to January 2020. From May 2019 Mac toured the UK as Nino in the musical Amélie.[6] In 2020, he played Edward in the London premiere of Pretty Woman: The Musical at the Piccadilly Theatre.[7] Later that year, he appeared in an episode of the BBC soap opera Doctors as Jonathan Bateson.[8]

Filmography
YearShowRoleNotes
2004A Line in the SandTomITV Drama
2011–2015HollyoaksMark "Dodger" SavageSeries regular
2011Children in NeedHimselfGuest
2011Hollyoaks Best Bits 2011
2013All Star Family FortunesGuest
2015British Andy
2016Loose Women
2016Strictly Len Goodman
2016Strictly Come DancingContestant (2016)Runner-up with professional Oti Mabuse
2016Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes TwoHimselfWeekly appearances
2017Olivier AwardsHimselfGuest Presenter
2017A Harvest WeddingFlemingTelevision film
2017Midlands TodayHimself
2017Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes TwoHimselfPanelist
2018TrolliedCraig2 episodes
2020DoctorsJonathan BatesonEpisode: "Merry Frightmas"

Awards and nominations
Year Award Category Result
2011National Television AwardsMost Popular NewcomerNominated
The British Soap AwardsSexiest MaleNominated
Inside Soap AwardsSexiest MaleWon
Inside Soap AwardsBest NewcomerWon
TV Quick and Choice AwardsBest Soap NewcomerWon
2012The British Soap AwardsSexiest MaleNominated
National Television AwardsBest NewcomerWon
Inside Soap AwardsSexiest MaleWon
Digital Spy Soap AwardsSexiest MaleWon
2013The British Soap AwardsSexiest MaleWon
Inside Soap AwardsBest ActorWon
Inside Soap AwardsSexiest MaleWon
2014The British Soap AwardsSexiest MaleWon
Inside Soap AwardsSexiest MaleWon
2015National Television AwardsBest Serial Drama PerformanceNominated
2018Manchester Theatre AwardsBest Actor In A Visiting ProductionWon
WhatsOnStage AwardsBest Actor In A MusicalNominated

References
  1. "Danny Mac Biography". Heat. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  2. Saunders, Tristram Fane (14 December 2016). "Who is Danny Mac? All you need to know about the Strictly Come Dancing finalist". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
  3. "Who is Danny Mac? Meet the Strictly Come Dancing 2016 finalist". wbnews.info. 15 December 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
  4. Hogan, Michael (27 November 2016). "Strictly Come Dancing 2016, week 10: Ed Balls cut adrift at bottom – will this be his final hurrah?". The Telegraph. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  5. Duke, Simon (5 October 2017). "From the Strictly ballroom to Sunset Boulevard – Danny Mac heading to Newcastle in iconic musical". chroniclelive.co.uk. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  6. "Danny Mac to star in Amélie the Musical | WhatsOnStage". www.whatsonstage.com. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
  7. "Pretty Woman: The Musical cast to feature Danny Mac and Aimie Atkinson in the West End". www.whatsonstage.com. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
  8. Writer: Henrietta Hardy; Director: David Lewis Richardson; Producer: Simon J Curtis (17 December 2020). "Merry Frightmas". Doctors. BBC. BBC One.
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