Paul James Crook (born 29 September 1971), known professionally as
Mackenzie Crook, is an English actor, director, comedian and
BAFTA-winning writer. He is known for playing Gareth Keenan in The
Office, Ragetti in the Pirates of the Caribbean films, and Orell in
the HBO series Game of Thrones, and is the creator and star of BBC
Four's Detectorists.Crook was born in Maidstone, Kent, and grew up in
Dartford, Kent. He is the son of Michael Crook, a British Airways
employee, and Sheila Crook, a hospital manager. As a child he received
a course of hormone therapy for three years to treat a growth hormone
deficiency. In the summers, he spent time at his uncle's tobacco farm
in northern Zimbabwe, where he developed his love for painting.One of
Crook's earliest television appearances was in the 1998 Channel 4
sketch show Barking, as a grotesque schoolteacher called Mr Bagshaw
who is said to be based on a variety of obnoxious, overbearing science
teachers he was taught by while in school.
Mackenzie Crook, is an English actor, director, comedian and
BAFTA-winning writer. He is known for playing Gareth Keenan in The
Office, Ragetti in the Pirates of the Caribbean films, and Orell in
the HBO series Game of Thrones, and is the creator and star of BBC
Four's Detectorists.Crook was born in Maidstone, Kent, and grew up in
Dartford, Kent. He is the son of Michael Crook, a British Airways
employee, and Sheila Crook, a hospital manager. As a child he received
a course of hormone therapy for three years to treat a growth hormone
deficiency. In the summers, he spent time at his uncle's tobacco farm
in northern Zimbabwe, where he developed his love for painting.One of
Crook's earliest television appearances was in the 1998 Channel 4
sketch show Barking, as a grotesque schoolteacher called Mr Bagshaw
who is said to be based on a variety of obnoxious, overbearing science
teachers he was taught by while in school.
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