Mark Alexander Newman (born 27 November 1974), better known by his stage name, Alec Newman, is a Scottish TV and film actor and voice actor. He is best known for portraying Paul Atreides in the Sci Fi Channel's 2000 miniseries adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune.
He voiced Simon Belmont and the Night Watchman in the 3DS version of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate.
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After graduating from LAMDA, Newman built up a steady list of television and film credits before landing the lead role in the Sci Fi Channel's Emmy award winning miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune. This led to a string of appearances in US TV and film, which culminated in winning the coveted role of Barnabas Collins in a Warner Brothers reboot of Dark Shadows. The show was not picked up for series despite promising performances.
The 2004 Hallmark Channel version of Frankenstein, with Newman leading an all star cast including William Hurt and Donald Sutherland, met with favorable reviews and won an Emmy. This period also found Newman consistently working on film - in Penny Woolcock's The Principles of Lust and in the Stephen Fry directed Bright Young Things. Both played at festivals around the world, including the Cannes Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival and the BFI London Film Festival.
Series regular roles in Kurt Sutter's The Bastard Executioner, Amazon's Rogue, and HBO's Strike Back saw him in edgier and often action oriented territory, yet in Guy Pitt's 2014 film Greyhawk, Newman's more intimate and emotional performance contributed to a nomination for the Michael Powell award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. He has since worked with directors Tomas Alfredson, Amma Asante and George Clooney.
Newman has often played edgy and complex characters. Performances in the BBC's Showtrial and World Production's Karen Pirie are recent examples of roles with a moral conflict at their core.
He regularly returns to work in the theatre. The Donmar Warehouse production of King Lear, in which he played Edmund, transferred to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York. The National Theatre's 2015 production of The *** with the Hat featured Newman in the title role and was nominated at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards for Best Play. More recently, he played Bruno Bischofberger in the Young Vic production of Anthony McCarten's new play The Collaboration opposite Paul Bettany, Jeremy Pope and Sofia Barclay.
He is also a prolific voice artist appearing in numerous video games including Cyberpunk 2077 (as Adam Smasher), Assassin's Creed Valhalla, and Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga.
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