Doon Mackichan

Born: 1962-08-07, Westminster, London, England

Biography

Sarah Doon Mackichan is a British actress, comedian and writer. She co-created, wrote and performed in the double-Emmy-award-winning Smack the Pony. She frequently collaborates with Armando Iannucci and Steve Coogan, having played multiple characters in The Day Today, Brass Eye and Alan Partridge, and has also appeared in Toast of London and Two Doors Down. Mackichan was nominated for Best Female Comedy Performance at the 2014 British Academy Television Awards for her performance in Plebs and won critical praise for her performance alongside John Malkovich in Bitter Wheat in 2019.

Filmography

• Birds of a Feather (1989)
• The Sea Beast (2022)
• Toast of London (2013)
• Comic Relief Does Fame Academy (2003)
• Toast of Tinseltown (2022)
• Don't Eat the Neighbours (2001)
• Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge (1994)
• The Borrowers (1997)
• Psychobitches (2013)
• Twisted Tales (2005)
• Dreaming Whilst Black (2021)
• Taking the Flak (2009)
• The Strangerers (2000)
• The Scarecrows' Wedding (2026)
• National Theatre at Home: Summerfolk (2026)
• The Good Housekeeping Guide (2006)
• Anuvahood (2011)
• Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown (1993)
• Sex Actually (2005)
• Breaking the Bank (2016)
• Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (2018)
• Space Virgins from Planet Sex (1993)
• Gladiatress (2004)
• Death on the Tyne (2018)
• Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase (1993)
• National Theatre Live: Twelfth Night (2017)
• Alan Partridge: Why, When, Where, How And Whom? (2017)
• Red Nose of Courage (1992)
• Acts of Godfrey (2012)
• A Very Social Secretary (2005)