Mackenzie Crook
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Paul Mackenzie Crook (born September 29, 1971) is an English actor best known for playing Gareth Keenan in The Office.
Crook was born in Maidstone, Kent, and grew up in Dartford. He began his career as a standup comedian, and his first major television role was as a comedy sketch contributor on Channel 4's The Eleven O'Clock Show in 1998. He was later a member of the main cast of the BBC sketch show TV to Go in 2001.
He appeared in Pirates of the Caribbean (2003), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006), and is expected to appear in Pirates of the Caribbean 3 (2007), as Ragetti, a pirate with a wooden eye. He has appeared in ads for Visa and M&Ms (as his Ragetti character in both).
He also appeared in Michael Radford's 2004 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, playing the role of Launcelot Gobbo. Crook played a minor role in the 2004 film Finding Neverland as a theatre usher. He played Billy Bibbit in the 2004 London West End production of the stage play of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and will next appear in a production of The Seagull at the Royal Court Theatre.
He now lives in Muswell Hill in Peter Sellers' old semi-detached house, with his wife Lindsay and son Jude.
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