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Please help me to identify this actor!

94 replies

MrsD28 · 07/10/2020 14:15

Sat next to him in a cafe yesterday... he was waving at baby DD so I got a good look at him, but can't for the life of me remember who he is. It is driving me mad! Please help!

British (for some reason I think he might be Scottish, but not sure), male, mostly TV actor rather than films, in dramas rather than comedies, not soaps (I don't watch them so he wouldn't have been familiar to me), slim face, attractive but not conventionally good looking or hunky, in his late 40s or early 50s. Think John Hannah or John Sim type (though he is not either of those!). I feel as if I have seen him play a police officer, but I have been googling police dramas and he hasn't appeared in any cast lists.

Aaargh! Help!

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MrsD28 · 07/10/2020 14:52

@notmyhusbandsproperty

Tom Ellis
Too young and too yummy...
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EsterOdesavitch · 07/10/2020 14:54

OP, Martin Compston, did you check him! Need to know now.

Max Beasley?

Fi57 · 07/10/2020 14:54

Jamie dornan? he’s Irish

WhatifIfeellikeacat · 07/10/2020 14:54

OP, he could be a "twin". Someone who looks very similar nearly identical.

HaggisBurger · 07/10/2020 14:56

When you mentioned McAvoy n Duff I knew specifically where 😂. Actor central round here

schnubbins · 07/10/2020 14:57

Dominic West?

LizzieMacQueen · 07/10/2020 14:59

John Michie (though fails your soap test, think he's been in one)

Please help me to identify this actor!
Micawbs · 07/10/2020 15:01

Marc Warren or Bertie Carvel? (He might be a bit too young 🤔)

doadeer · 07/10/2020 15:02

I'm north London too, that's what I thought you would say. I thought Hugo Speer as I saw him recently. Has someone mentioned the doctor who actor? Peter Capaldi

itstheyearzero · 07/10/2020 15:02

David Morrissey?

originalusernamefail · 07/10/2020 15:03

Douglas Henshall? Plays a detective in Shetland?

Please help me to identify this actor!
OnCandyStripeLegs · 07/10/2020 15:08

Stephen Campbell Moore?

Brot64 · 07/10/2020 15:11

Simon Pegg?

KittCat · 07/10/2020 15:12

James Norton?

JellyMouldJnr · 07/10/2020 15:13

Ben Wishaw?
Rory Kinnear?

TheGeoffLinton · 07/10/2020 15:14

Alan Cumming?

Downwithcovid · 07/10/2020 15:15

Idris Elba?

30daysoflight · 07/10/2020 15:15

Christopher Eccleston

ChrisPrattsFace · 07/10/2020 15:17

What if he wasn’t an actor and just had one of those faces, and now you’ll annoy yourself forever 😂

HaggisBurger · 07/10/2020 15:18

@ChrisPrattsFace

What if he wasn’t an actor and just had one of those faces, and now you’ll annoy yourself forever 😂
And us lol
moley75 · 07/10/2020 15:21

James D'Arcy

rainbowninja · 07/10/2020 15:22

Sounds like Richard Madden but he'd be too young?

TheGeoffLinton · 07/10/2020 15:26

Samuel West?

BoudicasBoudoir · 07/10/2020 15:35

Ben Chaplin?

OnCandyStripeLegs · 07/10/2020 15:37

@ChrisPrattsFace

What if he wasn’t an actor and just had one of those faces, and now you’ll annoy yourself forever 😂
Once on holiday there was a guy in the hotel who I'd worked with a few years before, so I waved at him and he waved back every time I saw him around.

Then I got home and it turns out he's actually an actor from Victoria and The Crown - m.imdb.com/name/nm0746583/ and knows nothing of the industry I work in Grin