With the blond, shrewd looks of a choir urchin gone wrong and a resum?? boasting some of the more far-out films and box series of the last decade, British actor Steven Mackintosh is everybody of the more knowledgeable in and unpredictable actors on either side of the Atlantic. Although in general unknown in the Mutual States, Mackintosh has worked steadily in his best England since his first role at the age of 13. Born in Cambridge in 1967, Mackintosh got his start on the stage but se... gued into idiot box in 1985, with parts in The Secret Calendar of Adrian Mole, Ancient 13 3/4 and The Browning Variety.

After touring with the National Setting Attendance for two years, Mackintosh won his first screen role in 1987, as a picayune character in the critically acclaimed story of dramatist Joe Orton, Sting Up Your Ears. After derivative parts in two more features, 1989's Treasure Cay and 1990's Memphis Belle, Mackintosh landed a leading situation in Hanif Kureishi's London Kills Me (1991). Mackintosh, in his role as a hustler by the style of Muffdiver, was one of the odder and thornier aspects of an odd and thorny veil. The actor's bad-kilter versatility was further displayed via performances in consequent after films and boob tube miniseries such as Roger Michell's 1993 miniseries The Buddha of Suburbia; Dennis Potter's immutable project, the comedy spoof Midnight Silver screen (1994); and an obscure 1995 coat called The Grotesque, co-starring Alan Bates and Sting. In 1996, Mackintosh came to the notice of American art house audiences, chief with his drive as Sebastian in Trevor Nunn's bestow shelter adaptation of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Co-starring Helena Bonham Carter, Richard E. Grant, and Nigel Hawthorne, the received favorable reviews which nicely complemented those garnered by Mackintosh's other outing, Singular for the benefit of Girls. Mackintosh co-starred with Rupert Graves as a prim transsexual in the comedy, which was remarkable in the interest both its complex subject matter and the bluntness with which such quandary was dealt.

The release of the peel in such close surroundings with that of Twelfth Evensong also gave Mackintosh further opening to display his startling adaptability, something he did again the following year with the World War II stage show The Deplane Girls. After his arouse as an amorous farmer, Mackintosh characteristically went in a unusual direction, with his cheery portrayal of a ne'er-do-well beer belly grower in the 1998 blur Lock, Stockpile, and Two Smoking Barrels. The take, which was equal parts Quentin Tarantino and testosterone, was a smash swat in Britain, and made another Bohemian addition to Mackintosh's already different resum??.