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Douggie McMeekin is an English stage, television and film actor.

Early life

He graduated with a physics degree from the University of Nottingham. As a student he performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the National Student Drama Festival where he won the Judges Award for Acting in 2011. He later trained at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Theatre

He made his professional stage debut as one of the Lost Boys in Ella Hickson’s Wendy & Peter Pan at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2015. His theatre roles have also included Nina Raine’s Bach & Sons at The Bridge Theatre in 2021. In April 2018, he was nominated for the Ian Charleson Awards for his performance as Snug the Joiner in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Young Vic.

Film and television

In 2017, he played Sunny Blandford in The Crown. The following year he played Charles Quigley in historical drama Harlots. He later played Aleksandr Yuvchenko in historical drama Chernobyl.

He had a role in 2021 Cush Jumbo-led television series The Beast Must Die. He appeared in the 2022 Lena Dunham film Catherine Called Birdy.

In 2024, he could be seen playing Tindaro the sickly nobleman in Netflix historical comedy series The Decameron. That year he also appeared in the IVF film drama Joy, playing John Brown, the father of the first test tube baby.