Doon Mackichan
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.0499 |
| Birthday | 1962-08-07 |
| Place of Birth | Westminster, London, England |
| Also Known As | Sarah-Doon Mackichan, Sarah Doon Mackichan, Doon MacHichan, Doon MacKichan, Doon Machichan, Doon Mackihan, Doon McKichan, |
2004
Gladiatress
3.889/27
Three unlikely heroines set out to thwart a Roman invasion and save Celtic Britain in their own unique and outrageous style.
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Gladiatress
2013
Frost on Sketch Shows
8.5/2
Sir David Frost traces the development of the sketch show over the last fifty years, from variety theatre to primetime television.
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Frost on Sketch Shows
2005
X-Rated: The Ads They Couldn't Show
4/4
Every year, thousands of commercials are made that never reach our TV screens, deemed too shocking to see. In order to make it onto the screen, they m...
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X-Rated: The Ads They Couldn't Show
2005
A Very Social Secretary
6.25/8
Bernard Hill and Victoria Hamilton star in Alistair Beaton's wickedly funny feature-length drama inspired by David Blunkett's private affair held up f...
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A Very Social Secretary
2022
The Sea Beast
7.329/1752
When a young girl stows away on the ship of a legendary sea monster hunter, they launch an epic journey into uncharted waters — and make history to bo...
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The Sea Beast
2018
Winterlong
7/1
When his estranged wife deposits his teenage son Julian at the doorstep of his remote caravan home, solitary (though charming) poacher Francis must am...
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Winterlong
2000
Wild About Harry
5.971/17
A sleazy chef is forced to face the truth about the man he has become and realizes that he has the chance to begin again.
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Wild About Harry
1992
Red Nose of Courage
8/1
A clown is not happy with his job at his father's circus so he gets into politics, and some weeks later he is the Prime Minister John Major. But after...
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Red Nose of Courage
1992
The Crying Game
0/0
Roy Brush has aspirations to be a great footballer and this seems likely when he scores for England in the European Cup Final. To add to this he becom...
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The Crying Game
1993
Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
0/0
Governor Wilkins brings rookie cop Lucille Bromley to see the imprisoned cannibal Dr Genghis in order to gain information about a serial killer. At th...
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Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
1993
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
0/0
A craft full of Space Rats,glamorous extra-terrestrials from the planet Sex,arrive on Earth desperate to find men with whom they can procreate in orde...
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Space Virgins from Planet Sex
1993
Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown
0/0
When the lead star of 'The Gourmet Detective' mystery show is mysteriously bumped off. A bunch of various detectives from television shows from the se...
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Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown
1999
With or Without You
5.294/17
Rosie and Vincent have known each other for ten years, and have been married for five. She doesn't like her job, he isn't too pleased working with her...
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With or Without You
1997
The Borrowers
6.043/535
The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family, "borrowing" such items as thread, safety pins, batteries a...
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The Borrowers
2005
Sex Actually
6.5/2
Colombian Luccio and his girlfriend Angie move into a respectable part of Berkshire, learning that Ron and Helen, the previous owners of their house,...
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Sex Actually
2014
Most Shocking Celebrity Moments 2014
5/1
Annual countdown of the 40 most shocking celebrity moments of the year.
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Most Shocking Celebrity Moments 2014
2015
Most Shocking Celebrity Moments 2015
5/1
A look back at the most outrageous antics by the rich and famous.
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Most Shocking Celebrity Moments 2015
2013
Two Doors Down
6.5/2
Comedy set in a chaotic Hogmanay party. Beth and Eric Baird's Hogmanay goes horribly wrong as family, friends and neighbours descend on their home. As...
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Two Doors Down
2015
Draw on Sweet Night
0/0
Composer John Wilbye spent his entire working life in the employ of Sir and Lady Kytson at Hengrave Hall in Suffolk. Unusually, after his second book...
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Draw on Sweet Night
2025
Brighton Storeys
0/0
In Brighton on the South coast of England, sharpened by the sting of sea spray, and mellowed by numinous light, a tight-knit community of oddballs and...
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Brighton Storeys
2007
The Best of Smack the Pony
0/0
Comediennes Sally Phillips, Doon MacKichan and Fiona Allen star in this compilation of the best moments from the first two series of their hit comedy...
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The Best of Smack the Pony
2011
Anuvahood
6.377/57
Kenneth (who likes to call himself Kay) begins to realise he's just another wannabe bad boy... even less than a loser in fact. After quitting his job...
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Anuvahood
2016
Breaking the Bank
4.5/21
With ruthless US and Japanese investment banks circling Tuftons, a struggling two-hundred-year-old, family-run British bank, can its bumbling, incompe...
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Breaking the Bank
2014
Scotland In A Day
0/0
Mockumentary set on the day of the 2014 Scottish Independence referendum and designed to capture a snap shot of a nation on the brink of both triumph...
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Scotland In A Day
2017
National Theatre Live: Twelfth Night
8.7/3
A ship is wrecked on the rocks. Viola is washed ashore but her twin brother Sebastian is lost. Determined to survive on her own, she steps out to expl...
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National Theatre Live: Twelfth Night
2012
Acts of Godfrey
0/0
At a two-day business conference, God decides to romantically pair Terry, a moral crusader, with his "win-at-all-cost" antithesis, Mary. However, fate...
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Acts of Godfrey
2017
Alan Partridge: Why, When, Where, How And Whom?
8.2/5
Documentary looking back at Alan Partridge's journey from broadcaster caricature to the award-winning study of complexity and pathos that he has becom...
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Alan Partridge: Why, When, Where, How And Whom?
2018
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
6.384/56
Colin has rented a stately country home for his extended family’s New Year celebrations. He’s the centre of attention until his estranged brother Davi...
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Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
2018
Death on the Tyne
5.8/16
Draper's Tours are taking Mildred and her care home friends on an overnight ferry trip from North Shields to Amsterdam, where things will quickly turn...
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Death on the Tyne
2019
Python at 50: Silly Talks and Holy Grails
9/1
From ‘something completely different’ to icons of comedy and national treasures, this is a collection of rarely-seen Monty Python moments from the BBC...
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Python at 50: Silly Talks and Holy Grails
2025
The Academy of Armando
1/1
Alan Yentob profiles the stellar career of one of the great satirists of our age, Armando Iannucci, whose impressive body of work includes The Day Tod...
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The Academy of Armando
2026
The Scarecrows' Wedding
7/1
Devoted scarecrows Betty O'Barley and Harry O'Hay are planning a wedding to remember. When Harry insists on leaving the farm to collect one last thing...
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The Scarecrows' Wedding
2026
National Theatre at Home: Summerfolk
0/0
It's a hot, beautiful summer in 1905, and Russia's elite retreat to the countryside to swim, sip champagne and start affairs. When they're having this...
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