Early life

Mackintosh was born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, the son of Dorothy Parris and Malcolm Mackintosh. He attended Icknield Primary School in Sawston and Sawston Village College. He made his stage debut aged 12 at the Bush Theatre, London and then landed the lead role in the National Theatre production of Brighton Beach Memoirs.

Career

Film

Mackintosh's first film appearance was in Prick Up Your Ears. He went on to star in Memphis Belle, Twelfth Night, and David Leland's Land Girls with Rachel Weisz and Anna Friel. He played Winston in Guy Ritchie's film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. His other notable films include Roger Michell's The Mother, The Jacket, Good with Viggo Mortensen, Underworld: Evolution and Underworld: Rise of the Lycans. He played Tony in Rupert Wyatt's feature The Escapist and Kertzer in Film 4's The Scouting Book For Boys. Mackintosh played Ivan Lewis in the big screen version of The Sweeney. He played Jack in Set Fire to the Stars with Elijah Wood and worked with Michael Caton Jones for the second time on his film Urban Hymn.

Radio

He played Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö's fictional police detective Martin Beck in the BBC Radio drama series The Martin Beck Killings.

Television

Steven plays DS Winter in the 10 part series Lucky Man, created by Stan Lee for Carnival films and Sky TV. He played Robbo in From There to Here by BAFTA award winning writer Peter Bowker for the BBC and played John Coniston in the acclaimed Inside Men for BBC 1. His other numerous credits include: Luther, Lost Christmas, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Buddha of Suburbia, Prime Suspect and Our Mutual Friend. Mackintosh won Best Actor at the Royal Television Society Awards and a Best Actor Nomination at the BAFTAs for his role in Care for the BBC. In recent years Steven has become a popular choice to narrate documentaries and he replaced Jamie Theakston to narrate the BBC police documentary, Traffic Cops.

Personal life

He has a sister, Lynda. He is married to the actress Lisa Jacobs and they have two daughters, Martha Mackintosh and Blythe Mackintosh.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1983	Nanny	Tony	TV series (1 episode: "The Home Front")
1984	See How They Run	Willie Biggs	TV film
1985	The Browning Version	John Taplow	TV film
	Doctor Who	Gazak	TV series (1 episode: "Timelash: Part 1")
	Summer Season		TV series (1 episode: "Broken Homes")
	The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 133⁄4	Nigel Partridge	TV series (6 episodes)
1987	The Diary of Anne Frank	Peter Van Daan	TV series (3 episodes)
	The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole	Nigel Partridge	TV series (6 episodes)
	Prick Up Your Ears	Simon Ward
1988	Tickets for the Titanic	Josh	TV series (1 episode: "Everyone's A Winner")
	The Storyteller	Lucky	TV series (1 episode: "The Luck Child")
1989	The Woman in Black	Rolfe	TV film
1990	Treasure Island	Dick	TV film
	Surgical Spirit	Martin	TV series (1 episode: "Something in the Air")
	Screen One		TV series (1 episode: "News Hounds")
	Memphis Belle	Stan the Rookie
	The Bill	Tony Martin	TV series (1 episode: "Market Forces")
1991	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Newsboy	TV series (1 episode: "The Plymouth Express")
	Van Der Valk	Koos	TV series (1 episode: "The Little Rascals")
	Perfect Scoundrels	Young Kirby	TV series (1 episode: "Ssh, You Know Who")
	London Kills Me	Muffdiver
1992	Six Characters in Search of an Author	The Brother	TV film
	Inspector Morse	DS Cheetham	TV series (1 episode: "Absolute Conviction")
	Between the Lines	P.C. Fulford	TV series (1 episode: "Nothing Personal")
	Ruth Rendell Mysteries	Nicholas Virson	TV series (1 episode: "Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part 1")
	The Muppet Christmas Carol	Fred, Scrooge's Nephew
1993	Maigret	Jacques Patillon	TV series (1 episode: "Maigret and the Maid")
	Screenplay	Greg	TV series (1 episode: "Safe")
	The Buddha of Suburbia	Charlie Kay	TV mini-series
1994	Murder in Mind	Simon	TV film
	A Dark-Adapted Eye	Francis	TV film
	A Touch of Frost	Dean Hoskins	TV series (1 episode: "Widows and Orphans")
	The Chief	Dean Mills	TV series (1 episode: "Episode No.4.9")
	Cadfael	Liliwin	TV series (1 episode: "The Sanctuary Sparrow")
	Princess Caraboo	Harold
	The Return of the Native	Diggory Venn	TV film
	Midnight Movie	Bertie	TV film
1995	The Grotesque	Sidney Giblet
	Blue Juice	Josh Tambini
1996	Karaoke	Waiter (Film)	TV mini-series (3 episodes)
	Twelfth Night	Sebastian
	Prime Suspect	The Street	TV film
	Different for Girls	Karl/Kim Foyle	Brussels International Film Festival - Best Actor
1997	Its Good to Talk		Short
	House of America	Sid
1998	The Land Girls	Joe Lawrence
	The Ebb-Tide	Swanson	TV film
	Our Mutual Friend	John Rokesmith/John Harmon	TV mini-series (4 episodes)
	Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels	Winston
	Undercover Heart	Tom Howarth	TV mini-series
1999	Bad Blood	Stephen Irving	TV film
	The Criminal	Jasper Rawlins
2000	Lady Audley's Secret	Robert Audley	TV film
	Care	Davy Younger	BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Actor RTS Television Award for Best Actor Nominated — BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor
2001	Far From China	Noah
	Sweet Revenge	Sebastian Harper	TV film
	Swallow	Stuart Collins	TV series (3 episodes)
2002	The Many Trials of One Jane Doe	Sean Dewart	TV film
	Eddie Loves Mary		Short
2003	Strangers	Morgan	Short
	The Other Boleyn Girl	George Boleyn	TV film
	The Mother	Bobby
	The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story	Gunther Zeloty
	The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp	Gunther Zeloty
2004	The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea	Gunther Zeloty
	England Expects	Ray Knight	TV film
	The Aryan Couple	Eichmann
2005	The Jacket	Dr. Hopkins
	The Secret Life of Words	Doctor Sulitzer
2006	Underworld: Evolution	Tanis
	Rang de Basanti	Mr. McKinley	Bollywood film
	Shiny Shiny Bright New Hole in My Heart	Jeremy	TV film
	Small Engine Repair	Bill
	The Amazing Mrs Pritchard	Ian Pritchard	TV series (6 episodes)
2007	The Beckoning Silence	Narrator	TV film
	First Born	Steven
	A Very British Sex Scandal	Narrator	TV film
	Sugarhouse	Tom
2008	The Escapist	Tony
	Good	Freddie
	The Daisy Chain	Tomas Conroy
2009	Underworld: Rise of the Lycans	Tanis
	The Scouting Book for Boys	Det. Insp. Kertzer
	Criminal Justice	D.I. Chris Sexton	TV series (5 episodes)
	The Queen	Narrator	TV series (5 episodes)
2010	Mo	Peter Mandelson	TV film
	Luther	D.C.I. Ian Reed	TV series (6 episodes)
2011	The Great Ghost Rescue	Brad	post-production
	Camelot	Ewan	TV series (1 episode: "Episode No.1.5")
	Aircrash Confidential	Narrator	TV series (12 episodes)
	Elfie Hopkins	Michael	post-production
	The Jury	Paul Brierley	TV series (5 episodes)
2012	Inside Men	John	TV series (4 episodes)
	Horizon - How Big is the Universe?	Narrator	Horizon - TV Series. Episode 4.
	The Sweeney	D.C.I. Ivan Lewis	Film
2013	Kick-Ass 2	Tommy's Dad	Film
	What Remains	Kieron Moss	TV Series
	The Thirteenth Tale	Dr Clifton	Film
2014	Autopsy: The Last Hours Of	Narrator	TV series (3 episodes)
	Gold	Gerry
	The Jesus Mysteries	Narrator	Documentary
	Operation Cloud Lab		TV mini-series
	From There to Here	Robbo	TV Series
	Set Fire to the Stars	Jack	Feature Film
2015	Robot Overlords	Danny
	The Game	Tom Mallory	TV series (1 episode: "Episode Two")
	Bone In The Throat	McDougal
	A Song for Jenny	Greg
	Urban Hymn	David Hinton
2016	Stan Lee's Lucky Man	Detective Superintendent Winter	TV series (8 episodes)

[ Source: Wikipedia ]