Mackenzie Crook

Mackenzie Crook has one of those unmistakable faces, and I mean that as the highest compliment. To me he will always first be Gareth Keenan, the gloriously self-serious deputy in the original Office, before he reinvented himself as the skeletal pirate Ragetti in Pirates of the Caribbean. What I admire most, though, is that he refused to be typecast as comic relief. Born Paul James Crook in Maidstone, he became a genuine writer-director, and his gentle, hand-crafted comedy work shows real authorship. Watching a character actor quietly graduate into a storyteller in his own right is exactly the kind of career arc I root for.

Name (English)

Mackenzie Crook

Name (Japanese)

マッケンジー・クルック

Reading

まっけんじー・くるっく

Born

September 29, 1971 (age 54)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Boar

Origin

Maidstone, United Kingdom

Occupation

actor / television director / comedian / television writer / writer

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://www.lisathomasmanagement.com/mackenzie-crook/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%83%E3%82%B1%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AB%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF

Tags

• actor
• television director
• comedian

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.