Alistair McGowan

Alistair Charles McGowan is an English impressionist, comic, actor, singer and writer best known to British audiences for The Big Impression , which was, for four years, one of BBC1s toprating comedy programmes winning numerous awards, including a BAFTA in 2003. He has also worked extensively in theatre and appeared in the West End in Art, Cabaret, The Mikado and Little Shop of Horrors . As a television actor, he played the lead role in BBC1s Mayo. He wrote the play Timing and the book A Matter of Life and Death or How to Wean Your Man off Football with former comedy partner Ronni Ancona. He also provided voices for Spitting Image.

McGowan was born in Evesham, Worcestershire, to Marion and George McGowan. Although they knew that their father had been born in Calcutta, India, Alistair and his sister Kay were unaware that their father had an ethnically AngloIndian background until McGowan explored his ancestry on BBC Ones Who Do You Think You Are programme in an episode broadcast onOctober 2007, four years after his fathers death.

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