Mackenzie Crook (born Paul James Crook; September 29, 1971) is an English actor, writer, director and stand-up comedian. Crook maintained an acting career spanning television, stage and film. One of his best known roles was Orell in Game of Thrones and Gareth Keenan in the multi-award-winning BBC show The Office, the highest-rated and fastest-selling comedy in Britain. Mackenzie Crook portrayed Ragetti in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy. He reprised the role on several occasions, whether it

Detectorists creator Mackenzie Crook on why children need help to connect with the countryside and how he might have been a hedgelayer in another life

Don't go detecting in Essex if you fancy a pint in Two Brewers...

Mackenzie Crook is the self-effacing actor who swapped Hollywood for rural Suffolk and the chance to make his own comedy series about metal ‘detectorists’. Tim Lewis meets him

MACKENZIE CROOK (The Office, Pirates Of The Caribbean, Game of Thrones) has written, and is starring in, a new sitcom about metal detecting.