Danny Mac | |
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Born |
Bromley, Greater London, England |
26 February 1988
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1998–present |
Television | Hollyoaks (2011–15) |
Partner(s) | Carley Stenson (2011–) |
Danny Mac (born Danny Mac Greene on 26 February 1988) is an English actor and singer best known for playing Mark "Dodger" Savage in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks from 2011 to 2015.
In 2016, he reached the final in the fourteenth series of BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing.
Mac was born in Bromley, Greater London, but then grew up in the seaside town of Bognor Regis. He wanted to act from a young age, and enjoyed watching Grease, Michael Jackson and James Bond. He trained at the Arts Educational Schools in London and graduated in 2009 with a BA Hons degree.
He played Gavroche in the musical Les Miserables for a ten-week run in Southampton in 1998.
He performed in the West End a decade later in the musical Wicked from May 2009, where he stayed for 21 months and was an understudy for the role of Boq. He left to join Hollyoaks in February 2011, playing the role of Mark "Dodger" Savage.
In 2011, Mac and his Hollyoaks co-stars, Stephanie Davis (Sinead O'Connor), Andrew Moss (Rhys Ashworth) and Abi Phillips (Liberty Savage) performed "Forget You" by CeeLo Green for Children in Need.