Michael McKell (born 10 February 1959, Bethnal Green, London) is an English actor and singer/songwriter.
He is best known for appearing in two British soap operas, Doctors, in which he played Dr. Nick West from 2006 until the character was run over and killed in 2008, and Emmerdale, in which he has played DC Nick Henshall over two separate periods from 2008 to 2011, until the character committed suicide. He has also appeared in a third soap opera, EastEnders as the hitman who supposedly killed Paul Trueman.
He is also known for playing D.S./D.I. Trevor Hands in two seasons of the ITV drama MIT: Murder Investigation Team, two seasons of Channel 4's Totally Frank and the BBC One series Blessed, playing Ronnie, a musician who appears to be modelled on Mick Jagger. He first came to prominence as the character of Tony in a series of British television commercials for the Peugeot 106 car, alongside Julie Graham and Annie Dunkley in the mid-1990s.
He has had guest appearances on A Touch of Frost and Kavanagh QC. He also starred in the cult film Essex Boys alongside Sean Bean as drug dealer Wayne Lovell.
McKell started his working life as a musician. He was the singer/songwriter for the
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