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John Hannah (born April 23 1962) is a Scottish actor from East Kilbride.

John Hannah was born April 23, 1962 in East Kilbride, Scotland, U.K. John is the youngest of three children - he has two older sisters. He attended Claremont High School in East Kilbride and went on to an apprenticeship as an electrician. In East Kilbride, he participated in the East Kilbride Rep Theatre Club.

At the suggestion of a co-worker, he ended his apprenticeship and attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. After graduation, he had some small parts in theater productions, films, and television, then broke into the "big-time" with his appearance as Matthew in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994).

Since his breakthrough role in FOUR WEDDINGS, he has played a wide range of roles including a psychopathic killer alongside Helen Baxendale (Truth or Dare), a mystery-solving pathologist McCallum. He played a karaoke-mad dead-beat dad (The James Gang), drunken, thieving comic relief (The Mummy, 1999) and a Monty Python-quoting romantic comedy love interest (Sliding Doors, 1998). He also starred in the axed U.S. series MDs (2002), as well as guest appearances in Alias (2001).

John was married on 20 January 1996 to actress Joanna Roth. The pair met several years before during a stage production of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. In many of his interviews, John mentions sweet or humorous stories from their relationship, such as the visit to London's Sri Siam restaurant where he proposed to her in writing on the tablecloth. They had twins, a boy named Gabriel and a girl named Astrid on 11th February 2004.

For years, John has made an effort to use his status as a celebrity for something more than getting a good table in a restaurant. Soon after his role as the epileptic police officer Franky Drinkall in "OUT OF THE BLUE", he showed his support for the Epilepsy Association of Scotland. He was, for a long time, a spokesman for Oxfam's Cut Conflict Campaign

On December 24, 1997, John Hannah and Scottish Films producer Murray Ferguson established a production company called Clerkenwell Films. So far, John's role in the company seems to be to "make the teas and get the buns in for the meetings" but we may see him in a more active production role in the future. Clerkenwell's first big production was the REBUS series, including BLACK AND BLUE and THE HANGING GARDEN. However, Rebus was later taken in-house by the Scottish Media Group, and Hannah was replaced in the leading role in the series by Ken Stott.

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