Mackenzie Crook Biography

Fast Facts

• Injected steroids as a child to combat a growth-hormone deficiency
• Planned on attending art school, but was never accepted
• Performed stand-up for a decade before his breakthrough in The Office
• Purchased Peter Sellers' former north London home
• Wrote and illustrated the children's book The Windvale Sprites
• Inherited a pair of breeding tortoises when he was a teenager and continued to raise them; several of his tortoises were featured in his play Jerusalem