Film Mackintosh's first film appearance was in
Prick Up Your Ears. He went on to star in
Memphis Belle,
Twelfth Night, and
David Leland's
Land Girls with
Rachel Weisz and
Anna Friel and co-starred with
Rupert Graves in
Different For Girls as a transgender woman. He played Winston in
Guy Ritchie's film
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. His other notable films include
Roger Michell's
The Mother,
The Jacket,
Good with
Viggo Mortensen,
Underworld: Evolution and
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans. He played Tony in
Rupert Wyatt's feature
The Escapist and Kertzer in Film 4's
The Scouting Book For Boys. Mackintosh played Ivan Lewis in the big screen version of
The Sweeney. He played Jack in
Set Fire to the Stars with
Elijah Wood and worked with
Michael Caton Jones for the second time on his film
Urban Hymn.
Radio He played
Maj Sjöwall and
Per Wahlöö's fictional police detective
Martin Beck in the BBC Radio drama series
The Martin Beck Killings.
Television Mackintosh played a peasant boy, the Luck Child, who is prophecied to be king in Jim Henson's
The StoryTeller, S1:E4. Mackintosh played DS Winter in the 10 part series
Lucky Man, created by Stan Lee for Carnival films and Sky TV. He played Robbo in
From There to Here by BAFTA winning writer Peter Bowker for the BBC and played John Coniston in the acclaimed
Inside Men for BBC 1. His other numerous credits include:
Luther,
Lost Christmas,
The Other Boleyn Girl,
The Buddha of Suburbia,
Prime Suspect and
Our Mutual Friend. Mackintosh won Best Actor at the
Royal Television Society Awards and a Best Actor Nomination at the
BAFTAs for his role in
Care for the BBC. In recent years he has become a popular choice to narrate documentaries. He replaced
Jamie Theakston to narrate the BBC police documentary,
Traffic Cops. He also narrates on the documentary Aircrash Confidential from Discovery Communications and
Saving Lives at Sea on BBC 2. ==Personal life==