On Screen
Andrew is an experienced screen actor having worked on a variety of film and T.V. projects from appearing as the lead in multiple advertisements for international brands like Meteor, Vodafone and Sky Television to playing the regular role of Troy Dowling on Ireland's leading soap opera Fair City, to working on ITV's Mr Selfridge starring Jeremy Piven and Doctor Who starring Jodi Whittaker for BBC 1, The Holiday for Channel 5 & Netflix, Say Nothing for FX and Wednesday directed by Tim Burton for Netflix.
Filming in progress - 2024
Andrew will start filming on a new Netflix production currently filming in Dublin later this summer.
Say Nothing - 2023
In 2023 Andrew completed filming on the nine episode drama Say Nothing based on the book of the same title written by Patrick Radden Keefe. Spanning four decades, ‘Say Nothing’ explores the tumultuous period of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
The series launches with the shocking disappearance of Jean McConville, a single mother of ten who was abducted from her home in 1972 and never seen alive again. But McConville was only one of many others who became known collectively as The Disappeared. Through the eyes of various IRA members, including sisters Dolours and Marian Price—young women who transformed into magnetic symbols of radical politics, Brendan Hughes—a tight-lipped but conflicted military strategist, and Gerry Adams—a savvy political operator who would go on to negotiate peace but ultimately deny his involvement with the IRA, Say Nothing unpacks the extremes some people will go to within a civil rights movement as they pursue their ideals, the mystery surrounding The Disappeared, the cost of silence, and the way society mends – or doesn’t – after a long and bloody conflict.
Produced by FX Say Nothing will be aired on Hulu in the US and Disney+ in all other territories.
Doctors BBC One - 2022
Andrew has completed filming on the BBC one serial drama Doctors. In the role of Tim Whatkins. Andrew portrays the complex and tragic story of a man battling with bipolar disorder: a mental health condition that causes extreme mood swings that include emotional highs (mania) and lows (depression). Over four episodes we follow ‘Tim’ as his world begins to crumble uncontrollably in front of him in a story line encompassing themes of relationship breakdown, alcoholism, mental health and suicide.
The Holiday - 2021
Andrew recently finished filming the t.v. adaption of The Holiday by T.M. Logan in the part of ‘Russ’. Written for t.v. by Michael Crompton (Silent Witness, Safe House, Kidnap and Ransom) the 4 x 60 min thriller set in Malta will air on Channel 5 in the UK in a co-production with Nent Studios UK, Projector Pictures and Clapperboard Studios. The Holiday will aired on Channel 5 in January 2022 and is now available to watch on Netflix.
Doctor Who - 2020
Andrew Macklin has recently finished filming on series 12 of Doctor Who for BBC 1. Appearing in ‘Ascension of the Cyberman’ as the mysterious character of Micheal an Irish Police Officer/Garda and possible Time Lord.
As ‘Micheal’ in Doctor Who ‘Ascension of the Cybermen’ BBC 2020
Troy Dowling - Fair City RTE One - 2020
In March 2020 Andrew reprised his role of Troy Dowling in Fair City for RTE One. Returning once more to give life in Carrigstown another go, re-establish family ties and try his best to leave his secrets and troubles behind him in London.
As Troy Dowling in Fair City for RTE One 2020
In February 2017 Andrew returned to RTE's 'Fair City' to reprise his role as prodigal son 'Troy Dowling'. Having spent years aways from Carrigstown in Ibiza and London as a DJ, Troy returns to his family after a long term relationship breaks down. He struggles to find a home for himself in Dublin. Frustrated by the 'twitching curtains' and gossip of the local community he leaves to give London and love one last try.
Fingal’s Finest
Having completed filming on this project in late 2016 in the role of Richard Mulcahy. 'Fingals Finest' premiered in An Driocht, Blanchardstown, Dublin in 2017 and has run in other venues across Ireland. It is currently being screened at 'Irish Fest' at the Irish American Heritage Centre in Chicago, Illinois, America.
Telling the fascinating and little known story of Thomas Ashe & the 5th 'Fingal' Battalion of Irish Volunteers.
Fingal's Finest tells the extraordinary story of the actions of Thomas Ashe & the 5th 'Fingal' Battalion, Dublin Brigade of Irish Volunteers during the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland.
Largely forgotten by history, and by those who tell the tales of the 1916 Rising, the Fingal Volunteers did not lie in wait for the British Army to attack them in the buildings of Dublin City. Instead, they took the fight to their enemy in North County Dublin and Meath, which culminated in the only successful engagement for the rebels during those fateful six days in Easter Week, 1916, when they defeated a superior force of Royal Irish Constabulary at the Battle of Ashbourne.
In 2017, for the first time on film, the story of Thomas Ashe and his men will finally get the attention it deserves.
Filmed in Co Wicklow for Tile Films in 2015 this short has run at film festivals in both Ireland and American. Andrew takes the role of Albert Quinn, an Irish man serving in the British Army returning from the front lines of world war one.
Jubilee Nurse
It is 1918 and the Great War is about to end. Returning soldier Albert Quinn (Andrew Macklin) brings more than just his memories of the devastating life in the trenches of Belgium back to his rural community in Ireland. A tragedy of biblical proportion is about to unfold which will test the strength and resolve of Jubilee Nurse Kitty Malone (Michelle Beamish).
Kitty is at the centre of a turbulent and fast changing period in history. War, revolution, social and political change abound. To be a nurse in any era is a challenge, but to be a nurse operating in a remote part of Ireland in 1918, during a period of upheaval and calamity, was not just challenging but down right dangerous.
Nurse Malone is in a race against time to not only save the lives of Albert and his family but to stop an isolated case becoming a pandemic. Across the world one hundred million will die. The cause...'Spanish Flu'
Jubilee Nurse is a short pilot that is being developed as a TV series to be built around the life and times of Nurse Kitty Malone and the community she cares for.
Andrew as Albert Quinn in Jubilee Nurse for Tile Films
The full film can be watched at the link below.
In 2015 Andrew appeared in ITV's Mr Selfridge starring Jeremy Piven. He played the part of 'Ryan' an Irish gangster and drug dealer.
In 2008 Andrew was cast as the regular part of Troy Dowling in Ireland's longest running and most successful soap opera Fair City for RTE television. He performed in over forty episodes during his debut on the show.
Andrew as Troy Dowling in Fair City for RTE
Short Films
Andrew appears as one of the two leads in this short film written by Lorna Jones and directed by Laura Mc Alpine in 2012.
"Amy can't stop thinking about the boy she met one night at the launderette. She wonders who he is, what he does, and where he comes from. Will she see him again?"
Advertisements
The following are two advertisements shot for Orange mobile phones and Sky television that were shown in Israel and on UK television respectively. He has filmed other advertisements for Turkey, Croatia and Ireland.