Alex McSweeney

Alex McSweeney is a British actor, best known for playing Graham Foster in EastEnders from 2003 to 2004. He played One Ball Bill in Keen Eddie alongside Sienna Miller in 2001. He played Eddie Peacock and David Radford in The Bill in 1998 and 2004 respectively. Amongst other programmes he has appeared in include Silent Witness and Holby City. He also appeared in Lewis in 2007. He has also portrayed Captain Wilder in the 3rd series of the ITV show Primeval. He was in Stephen Berkoff's groundbreaking production of On The Waterfront at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in 2008. In the summer of 2011, while performing in Stephen Berkoffs "Oedipus" at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Alex directed a cast of young actors in the play "A Hero of Our Time". The play, written by Alex was a take on the Russian Novel by Mikhail Lermontov and was generally received well by critics. He played the recurring role of D.S. Sykes in Hollyoaks from 2013 until his character was killed by gangster Fraser Black in April 2014. He played a lecturer who has a motorbike accident in BBC Doctors in 2015 In an episode of Call the Midwife (March 2016) he played Joe Blacker. Alongside his acting career he is also a Doctor of Literature and lectures at two London Universities in English & Drama. He wrote 'Out of the Cage' a play about women munition workers in the First World War in 2013/14. It subsequently got published and premiered at the The Park Theatre London in January 2015. A national tour of the play is currently being put in motion for 2017.