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Alistair trained at LAMDA and has worked extensively on stage and on screen.

Alistairled in The Following Events Are Based On A Pack Of Lies, a new five-parter by Sister for BBC1. He played Headmaster Michael Groff in Netflix’s hugely popularSex Education. His extensivecredits also includeGeorge White in Deep State (Series 1 and 2), and Sandy Langbourne in the highly acclaimedThe Night Managerfor the BBC – he is currently shooting the highly anticipated second series. Other credits includeYear of the Rabbit, The Terror, Sherlock, Lucan, Utopia,Undercover,Funny Womanand Hugh Laurie’s adaptation of WhyDidn’t They Ask Evans for Britbox.He recentlycompletedphotography a highly anticipated series for Disney+ for release this summer and alongsideNight Manager he has recently completed photography onDeath by Lighteningfor Netflix.

Alistair’s film credits include playing General Draven inRogue One: A Star Wars Story (d. Gareth Edwards), Rush (d. Ron Howard), Face of an Angel (d. Michael Winterbottom), Cloud Atlas (d. Wachowskis) and Sulphur & White (d. Julian Jarrold) and starring alongside Kelly Reilly and Boyd Holbrook in The Cursed(d. Sean Ellis).

Notable stage appearances include Shakespeare in Love, The Importance of BeingErnest, and Brand in the West End, His Dark Materials at the NationalTheatre, and Troilus and Cressida for the RSC.

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The first episode airs on BBC1 at 9pm on Tuesday 29 August, with all episodes released on iPlayer the same day.

TheEvening Standard gives Pack of Lies 4* –Petrie is a chillingly convincing Rob, turning on a dime between charming and threatening

Trailer available to view here.

Trailer released for the fourth and final season of Sex Education!

Season four will release on Netflix on 21 September.

Alistair will feature in Sky’s new comedy-drama Funny Woman,out on Thursday 9 Feb, starring Gemma ArtertonalongsideRupert Everett, David Threlfall, Tom Bateman, Olivia Williams and Morwenna Banks. basedon Nick Hornby’sbestselling novel Funny Girl,about Blackpool beauty queen Barbara Parker (Gemma Arterton) who takes 1960s London by storm,heplaysthe antagonisticTed Sergeant, Head of Light Entertainment at the BBC, whose office Barbara first approaches.

The trailer is available to watchhere.

Alistair will lead as Robwith Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Rebekah Staton in Sister’sThe Following Events Are Based On APack Of Liesfor the BBC. Filming is currently underway.

Washington Post

• ‘Good-looking, moody atmosphere’
• ‘Stylish and scary’

Austin Culture Map

• ‘Holbrook, Kelly Reilly, and perennial bad guy Alistair Petrie are the biggest names in the cast, and they play their scenes effectively’

The Aisle Seat

• ‘Petrie and Holbrook are both good portraying different sides of the same coin – denial and reality.’

Horror Fuel

• ‘The cast is fantastic’
• ‘Each part played to perfection’
• ‘Compelling, interesting, fresh and frightening’

Original Cin

• ‘(Petrie & Holbrook) Both characters fulfill their roles with the requisite amount of puritanical irony, rage, and grave determination.’

LA Times

• ‘Serious, bold and artful werewolf movie’

Looper

• ‘An evocative, often beautiful, riff on the werewolf subgenre’

Mungleshow

• ‘The cast sell the story’

Sean Ellis’ The Cursed, starring Alistair Petrie alongside Kelly Reilly and Boyd Holbrook, is to be released in the US on Friday 18 February. Alistair’s performance has been singled out for praise in his portrayal of the emotionally distant and ruthless Seamus Laurent, as he shows ‘caluclated selfishness and stubborness’. Alistair’s ‘rather haunting performance’ as one of the leading characters piqued critics’ interest in the ‘outright chilling’ film that was dubbed ‘one of the best horror films of the year’ after its Sundance premiere. (Flickering Myth, comingsoon.net, Screenscene)

Reviews for Sex Education:

• “…a tremendous Alistair Petrie” The Hollywood Reporter
• “A sweet, progressive British dramedy, Sex Educationblends teen sex-romp tropes with a refreshing level of empathy.” Entertainment Weekly
• “Sex Education is destined to be Netflix teen show royalty.” Refinery 29
• “…snort-out-loud funny” Financial Times
• “Sex can, as Jean warns, destroy lives. But it can also provide the explicit, delicate subject matter for a standout new teen comedy like this one.” Rolling Stone
• “Sex Education” is a birds-and-bees comedy I’d endorse for both teenagers and parents of teenagers” The New York Times
• ” Here is a series that pulls off a curious trick: It’s a woke raunch comedy, replete with graphic and humiliating sexual experiences, yet bent on using them in a very sincere way.” The Atlantic

• “If you’ve been waiting for the latest piece of genre obsession by way of prestige TV, get ready for The Terror” Collider
• “”AMC’s The Terror – a very lavishly and meticulously produced historical drama that blends fact with a fiction, taking a few supernatural liberties where vast swaths of unknown live and gaps in knowledge reside – is off to a good, though icy (pun intended), start” IGN
• “So it’s worth raising a glass of your best, oldest brandy to AMC’s new miniseries The Terroran effective and fascinating blend of horror and historical drama, which manages to generate considerable suspense and horror in a format that seems designed to undercut it.” GQ
• “AMC’s The Terror is a near masterpiece of survival horror” Vox
• “One of the most harrowing things about The Terror is just how human all of these characters are.” Vulture
• “Immersive and atmospheric, “The Terror” is the kind of voyage that the limited-series format allows, a 10-episode quest into the unknown that crafts a supernatural flight from a historical footnote.” CNN
• “Any series with a title likeThe Terrorhas certain expectations baked in: dissonant music, jump scares, a monster of the week, perhaps. Remarkably, AMC’s new series has none of the above yet it’s still perhaps the most terrifying show to air in recent memory.”Vanity Fair
• “The Terror can be scary, but it’s real achievement is climatological. The freeze is tangible. When you watch it, wear a sweater” Entertainment Weekly
• “The best news, then, about AMC’s The Terror is this: The series never bests Simmons’s book, but it is powerfully, pleasurably harrowing in its own right.” The Village Voice
• “Executive-produced by Ridley Scott, this eerie retelling of what might have happened to the crew of a doomed expedition boasts a scary start” The Guardian

Alistair Petrie plays Steve Crowley in the rom-com Hampstead, also starring Brendan Gleeson and Diane Keaton.

Alistair Petrie plays General Draven in the hugely anticipatedRogue One: A Star Wars Story,the latest instalment in the Star Wars franchise.

Rogue Onewas released in the UK on 15 December2016.

Alistair Petrie appears in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the first Star Wars Anthology film.

Rogue Onereleased in December 2016.

Watch Alistair in the official teaser trailer here.

Alistair plays series regular Robert Greenlaw in Peter Moffat’s new six-part BBC drama, Undercover,which also stars Sophie Okonedo and Adrian Lester.

Alistair Petrie stars as Anthony Greaves, the referee, in independent feature filmKicking Off,which premiered in the UK at the end of April 2016.

The film, directed by Matt Wilde, won the award for Best British Film at Raindance Festival 2015, and played at the prestigious Guadalajara Film Festival in March 2016.

Watch the trailer, here.

Alistair plays Sandy Langbourne, Richard Roper’s (Hugh Laurie) right-hand-man, in the BBC’s highly acclaimed adaptation The Night Manager.

The series aired in the UK in early 2016, and in the US on AMC.