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Alun was a member of the original London cast of Cameron Mackintosh's stage production "Les Miserables" which opened in 1985.

He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1994 (1993 season) for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance in Sweeney Todd at the Royal National Theatre.

In the television series New Tricks - Die Krimispezialisten (2003) his wife is played by Susan Jameson who is actually married to co-star James Bolam.

Father of Joe Armstrong. The two of them appeared in the TV series Between the Sheets (2003).

He has appeared in seven different adaptations of one of Charles Dickens's novels: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1982), Oliver Twist (1999), David Copperfield (1999), Bleak House (2005), Oliver Twist (2005), Klein Dorrit (2008) and Das Geheimnis des Edwin Drood (2012).

His parents were both preachers while his father also worked as a winding engineer at the local coal mine.

In September 2014 the town of Stanley, near his home town of Annfield Plain, renamed it's Civic Hall theatre to the Alun Armstrong Theatre. As a 16 year old he played guitar on the stage.

He attended Consett Grammar School in County Durham

He credits his school English teacher, who staged a Shakespeare play every year, with setting him on the path to act. He taught him how to read Shakespeare verse and the rudiments of stage craft.and when the National Youth Theatre came to the North East for the first time to look for kids he managed to get Alun into it.

Spent a year acting in Sheffield and seen in the play "Get Carter" by the Time Out critic who gave him and the play a very good write up. The play won the Play of the Year Award.

Theatre performances include 'The Tempest'and The Crucible' (playing John Proctor), for the RSC, the latter being a tour. 'The Passion' at the National Theatre, 'Happy Returns' West End and tour, 'Mother's Day'at the Royal Court, 'As You Like It' at Nottingham Playhouse, 'Nicholas Nickleby'at Plymouth Theatre, New York.

His father was a coal mine winding engineer.

He has appeared in two versions of "Oliver Twist" (Oliver Twist (1999) and Oliver Twist (2005)), and played a different role in each.

On leaving school he went to London to join The National Youth Theatre but didn't like London so returned home and went to Newcastle University to study fine art. He later joined Cambridge Arts Theatre as a stage hand before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Awarded an honorary doctorate by Durham University November 2004.

On the possibles list for Roger Derebridge, Kelly and Lamson in Lifeforce - Die tödliche Bedrohung (1985).