Mike Beckingham

English actor and writer Mike Beckingham is the son of jazz musician John Henry Beckingham and Christine Beckingham (maiden name Christine Hawkins). His siblings include Simon Pegg(birth name Simon John Beckingham), Steven John Beckingham, and Katy Pegg. Beckingham was educated at Thomas Keble Secondary School in Eastcombe Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. In 1999, Beckingham was recruited onto the Forest Green Rovers Football (soccer) Academy (farm team for the professional soccer team Forest Green). After his release in 2001, Beckingham began in the financial industry serving as a Customer Service Advisor in a Call Center. In 2006, he was one of four managers overseeing a Call Center of 60 agents. In 2010, Beckingham joined a banking firm providing financial advice. During this time, Beckingham pursued his acting career. In order to get comfortable on camera and gain experience, he developed concepts for television shows. In 2001, he developed the idea to interview celebrities, take them out of their life style now, and put them back into the communities in which they grew up. He filmed his prototype in 2010 with the aid of the School of Media, University of Gloucestershire. The University provided Post Graduate students who wanted the experience and professional credit for creating a television show. The first celebrity filmed was Beckingham's brother, English actor and comedian Simon Pegg. The Cotswold Style magazine of Cheltenham contacted Beckingham and published a two page article on Beckingham's concepts and the creation of the prototype. The prototype caught the attention of Agent Paul Wareing, who became Beckingham's agent in 2011. Wareing advanced the concept of filming an actual pilot to Peter Barry of "The Little Green Shed Video Productions". For the pilot, Beckingham interviewed world renowned French ice skater Julien Duliere. In 2012, Wareing met Georgia Hilton, the Director and Writer of the feature film Subconscious (2015) starring Tim Abell due out in the summer of 2014. Hilton was looking for a cheeky character to costar in the principal cast role of a paranormal investigator. She was so impressed with Beckingham during auditions that she rewrote the part to tell the story of an English investigator being recruited to travel to the US to aid in the investigation aboard a haunted WWII submarine. Prior to his travel to the US, Hilton arranged for a British film crew headed by renowned cinema photographer Peter Barry to film some of the opening sequences of the film. During the filming of his debut role in 2013, Mike teamed with fellow cast member Lynwood Metts to write Young Arthur - The Quest for Avalon (pre-production), to be directed by Georgia Hilton. Beckingham is also slotted to star in another Hilton film, New Hampshire Daze (in development). - IMDb Mini Biography By: Lynwood Metts