Noel Clarke: ‘The closest I’ve come to death? A car crash in Utah – it flipped and rolled down a ravine’

The actor, director and screenwriter on loyalty, getting caught short in a shopping centre and losing his hairBorn in London, Noel Clarke, 45, played Mickey Smith in Doctor Who.

He wrote and starred in the 2006 film Kidulthood and its sequels, Adulthood and Brotherhood, which he also directed.

He stars in Sky One’s Bulletproof and the ITV drama Viewpoint, which starts later this spring.

Clarke is married with three sons and lives in London.What is your greatest fear?Not achieving enough.

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