Alexander Henry Fenwick Armstrong (born 2 March 1970) is an English actor, comedian, radio personality, television presenter and singer.

His television credits include Armstrong and Miller, Beast, Life Begins, Hunderby and Danger Mouse.

Descended from a North East landowning family, a distant ancestral relation William Armstrong was created Baron Armstrong in 1887,[1] and his maternal grandparents were economist Lucius Thompson-McCausland,[2] High Sheriff of Hertfordshire, and Helen Laura McCausland (6 April 1903 – February 2000), granddaughter of Captain Conolly Thomas McCausland (13 May 1828 – 25 June 1902), High Sheriff of County Londonderry, by his wife the Hon.

[6][7] He played the piano – which has been seen in several The Armstrong & Miller Show sketches – and the cello, the latter which he dropped in favour of the "much more masculine" oboe.

[6][8] At Cambridge, Armstrong read English, graduating with a third-class degree (BA), and sang bass baritone as a choral scholar with the college choir.

[6][9][10] Armstrong joined the Footlights in his final year as part of the writing team for the 1992 revue and was Spooks creator David Wolstencroft's comedy partner.

That same year he also starred as Prince Charming in ITV's Christmas pantomime, alongside Ben Miller, Samantha Janus, Paul Merton, Harry Hill, Frank Skinner and Ronnie Corbett.

[citation needed] On 1 September 2006, Armstrong was chairman of the short-lived Channel 4 panel show Best of the Worst which featured team captains David Mitchell and Johnny Vaughan.

[15] Armstrong has been the presenter of the BBC One game show Pointless, initially with former Cambridge University friend Richard Osman, since it began in 2009.

[18] On 3 January 2015, Armstrong and Rochelle Humes co-hosted entertainment special Frank Sinatra: Our Way on BBC One.

[20] Subsequently, it was announced he would be making a three-part series exploring the lost and hidden sites of Florence, Naples, and Venice.

[27] He sang "Winter Wonderland" during the celebrities Christmas special of Pointless and "No Rhyme for Richard" from Blondel in BBC Two's Tim Rice: A Life in Song[28] and collaborated with the Sixteen to record the single "Good King Wenceslas" to raise funds for the charity Crisis.

[33] On 6 November 2015, Armstrong released his debut solo vocal album, A Year of Songs, on Warner Music Group's East West Records label.

[39] In 2002, Armstrong provided the voice for the character Horse in the English dub of the series A Town Called Panic.

[40] In 2009, Armstrong portrayed the British microcomputer innovator Clive Sinclair in the BBC docu-drama Micro Men.

Micro Men was directed by Saul Metzstein, and starred Armstrong opposite Martin Freeman as Chris Curry.

In September 2014, it was announced that Armstrong would succeed David Jason as the voice of Danger Mouse in the 2015 revival of the 1980s animated series.

[53][54][55] In February 2011, Armstrong became President of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne, launching a million-pound appeal at a special gala event.

"[8] In August 2014, Armstrong was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue.

[60] In 2017, Armstrong urged the UK Government to do more to support music education[61] and therapy, saying "in the weft and weave of politics I think these sorts of human stories get shoved to one side, but we have to make sure they are right up front and centre.