Alexander Martin Clunes OBE DL (born 28 November 1961) is an English actor, director and television presenter.

Clunes was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2015 Birthday Honours for services to drama, charity and the community in Dorset.

[9] A sporadic career led to his supplementing his income as a photo model for Gilbert and George, and he can be seen in their 1983 work World.

In 1993, he played Dick Dobson in Demob about a pair of demobilised soldiers who have to adjust to civilian life after entertaining Second World War troops with a raunchy cabaret act.

Since 1994, Clunes has frequently appeared on the BBC One panel show Have I Got News for You as a panelist or a guest presenter.

[16][17] Clunes has since appeared in films and television shows such as An Evening with Gary Lineker, Staggered (starred and directed), Hunting Venus, The Booze Cruise, Saving Grace and Jeeves and Wooster.

Clunes appeared in a television dramatisation of Fungus the Bogeyman playing Jessica White's father.

In 2018, Clunes played the role of DCI Colin Sutton in the ITV drama Manhunt (first screened in 2019).

[21] In 2025 Clunes played the part of a farmer affected by County Lines drug gangs on a Welsh farm in the ITV drama Out There.

[35][36] As of 2013[update], Clunes and his family live in Beaminster, Dorset, where they run a farm with heavy horses.

[37][38] A sponsor of numerous charities, Clunes made a short on-line film with Stephen Fry about HIV discrimination for the Terrence Higgins Trust.

[42][clarification needed] Clunes was a patron of the Born Free Foundation, and had filmed several adverts for the charity.

However, he was dropped by the foundation in May 2019, after he was filmed riding an elephant in an episode of the ITV documentary series My Travels with Other Animals.

[43] He has also been involved in the Comic Relief charity which funds Survival International and African Initiatives, two organisations working with the Maasai on indigenous land rights issues.

[44] Clunes was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Civil Division on 13 June 2015 in the 2015 Queen's Birthday Honours List.