- Father moved his family from Glasgow, Scotland to England when Alec was a child.
- Brother of John James Newman.
- To date he is the only actor to portray Paul Atreides through his beginnings on Caladan to his becoming the Preacher in the later books.
- Appeared in Frank Herbert's Dune on television, and Plenty on stage in England, with Cate Blanchett. Both had previously been made as movies with Sting in a supporting role.
- His father is Sandy Newman of the Scottish band, Marmalade.
- Considered becoming a footballer before breaking his leg playing for Wokingham Town.
- He joined the NYT at the age of sixteen and left in 1995.
- Having been invited on a hard hat tour whilst London's Park Theatre was being built, he appeared in the inaugural production, as Tom Donahue in "These Shining Lives". He spoke the first lines ever uttered by a male actor on the Park 200 stage. At the time he lived less than a 2 minute walk from the theatre.
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