His film roles include Misadventures of Margaret , Down in the City and California . Mackenzie is uniquely suited to playing Archie, the central character of Monarch of the Glen who is torn between his trendy life in London and the call of his wild Highland ancestry. He is caught between the old and the new.
Someone torn between two worlds is a very contemporary theme.
He had very personal reasons for being drawn towards this role. I was brought up just 30 miles from the Highland estate where the series was shot. This is my country. My heart is in those hills, but at the same time I live and work in London. Mackenzie says the location shoot was like a homecoming.