Mac Nightingale

**Mac Nightingale** was a character from british soap opera, **Hollyoaks**.

## About

Actor David Easter who is no stranger to soap opera having previously appeared on Brookside and Family Affairs before a guest stint on Emmerdale was given the minor role on Hollyoaks in March 2015 with the scenes airing in May 2015. At first David's role was only a minor infact it was more or less cameo as his character was titled as "Mystery Man" which saw his character ask long term character Cindy Cunningham for a divorce before leaving.

In August 2015, David Easter was asked by producers to return as the same character only this time the identity of his character was revealed. He was cast as family man Mac Nightingale, the new landlord of The Dog in The Pound pub and he was to be joined with a family. David remained in the role for tge next two years before departing on-screen in December 2017 and while the show annouced Mac left, the character returned six months later and remain onntte show for a further eight months before departing again when the character was killed off in March 2019.

## Legacy

At first Mac seemed like your average family man who cared deeply for his family however this couldn't be more further from the truth when describing Mac who was vindictive, abusive, manipulative and dangerous.

Mac's dark side came out as his time went on as he wanted to keep his young and hot girlfriend, Neeta Kaur to himself, Mac's first jealousy rage was when he brutally beat up poor young lovable Jesse Donovan over a misunderstanding with Neeta. However Mac's darker nature was exposed when his eldest son, James Nightingale arrived and it was revealed Mac inflicted emotional and physical abuse on James for just being gay.

Over the course of his first two years Mac's storylines included a wedding sham, bullying his eldest son James, clashing with his former wife, Marnie Nightingale, having an affair with Lisa Loveday, causing the death of one of his son's in Nathan Nightingale and controlling and eventually murdering Neeta.

Mac was evil and fans called for a commppunace fast and eventually after being exposed Mac just got that (or so we thought) when his own daughter in Ellie Nightingale pushed Mac out of the window paralysing him. Fans where delight to see Mac get what he deserved. However we never saw the last of Mac who returner to cause more trouble eventually Mac made and enemy out of the wrong woman when he tried to blackmail the serial killing grandma aka Breda McQueen.

Mac was eventually murdered by Breda who gave Mac the rightful title as the worst one yet! Even though Breda took lives of some innocent men we surely can't blame her offing Mac!

## Archive

##### Crimes

This is a list of known crimes committed by Mac.

1. Abuse
2. Assault
3. Adultery
4. Blackmail
5. Bribery
6. Bigamy
7. Bulling
8. Child Abuse
9. Fraud
10. Homophobic Bullying
11. Manslaughter (1×)
12. Murder (1×)
13. Preventing The Course Of Justice
14. Stalking

### Kill Count

##### Manslaughters

1. Nathan Nightingale - Accidentally pushed out of a window during a scuffle. Nathan had just discovered Mac's affair with his fiancé, Lisa Loveday.

##### Murders

1. Neeta Kaur - Purposely let go from a height during the school collapse. Mac did this out of spite after Neeta confessed her love to Hunter McQueen.

##### Attempted Murders

1. Jack Osborne - Attempted to beat Jack to death for knowing he caused the Hollyoaks high explosion.
2. James Nightingale - By Proxy, Mac ordered well blackmailed Breda McQueen into killing his own son however she killed him instead.

## Similar Characters

This is a list of similar character.

* Pete Callan - Family Affairs.

## Trivia

* Actor, David Easter who portrayed Mac Nightingale appeared in a total of 230 episodes that spanned across nearly four years between May 2015 and March 2019.
* David Easter's character from previous soap opera, Family Affairs as the villainous, Pete Callan seemed to inspire his Hollyoaks character into turning bad as Mac had many similar traits as Pete, they both were manipulative, they both accidentally and purposely killed people, they both were abusive and both often used physical violence in order to prove superior. Actor David Easter actually came out and said he thinks Mac is the worst out the two as Pete at least loved his family.

## See Also

The role of Mac Nightingale isn't the only soap that actor David Easter has appeared in, in the SoapVerse.

His also played the character's of:

* Pat Hancock in Brookside.
* Pete Callan in Family Affairs.
* Frank Fisher and Gary Canning in The Bill.
* Greg Marsh in Holby City.
* Chris Binley and Rick Steedman in Doctors.
* Gil Keane in Emmerdale.

## Wiki And Web Links

* https://hollyoaks.fandom.com/wiki/Mac\_Nightingale
* https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Mac\_Nightingale