Gary Bakewell is a British television actor who is best known for his roles as Paul McCartney in the film Backbeat and the lead character Richard Mayhew, in Neil Gaiman's BBC television series Neverwhere. As well as twice portraying Paul McCartney, in Backbeat and The Linda McCartney Story, he has appeared in a number of television series including Chef!, Doctors and Spooks. He appears in the Gallifrey series of audio dramas, spin-offs of the television series Doctor Who, by Big Finish Productions. Bakewell has done extensive work as a voice-over artist and from 2005 has worked as an Audio Describer, writing and voicing audio description scripts for television.