BBC Balamory's Archie star is unrecognisable 17 years later after finding Netflix fame

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BBC Balamory star Miles Jupp is now a famous comedian and successfully starred in Harry Potter.The legendary CBeebies series, set in a fictional Scottish village, saw Miles play a wacky inventor called Archie, who lived in the big pink castle and donned a purple kilt.Miles starred in the kids' show from 2002 - 2005 and appeared in 74 episodes.Since the show, Miles has gone on to great things and has enjoyed regular TV appearances including in The Thick of It, Outnumbered, Netflix's The Crown and Sex Education, and Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow.He also played the weatherman in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and racked up other movie credits including The Legend of Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes and Johnny English Reborn.

The Scottish actor, 42, has since revealed that during his Edinburgh Festival stand-up performance he realised he had to cut out rude jokes from his routine due to seeing young Balamory fans in the crowd.He told The Guardian: "I went on stage and there were ten children in the front row - nightmare.""The show was only 40 minutes long and I had to keep cutting huge chunks of filth."Nowadays, Miles is living in Monmouthshire, Wales, after moving there with his wife and five children.Talking about his move from London, he said: "The children are at a really nice school now but we do find ourselves missing Peckham."It was really mixed and fun, just some really interesting parents at the school."As indeed there are where we are now, but it was much more mixed."That was really good for the children, to have a less cosseted upbringing than I did.”Another Balamory actor Rodd Christensen, who played Spencer, also hit the headlines recently after it went viral that his daughter was an adult star.The.