The story so far

Mark's acting career began when he was chosen by Dame Judi Dench for an Evening Standard award which paid for three years at drama school and had previously been won by Maxine Peake. Upon leaving drama school, Mark's first six months typified the varied career he would go on to enjoy. His first job was a play in the West End directed by Nick Hytner. Shortly afterwards Mark was in the first recorded episode (eventually Episode 3) of Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps. With the type of luck that doesn't happen anymore in this business, Mark then immediately played a sex offender in TV cop drama In Deep before going straight into playing George Harrison in an American TV movie about the Beatles.

Since then Mark's career has continued to veer wildly in different directions. There has been a lot of new plays (now in double figures) as well as numerous continuing-drama-on-TV type things. Mark was filming for Eastenders when he was rehearsing at the Globe for Much Ado About Nothing.

A particularly great project was developing a new version of Harold Pinter's The Dwarfs with Pinter himself. This was made into a film by BBC4 then played at the Tricycle. Mark also appeared as Mickey in Blood Brothers for the last six months of its West End run.

The Pinter show overlapped with rehearsals for an Italian anal-sex farce directed by Peter Hall which featured in an International Theatre festival at the Barbican. In this three-hander, Mark played the part originally played by Paul Ready. By coincidence less than a month later Mark and Paul were giving their Dromio's in Comedy of Errors at the Bristol Old Vic.

Pictures of Mark appear in A-level drama books as he was in the original Frantic Assembly production of Pool (no water) by Mark Ravenhill.

Mark has done a lot of development work on new plays and films and helped create the role of Gollum in the stage version of Lord of the Rings, as well as working with many, many students.

Mark was heavily involved in the creation of a new musical based on the TV show The Liver Birds and played all the male roles when it was on at The Royal Court. Elaine Paige played a track of Mark singing one of the songs on her radio show.

Mark now has a dedicated home studio and is busy recording audiobooks, stories and poems.