Mark Wakeling (born 11 October 1971) is a British actor and founder of The Actors Temple in London.
Biography
After serving as an officer in the Coldstream Guards Wakeling trained as an actor at
The Poor School
The Poor School and Workhouse Theatre was a drama school situated in King's Cross, London, United Kingdom.
The Poor School was created in 1986 by former Royal Central School of Speech and Drama vocal coach Barbara Caister in response to the nee ...
in London, graduating in 1998. He founded The Actors' Temple in 2003 and has since trained under
Tom Radcliffe
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Characters
* Tom Anderson, a character in '' Beavis and Butt-Head''
* Tom Beck, a character ...
. As well as being a working actor, Wakeling founded The Actors' Temple with
Ellie Zeegen and teaches
Meisner there.
He has worked with
Ken Loach
Kenneth Charles Loach (born 17 June 1936) is a British film director and screenwriter. His socially critical directing style and socialist ideals are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as poverty (''Poor Cow'', 1967), homelessne ...
on ''
The Wind That Shakes The Barley'' and played the part of
Captain Tom Ryan
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in Series 1 of
ITV’s ''
Primeval
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'' which premiered in 2007. However, Mark's character died at the end of the first series, so didn't return when the second series aired in 2008.
The Actors' Temple
Mark Wakeling is the co-founder and co-director of The Actors' Temple studio which offers a full training for professional actors enabling them to practice their craft on a daily basis.
Filmography
References
Mark Wakeling Fellowship (unofficial yahoo group) https://groups.yahoo.com/group/markwakelingfellowship
External links
*
The Actors' Temple Visited July 21, 2011.
Living people
1971 births
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