Mark Lewis Jones

Mark Lewis Jones (born 1964) is a Welsh actor, whose roles include that of a police inspector in BBC drama series 55 Degrees North, a whaler in the film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, soldier Tecton in Troy and Rob Morgan in the series Stella.

Life and career

Mark Lewis Jones was born in Rhosllannerchrugog, Wrexham, Wales. He began acting as a teenager with the Clwyd Youth Theatre^[1] and trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama.^[2] He has acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company,^[3] and at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London.

Lewis Jones has made notable appearances in a number of television productions including This Life, Holby City, Spooks, Murphy's Law, Waking the Dead and Torchwood. Perhaps his most significant role for BBC television, however, has been as Detective Inspector Russell Bing in the police drama 55 Degrees North in which he played an outspoken, opinionated and at times humorous police officer, in a complex and intricately crafted series.

He also played Detective Sergeant Ray Lloyd in police drama Murder Prevention.^[4] His two most renowned appearances in Hollywood blockbusters were as Hogg the Whaler in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, and Tecton, a soldier in Troy.^[5]

In 2001 he also portrayed Igraine's second husband Uther Pendragon in the American TV miniseries The Mists of Avalon. He played Irfon in S4C's Con Passionate, Josi in Sian James' Calon Gaeth,^[6] and Bryan Jones in Y Pris.^[7]

In 2009 he was a special guest in the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition, broadcast on 11 June on BBC Two (Wales only).

On 28 July 2009 he was the workshop leader at the Actors' Cut in Cardiff.

On 11 September 2016 he took part in the Great North Run to raise funds for Bloodwise.^[8]

Stage

• Lord Grey and Henry (Earl of Richmond), Richard III, Royal Shakespeare Company, London, 1993
• Leontes, The Winter's Tale, Globe Theatre, London, 1997
• Milantius, The Maid's Tragedy, Globe Theatre, 1997
• Mark Antony, Julius Caesar, Globe Theatre, 1999
• Taurus, Diomedes, and Sextus Pompeius, Antony and Cleopatra, Globe Theatre, 1999
• Appeared as Billy, Cardiff East, as Willy Nilly, Under Milk Wood, and as Bonario, Volpone, all National Theatre, London; as Costard, Love's Labour's Lost, as Lorenzo, The Merchant of Venice, and as Ferdinand, The Tempest, all Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, England; as Tristram, Morte d'Arthur, and as Florizel and Antigonas, The Winter's Tale, both Lyric Theatre, London; as a pioneer, Ingolstadt, Gate Theatre; and as Danton and father, Snow Palace, Tricycle Theatre, Kilburn, Yorkshire, England
• Aston, The Caretaker, Sherman Theatre, Cardiff, 1990
• JB Feller in The Man Who Had All the Luck by Arthur Miller at The Donmar Warehouse,^[9] Feb 28 - Apr 5, 2008
• Sergeant-Major Reg Drummond in Privates on Parade by Peter Nichols at Noël Coward Theatre,^[10] Dec 1, 2012 - March 2, 2013

Radio

• Appeared in radio broadcasts of Cadfael and Cocaine.^[11]
• Samson in Julian Simpson's The Listener ^[12]

Filmography

References

External links

• Mark Lewis Jones at the Internet Movie Database