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Mark Charles Smith
Actor: Gosforth's Fete;
La Ronde; Fallen
Angels; The Accrington
Pals (For Canterbury Players);
Seasons Greetings (For Chilham Players)
Sound Engineer for Blue Remembered
Hills.
Mark joined the RAF in 1974 and performed his first stage piece - in a
wind-blown tent in the Falkland Islands - in 1982. This was as one of
the "Three Degrees" song trio, miming to a recording
and dressed in a chiffon dress - a dangerous thing to do with several
hundred other airmen removed from their wives and girlfriends for some
months. He is now a director of the succesful online marketing company,
Internet Marketing Kent
Ltd.
Mark has appeared in end of year short films at universities in Canterbury
and Hastings and also as a film extra for various productions filmed in
Kent including "The Other Boleyn Girl" and "Wild Child".
Mark is looking for more extra work to get him out of the office once
in a while.
See his profile pages on Extras.co.uk
or Universal
Extras.
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Previous experience within
the media, theatre and music worlds include:
- Playing a bare assed bunny in his first school play at
5 years old (someone kindly unravelled his tail before he
made it to the stage, knocking his confidence at playing
the role completely)
- Being kicked out of the choir within 5 minutes of the
singing starting (he learnt a little about rapid fault finding
techniques from that little exercise)
- Not having to prompt in Ayckbourne's "Roleplay"
and Pinter's "The
Birthday Party"
Mark's first serious acting roles include:
- Stewart Stokes in Ayckbourne's "Gosforth’s
Fete". Chosen for this role for his drinking habits
as much as anything else....
- The Soldier (Franz) in Arthur Schnitzler's "La
Ronde" (Reigen) at Whitstable Playhouse, playing
a callous mean bastard for a change..... ;-)
- Ralph - a 20 year old soldier in Peter Whelan's
"The
Accrington Pals" at the Gulbenkian theatre, in
which he appeared naked in a bath tub. Not a pretty sight!
Further roles include:
- Online audio and video created for clients' websites
- Film extra work (man in a black cloak) for "The
Other Boleyn Girl" with Eric Bana (The Hulk; Chopper)
Scarlett Johannsen (Lost in Translation; The Black Dahlia)
and Natalie Portman (Cold Mountain; Star Wars Episode 3:
Revenge of the Sith) as his co-stars - release date late
2007
- More extra work on "Wild
Child" in the summer of 2007, with Alex
Pettyfer (Stormbreaker), Emma
Roberts, Natasha
Richardson and others.
But seriously.....
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Mark as "Man in Black Cloak", as an extra
in the film, "The Other Boleyn Girl", due out
early 2008. |
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Here Mark was helping Media Studies students with their
final year projects, whilst gaining a little experience
with acting for a camera rather than an audience. |
Mark now runs a successful web design and internet marketing
company based in Whitstable, Kent, which he says beats working
for a living. www.i-m-k.co.uk
MARK SMITH'S REVIEWS:
"Other members of the cast were only slightly less convincing in their roles
and each had credible qualities: ...... Mark Smith's Soldier's
callous but sexy disregard."
This was Mark's second acting experience, the first being Gosforth's
Fete.
(La Ronde, reviewed by Elaine Godden,
Kentish Gazette.)
"In Ralph's last letter from the Somme, to his lover Eva, Mark Smith
demonstrated spiritual and physical agony."
(The
Accrington Pals reviewed by Elaine Godden, Kentish Gazette.)
Mark Smith as Maurice, tantalizingly appearing only in the final scene, gave
the ex-lover all the Gallic charm needed for empathy with the besotted ladies.
(Fallen Angels, reviewed by Delia
Dengeon, Kentish Gazette.)
Please contact Mark using the email form below.
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