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Mark Charles Smith
Actor: For Canterbury Players Gosforth's
Fete; La Ronde; Fallen
Angels; The Accrington
Pals; Much Ado
About Nothing; Arsenic And Old
Lace
Sound Engineer for Blue Remembered
Hills.
For Chilham Players: Seasons Greetings
For Kent Shakespeare Company: Twelfth Night.
Mark is pleased to be back in rehearsal with the Canterbury Players
after a brief foray at Mt. Ephraim with Kent
Shakespeare Company's production of 'Twelfth Night'. He is looking
forward to his first 'farce'. (Comments will surely appear after that
statement!)
Mark has appeared in a number of Canterbury Players productions, as
well as end of year short films at universities in Canterbury and Hastings,
as a film extra for various productions filmed in Kent including "The
Other Boleyn Girl" and "Wild Child", in a Chris Tarrant
TV programme called 'Tarrant Lets the Kids Loose' and as a major player
in a KETV production
called 'The Sea Shall Have Them'.
Mark is looking for more TV and film work to get him out of the office
once in a while.
My Facebook page.
A recent video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY9qcWjPomk |
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!
- Maurice Duclos - a suave Frenchman in Noel Coward's
'Fallen Angels'
- Conrade, kicking boy for Don John the Bastard
in Shakespeare's 'Much
Ado About Nothing'.
- Captain and 1st/2nd Officers in Twelfth
Nght, by the Kent
Shakespeare Company.
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.....
Mark in costume for The
Other Boleyn Girl
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 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.)
"All the actors demonstrated the hilarity of Kesselring's marvellous
play."
(Arsenic And Old Lace, reviewed by Nina Del
Gedoe, Kentish Gazette.)
A review of a short film made in 2009:
"It was an intriguing short film and maintained my interest throughout.
Your performance was excellent. You can certainly can act for the camera. Not
everyone can. Every thing about your performance was right. I especially liked
your little turns to the girl every now and then and your look of despair (or
resignation) at something the girl said. You photograph well and have a most
interesting face. Your performance was solid and just what the role called for.
Well done."
Reveiwed by Pip Piacentino, Director
of, and actor in, a number of Canterbury Players performances.
Please contact Mark using the email form below.
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