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Mark Williams
Birth at
22 August 1959
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Mark Williams was born on August 22, 1959 in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. He studied at North Bromsgrove High School, and later Braisnows College, Oxford, with a degree in English.
Mark Williams began his acting career with participation in the mobile theater "Micron". The young man tried many professions before becoming a more or less serious actor. After many unsuccessful attempts, he managed to get a secondary role in the film “Sommersby” by John Emile, where he had the opportunity to work with
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Mark Williams was born on August 22, 1959 in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. He studied at North Bromsgrove High School, and later Braisnows College, Oxford, with a degree in English.
Mark Williams began his acting career with participation in the mobile theater "Micron". The young man tried many professions before becoming a more or less serious actor. After many unsuccessful attempts, he managed to get a secondary role in the film “Sommersby” by John Emile, where he had the opportunity to work with Richard Gere and Jodie Foster. However, small episodic roles he turned since the early 1980s. Mark Williams played in many English TV series, but first of all, he became famous for his role in “Fast Show” and “Red Dwarf”. In 1996, Mark Williams played the children's film "101 Dalmatians", and in 1997 - in the wonderful family film "Thieves", and for the role in the film "Shakespeare in love" he was even awarded the Academy Award.
A turning point in the acting career of Mark Williams was the role in the fantastic multi-part saga about the young wizard Harry Potter, where he had the opportunity to play the father of the red Weasley family.
Between filming in various parts of “Harry Potter” Williams managed to be noted in the films “Tristram Shandy: The Story of a Cockerel and a Bull” (screen adaptation of the work of the famous English writer of the XVII century Lawrence Stern), “Stardust” Matthew Vaughn according to the script by Neil Gaiman with the participation of Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert Deniro.
In addition, Williams has contributed to documentaries such as Mark Williams' Big Bangs, Mark Williams on the Rails, Industrial Revelations and More Industrial Revelations. As a true Englishman, Mark Williams loves football and follows the games of Aston Villa and Brighton & Hove Albion. /