Mark Pegg (actor)

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Mark Pegg
English actor Mark Pegg
NationalityBritish
Occupations

Mark Pegg is a British actor and film producer.

He first came to prominence as Detective Constable Tony Weir in the BBC production

Frank Hauser's Chichester Festival Theatre's 1995 production of Hobson's Choice with Leo McKern.[1] He trained at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts
in London.

In 2006, he produced the feature film Heroes and Villains which starred James Corden and Jenny Agutter,[2] and in 2007 he was the Executive Producer on Stuart Urban's Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead.[3][4][5]

As of September 2012, he was developing a number of film scripts at[6][7]

Mark is the patron of the Love Inspire Foundation.[8]

In 2019, he opened an online acting school to enable students to study acting without the expense of attending drama school.[9][10]

Early life

Pegg grew up in Walthamstow, London.[11]

At the age of 11 was Capital Radio's "Junior Disc Jockey" on the Sunday morning Kids' Show "Hullabaloo".

Around this time the actress Louise Jameson (who was appearing as Leela in Doctor Who) ran a drama workshop at Pegg's school "I had so much fun and it made me realise that I wanted to be an actor. Fifteen years later, I was working with her in EastEnders".[12]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2006 Heroes and Villains Producer Cameo Appearance as Paying Man
2007 Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead Executive producer
2016 Dream On Producer

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2001 Bad Girls Prison Officer MacFarlane
2000 Starhunter Alistair McNaughton Episode: "Trust"
2000 The 10th Kingdom Metal Merchant
2000 Where There's Smoke Rob Dirkin TV movie
1999 The Alchemists Steve TV movie
1999 The Waiting Time Sergeant Hanson TV movie
1993 - 1999 The Bill Eric Ransome
1993 Kavanagh QC Eric Rhodes Episode: "End Game"
1997 - 1998 EastEnders Alfie Kane
1996 Our Friends in the North Tony Weir Episodes: "1966" & "1967"
1994
Class Act
 Pugman
1996 Call Red Police Partner 1 episode

References

  1. ^ "1995 Chichester Festival Theatre". Archived from the original on 14 August 2014.
  2. ^ "Heroes and Villains Cranks up in London". Screen Daily.
  3. ^ "Tovarisch, I am not dead". Screen Daily.
  4. ^ "Tovarisch, I am not dead" (PDF). London Film School.[permanent dead link]
  5. All Movie Guide. Archived from the original
    on 30 January 2013.
  6. ^ Tindall, Dave. "Dream On - the Film". Sky Sports.
  7. ^ McNab, Geoffrey. "Blackburn in Pre-production for Elstree Shoot of Dream On". Screen Daily.
  8. ^ Waldron, Ben (19 June 2018). "EastEnders villain 'Alfie Kane' backs Burton charity". derbytelegraph. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
  9. ^ Dixon, Lynne. "Mark Pegg - former Eastenders actor opens drama school in Derbyshire". Derbyshire Life and Countryside. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  10. ^ "Start your Free Trial". www.actingacademy.org. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  11. ^ "Mark Pegg - former Eastenders actor opens drama school".
  12. ^ "Former EastEnders actor Mark Pegg shares secrets from Albert Square".

External links

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