Mark Lewis Jones

Mark Lewis Jones was born in Rhosllannerchrugog, Wales. He began acting as a teenager with the Clwyd Youth Theatre[1] and trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama.[2]

Jones has acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company,[3] and at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London.

He has made 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 portrayed Uther Pendragon, father of King Arthur and second husband of Igraine, 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 guest in the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition, broadcast on 11 June on BBC Two Wales.[8]

Jones auditioned for Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) but did not get the part. However, he was later offered the part of Captain Canady for the sequel, Star Wars: The Last Jedi. He appears prominently in the opening sequences and says he played the part with "a posh Welsh accent".[9]

• 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, 28 Feb – 5 April 2008
• Sergeant-Major Reg Drummond in Privates on Parade by Peter Nichols at Noël Coward Theatre, 1 December 2012 – 2 March 2013

• Appeared in radio broadcasts of Cadfael and Cocaine.[10]
• Samson in Julian Simpson's The Listener[11]

On 11 September 2016 Jones took part in the Great North Run[16] to raise funds for Bloodwise. In April 2018 Mark ran the inaugural Wales Marathon held in Newport

• Mark Lewis Jones at IMDb