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Mark Strong

Mark Strong trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and has played major roles at the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Donmar Warehouse, where he was an Olivier Nominee for award-winning productions of ‘Uncle Vanya’ and ‘Twelfth Night’.
Television includes ‘Low Winter Sun’, ‘Our Friends in the North’, ‘Anna Karenina’, ‘Emma’ and ‘The Long Firm’, for which he was a BAFTA Nominee and a Broadcast Press Guild Award-winner.
His many film credits include ‘Fever Pitch’; ‘Sunshine’; ‘Stardust’ with Robert De Niro; Oscar-nominated ‘Syriana’ with George Clooney; ‘Flashbacks of a Fool’ with Daniel Craig, Ridley Scott’s ‘Body of Lies’, ‘Kick-Ass’, ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’, ‘Green Lantern’, ‘Zero Dark Thirty’, ‘John Carter’, ‘Mindscape’, ‘The Imitation Game’ and ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’.

Readings

The Married Man read by Mark Strong
The Victory Ball read by Mark Strong, Hugh Dancy, and Alexander Gilmour
And You, Helen read by Mark Strong
My Company read by Mark Strong
The General read by Mark Strong
Inspection read by Mark Strong
This is No Petty Case of Right or Wrong read by Mark Strong
W.H. Auden: 'Funeral Blues' read by Mark Strong
Dolphin read by Mark Strong
Epitaphs of the War read by Mark Strong, Kelly Reilly, Hugh Dancy, Alexander Gilmour
Desert Places read by Mark Strong
W.H. Auden: 'As I Walked Out One Evening' read by Mark Strong
September 1, 1939 read by Mark Strong
Song of the Devil read by Mark Strong
If I Could Tell You read by Mark Strong
In Memory of W.B. Yeats read by Mark Strong
Select reading
The Married Man read by Mark Strong
The Victory Ball read by Mark Strong, Hugh Dancy, and Alexander Gilmour
And You, Helen read by Mark Strong
My Company read by Mark Strong
The General read by Mark Strong
Inspection read by Mark Strong
This is No Petty Case of Right or Wrong read by Mark Strong
W.H. Auden: 'Funeral Blues' read by Mark Strong
Dolphin read by Mark Strong
Epitaphs of the War read by Mark Strong, Kelly Reilly, Hugh Dancy, Alexander Gilmour
Desert Places read by Mark Strong
W.H. Auden: 'As I Walked Out One Evening' read by Mark Strong
September 1, 1939 read by Mark Strong
Song of the Devil read by Mark Strong
If I Could Tell You read by Mark Strong
In Memory of W.B. Yeats read by Mark Strong
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