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Mark Greenstreet | |
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| Born | 19 April 1960 |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation(s) | Actor Writer Director |
| Relatives | Sydney Greenstreet (great uncle) |
Mark Greenstreet (born 19 April 1960) is a British actor, writer and director.
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Mark Greenstreet | |
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| Born | 19 April 1960 |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation(s) | Actor Writer Director |
| Relatives | Sydney Greenstreet (great uncle) |
Mark Greenstreet (born 19 April 1960) is a British actor, writer and director.
First and foremost a stage actor,[ citation needed ] Greenstreet played leading roles from the works of Shakespeare, Chekhov, and Ibsen to Orton, Wilde, and Coward in the UK and around the world in the 1980s and 1990s.[ citation needed ]
Greenstreet appeared in the 1985 BBC television adaptation of Brat Farrar. [1] In 1986, he auditioned for the part of James Bond in The Living Daylights. [2] In the science-fiction series Doctor Who , Greenstreet played Ikona in the 1987 serial Time and the Rani . [3] In 1988, he appeared in Harley Cokeliss’ 1988 film Dream Demon . [4] His most high-profile screen role is probably the part of Mike Hardy in the BBC horseracing drama Trainer , which was shown from 1991 to 1992. [5]
He directed and co-wrote his first feature film Caught in the Act in 1995, [6] wrote and directed a short film The 13th Protocol in 2005,[ citation needed ] and wrote and directed the psychological thriller Silent Hours starring James Weber Brown, Dervla Kirwan, Indira Varma, and Hugh Bonneville through UK production company Gallery Pictures in 2018.[ citation needed ] Prior to its release, however, with the burgeoning worldwide audience demand for high-quality TV drama and on-demand box sets,[ citation needed ] the film's producers were approached to recut and release Silent Hours not as a film, but as a TV miniseries. Set in the naval city of Portsmouth in the run-up to Easter 2002, the three 1-hour miniseries Silent Hours (Ep1: "The Silent Service", Ep2: "The Midnight Tide", Ep3: "Towards The Sea") was readied for worldwide release through French international distributor Fizz-e-Motion.[ citation needed ]
Mark is the great-nephew of Hollywood actor Sydney Greenstreet.[ citation needed ]
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