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Mark McGann | |
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| Born | Mark Anthony McGann 12 July 1961 Kensington, Liverpool, England |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1981–present |
| Spouse | Caroline Guinness |
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Mark Anthony McGann (born 12 July 1961) is an English actor.
He attended the De La Salle Grammar School, Liverpool. Mark's father Joe was a Royal Naval Commando who died in 1984, and his mother Clare was a teacher. His three brothers Paul, Stephen, and Joe (named after his father), are all actors. He also has a younger sister, named Clare after their mother. [1] [2]
McGann's first breakthrough role was as the eponymous hero in the company's production of Lennon in 1981, which received good reviews and ran for 10 months at the London Astoria Theatre, winning McGann the first of his two Olivier Award nominations for best actor in a West End theatre production. He was later to reprise the role for the film John and Yoko: A Love Story for NBC television in the United States in 1985.
His first television appearances were in 1982 in Recording Studio opposite Peter Howitt and Robert Stephens for Granada TV, and Moving On The Edge, a BBC Play for Today TV drama starring Eleanor Bron. He then appeared as Mad Dog in the Channel 4 TV series Scully by Alan Bleasdale in 1983 with Cathy Tyson and Elvis Costello. It was the first of three separate collaborations with Bleasdale, which included the films No Surrender in 1985 and Pleasure for Channel 4 in 1990.
McGann's career in TV has seen him play Marcus Bannerman in the World War I era drama series by Russell T. Davies The Grand in 1999 for Granada TV; Joseph Bazalgette, the Victorian industrial engineer in the award-winning factual drama-documentary Seven Great Industrial Wonders of the World in 2002 for the BBC; Tom Crean, the Irish companion of Ernest Shackleton in Shackleton opposite Kenneth Branagh; and Niven Craig in Peter Medak's Let Him Have It with Christopher Eccleston and Tom Courtenay. He appeared as Conor Phelan in the multi-BAFTA nominated The Hanging Gale , a BBC drama set against the backdrop of the Great Famine, which also starred Mark's three actor brothers. [3]
Mark McGann has appeared in theatre productions as Mickey in Blood Brothers by Willy Russell in 1984, An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestley for a National Theatre tour, in which he played Inspector Goole, and at the National Theatre in On the Ledge.
Original works for stage and screen include:
Since 2007, McGann has been the director of Drama Direct Ltd, a creative production company producing original productions and projects for the entertainment and education industries. [4]
In 2017, McGann launched a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund his short film Perplexed Music, based on the Elizabeth Barrett Browning Petrarchan sonnet of the same name. McGann's film is written and directed and stars his brother Paul and nephew Jake "Sonny" McGann in leading roles. The film was released in 2018. [5]
He lives with his wife, Caroline Guinness, in Frome, Somerset.[ citation needed ]
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