Mark Strong
Birthdate: Aug 5, 1963
Birthplace: Islington, London, England, UK
British actor Mark Strong, who played Jim Prideaux in the 2011 remake of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), is often cast as cold, calculating villains. But before he became a famous actor, he intended to pursue a career in law.
Strong was born Marco Giuseppe Salussolia in London, England, to an Austrian mother and an Italian father. His father left the family not long after he was born, and his mother worked as an au pair to raise the boy on her own. Strong's mother had his name legally changed, by deed poll, when he was young in order to help him better assimilate with his peers. He became Mark Strong.
Strong attended Wymondham College in Norfolk, and studied at the university level in Munich with the intent of becoming a lawyer. After a year, he returned to London to study English and Drama at Royal Holloway. He went on to further master his craft of at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Although Americans are most familiar with Strong's roles as Sinestro in Green Lantern (2011), mob boss Frank D'Amico in Kick-Ass (2010), and Lord Blackwood in Sherlock Holmes (2009), British audiences know him from his long history as a television actor. He also starred in as numerous British stage productions, including plays at the Royal National Theatre and the RSC.
His most prominent television parts include Prime Suspect 3 (1993) and Prime Suspect: The Last Witness (2003) as Inspector Larry Hall, and starring roles in the BBC Two dramas Our Friends in the North (1996) and The Long Firm (2004), the latter of which netted Strong a BAFTA nomination. He also played Mr. Knightley in the 1996 adaptation of Jane Austen's classic tale Emma (1996).
Strong resides in London with his wife Liza Marshall, with whom he has two sons, the younger of which is the godson of his longtime friend Daniel Craig.
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- 2024 | The Silent HourasDoug Slater
The Silent Hour
A detective with hearing loss and a deaf witness to a murder must lean on each other to outsmart killers they can't hear coming when cornered in an abandoned apartment block.
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- 2023 | Dead Shotas Tempest
- 2023 | Murder Mystery 2as Miller
- 2023 | The End We Start FromasAlfonsina Viuda de Arango
The End We Start From
A woman who along with her newborn try to find their way home as environmental crisis that submerges London in flood waters and sees a young family torn apart in the chaos.
- 2022 | The Silent Houras Angel Flores
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- 2021 | EndgameasDr. Neil Barnard
Endgame
Chen Xiaomeng is a theater actor who just can't catch a break in life. His career is in shambles, his love life is depressing, and he can't even properly commit suicide. Before he takes another attempt at suicide, he decides to visit the local bathhouse so he can die with dignity. In the bathhouse, Xiaomeng accidentally causes a man to slip on a piece of soap and falls into a deep coma. In a split second, he decides to switch places with the comatose man, only to discover that the man is a renowned professional assassin. Under his new identity, Xiaomeng is forced to undertake the assassin's missions. Meanwhile, the assassin wakes up in the hospital with no memory of his identity. Believing that he's the failed actor, he begins piece together his 'past life' with the help of single mother Li Xiang. As he tries to 'continue' his life as an actor, the amnesiac assassin and Li Xiang develop a bond. But when the assassin regains his real memories, our three heroes become entangled in messy and complicated ways.
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- 2018 | Untamed Romaniaas Narrator
- 2018 | The Catcher Was a SpyasWerner Heisenberg
The Catcher Was a Spy
Former Major League Baseball player Moe Berg goes undercover in World War II Europe for the Office of Strategic Services.
- 2017 | 6 Daysas Max Vernon
- 2017 | Kingsman: The Golden CircleasMerlin
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
After the Kingsman's headquarters is destroyed and the world is held hostage, an allied spy organization in the United States is discovered. These two elite secret agencies must band together to defeat a common enemy.
- 2016 | Approaching the Unknownas William D. Stanaforth
- 2016 | Miss Sloaneas Rodolfo Vittorio Schmidt
- 2016 | The Siege of Jadotvilleas Conor Cruise O'Brien
- 2016 | The Brothers GrimsbyasSebastian Graves
The Brothers Grimsby
A new assignment forces a top spy to team up with his football hooligan brother.
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- 2015 | Kingsman: The Secret ServiceasMerlin
Kingsman: The Secret Service
A spy organisation recruits a promising street kid into the agency's training program, while a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.
- 2014 | Before I Go to Sleepas Dr. Nasch
- 2014 | Closer to the Moonas Max
- 2014 | The Imitation GameasStewart Menzies
The Imitation Game
During World War II, the English mathematical genius Alan Turing tries to crack the German Enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians while attempting to come to terms with his troubled private life.
- 2013 | Welcome to the Punchas Jacob Sternwood
- 2012 | Heroes & Demons
- 2012 | Zero Dark ThirtyasGeorge
Zero Dark Thirty
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L.s Team 6 in May 2011.
- 2011 | Day of the Falconas Sultan Amar
- 2011 | Green Lanternas Sinestro
- 2011 | Marceauas Gaston
- 2011 | The Guardas Clive Cornell
- 2011 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spyas Jim Prideaux
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- 2009 | Sherlock HolmesasLord Henry Blackwood
Sherlock Holmes
Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England.
- 2008 | Body of Liesas Hani
- 2001 | Superstitionas Antonio Gabrieli
- 2001 | To End All Warsas Dusty Miller
- 1939 | Shadow Forceas Psihijatar
