Mark Pegg (actor)

{{short description|British actor and film producer}}

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Mark Pegg is a British actor and film producer.

He first came to prominence as Detective Constable Tony Weir in the BBC production Our Friends in the North and has since appeared in many television and stage productions, including Frank Hauser's Chichester Festival Theatre's 1995 production of Hobson's Choice with Leo McKern.{{cite web|title=1995 Chichester Festival Theatre|url=http://www.cft.org.uk/1995|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814065108/http://www.cft.org.uk/1995|archive-date=2014-08-14}} He trained at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts in London.

In 2006, he produced the feature film Heroes and Villains which starred James Corden and Jenny Agutter,{{cite news|title=Heroes and Villains Cranks up in London|url=http://www.screendaily.com/heroes-and-villains-cranks-up-in-london/4024589.article|newspaper=Screen Daily}} and in 2007 he was the Executive Producer on Stuart Urban's Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead.{{cite news|title=Tovarisch, I am not dead|url=http://www.screendaily.com/tovarisch-i-am-not-dead/4034904.article|newspaper=Screen Daily}}{{cite web|title=Tovarisch, I am not dead|url=http://www.lfs.org.uk/ffblog/Screen%20Daily%20-%20News.pdf|publisher=London Film School}}{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite news|title=New York Times|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/1584997/Mark-Pegg/filmography |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130130065209/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/1584997/Mark-Pegg/filmography |url-status=dead |department=Movies & TV Dept.|publisher=Baseline & All Movie Guide|archive-date=2013-01-30 }}

As of September 2012, he was developing a number of film scripts at{{cite news|last=Tindall|first=Dave|title=Dream On - the Film|url=http://www1.skysports.com/golf/news/12177/7422903/Dream-On-the-film|work=Sky Sports}}{{cite news|last=McNab|first=Geoffrey|title=Blackburn in Pre-production for Elstree Shoot of Dream On|url=http://www.screendaily.com/news/uk-ireland/blackburn-in-pre-production-for-elstree-shoot-of-dream-on/5033231.article|newspaper=Screen Daily}}

Mark is the patron of the Love Inspire Foundation.{{Cite news|url=https://www.burtonmail.co.uk/news/burton-news/love-inspired-eastenders-mark-pegg-1664471#r3z-addoor|title=EastEnders villain 'Alfie Kane' backs Burton charity|last=Waldron|first=Ben|date=2018-06-19|work=derbytelegraph|access-date=2018-06-20}}

In 2019, he opened an online acting school to enable students to study acting without the expense of attending drama school.{{Cite web|url=https://www.derbyshirelife.co.uk/people/mark-pegg-drama-school-1-6010644|title=Mark Pegg - former Eastenders actor opens drama school in Derbyshire|last=Dixon|first=Lynne|website=Derbyshire Life and Countryside|language=en|access-date=2019-09-24}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.actingacademy.org/home|title=Start your Free Trial|website=www.actingacademy.org|language=en|access-date=2019-09-24}}