Born

North London, England, UK

Biography

Mark Wakeling (born 11 October 1971) is a British actor and founder of The Actors Temple in London After serving as an officer in the Coldstream Guards, Wakeling trained as an actor at The Poor School in London, graduating in 1998. In 2003, he founded The Actors' Temple with Ellie Zeegen and teaches Meisner there. He has worked with Ken Loach on The Wind That Shakes The Barley and played the part of Captain Tom Ryan in Series 1 of ITV’s Primeval which premiered in 2007. Following the pandemic in 2021, Wakeling founded the Amberwood Animal Sanctuary in Oxfordshire