Marc Warren

This article is about the English actor. For other uses, see Marc Warren (disambiguation).

Marc Warren
Born	Northampton, Northamptonshire, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1986–present

Marc Warren is an English actor, known for his British television roles. His roles have included Albert Blithe in Band of Brothers, Danny Blue in Hustle, Dougie Raymond in The Vice, Dominic Foy in State of Play, Rick in Mad Dogs, the Comte de Rochefort in The Musketeers and the Gentleman in Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and Piet Van Der Valk in TV series Van Der Valk.

Career

Warren made his professional debut in May 1986 when he appeared at The Northampton Theatre Royal in Stags and Hens. Warren has consistently worked in film, television, theatre and radio. He was a member of the National Youth Theatre and trained at the East 15 Acting School (although he did not graduate). He played Billy Casper in Kes at the Birmingham Rep studio (as well as on their UK small scale and schools tour) directed by John Herriman for the Snap Theatre Company. Warren continued his career with a role in a 1988 production of Godspell which he won by writing to the producers, and went unrepresented until the following year. In 1991 he played Lot in a production of The Seven Descents of Myrtle at the Redgrave Theatre in Farnham.

He had his first major film breakthrough with the 1992 BBC film An Ungentlemanly Act, in which he played Tony Hunt. He played Dougie Raymond in the British television series The Vice and Albert Blithe in HBO's mini-series Band of Brothers. His first recurring television role was in Grange Hill. In 1995, Warren starred in Boston Kickout. In 1996 Warren played Immortal Morgan D'Estaing in the season four Highlander: The Series episode "Double Jeopardy". Warren worked in the production of digital storyboards (as a stand-in for Ewan McGregor) in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.

In 2000, he was presented a Royal Television Society award for his role as Monks in the ITV production of Oliver Twist. In 2001 he appeared in the television drama Men Only as Mac, the husband of Katie (Esther Hall). In 2002, he played Dr. Ivo Steadman in No Night Is Too Long, a British film adapted from the novel of the same name. He played key supporting character Dominic Foy in the 2003 BBC serial State of Play. He played Danny Blue (a main character) in BBC TV series Hustle from series 1–4.

In June 2006 he played the character Elton Pope in the Doctor Who episode "Love & Monsters".

In December 2006 he appeared as the crazed assassin Mr. Teatime in Sky1's adaptation of Hogfather by Terry Pratchett. The same month he played Count Dracula in a new adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic novel, produced by ITV Productions for BBC Wales. The TV film, which aired in December, received viewing figures of 5.23 million.

In February 2007 he appeared as casino-operating villain Tony Crane in the second series of BBC drama Life on Mars. In December 2007 he played Mr. John Simpson in the BBC production of Ballet Shoes with Emilia Fox and Emma Watson. In January 2008 Warren starred in the Messiah series Messiah V: The Rapture taking over the main role from Ken Stott. In the 2008 film Wanted, he played a small role as The Repairman, a member of The Fraternity.

In 2009 he starred in a revival of Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman at the Curve theatre in Leicester, playing Katurian, for which he was nominated for a TMA award. Warren can be heard on television and radio ads in UK. He joined Alexander Armstrong in lending his voice for the launch advertisements for Zurich Connect from July 2009.

Warren starred as Ray Say in a West End revival of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice alongside Diana Vickers and Lesley Sharp from October 2009 to January 2010. In May 2010, he played Steve Strange in Worried About The Boy, a BBC production due about the life of Boy George. The following year, Warren initiated and starred in a new Sky One production, Mad Dogs (alongside Max Beesley, Philip Glenister and John Simm), which eventually ran to fourteen episodes over four series.

September 2011 saw Warren return to the theatre to play the charismatic rebel Cool Hand Luke. Emma Reeves' new adaptation of Donn Pearce's novel Cool Hand Luke was directed by Andrew Loudon and ran for a limited season from 23 September 2011 to 7 January 2012 at the Aldwych Theatre, London.

He reprised his role of Danny Blue in Hustle for the series' final episode. He joined the cast of the American drama The Good Wife in 2012 in a recurring role of Kalinda Sharma's estranged husband. He played Rochefort in the BBC drama The Musketeers, and appeared as The Gentleman in Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell on the BBC. Since 2020, he has starred as the title character in the detective series Van der Valk.

Personal life

In late 1979 Warren moved from Northamptonshire to Farnborough, Hampshire. He attended Cove Senior School between 1980 and 1982, before moving back north to his hometown.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Boston Kickout	Robert
1996	Shine	Ray
1996	Hidden in Silence	Lubic
1997	Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis	Clint
1998	B. Monkey	Terence
1998	Dad Savage	Vic
2000	Free Spirits	Cokehead
2001	Men Only	Mac
2002	Al's Lads	Jimmy
2002	No Night Is Too Long	Dr. Ivo Steadman
2002	Revengers Tragedy	Supervacuo
2003	The Principles of Lust	Billy
2003	Song for a Raggy Boy	Brother Mac
2005	Green Street	Steve Dunham
2005	Hellraiser: Deader	Joey
2006	Terry Pratchett's Hogfather	Mr. Teatime
2006	Colour Me Kubrick	Hud
2006	Land of the Blind	Pool
2006	The Lives of Saints	Father Daniel
2007	Ballet Shoes	Mr. Simpson	BBC television film
2008	Intercom	Simon	short
2008	Wanted	The Repairman
2010	Do Elephants Pray?	Marrlen
2010	Worried About The boy	Steve Strange
2012	Wild Bill	Drunk dad

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1987	The Bill	Man in pub	Series 3, Episode 3
1991	Casualty	Nick
1991	Gawain and the Green Knight	King Arthur
1992	An Ungentlemanly Act	Tony Hunt
1992	Grange Hill	Thomas Rankin
1992	Between the Lines	PC Underwood	Series 1, Episode 2
1992	Sam Saturday	DC Colin Fennel	Series 1, Episode 6
1993	Heartbeat	Rupert Ashfordly	Series 2, Episode 1
1994	Sharpe's Company	Captain Rymer
1995	Young Indiana Jones and the Attack of the Hawkmen	Manfred von Richthofen
1995	Prime Suspect: Scent of Darkness	DC Andy Dyson	Series 4, Episode 3
1995	The Ghostbusters of East Finchley	Butch	3 episodes
1995	The Bill	Darren Hutton	Series 11, Episode 144
1996	A Touch of Frost	Graham McArdy	Series 4, Episode 1
1996	Hidden in Silence	Lubic
1997	Highlander	Morgan D'Estaing	Series 4, Episode 19
1997	Wycliffe	DC Arnie Swarland	Christmas Special
1998	How Do You Want Me?	Mark Piggott	Series 1, Episode 4
1999	Oliver Twist	Monks
1999–2000	The Vice	Dougie Raymond
2000	Black Cab	Stuart
2001	Band of Brothers	Pvt. Albert Blithe	Episodes: "Currahee" and "Carentan"
2001	The Bombmaker	Quinn
2001	Men Only	Mac
2001	Big Bad World	Russell	Series 3, Episode 4
2002	NCS: Manhunt	Laurence Bright
2002	Clocking Off	PC Jason Woods	Series 3, Episode 1
2003	State of Play	Dominic Foy
2003	Reversals	Dr. Chris Singleton
2003	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Meredith Blake	Series 9, Episode 1: "Five Little Pigs"
2004	Pretending to Be Judith	Hugo
2004	Agatha Christie's Miss Marple	Captain Ainsworth	Series 1, Episode 2: "The Murder at the Vicarage"
2004–2007; 2012	Hustle	Danny Blue	Series Regular; guest appearance in series finale
2005	Vincent	Gary de Silva	Series 1, Episode 1
2005	Twisted Tales	Alex Wright
2006	Doctor Who	Elton Pope	Episode: "Love & Monsters"
2006	Terry Pratchett's Hogfather	Mr Jonathan Teatime
2007	Life on Mars	Tony Crane	Series 2, Episode 1: "Helpless"
2008	Messiah V: The Rapture	DCI Joseph Walker
2008	Burn Up	Philip Crowley
2008	Mutual Friends	Martin Grantham
2010	Touched By Frost	Narrator
2010	Ben Hur	David
2010	Worried About the Boy	Steve Strange
2010	Accused	Kenny Armstrong	Series 1, Episode 5
2011–2013	Mad Dogs	Rick	12 Episodes
2011	Without You	Greg
2012	The Good Wife	Nick Saverese	8 Episodes
2015	The Musketeers	Rochefort
2015	Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell	The Gentleman with the Thistle-down Hair
2017	Snatch	Bob Fink
2018	Safe	Pete
2019	Flack	Tom
2019	Porters	Graham Post	Series 2, Episode 3: "Halloween"
2019	Beecham House	Samuel Parker	Series 1
2020–Present	Van der Valk	Piet Van der Valk

External links

• Marc Warren at IMDb