Mark Wells

Mark is an alumnus of The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and Kings' College London. He received a scholarship to train at RADA, where he was awarded Honours with Distinction. Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Mark was a multi-award-winning child actor in Australia from the age of seven, winning six first places in the same year, in all six categories of the Queensland Speech & Drama Eisteddfod, at the age of eleven. In the same year, he gained the highest Trinity College of London performance exam results in Australia, for his age group, which led to national recognition and roles on Australian television. Mark spent most of his childhood in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, before returning to New Zealand for secondary school, where he took leading roles in six theatrical productions over five years, and graduated with a Drama Prefecture and multiple Cultural Honours for Drama, English & Poetry. During his early stage and screen career, he moonlighted as a Casting Assistant to Nina Gold, reading behind the camera for the Rome, John Adams, and Virgin Queen auditions (HBO & BBC) while taking onscreen roles alongside household names, as Jack Ferris, the on-screen son of Danny Huston and Jennifer Ehle, alongside Amelia Warner in Alpha Male (Xingu Films); as Pliny The Younger alongside Simon Callow as Pliny The Elder in Roman Mysteries (BBC); and as the Older King Edmund of Narnia in the 2005 film adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe. Mark's notable onstage roles include Trent Conway in Six Degrees of Separation at the Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre, and Shakespeare's Romeo at the Nuffield Theatre and Arundel Castle.