MARK STRONG

Mark Strong (Marco Giuseppe Salussolia, born 5 August 1963) is an English actor. Strong is known for his starring roles on stage as well as for his villainous roles in historical dramas and franchise films. He has received accolades including a Laurence Olivier Award and a BAFTA TV Award as well as nominations for two Tony Awards, a Drama Desk Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Strong's film roles include in Oliver Twist (2005), Sunshine (2007), Stardust (2007), Sherlock Holmes (2009), Kick-Ass (2010), Robin Hood (2010), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), The Imitation Game (2014), 1917 (2019), and Cruella (2021). He has also taken roles in franchise films such as in Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) and Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) and as Dr. Thaddeus Sivana in Shazam! (2019) and Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023). On television, he played Terry "Tosker" Cox on the serial Our Friends in the North (1996), Carmine Falcone on The Penguin (2024), and Emperor Javicco Corrino on Dune: Prophecy (2024-present).

On stage, he played Orsino in a production of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (2002) which earned him a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role. He portrayed a repressed longshoreman in the Arthur Miller play A View from the Bridge on the West End in 2014 and Broadway in 2015 which earned him the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor and nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play respectively. He took on the title role in Robert Icke's adaptation of the Greek tragedy Oedipus in the West End in 2024 and Broadway in 2025, earning nominations for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor and the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.

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According to advice from AI, by way of a casting matrix, as to the role of 'Victor von Woolfe' - Richard Armitage, James D'arcy, Tom Ellis, Jack Davenport, Andrew Lincoln, Joe Anderson, Tom Hardy, Matthew Goode, Joel Edgerton, Jason Clarke, Sullivan Stapleton, could portray Victor aged 50ish. While, Mark Strong, Clive Owen, Damian Lewis, James Purefoy, Rufus Sewell, Hugo Weaving, Richard Roxborough Bryan Brown, Guy Pearce, Ben Mendelsohn, and Peter Mullan - might all be suitable to play Victor von Woolfe as a 70 year old - in Muzzled and Victor Unchained, docudramas based on real events, involving corruption in the system, the frame up of a whistle blowing campaigner, and subsequent fight to survive prison and clear his name, finally involving the CCRC and European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). With a referral to the International Covenant for Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). These are all respected actors, none of which were approached as to the role by any company, but were all mentioned in AI searches of the web as potential players, should the series go from script to silver screen. The same applies to any production companies AI searches may have mentioned. AI being a modern tool, that does a lot of the ground work, but ultimately cannot replace that human touch for film projects, or the choices of investing angels.

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