Mark Pegg (actor)

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. 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, and in 2007 he was the Executive Producer on Stuart Urban's Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead.

As of September 2012, he was developing a number of film scripts at

Mark is the patron of the Love Inspire Foundation.

In 2019, he opened an online acting school to enable students to study acting without the expense of attending drama school.

Early life
Pegg grew up in Walthamstow, London.

At the age of 11 was Capital Radio's "Junior Disc Jockey" on the Sunday morning Kids' Show "Hullabaloo".

Around this time the actress Louise Jameson (who was appearing as Leela in Doctor Who) ran a drama workshop at Pegg's school "I had so much fun and it made me realise that I wanted to be an actor. Fifteen years later, I was working with her in EastEnders".