Mark Kermode
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Kermode performing with The Dodge Brothers in 2010
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| Born |
Mark James Patrick Fairey 2 July 1963 Barnet, London, England |
| Residence | Brockenhurst, Hampshire, England |
| Alma mater | University of Manchester |
| Occupation | Film critic, presenter, writer, musician |
| Spouse(s) | Linda Ruth Williams |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | www |
Mark James Patrick Kermode (né Fairey; 2 July 1963) is an English film critic, presenter, writer, and musician. He is the chief film critic for The Observer, contributes to the magazine Sight & Sound, and co-presents the BBC Radio 5 Live show Kermode and Mayo's Film Review and the BBC Two arts programme The Culture Show. Kermode writes and presents a film-related video blog for the BBC, and is a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Kermode is a founding member of the skiffle band the Dodge Brothers, for which he plays double bass.
Kermode was born in Barnet, Hertfordshire. He was educated at The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, an independent boys' school in Elstree, Hertfordshire, a few years ahead of comedians Sacha Baron Cohen and David Baddiel and in the same year as actor Jason Isaacs.
He was raised as a Methodist, and later became a member of the Church of England. His parents divorced when he was in his early 20s and he subsequently changed his surname to his mother's maiden name by deed poll. He earned his PhD in English at the University of Manchester in 1991, writing a thesis on horror fiction.
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