Mark Wing-Davey
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| Born |
30 November 1948 London, England, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Woolverstone Hall School |
| Alma mater | Cambridge University |
| Occupation | Actor and director |
| Years active | 1974–2013 |
| Partner(s) | Anita Carey |
| Parent(s) | Peter Davey (father) Anna Wing (mother) (1914-2013) |
Mark Wing-Davey (born 30 November 1948) is a British actor and director.
The son of actor and actress Peter Davey and Anna Wing, Wing-Davey attended Woolverstone Hall School before attending the University of Cambridge, where he was a member of the Footlights between 1967 and 1970.
He had a featured role in the 1976 miniseries The Glittering Prizes. This role was later cited as the reason for his being cast in arguably his most memorable role, that of the two-headed Galactic President, Zaphod Beeblebrox, in the radio and TV versions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, written by Douglas Adams. He played a barrister in some episodes of the ITV television series Crown Court, King Henry V in Episode 3 of James Burke's Connections, a record company executive in Breaking Glass (1980) and an accountant in Absolutely Fabulous.
In the 1983 television production of Alan Bennett's An Englishman Abroad, Wing-Davey played the title role in the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre's 1958 Moscow staging of Hamlet. He works mainly in theatre now as a performer, director and teacher. He has many directing credits, including James Stock's Star-Gazy Pie and Sauerkraut (Royal Court Theatre, 1995) and Caryl Churchill's Mad Forest, for which he won an Obie award. He was the first Artistic Director of The Actors Centre, London.
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