Mark Lewis Jones
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Mark Lewis Jones | |
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| Born | 1964 or 1965 (age 61–62) |
| Education | Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1985–present |
| Awards | BAFTA Cymru award for Best Actor in The Passing / Yr Ymadawiad |
Mark Lewis Jones (born 1964 or 1965) is a Welsh actor. He has played roles in a number of Welsh TV series, as well as other roles in a range of TV series and films. He is known for playing Rob Morgan in the comedy-drama series Stella (2012-2017), Steve Baldini in Keeping Faith (2017-2020) and King Charles III's Welsh teacher Edward Millward in the Netflix series The Crown. He also played First Order Captain Moden Canady in Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017). He has also had many stage roles, and is a voice actor on radio and video games.
Mark Lewis Jones was born in 1964 or 1965 in Rhosllannerchrugog, near Wrexham in Wales.[1][2]
He began acting as a teenager with the Clwyd Youth Theatre[3][1] and trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama.[4][1]
Career
Jones has acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company,[5] and at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London.[1]
In the 1990s, he was given roles in TV series The Bill, Casualty, Soldier Soldier, and A Mind to Kill.[1] Other television roles include appearances in This Life, Holby City, Spooks, Murphy's Law, Waking the Dead, Torchwood. He played Detective Inspector Russell Bing in the police drama 55 Degrees North (2004).[citation needed] Jones played Detective Sergeant Ray Lloyd in police drama Murder Prevention in 2004.[6]
In 2001, Jones portrayed Uther Pendragon, father of King Arthur and second husband of Igraine, in the American TV miniseries The Mists of Avalon.[citation needed] In 2003 and 2004 he had roles in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World and Troy respectively.[7] From 2005 until 2008 he played Irfon in S4C's Con Passionate.[citation needed]
In 2006 he played Josi Evans in Stan Barstow and Diana Griffiths' film adaptation of the novel by Sian James, Calon Gaeth (Small country), shot in Welsh and English, and filmed on location in Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Brecon, Glamorgan, and Oxford.[7] and, in 2007, Bryan Jones in Y Pris.[8]
In 2015, he had a lead role in The Passing (Yr Ymadawiad).[1]
Jones auditioned for Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) but did not get the part. However, he was later offered the part of Captain Canady for the sequel, Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017). He appears prominently in the opening sequences and says he played the part with "a posh Welsh accent".[9]
He played Rob Morgan in the comedy-drama Stella (2012–2017), and Steve Baldini in the 2018 drama series Keeping Faith (2017–2020).[1]
Jones played prominent 1960s Welsh nationalist activist Dr Edward Millward in The Crown; Iwan Bevan in Jack Thorne's 2019 drama miniseries The Accident; and Tom Christie in the 6th series of Outlander. He had roles in Chernobyl (2019), Game of Thrones, and BBC's Welsh drama made-for-TV film Men Up.[1]
Other media appearances
In 2009, Jones was a guest in the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition, broadcast on 11 June on BBC Two Wales.[10]
Awards and nominations
In 2016, Jones won a BAFTA Cymru award for Best Actor in the 2015 film The Passing / Yr Ymadawiad.[1]
BAFTA Cymru Best Actor award nominations include: 2013 Awards for Stella; 2017 Awards for The Lighthouse; 2018 Awards for Keeping Faith; and in 2021 for Gangs of London.[citation needed]
Jones was awarded a Fellowship from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in June 2022.[citation needed]
In 2025, Jones was inducted to the Gorsedd at a ceremony during the National Eisteddfod of Wales at Wrexham.[11]
Personal life
Jones has four children. As of 2025[update] he is living in Cardiff.[1]
In 2014, Jones took part in the Marathon des Sables, in the Sahara Desert, with fellow Welsh actor Richard Harrington.[12] In April 2018, he ran the inaugural Wales Marathon held in Newport.[13]
Jones was one of the athletes taking part in IronMan Wales[14] on 3 September 2023 to raise money for Head for Change,[15] which will go direct to the education, care and support and potential treatments in rugby.
Jones is an ambassador for Believe Organ Donor Support,[16] Marie Curie UK,[17] and Cerebral Palsy Cymru.[18]
