Mark billingham biography
Mark billingham biography
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Mark Billingham
English novelist, actor, television screenwriter and comedian
Mark Philip David Billingham (born 2 July )[1] is an English novelist, actor, television screenwriter and comedian known for the "Tom Thorne" crime novel series.
Early years
Billingham was born in Solihull, Warwickshire and grew up in Moseley, Birmingham. He attended the King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys in nearby King's Heath, and lived in that general area "right the way through university" while attending the nearby University of Birmingham.[2][3]
After graduating with a degree in drama from the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts, he helped form a socialist theatre company, Bread & Circuses, in Birmingham.
Bread & Circuses toured with shows in schools, colleges, arts centres and the street.[3] In the mids he moved to London as a "jobbing actor", taking minor roles in episodes of TV shows Dempsey and Makepeace, Juliet Bravo, Boon,