
Mark Hampton
Acting
Biography
Mark Hampton is an actor and filmmaker known for his award-winning performances in Town vs. Gown (2015) and Acceptance (2020). Born in New Zealand, Mark moved to the UK and made his big-screen debut opposite Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham in Una vacanza all'inferno (1997) an Italian co-production also starring Marco Leonardi. He then played American heart-throb Brad in the TV series Comin' Atcha! (1999). He went on to appear in a number of classic British television series, including detective drama Jonathan Creek (1997), long-running children's show Grange Hill (1978) and medical drama Casualty (1986). He also had guest roles in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003) and World War Z (2013). After a career break Mark returned as an actor and filmmaker. His first short film A Walk in the Woods (2013) starred veteran British actor Richard Heffer taking a haunting journey to the past. In 2015 Mark wrote, directed and starred in short film Town vs. Gown (2015). The film premiered in the US at Academy Award qualifying the Rhode Island International Film Festival and in the UK at the BAFTA qualifying British Urban Film Festival. Mark won several awards and Town vs. Gown (2015) was nominated for Best Short Film at the Empire Awards 2017. He followed this with political drama Acceptance (2020) in 2020. His central performance as a US Congressman earned him several Best Actor awards. Mark's television appearances include pandemic drama This England (2022), vampire comedy Count Abdulla (2023), Liaison (2023) for AppleTV and British soap opera Emmerdale Farm (1972). Big screen appearances include horror anthology Midnight Peepshow (2022), Kevin Hart action comedy Lift (2024), One More Shot (2024) with Scott Adkins, playing the British Prime Minister in thriller Control (2023) and opposite John Cena in Heads of State (2025). Unlicensed, Mark's debut feature film as writer/director was completed in 2025. Mark Hampton is represented by Nina Malone at Identity Agency Group.
Known For

A cash-strapped young couple inherits a grand country house, only to find it is both falling apart and teeming with the ghosts of former inhabitants.
Ghosts

Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to the use of solving impossible crimes and mysterious murders.
Jonathan Creek

The UK Prime Minister and US President have a public rivalry that risks their countries' alliance. But when they become targets of a powerful enemy, they're forced to rely on each other as they go on a wild, multinational run. Allied with Noel, a brilliant MI6 agent, they must find a way to thwart a conspiracy that threatens the free world.
Heads of State

Two agents—and former lovers—must work together to combat international cyberattacks threatening the UK while also confronting the buried secrets of their destructive relationship.
Liaison

An international heist crew, led by Cyrus Whitaker, race to lift $500 million in gold from a passenger plane at 40,000 feet.
Lift

Off the coast of the volcanic island of Santorini, the intrepid archaeologist Lara Croft makes the unexpected discovery of a pulsating golden orb able to guide its holder to the mythical Pandora's Box. As the legendary artifact contains ancient mysteries of unfathomable power - said to contain one of the deadliest plagues on Earth, Lara is tasked by MI6 to make sure it doesn't fall into the wrong hands. With the aid of former Marine turned mercenary Terry Sheridan, she travels the world in pursuit of the precious item in a race against time; she must beat the unscrupulous Nobel Prize-winning scientist turned bioterrorist, Jonathan Reiss, to it.
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life

Ren is the tale of a young woman who, after a strange encounter in the woods, is marked by an ancient spirit. Cast out from her small village, she is forced to leave behind the family she has spent her whole life protecting and journey across the land to find the real meaning behind the mark she bears.
Ren: The Girl with the Mark

Reclusive government asset Henry Fitzgerald is living off the grid in Wyoming, designing new systems for a weapons research agency. When a multi trillion dollar investment management firm begins employing corrupt police and foreign mercenaries to force farmers off their ranches, the Green Beret veteran is forced to take action to assist his neighbors.
Archangel

Abdulla Khan, a young British-Pakistani junior doctor based in London, is bitten by a halal-hunting vampire, and he finds himself trapped in an identity crisis.
Count Abdulla

British Home Secretary Stella Simmons drives home one night while engaging in an affair with the Prime Minister. A mysterious man remotely hijacks her self-driving car, forcing her on a rampage through London
Control

The Impact is a fascinating tapestry of interwoven stories from diverse voices around the world; at times moving and profound, at others hilarious and irreverent, but always asking ‘what would we do in our final moments?’ A multi-cultural and global reflection of pop culture’s vision of the apocalypse…
The Impact

An unnamed madame operates a unique peep show that caters to its customers deepest desires, fears, and sins. Tonight, it welcomes a businessman with a unique connection to an extreme fantasy website. Soon he will become a witness to three stories of victims that found the website. It’s only a matter of time before he’s made to pay the ultimate price for dabbling in the dark side of desire.
Midnight Peepshow

Piers Stonesmith, right-wing politician, aims to "Keep Britain British." On election eve, he gathers 6 strangers to unlock a wish-granting box. Ella, his spin doctor, faces chaos, scandal, and temptation with the mysterious "Apocalypse Box."
The Apocalypse Box

When an indecisive people pleaser is running late for the world’s busiest day, his misguided decisions escalate towards a single choice that risks everything he holds dear.
Harvey Greenfield Is Running Late

After serving time for insider trading, disgraced city broker Danny Goode finds there's no way back to his old life. Short of cash and struggling to reconnect with his wife and son, he enters an unlicensed boxing match with a cash prize.
Unlicensed

A band of warriors must navigate the uncharted woodlands of Barberia, but find trouble closing in all around...