Mark Strong: Career In Four Minutes
The smooth-talking actor on his diverse movie roles
Mark Strong is back in cinemas this week with Welcome To The Punch , a slick, high-octane action thriller that proves the UK can compete with the glossiest output from the States or Hong Kong.
Strong plays the villain of the piece, a tough gangster with Bourne-esque skills and flair for extravagant heists. After a near-miss run-in with James McAvoy’s tenacious cop, he flees the country for an early retirement.
When his young son gets caught up in a shooting, he’s drawn back to the UK, and into the line of fire.
Throughout his working life, Strong has put his stamp on characters as diverse as grandstanding villains, pitiable chumps, charming cads and sinister mentors.
In our Career In Four Minutes video, Strong takes us on a breathless tour of his career to date:
Mark Strong also provided a brilliant answer for our must-watch Star Wars video , in which we ask Hollywood’s finest for their thoughts on J.J. Abrams’ Episode VII .
Welcome To The Punch opens in the UK on 15 March 2013.
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I'm the Editor at Total Film magazine, overseeing the running of the mag, and generally obsessing over all things Nolan, Kubrick and Pixar. Over the past decade I've worked in various roles for TF online and in print, including at GamesRadar+, and you can often hear me nattering on the Inside Total Film podcast. Bucket-list-ticking career highlights have included reporting from the set of Tenet and Avengers: Infinity War, as well as covering Comic-Con, TIFF and the Sundance Film Festival.
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