Biography
Mark Williams - Kirk
Mark Williams read English at Brasenose College, Oxford University.
He is particularly familiar to cinema-going audiences for his role of
Mr Weasley, Ron's dad, in The Harry Potter films and to television audiences
for regular appearances in four series of The Fast Show for the 麻豆社 for
which he is an original cast member and contributor.
Other numerous television appearances include: The Last Fast Show Ever
(麻豆社); Ted And Ralph - A Christmas Special (麻豆社); Off The Rails With Mark
Williams (10 part series for The Discovery Channel); Industrial Revelations
With Mark Williams (10 part series for The Discovery Channel); Jumpers
For Goalposts (Sky); The Rotters' Club (Company Pictures); Star (Tiger
Aspect); Grass (麻豆社); Dick Whittington - ITV Panto 2001 (Pozzitive TV
as King Rat); Shackleton (Channel 4); Randall And Hopkirk Deceased (Working
Title); Happiness (麻豆社); Fun At The Funeral Parlour I & II (麻豆社 Choice);
The Strangerers (nine part series for Sky TV); Gormenghast (麻豆社); Tumbledown
(麻豆社); Red Dwarf; Storyteller; Making Out (麻豆社); Stuff (麻豆社); Great Expectations
(Prime Time TV); Bottom (麻豆社); Merlin (Noel Gay Television); Dead At Thirty
(Tiger Television); Harry Enfield Television Programme (Hat Trick Productions);
Kinsey (麻豆社 as series regular Danny); Bad Company (麻豆社); The Honeymoon's
Over (麻豆社 pilot sitcom); Health And Efficiency (麻豆社); 99-1 (Carlton);
The Shooting Party (Zenith); Chef (Crucial Productions); The Big Game;
Searching (Noel Gay Television); Hunting Venus (YTV); Happy Birthday Shakespeare
(麻豆社) and Anderson (Kudos Prods).
Film appearances include: Agent Cody Bank II (MGM) as Inspector Crescent;
Harry Potter & The Prisoner Of Azkaban; Harry Potter & The Chamber Of
Secrets (both Warner Bros); Anita And Me; High Heels And Low Lifes; The
Final Curtain; Whatever Happened To Harold Smith; Shakespeare In Love,
as Wabash; The Borrowers; 101 Dalmations; Fever (BFI short film); Prince
Of Jutland; High Season; Out Of Order; and Privileged.
Mark spent three years touring with The Mikron Theatre Company.
Other theatre credits include: The Fast Show Live 2002 (UK tour); Toast
(Royal Court); The Fast Show Live On Stage '98 (Apollo, Hammersmith);
Art (Wyndhams Theatre); A Dream Of People (The Royal Shakespeare Company);
Moscow Gold (RSC); Singer (RSC); As You Like It (RSC); The City Wives
Confederacy (Greenwich Theatre); Doctor Of Honour (Cheek by Jowl Theatre
Co); Fanshen (Royal National Theatre); The Plague Year and William (both
Royal Court Theatre Young Writers' Festival) and Everyman (The Upstream
Theatre Company).
Mark has also directed two plays at the 1996 Channel 4 Sitcom Festival,
Hammersmith, Bleeding Hearts and In Exile.
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