Marcus Griffiths
- Actor
Marcus was born and raised in South East London. At an early age he
showed signs of being interested in the performing arts. As a young boy
he was borderline obsessed with Michael Jackson and would wear his
living room carpet thin practicing the artist's signature moves. At 7
he attended the well-regarded independent boy's school Dulwich College
(founded by the actor Edward Alleyn, a successful Elizabethan actor as
well as a contemporary and friend of William Shakespeare)and stayed
until he graduated at 18. The school has an illustrious list of alumni
in the artistic fields including Michael Powell, Chiwetel Ejiofor and
Rupert Penry-Jones to name a few. At the college he participated in a
variety of theater and with the encouragement of his drama teacher
discovered his vocation. Planning to train as an actor after obtaining
a degree he enrolled at Royal Holloway University but after 6 months
was craving to act and so left to audition for drama school, attending
the prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama at 19 which he
graduated from with a BA in Acting in 2011. He in fact left drama
school early to begin his first job at the Shakespeare's Globe theater
in Much Ado about Nothing playing Conrad, the devious right hand man of
Don John and has been fortunate to continue working in various mediums
that encompass the craft of acting.
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