Joseph Daniel Turner Mawle was born on 21 March 1974 and is an English actor.
22 Facts About Joseph Mawle
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Joseph Mawle grew up in a Victorian manor house on a farm outside Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire.
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Joseph Mawle is one of three children from a family with a history of nine generations of farming in Warwickshire.
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Joseph Mawle attended the Croft prep school on the outskirts of Stratford-upon-Avon, where he was diagnosed as severely dyslexic; consequently, he went from the ages of 13 to 16 to a boarding school for special needs.
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Joseph Mawle left the school at 16 to become an actor but contracted labyrinthitis, leaving him 70 per cent hearing-impaired in the upper register and with tinnitus.
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Joseph Mawle persuaded the director of the local college at Stratford-upon-Avon to let him study for a BTEC in performing arts while doing an assortment of jobs such as fitness instructor and dishwasher.
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Joseph Mawle did some acting for the Box Clever Theatre Company and in his own production of Solo Hamlet.
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Joseph Mawle won a scholarship to study at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
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Joseph Mawle graduated from Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in 2002, in the same year he appeared in TV adverts for Guinness.
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Joseph Mawle left in 2002, with no agent, and worked as an assistant in a special needs school.
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Joseph Mawle landed his first major role in a 2003 production of Troilus and Cressida, playing Troilus for Shakespeare at the Tobacco factory, worked at the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton, in Hamlet, and in the Royal Exchange, Manchester's production of Antony and Cleopatra in 2005.
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Joseph Mawle was nominated for the RTS Breakthrough on Screen Award, and director Ed Coulthard won the BAFTA for best director in 2007.
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Joseph Mawle has appeared in a number of subsequent British television productions, including Dunkirk, winner of the Huw Wheldon BAFTA Award for Factual Drama, and Adrian Shergold's Persuasion and Channel 4's gay drama Clapham Junction, in the role of Tim.
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Joseph Mawle was listed for Outstanding Newcomer by the Evening Standard Theatre Awards and nominated for WhatsOnStage Theatre Choice Awards for Best Newcomer for his performance as Judas.
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In 2010, Joseph Mawle featured in artist David Austen's End of Love and in the short film Sometimes The Moon Is Velvet, which toured festivals.
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Joseph Mawle appeared in Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, the BBC drama Five Daughters, Dominic Savage's Dive, and Made in Dagenham starring Sally Hawkins.
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Joseph Mawle appeared in the pilot episode and returned to the role in Season 6.
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Joseph Mawle appeared in several projects in 2012, including the Working Title production of Sebastian Faulks' acclaimed novel Birdsong, the Bruce Willis film The Cold Light of Day, the Tim Burton-produced film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, and the independent British film Shell.
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Joseph Mawle had a lead role in the horror film The Hallow.
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In October 2019, Joseph Mawle joined the cast of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power on Amazon Prime Video: he was one of the first actors to join the project, and his involvement was later confirmed by Amazon themselves in early 2020.
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Joseph Mawle played the central antagonist "Adar", a fallen Elf who became the first Uruk, father of the Orcs.
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In December 2022, it was revealed that the role of Adar would be recast for season two of the series, with Sam Hazeldine taking over the role and Joseph Mawle confirming on Twitter that he would not return.