In 2013, Mark Benton took part in Strictly Come Dancing, and in 2015 he hosted the daytime game show The Edge.
26 Facts About Mark Benton
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Mark Benton was born in Guisborough, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, and attended Sarah Metcalfe Comprehensive School and, later, Stockton Billingham Technical College.
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Some of Mark Benton's early acting experience came at Middlesbrough Youth Theatre with performances in plays such as Atmos Fear and Twist.
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Mark Benton has a recurring role as Father McBride in the series Murphy's Law and has worked with Vic and Bob in the series Randall and Hopkirk, Catterick, and Monkey Trousers.
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Mark Benton appeared as an earthly representative of the devil in the 2003 ITV drama The Second Coming and the 2005 ITV drama Planespotting.
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From 1999 to 2003 Mark Benton played Martin Pond in sitcom Barbara.
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Mark Benton has starred in the BBC Three comedy I'm with Stupid and appeared in the Doctor Who episode "Rose" as conspiracy theorist Clive.
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In late 2008, Mark Benton starred in the ITV drama Britannia High and from 2009 to 2011 co-starred as Max de Lacey in Scoop.
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Mark Benton co-starred in the Roman Mysteries episode "The Slave Girl from Jerusalem".
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Mark Benton featured in all three of The Booze Cruise episodes, with Martin Clunes and Brian Murphy, among others.
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Mark Benton played the role of the bank manager in a string of eight television commercials for the Nationwide Building Society, directed by Armando Iannucci, shown from 2004 to 2010.
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Mark Benton did the voiceover for the programme Street Doctor on BBC One.
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Mark Benton joined the cast of BBC drama Waterloo Road in its seventh series as Daniel 'Chalky' Chalk, a maths teacher, until 6 March 2013.
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In 2011, Mark Benton appeared in The Railway Children at Waterloo Station in London as Mr Perks.
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On BBC Radio 4, Mark Benton starred as the optimistic title character Harvey Easter in Mr Blue Sky, written by Andrew Collins and broadcast in May and June 2011.
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Mark Benton has played Fred the butcher in the televised series of episodes by Catherine Cookson.
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In 2015, Mark Benton appeared as Police Constable Walt Everett in the BBC daytime series Father Brown, episode 3.12 "The Standing Stones".
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Mark Benton appeared as Les in the "La Couchette", the first episode of the second series of anthology series Inside No 9.
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In 2015, Mark Benton presented the BBC One daytime game show The Edge for its first series, being replaced by Gabby Logan.
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On 21 August 2016, Mark Benton played Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream in the BBC prom 48.
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Mark Benton appeared as a bartender in the December 2016 Christmas special of British sitcom Outnumbered.
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Mark Benton played the role of Eddie Rowbotham in episode 2 of the 20th series of Midsomer Murders.
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In September 2013, Mark Benton became one of the contestants in the eleventh series of the BBC One show Strictly Come Dancing, where he was partnered with world dancing champion Iveta Lukosiute.
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Mark Benton has been in the most consecutive dance-offs in Strictly history with the number of 4 weeks in a row.
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Mark Benton has been married to Sarah Gardner since 2002 and has three children.
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Mark Benton is a supporter of Middlesbrough FC and has featured in the club's official website advertising campaign to encourage other fans to renew their season ticket.