Mark Addy
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York, England, UK
After roles on a handful of BBC television shows, British actor Mark Addy made a splash on the international film scene with his turn as a rotund exotic dancer in 1997's surprise hit The Full Monty. With the filmmaking boatloads of cash stateside and garnering a handful of Academy Award nods and Addy's ability to effortlessly adopt an American accent, it took little time before he was working on the U.S. side of the pond. Addy's first high-profile Hollywood role was a supporting gig playing Michael Keaton's pal in Jack Frost (1998), a family flick about a jazz musician who is reincarnated as a snowman. Two years later, Addy took on his first lead in an American film, filling the pelt worn previously by John Goodman, playing Fred Flintstone in the prequel The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas. Unfortunately, the project failed to keep the franchise's flame burning. The next couple years saw Addy in more supporting roles in a series of projects that ranged from barely-profitable (A Knight's Tale) to downright unsuccesful (Down to Earth and The Time Machine), but in 2002 he landed the lead on the CBS sitcom Still Standing. With Addy starring opposite Jami Gertz, the show became a hit as the lead-in to the network's wildly popular Monday-night lineup.In between seasons of Still Standing, Addy continued to make time for the occassional big-screen project, popping up in such films as 2003's The Order and 2004's Around the World in 80 Days, the former of which reunited the actor with Brian Helgeland and Heath Ledger, the writer/director and star of A Knight's Tale. Addy married Kelly Addy in 1996. The couple has one daughter. He appeared as John Piggot in the highly-respected Red Riding trilogy, and followed that up with a role in 2010's Robin Hood as Friar Tuck. In 2011 he was cast in the initial season of HBO's Game of Thrones as King Robert Baratheon.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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22% | The Runaways |
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— | 2020 |
0% | Lies We Tell |
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— | 2018 |
78% | The More You Ignore Me |
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— | 2018 |
78% | Barney's Version |
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$7.6M | 2011 |
29% | It's a Wonderful Afterlife |
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— | 2010 |
43% | Robin Hood |
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$105.3M | 2010 |
91% | Red Riding: 1983 |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara |
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— | 2005 |
32% | Around the World in 80 Days |
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— | 2004 |
8% | The Order |
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$7.6M | 2003 |
60% | Heartlands |
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— | 2002 |
29% | The Time Machine |
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$56.7M | 2002 |
59% | A Knight's Tale |
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$55.1M | 2001 |
20% | Down to Earth |
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$63.1M | 2001 |
25% | The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | The Last Yellow |
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— | 1999 |
19% | Jack Frost |
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— | 1998 |
96% | The Full Monty |
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— | 1997 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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88% |
The Salisbury Poisonings
2020
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82% |
The Murders at White House Farm
2020
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92% |
Doctor Who
2006
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75% |
Oasis
2017
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No Score Yet |
Remember Me
2014
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62% |
Atlantis
2013-2015
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No Score Yet |
Great Expectations
2011
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No Score Yet |
Masterpiece
1971-2014
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89% |
Game of Thrones
2011-2019
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No Score Yet |
Still Standing
2002-2006
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No Score Yet |
The Drew Carey Show
1995-2004
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No Score Yet |
The Syndicate
2012-2018
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No Score Yet |
The Thin Blue Line
1996
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Quotes from Mark Addy's Characters
Dave: | We may not be young, we may not be pretty, we may not be right good, but we're here, we're live and for one night only, we're going for the Full Monty! |
Frank: | Do you want your pop? |
Roland: | [Seeing Sir Ecktor dead] He's dead |
Roland: | [seeing Sir Ecktor dead] He's dead |
Wat: | What do you mean Dead? |
Roland: | The spark of his life is smothered in shite....his spirit has gone but his stench remains does that answer your question? |
Roland: | you may feel like a poet, but you sound like an idiot |
Roland: | You may feel like a poet, but you sound like an idiot. |
Chaucer: | [keeping time with a stick as William and Wat dance] And one, two, and three and four and your hands should be light like a birdy on a branch. And one, two, and three and four and Wat doesn't lead. He follows like a girl. |
Wat: | [looks at William] |
William Thatcher: | [shrugs in agreement with Chaucer] |
Wat: | [laughs a bit, then punches Chaucer in the nose] |
Chaucer: | [with some bloody cotton up his nose moments later, conducting William and Wat] And one, two and twirly, twirly, twirly. One and two and you're still getting it wrong. And one, two, and three and four. You can hit me all day cause you punch like a what? |
Roland: | A girl. |
Dave: | Anti-wrinkle cream they may have. Anti-Fat Bastard cream they do not. |