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Mark Bonnar
Mark Bonnar
Born	Richard Mark Bonnar; 19 November 1968 (age 56); Edinburgh, Scotland
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2001–present
Spouse	Lucy Gaskell (m. 2007)
Children	2

Richard Mark Bonnar (born 19 November 1968)^{[citation needed]} is a Scottish actor. He is known for his roles as Max in Guilt, Duncan Hunter in Shetland, Bruno Jenkins in Casualty, Detective Finney in Psychoville, DCC Mike Dryden in Line of Duty, Colin Osborne in Unforgotten, Blackbeard in Assasin's Creed IV: Black Flag, Townsend in Battlefield 1 and Field in Summer of Rockets.

Career

On television, Bonnar has appeared as Peter Mayhew in BBC One's New Blood and Chris in the Channel 4 comedy Catastrophe, a role which he reprised in the following series. He also portrays the Rev. Adam Collingbourne in ITV's Home Fires, John Halliday in Undercover, as well as regular Duncan Hunter in Shetland for BBC One. Other television credits include Vera, Grantchester, Case Histories, The Paradise, Doctor Who, Psychoville, Taggart, Phoneshop and Paradox. In 2005, he portrayed regular Bruno Jenkins in the BBC One series Casualty. In 2018, he portrayed Dr Neil Sommer in the Channel 4 series Humans.

His theatre performances include Bosola in The Duchess of Malfi at the Old Vic, London in 2012,^[1] Philistines at the Lyttelton, National Theatre in May 2007, Phil in Mammals in a national tour in 2006, David in A Girl in a Car with a Man at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs in December 2004, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing at the Salisbury Playhouse in September 2004, Cyrano de Bergerac at the National Theatre in 2004 and Parade at the Donmar Warehouse in September 2007.

Bonnar provided the voice and motion capture for Edward "Blackbeard" Thatch in the 2013 video game Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag.^[2] He also provides the voice and motion capture for Townsend in the 2016 game Battlefield 1. He also features in the Doctor Who series Doom Coalition from Big Finish Productions, where he portrays the Eleven, a villainous Time Lord who retains the personalities of his past incarnations in his mind.

Bonnar also voices Twigs and Box in the CBeebies series Tree Fu Tom.^[3]

Personal life

Bonnar was born in Edinburgh to environmental artist Stan^[4] and his wife Rosi. Stan's job as town artist for the Scottish New Towns meant the family moved around and Mark spent his childhood in Stonehouse, South Lanarkshire, attending Townhead Primary School in Stonehouse.^[5] Bonnar has presented a BBC documentary on the new towns titled Meet You at the Hippos.^[6]

By 1981 the family had moved to Edinburgh and Mark attended Leith Academy. Mark attended school with future Guilt co-star Jamie Sives.^[7] He married actress Lucy Gaskell on 28 December 2007. Their first child, Martha, was born in July 2011, and their second, Samuel, in June 2015.^[8]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	Rebus	DI Jim Margolies	Episode: "Dead Souls"
2002	Wire in the Blood	Stevie McTeer	Episodes: "The Mermaids Singing: Parts 1 & 2"
2003	Loving You	DC Colin Morris	TV film
2003	Taggart	Dr. Phillip Gardner	Episode: "An Eye for an Eye"
2005	Afterlife	Ben Varcoe	Episode: "Misdirection"
2005	Casualty@Holby City	Bruno Jenkins	Episodes: "Teacher's Pet" & "Crash and Burn"
2005–2006	Casualty	Bruno Jenkins	32 episodes
2007	The Trial of Tony Blair	Tommy	TV film
	Nuclear Secrets	Penkovsky	Mini-series: Episode: "The Spy from Moscow"
	The Bill	Ray Moore	8 episodes
	The Inspector Lynley Mysteries	DC Ed Harvey	Episode: "Know Thine Enemy"
	Britz	Richard	Two-part TV drama
2009	Paradox	DS Ben Holt	Mini-series
2010	PhoneShop	Don	Episode: "Salesman of the Month"
2010	Taggart	DCI Atkins	Episode: "Ends of Justice"
2011	Doctor Who	Jimmy / Jimmy's duplicate	Episodes: "The Rebel Flesh" & "The Almost People"
2011	Psychoville	Detective Finney	6 episodes
2012	Playhouse Presents	Gerry McCluskey	Series 1: Episode: "The Minor Character"
	Twenty Twelve	Ben Farrell	Episode: "Clarence House"
	The Paradise	Peter Adler	2 episodes
2013	Silent Witness	Piers Christie	Episodes: "Trust: Parts 1 & 2"
	Case Histories	Andy Marshall	Series 2: Episode: "Nobody's Darling"
	Thirst	John Valentine	Short
	Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag	Edward "Blackbeard" Thatch	Video game (Voice and motion capture)
2013–2022	Shetland	Duncan Hunter	23 episodes
2014	Line of Duty	DCC Dryden	Series 2: 6 episodes
	Law & Order: UK	Mark Glendon	Episode: "Hard Stop"
	X Moor	Fox	Film
	Grantchester	Dr. Robinson	Episode: "Episode 3"
	Camera Trap	Iain	Film
2015	Midsomer Murders	William Carnavon	Episode: "A Vintage Murder"
	All the Ordinary Angels	Mr. Taylor	Film
	Vera	Danny Pryor	Episode: "Muddy Waters"
	Home Fires	Reverend Adam Collingborne	3 episodes
	Sunset Song	Reverend Gibbon	Film
	Sword Coast Legends	Izhkin	Video game (Voice)
	Jekyll & Hyde	Lord Protheroe	Mini-Series: 5 episodes
	The Other Side of Home	Paul	Short
2015–2019	Catastrophe	Chris	20 episodes
2016	Billionaire Ransom (aka Take Down)	Lawrence Close	Film
	Undercover	John Halliday	Mini-series: 5 episodes
	New Blood	Peter Mayhew	Case 1: 3 episodes; Case 2: 2 episodes
	Battlefield 1	Townsend	Video game (Voice)
2016–2017	Porridge	Officer Meekie	TV film and mini-series
2017	Unforgotten	Barrister Colin Osborne	Series 2 - BAFTA Scotland winner for this role
	Apple Tree Yard	Gary Carmichael	Mini-series
	Mission Galapagos	Narrator	Full series (For International Version)
	Eric, Ernie and Me	Eric Morecambe	TV film
	Edmund the Magnificent	Nate	Short
2018	Urban Myths	Billy	Series 2: Episode: "Agatha Christie"
	Humans	Dr. Neil Sommer	Series 3: 7 episodes
	Say My Name	Dec	Film
2019	The Kid Who Would Be King	Mr. Jeffreys	Film
	Summer of Rockets	Field	Mini-series: 6 episodes
	Defending the Guilty	Miles	3 episodes
2019–2023	Guilt	Max	Mini-series: 12 episodes
2020	Quiz	Paul Smith	Mini-series
	Zog and the Flying Doctors	The Unicorn (voice)	Short film^[9]
	Assassin's Creed Valhalla	Ceolwulf II of Mercia	Video game (Voice)
2021	Meet Me at the Hippos	Presenter	Documentary
2021	Operation Mincemeat	Jock Horsfall	Film
2022	Litvinenko	Clive Timmons	Main role
2023	Calamity James	Dad	Short film
2023	Napoleon	Jean-Andoche Junot	Film
2023–present	The Rig	Alwyn Evans	Main role
2023	World on Fire	Sir James Danemere	Main role
2023	Murder is Easy	Reverend Arthur Humbleby	Two-part drama^[10]
2024	Inside No. 9	Raymond	Episode: "Boo To a Goose"
TBA	Lockerbie: A Search for Truth	Roderick McGill	Upcoming TV series

Audio work

Date	Title	Role	Director	Station
November 1997 – October 2005	Westway	Denny Hampton		BBC World Service
22 March 2006	A Tiny Light in the Darkness	Daniel	Lu Kemp	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
14 August 2007	Cut to the Heart^[11]	Pete	Kirsty Williams	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
6 July 2008	Piper Alpha^[12]		Toby Swift	BBC Radio 3 Drama on 3
13 January 2015	Doctor Who: The English Way of Death^[13]	Porteus	Nicholas Briggs	None, Big Finish Productions
12 October 2015 – present	Doctor Who: Doom Coalition^[14]	The Eleven	Various	None, Big Finish Productions
12 October 2015 – present	Doctor Who: Ravenous^[14]	The Eleven	Various	None, Big Finish Productions
26 January 2016	A History of Paper^[15]	Him	Kirsty Williams	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
January 2019 – March 2021	For The Love of Leo	Leo Fabiani	Marilyn Imrie, Michael Chaplin, Catherine Bailey	BBC Radio 4
13 September 2019 – present	Space 1999^[16]	Commander John Koenig	Nicholas Briggs	None, Big Finish Productions
November 2021 – November 2022	UNIT: Nemesis	The Eleven	Ken Bentley	None, Big Finish Productions

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Ref
2014	British Academy Scotland Awards (BAFTA Scotland)	Best Actor in Television	Line of Duty	Nominated	^[17]
2015	British Academy Scotland Awards (BAFTA Scotland)	Best Actor in Television	Catastrophe	Nominated	^[17]
2017	British Academy Scotland Awards (BAFTA Scotland)	Best Actor in Television	Unforgotten	Won	^[17]
2018	Broadcasting Press Guild (BPG) Awards	Best Actor	Unforgotten, Eric, Ernie and Me, Catastrophe	Won	^[18]
2022	British Academy Scotland Awards (BAFTA Scotland)	Best Actor in Film	Operation Mincemeat	Pending	^[19]