Mark Strong Biography

Mark Strong will soon be seen in a host of upcoming feature films. Theseinclude Ridley Scott's Body of Lies, with Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe; Jean-Marc Vallée's The Young Victoria, opposite Emily Blunt; Vicente Amorim's Good, with Viggo Mortensen; Mathieu Kassovitz' Babvlon A.D., opposite Vin Diesel; Baillie Walsh's Flashbacks of a Fool; and Guy Ritchie's RocknRolla. Filmgoers have previously seen him in Matthew Vaughn's Stardust; Danny Boyle's Sunshine; Guy Ritchie's Revolver; Stephen Gaghan's Syriana; Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist; Kevin Reynolds' Tristan + Isolde; Thomas Vinterberg's It's All About Love; Mike Figgis' Hotel; David Evans' Fever Pitch; and István Szabó's Sunshine (1999), among other works. Mr. Strong was a BAFTA Award nominee for his performance in Bille Eltringham's miniseries The Long Firm. His other telefilm and miniseries credits include Our Friends in the North, in segments directed by Simon Cellan Jones and Stuart Urban; Adrian Shergold's Low Winter Sun (which won the Scottish BAFTA Award for Best Drama) and Births, Marriages and Deaths; Pete Travis' The Jury and Henry VIII; David Drury's Trust; Diarmuid Lawrence's Emma, opposite Kate Beckinsale; Roger Michell's The Buddha of Suburbia; DannyBoyle's Screenplay episode "Not Even God Is Wise Enough;" and, opposite Helen Mirren for directors David Drury and Tom Hooper, respectively, Prime Suspect 3 and Prime Suspect 6. He has also performed in radio and stage plays, and was an Olivier Award nominee for his performance in Sam Mendes' Donmar Warehouse staging of Twelfth Night (which he played in repertory with Uncle Vanya). U.K. audiences have seen him perform with the Royal Shakespeare Company, in Danny Boyle's staging of Hess is Dead, among other productions; with the National Theatre, in four productions for Richard Eyre and Patrick Marber's Closer, among other shows; at the Royal Court, in Lindsay Posner's production of The Treatment and Hettie MacDonald's staging Thickness of Skin; and Peter Gill's New Ambassadors production of Speed-the-Plow.

• 1. Sherlock Holmes: There was never any magic, only conjuring tricks. The simplest involved paying people off, like the prison guard who pretended to be possessed outside your cell. You reputation and the inmates' fear did the rest. Others required more elaborate preparations, like the sandstone slap that covered your tomb. You had it broken before the burial and put together using a mild adhesive. An acient egypcian recipe, I believe. Mixture of egg and honey. Designed to be washed away by the rain. Arranging for your father to drag in his own bathtub required more modern science. Very clever of Reordan to find a paralytic that was activated by the combination of copper and water, and was therefore undetectable once the bathtub water was drained. It put up quite a challenge for me, had he not also tested it in some unfortunate amphibians. The death of Standish was a real mystery, until you used the same compund to blow up the warf. And oddoreless, tasteless, flamable liquid. Yet it burned with an unusual tick issue. Did Standish mistake it for rain as he entered the temple? All it took was a spark. A single rigged bullet in his gun. Ingenious. Like all great preformers, you saved your piece-de-resistránce for the end. A chemical weapon, distrilled from cyanide and refined in the bellies of swyne. Had it worked, your followers in Parliament would have watched unharmed as their colleagues were dying around them. They had no way of knowing you had given them the antidote. Instead they would have believed it was magic and that you had harnessed the ultimate power. And the world would have followed, fear being the most powerful weapon of all. The devil's due a soul, I'd say.
  2. Blackwood: For Godssakes, Holmes, cut me loose!
  3. Sherlock Holmes: First, the world will see you for what you are. A fraud. And then you'll be hanged, properly this time.
  4. Blackwood: There's a long journey from here to the rope... [falls to his death]
  From Sherlock Holmes. Submitted by Dave M (2 months ago)

• 1. John Carter: [Stares at the balcony of the palace after the battle, and holds the medallion, with Woola right next to him] John Carter of Earth. [Turns to Woola] John Carter of Mars sounds much better. [He throws the medallion far away, Woola growls]
  2. Matai Shang: [Materializes right next to him] Your move Earth man. Jarsoom. [He grabs Carter and a flash of blue light occurs]
  3. John Carter: [Wakes up in the cave covered in a crust of dust] No, no, no. [Crawls to the medallion symbol carved into the cave wall, and places his hand] Barsoom, Barsoom.
  4. Edgar Rice Burroughs: [Reading aloud, and staring at Mars in the night sky] Like a fool I had thrown away my medallion. I am fifty million miles away from my true home, with no possible way to bridge the distance. Then I recalled Matai Shang, how he knew where I had come from. There must be a Thern presence on Earth. The cave was proof of that, I knew what I had to use the gold for. For ten bitter years I searched the world, for any mention of the Therns. I long suspected that the Therns were observing me. I could only trust myself. My searches were fruitless, for many years. Until a few months ago when I found it. That is why my sudden death occurred, and why you have been given everything. I need someone to guard my body on Earth, or my copy will die on Mars. The Therns my have already destroyed my body while you finish reading this last sentence. [He drops the book and runs to John's crypt]
  From John Carter. Submitted by Jeanne V (2 months ago)

• 1. Matai Shang: We do not cause the destruction of a world, Captain Carter. We simply manage it. Feed off it, if you like. It is a game we have been playing since the beginning of Barsoom. We will continue to play it long after Earth ends. [He gloats to a supposedly defeated John Carter]
  From John Carter. Submitted by Jeanne V (2 months ago)

• 1. John Carter: Who are you?
  2. Thark Bookie: American.
  3. Thark Bookie: Who are you, sir?
  4. Matai Shang: Sir? Definitively the South. The Carolinas perhaps? No, Virginia. It's a lovely place.
  5. John Carter: You know Virginia?
  6. Matai Shang: Not as well as I should.
  From John Carter. Submitted by Jeanne V (2 months ago)

• 1. Matai Shang: We do not cause the destruction of a world, Captain Carter. We simply manage it. Feed off it, if you like.
  From John Carter. Submitted by David B (2 months ago)

• 1. Jim Prideaux: What are you good at?
  2. Bill Roach: Nothing, sir
  3. Jim Prideaux: You're a good watcher, though, eh? Us loners always are.
  From Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Submitted by Juan F (4 months ago)

• 1. Mussawi: [Bob is tied to a chair with his hands on a table] Bob, your gonna give me the names of everyone who has taken money from you. [he pulls a fingernail from Bob's hand with a plier] Oh, that is disgusting.
  2. Robby Barnes: Jimmy, your not one of those Koran thumpers.
  3. Mussawi: My name is Mussawi. [he pulls another fingernail from Bob. He then throws water at Bob's face and begins punching him violently in the face] You fucking fuck, stupid fuck, what the fuck! This is a fucking war! Your a P.O.fucking W! Give me the fucking names! [Bob hits his head against the ground, still tied to the chair] Fuck it. [in Arabic] I'm cutting his fucking head off. [he grabs a knife and kneels down to bob's head] I'm gonna cut your head off Bob.
  From Syriana. Submitted by David O (6 months ago)

• 1. Blackwood: Death... is only the beginning.
  From Sherlock Holmes. Submitted by Andreas K (7 months ago)

• 1. Pinbacker: At the end of time, a moment will come when just one man remains. Then the moment will pass. Man will be gone. There will be nothing to show that we were ever here... but stardust.
  From Sunshine. Submitted by Ingrid G (8 months ago)

• 1. Frank D'Amico: A bazooka?
  2. Huge Goon: [looks at him]
  3. Frank D'Amico: Okay.
  From Kick-Ass. Submitted by Lou Z (8 months ago)

• 1. Frank D'Amico: [in falsetto voice] Mommy, I want to have a Kick-Ass party! Dumb little fucks!
  From Kick-Ass. Submitted by Stephen D (10 months ago)

• 1. Hal Jordan/Green Lantern: Then I'll die trying.
  From Green Lantern. Submitted by Joseph M (10 months ago)

• 1. Frank D'Amico: I gotta send a public service message to the people out there that being a superhero is bad for your health.
  From Kick-Ass. Submitted by Palmer R (11 months ago)

• 1. Paul Ashworth: Leave it up to Arsenal to score one goal when they need two.
  2. Steve: You want them to score the second goal before they score the first?
  From Fever Pitch. Submitted by Theta S (13 months ago)

• 1. Pinbacker: Neither did I. But you will find Him, in the sunshine.
  From Sunshine. Submitted by Jake G (13 months ago)

• 1. Hani: This is unusual. Your Ed Hoffman would rather have less information than share what he has with me.
  From Body of Lies. Submitted by rob g (13 months ago)

• 1. Pinbacker: Are you an angel? Has the time come? I've been waiting so long.
  From Sunshine. Submitted by Chris P (13 months ago)