Martin Ball

Training: Webber Douglas, graduating in 1992.

Theatre includes: recently, Thénardier in Les Misérables (West End 2009-11), George Banks in Mary Poppins (UK tour 2008-09), Doctor Dillamond in Wicked (original cast, West End), Harry in Mamma Mia! (West End), Richard in Dead Funny (Nottingham Playhouse), Lord Fancourt Babberley in Charley's Aunt (Sheffield Crucible), Colin in Absent Friends directed by Alan Ayckbourn (Scarborough), Hortensio in The Taming of the Shrew (Nuffield, Southampton), Jack in The Importance of Being Earnest (UK tour) and pantomimes in Oxford, Dartford, Aberdeen, Stockport, Southend and Hayes.

Film includes: Wyatt in Flood and Ali-G Indahouse.

Television includes: series appearances as Mr Steel in Bernard's Watch (two series), Dad in Home Farm Twins (two series), Andrew in Keeping Mum (two series), Dan McGill in Chalk (two series), Mordant in Little Lord Fauntleroy, Dave Masters in Casualty and Vicar Tim Fothergill in Down to Earth. Also, Robin in My Family, Ron Smedley in The Thick of It, Jonathan Powell in Pinochet in Suburbia, Dr Chris Harry in Strange, Alistair in Animals, Mr O'Neill in Hotel Babylon, Graham in The Only Boy for Me, Clive in According to Bex, Tim in Wild West, Prosecuting Counsel Tim Frazier in Family Affairs, sketches in French and Saunders and The Armando Iannucci Show, Paul, the Games Master, in My Dad's the Prime Minister, Brian Dixon in Clare in the Community, Frank in Back Home (two-hour feature), Robert in Preserves (Table Twelve series), Henry in Human Remains, Simon Maugham in The Missing Postman (BBC Screen One), Herr Koch in Genghis Cohen (BBC Screen One), Dennis Cooke in Badger, Jeff Hawkes and Rt Hon Stephen Millar in The Bill, Harper in Wycliffe and Simon Lester in Anna Lee.

Radio includes: recently, Marlow in She Stoops to Conquer and various characters in The Cricket Plays