The Gentleman
Played by Marc Warren
A mysterious fellow with a love of dancing and hair the colour of thistledown, The Gentleman (whose real name he never cares to tell) hails from a kingdom called Lost Hope, which seems to lie just beyond the mirrors, in a land outside of our dull English senses. In his castle made of bones and wrecked ships, he presides over a dance that has been going on for hundreds and hundreds of years; and now that he is able to go about in England once more, he is on the lookout for new guests to join the ball.
Whilst not perhaps entirely evil, he is as capricious and dangerous as all members of his race, and his greed for beautiful companions unleashes terrible consequences on the people of England in general, and on its magicians in particular. The Gentleman has more magic in his fingertips that anyone in the human world can dream of, and when it is unleashed, the consequences are quite incredible and terrifying in the extreme.
"Do not make a bargain of my friend"
With Arabella at her most vulnerable, The Gentleman makes her a tempting offer.
About Marc Warren
Marc saw in 2015 with style as the dastardly villain Rochefort in . A prolific actor of both stage and screen, he's also performed in critically acclaimed US TV drama The Good Wife, all four series of Sky's Mad Dogs for Sky1, Hustle, Dracula, The Hogfather, State of Play and Band of Brothers, earning a Royal Television Society Award for Best Actor for his role in Oliver Twist.
Marc's roles for film include; Wanted, Green Street, Colour Me Kubrick, Song for a Raggy Boy, Principles of Lust, Bring me the Head of Mavis Davis and Boston Kickout. Theatre roles include; Cool Hand Luke (Aldwych), Little Voice (Vaudeville), The Pillowman (Leicester Haymarket), Clubland (Royal Court) and Privates on Parade (Leicester Haymarket).
Marc made his directorial debut in 2013 with the short film Hey Diddly Dee for Sky's Playhouse Presents which he also wrote, starring Kylie Minogue.
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