Mark Dexter is a British actor, classically trained at the Royal
Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Dexter's early successes were on
stage, in particular with two high-profile productions of Tennessee
Williams plays, beginning with Sam Mendes' 1995 Olivier Award winning
production of The Glass Menagerie at the Donmar Warehouse, in which he
played The Gentleman Caller.
Since then, Dexter has moved primarily into film and television. Among
an extensive list of British TV credits, he is probably best known in
his home country for playing Timothy Gray in the 1950s set ITV crime
drama The Bletchley Circle opposite screen wife Anna Maxwell Martin,
and for the devious Sun Hill CPS lawyer Matt Hinckley in ITV's The
Bill, a role he played from 2006-07.
Between October 2008 and January 2009, Dexter made regular appearances
in America on NBC, playing the role of Samuel Tuffley in eight episodes
of Crusoe, a major 12-part mini-series. In December 2012 in the UK
Dexter appeared as the principal villain 'Sir Arthur Donaldson' in the
opening episode of the BBC's Victorian crime drama 'Ripper Street'.