# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-benton
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:16:54.981Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mark-benton"
name: "Mark Benton"
slug: "mark-benton"
description: "Mark Benton is an English actor and television presenter known for his roles as Eddie in Early Doors, Howard in Northern Lights, Martin Pond in Barbara and the eponymous Frank Hathaway in Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators. Benton has also starred in the BBC One school-based drama series Waterloo Road as mathematics teacher Daniel \"Chalky\" Chalk from 2011 to 2014. In 2013, Benton took part in Strictly Come Dancing; further, in 2015, he hosted the daytime game show The Edge."
tagline: "English actor"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/n7cqGCKB8Jk4E69PsrareEpmvly.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1965-11-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           11.00178266666667
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "markbenton100"
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0072949/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump