British-born American actor. Born December 16th 1976 in Eccles, Manchester to Brian Ashworth, a cabinetmaker, and his wife Elaine, a hard-working housewife. Mark worked at Manchester United's 'Theatre Of Dreams', until he and his family moved to Tennessee in summer of 1992 where the long hot days working as a brick layer inspired him to build his own dreams. After a ligament accident ended his amateur football playing days in 2005, he began attending drama school under the tutelage of Michael H Cole and has been enjoying the journey of self knowledge and collaboration of creating images just as much as he enjoyed the days on the football field.