Background
Charles Mayer was born in South Tidworth, Hampshire, England, the son of Jennifer-Ann Wright, a retired Royal Air Force Intelligence officer and Martin Mayer, an Royal Air Force test pilot.
- Photos
- Works
- Photos
- Works
Charles Mayer
Edit ProfileEducation
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Wellington College.
Career
He passed the Regular Commissions Board and in 1992 entered Sandhurst, from where he was commissioned into the Welsh Guards. After the Platoon Commander"s Battle Course, he took over a platoon in Northern Ireland in January 1993. He spent four years as an officer in Northern Ireland, two years as an instructor at the Infantry Training Centre, Catterick, two years on ceremonial duties in London, and a further two years in Tidworth, working in an office 100 yards from where he was born.
After completing ten years of service, Mayer left the army, decided to become an actor, and entered the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2002.
In Mandarin s" Ip Manitoba 2 (2010), a large budget kung fu film shown in cinemas across Asia, Mayer plays the villain opposite Sammo Hung. In Greys Inbetween by Ambient Limited, a romantic tragedy written, directed and produced by Andrew Rajan, Mayer plays the villain, the philandering husband who breaks his girlfriend"s heart.
In The Ultimate Truth, a comedy written and directed by Nick Clarke with Wysiwyg s, he plays a confused meglomaniac gangster turned politician with a sweet moll. Foreign short film, Mayer played a leading role in Analysis by director Richard Trombly and in Goodbye Shanghai directed by Adam Christian Clark, has written and directed Against All Odds for the Meiwenti Shanghai Short Competition 2009, and produced and acted in China White Night for the 2009 Straight8 Competition.
-
Born
-
Nationality
United Kingdom -
Ethnicity