Career
After serving as an officer in the Coldstream Guards Wakeling trained as an actor at The Poor School in London, graduating in 1998. He founded in 2003 and has since trained under Tom Radcliffe. As well as being a working actor, Wakeling founded with Ellie Zeegen and teaches Meisner there.
He has worked with Ken Loach on The Wind That Shakes The Barley and played the part of Captain Tom Ryan in Series 1 of Independent Television’s Primeval which premiered in 2007.
However, Mark"s character died at the end of the first series, so didn"t return when the second series aired in 2008.