---
name: "Mark Mitchinson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mark-mitchinson"
fi1m_id: "mark-mitchinson"
imdb_id: "nm2680937"
tmdb_id: 205427
wikidata_id: "Q17180787"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "6 July 1966"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 64
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-23T21:14:40.471220+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Mark Mitchinson

## Identity

Mark Mitchinson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mark-mitchinson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mark-mitchinson
- **IMDb ID:** nm2680937
- **TMDB ID:** 205427
- **Wikidata ID:** Q17180787
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Mitchinson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17180787, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2680937/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/205427

Actor. Born 6 July 1966 in England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 6 July 1966, England, UK
- **Active:** 2013–present
- **Also known as:** Mark Mitchison
- **Average Fi1m score:** 64, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 60 (2), 2020s 72 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 64 to 68 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Action 2, Adventure 2, Fantasy 2, Horror 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $2,062m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Mitchinson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17180787, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2680937/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/205427

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Evil Dead Rise*](https://film.one/film/evil-dead-rise.md) (72)

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## Biography

Mark Mitchinson is a British-born New Zealand actor. Born on 6 July 1966 in London, England, he moved to New Zealand as a child, trained at the Guildhall School of Speech and Drama in London, and returned to New Zealand in 2002 to resume his career.

He is known for roles including Braga in *The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug* (2013) and *The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies* (2014), Vambrace in *Mortal Engines* (2018), and Mr. Fonda in *Evil Dead Rise* (2023). He has also appeared in *Underworld: Rise of the Lycans* (2009), *Spartacus* (2010), *Ash vs Evil Dead* (2015), and *The Shannara Chronicles* (2016). Mitchinson won New Zealand Film and Television Awards for Best Performance in *Bloodlines* (2011) and *Siege* (2012).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, johnsonlaird.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Evil Dead Rise* (2023), Fi1m 72, as Mr. Fonda — [page](https://film.one/film/evil-dead-rise.md)
- *The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies* (2014), Fi1m 54, as Braga — [page](https://film.one/film/the-hobbit-the-battle-of-the-five-armies.md)
- *The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug* (2013), Fi1m 65, as Braga — [page](https://film.one/film/the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug.md)

## Complete filmography (55)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Treasure & Dirt* (2026), series, Actor
- *Lee Cronin's The Mummy* (2026), as Professor Bixler
- *Maysa* (2025), as Brian
- *Notes from a Fish* (2025), as Stuart
- *M3GAN 2.0* (2025), as Niles Keller
- *nOOb* (2024), series, as Norman Conrad
- *Grafted* (2024), as John
- *The Convert* (2024), as Beauchamp
- *Uproar* (2023), as Principal Slane
- *The Tank* (2023), as Amos Tilbury
- *Evil Dead Rise* (2023), as Mr. Fonda — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/evil-dead-rise.md)
- *Our Flag Means Death* (2022), series, as Hornigold
- *Blood and Gold* (2022), as The Man
- *Love Knots* (2021), as Prescott
- *Cowboy Bebop* (2021), series, Actor
- *Green* (2021), as John
- *The Panthers* (2021), series, as Sergeant Miller
- *The Wilds* (2020), series, as Leonard Whitney
- *Sextortion* (2020), series, as Reverend Bellows
- *Ablaze* (2019), as Kenneth Ballantyne
- *The Gulf* (2019), series, as D.I. Ivan Petrie
- *My Life Is Murder* (2019), series, as Jem
- *Daffodils* (2019), as Barry
- *Mortal Engines* (2018), as Vambrace
- *No Shame* (2018), as Ian
- *Wellington Paranormal* (2018), series, as Ghost Cop Miller
- *Mystery Road* (2018), series, as Owen
- *Human Traces* (2017), as Glenn
- *Pike River* (2016), as Steve Rose
- *Bombshell* (2016), as Allen Galbraith
- *The Shannara Chronicles* (2016), series, as Flick Ohmsford
- *Ash vs Evil Dead* (2015), series, as Crosby
- *800 Words* (2015), series, as Dean
- *The Monster of Mangatiti* (2015), as Bill Cornelius
- *Venus and Mars* (2015), as Advocatus Diaboli (Voice)
- *How to Murder Your Wife* (2015), as Mike Bungay
- *The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies* (2014), as Braga — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/the-hobbit-the-battle-of-the-five-armies.md)
- *The Brokenwood Mysteries* (2014), series, as Declan O'Grady
- *Coverband* (2014), series, as Don
- *Consent: The Louise Nicholas Story* (2014), as John Dewar
- *The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug* (2013), as Braga — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug.md)
- *Siege* (2012), as Jan Molenaar
- *Sione's 2: Unfinished Business* (2012), as Homeless Man
- *Rage* (2011), as Police Commissioner Walton
- *Billy* (2011), as Tom Parkinson
- *After the Waterfall* (2010), as Andy
- *Bloodlines* (2010), as Colin Bouwer
- *Tracker* (2010), as Saunders
- *Spartacus* (2010), series, as Aulus — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/tv/spartacus-2010.md)
- *Eruption* (2009), as Clive
- *Underworld: Rise of the Lycans* (2009), as Nobleman
- *Legend of the Seeker* (2008), series, as Gosfid
- *Show of Hands* (2008), as Alex Lee Lerner
- *The Man Who Lost His Head* (2007), as Murphy (as Mike Mitchison)
- *Power Rangers* (1993), series, as Boomtower (voice), Armadeevil, Singe (voice), Sheriff Skyfire (voice), Tubotron (voice), General Shifter (voice), Trickster (voice), Creepox (voice)

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