Marcus Bentley
- Marcus Bentley, known as the voice of Channel 4's Big Brother, was born on October 4, 1967.
- Bentley studied Performing Arts at Stockton & Billingham Technical College, now Stockton Riverside College.
- Marcus Bentley also trained as an actor at East 15 drama school in Essex.
- Before becoming famous for his Geordie accent on Big Brother, Marcus Bentley considered giving up acting and voiiceovers and becoming a teacher. He told BBC Entertainment: "I had a wife and children and was only getting by with voiceover work, theatre roles and TV bit-part acting."
- Marcus Bentley told The Sun: "My first TV role was back in 1994 when I got murdered by a gang with baseball bats on Crime Watch. Then in 1998 my voiceover career began when I impersonated Paul Gascoigne for an ad during the World Cup."
