Editing Mark Strong (section)

==Early life==
Strong was born Marco Giuseppe Salussolia in the [[Islington]] borough of London on 5 August 1963, the son of an Austrian mother and an Italian father.<ref>{{cite web |title=Brightest star in Mamet's plow |url=http://www.petergill7.co.uk/works/reviews/speed_the_plow_00/brightest_star.shtml |work=Peter Gill, playwright and theatre director |publisher=John Pavel |access-date=18 August 2012 |first=Imogen |last=Edwards-Jones |date=14 March 2000}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=o2DP8rcvJ7PAo91RlKHbRQ&scan=1|title=Index entry |access-date=7 May 2016|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS}}</ref> His father left the family soon after Strong's birth, and Strong was brought up by his mother while she worked as an [[au pair]]. He later said, "The home I grew up in was a flat in [[Myddelton Square]] in London's Islington, a beautiful [[Georgian architecture|Georgian]] square with a [[St Mark's Church, Myddelton Square|huge church in the middle]]. We moved around a lot when I was young. I remember flats in [[Walthamstow]], [[Clapton, London|Clapton]], [[Stoke Newington]], and [[Edmonton, London|Edmonton]]."<ref name="Independent 2008">{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/my-secret-life-mark-strong-actor-age-45-926736.html |title=My Secret Life: Mark Strong, Actor, age 45 |date=13 September 2008 |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |access-date=5 August 2017}}</ref> He said in 2008 that when he was a child he was inspired to become an actor by watching French actor [[Alain Delon]],<ref name="Independent 2008"/> but clarified in 2019 that he did not consider acting as a career until he was older.<ref>[[Craig Parkinson]]'s ''Two Shot Podcast'', episode "[https://twoshotpod.podbean.com/e/tsp098-mark-strong/ Mark Strong] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200112110940/https://twoshotpod.podbean.com/e/tsp098-mark-strong/ |date=12 January 2020 }}"</ref>

When Strong was young, his mother legally changed his name to help him fit in with his English peers.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/6844982/Mark-Strong-how-I-put-the-fear-factor-into-Sherlock-Holmes.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/6844982/Mark-Strong-how-I-put-the-fear-factor-into-Sherlock-Holmes.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Mark Strong: how I put the fear factor into Sherlock Holmes |first=Olga |last=Craig |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=20 December 2009}}{{cbignore}}</ref> He was baptised a [[Catholic Church|Catholic]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Vincent |first=Sally |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2005/apr/16/theatre2 |title=Hard man, soft heart |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |quote=He was christened a Catholic |date=16 April 2005 |access-date=21 June 2010}}</ref> He attended [[Wymondham College]] in [[Morley, Norfolk]], where he sang in two [[Punk rock|punk]] bands, the Electric Hoax and Private Party—the latter's name based on the idea that people wouldn't attend their shows, thinking they were private parties.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rock & Roll Performers|url=http://www.wcremembered.co.uk/rock_roll.html |website=Wymondham College Remembered |access-date=18 August 2012|date=15 August 2012}}</ref> Strong had ambitions to become a lawyer but returned to London after one year of studying German law at the [[Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich]]. He subsequently studied English and drama at [[Royal Holloway, University of London]] before attending the [[Bristol Old Vic Theatre School]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/4570816/Mark-Strong-the-strong-violent-type.html |title=Mark Strong: the strong, violent type |first=John |last=Preston|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |date=18 February 2009}}</ref>