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Mark Ravenhill

1966 - Today

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Mark Ravenhill (born 7 June 1966) is an English playwright, actor and journalist. Ravenhill is one of the most widely performed playwrights in British theatre of the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries. His major plays include Shopping and Fucking (first performed in 1996), Some Explicit Polaroids (1999), Mother Clap's Molly House (2000), The Cut (2006), Shoot Get Treasure Repeat (2007) and The Cane (2018). In 1999 he was one of the recipients of the V Europe Prize Theatrical Realities awarded to the Royal Court Theatre (with Sarah Kane, Jez Butterworth, Conor McPherson, Martin McDonagh). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Mark Ravenhill is the 7,184th most popular writer (down from 7,104th in 2024), the 7,150th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 7,007th in 2019) and the 739th most popular British Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mark Ravenhill ranks 7,184 out of 7,302Before him are Baatarsuren Shuudertsetseg, Josh Schwartz, Arno Geiger, Larry Christiansen, Inna Shevchenko, and Michael Savage. After him are Natalya Vorozhbyt, George Will, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Refaat Alareer, Han Han, and Niviaq Korneliussen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Mark Ravenhill ranks 936Before him are Aka Morchiladze, Trine Qvist, Eleni Kounalakis, Darren E. Burrows, Mike Mills, and H. Jon Benjamin. After him are Jonathan Silverman, Alessandro Bianchi, Dave Krusen, Shabba Ranks, Seeman, and Ioan Șnep.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mark Ravenhill ranks 7,152 out of 8,785Before him are Chris Martin (1988), Gethin Anthony (1983), Kenny Ball (1930), Tim Sherwood (1969), Laurence Fox (1978), and Micachu (1987). After him are Graeme Sharp (1960), Ritu Arya (1988), Laura Lopes (1978), Silas Carson (1965), Richard Ayoade (1977), and Colin Jackson (1967).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Mark Ravenhill ranks 739Before him are Dennis Potter (1935), Andrea Levy (1956), Douglas Murray (1979), David Nicholls (1966), Terry Nation (1930), and George Monbiot (1963). After him are Edward Lucas (1962), Adrian Tchaikovsky (1972), Nicola Griffith (1960), Ngarmpun Vejjajiva (1963), Charlotte Roche (1978), and Frances Hardinge (1973).