Mark Moraghan

"I absolutely love the job. It's such an iconic character and we've all grown up with him."

- Mark Moraghan on his storytelling role, Good Morning Britain

Mark Stephen Moraghan (born on 27th January 1963) is a British actor, voice actor and singer. He was the final narrator for Thomas & Friends in the UK and the US prior to the series switching to first-person narration by Thomas.

Career
He was hired as narrator in 2012, and held the role from King of the Railway to the twenty-first series (replacing Michael Angelis and Michael Brandon, respectively). He also re-narrated the thirteenth series episode Snow Tracks specially for the DVD Santa's Little Engine in the US, as well as re-narrating shortened versions of the fourteenth series episodes, Charlie and Eddie and Thomas' Crazy Day and the fifteenth series episodes, Up, Up and Away! and Percy's New Friends for the PBS Kids website. Moraghan also provides the voice-over for the Read and Play! app as well as some others. When the role of the narrator was scrapped after the twenty-first series, it was announced that Moraghan would continue working on the series, narrating tie-in content and voicing characters in "Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures!”, starting with Dexter. He also replaced the late Ben Forster with Storytime Segments, playing Mr. Evans. In 2020, he reprised his role as the narrator for the Thomas & Friends Storytime podcast.

He has appeared in many British drama series including "Peak Practice" and Heartbeat, and two roles in Emmerdale. He is most famous for his roles as Greg Shadwick in Brookside, Ray Wyatt in Dream Team, Owen Davies in Holby City and Barry, one of the original Scousers, in Harry Enfield and Chums.

UK/US

 * Dexter
 * Bob

Online videos

 * An Australian Football Player
 * Edward
 * Mr. Evans

Filmography
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Film

 * Judge Dredd (1995)
 * Thomas & Friends: King of the Railway (2013)
 * Allies (2014)
 * Thomas & Friends: Tale of the Brave (2014)
 * Thomas & Friends: The Adventure Begins (2015)
 * Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure (2015)
 * Amar Akbar & Tony (2015)
 * Thomas & Friends: The Great Race (2016)
 * Thomas & Friends: Journey Beyond Sodor (2017)
 * Zero Days Clean (2017)

TV

 * Bread (1987)
 * Help! (1988)
 * Emmerdale (1988-2017)
 * Shoot to Kill (1990)
 * Screenplay (1990)
 * Medics (1990)
 * Waterfront Beat (1990-1991)
 * Screen Two (1991)
 * Boon (1991)
 * The Chief (1995)
 * London's Burning (1995)
 * The Vet (1996)
 * Sharman (1996)
 * Peak Practice (1996-1997)
 * Harry Enfield and Chums (1994-1997)
 * Casualty (1997)
 * Real Women (1998)
 * Brookside (1989-1999)
 * Always and Everyone (2000)
 * Close & True (2000)
 * Dream Team (1991-2001)
 * Casualty@Holby City (2005)
 * Holby City (2001-2005)
 * Where the Heart Is (2006)
 * Stepdad (2008)
 * The Bill (2008)
 * Heartbeat (1993-2008)
 * Doctors (2010-2012)
 * Rocket's Island (2012)
 * Thomas & Friends (2013-2018)
 * Coronation Street (2015)

Other
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 * GTA… but with talking trains!! (2023)

Trivia

 * He was interviewed for his role as the narrator on BBC Radio Merseyside in May 2013 at which time he said that he had recorded about one hundred episodes at the time and he stated his opinion on the series.
 * Mark Moraghan's voice sounds similar to Michael Angelis'.
 * He started working on Thomas and Friends around June 2012.
 * On 19 July 2013, he attended at Drayton Manor's Thomas Land as a V.I.P guest for the grand opening of Winston's Whistle-Stop Tour.
 * Mark and his family attended the Blue Carpet premiere events including King of the Railway on 18 August 2013, Tale of the Brave on 10th August 2014, Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure on 12 July 2015 and The Great Race on 22 May 2016.
 * He was the third British narrator to have his narrations exported to North America, the first two being Ringo Starr and Michael Angelis.
 * He was the first narrator since Ringo Starr, Michael Angelis and George Carlin to narrate Railway Series based adaptations.
 * According to a Twitter conversation, Mark's favourite character is Percy. He had stated in an interview with the Sodor Island Fansite that he also liked Cranky.
 * He was the first narrator to voice a character in the UK dub, and the second overall after Michael Brandon in the US dub. He was also the first narrator to voice a character, but not narrate.
 * Despite having left as narrator of the television series, he still narrates online content.
 * He was the fourth narrator to re-narrate episodes in series prior to his debut series, the first three being George Carlin, Håkan Mohede and Michael Brandon.