DOB: 21 May 1965 STAR SIGN: Gemini HOME: London ADVERTISING: Various commercials (details unavailable) TV: Search And Rescue (HTV); Headmaster (BBC); Duane Orpington IN GRANGE HILL (BBC 1980-1984) THEATRE: Lead role in OLIVER! (1977/78)

Duane Oprington, best mate of Stewpot and Claire, always followed
the crowd. Off screen Mark Baxter was something of a sporting
hero (you would be with a name like that!)

	YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW... It was quite by accident - literally - that Mark got into acting. He broke his leg when he was seven and was told to take dancing lessons to get fit again. So he joined a stage school and the rest is history! FAMILY: Mark has one younger brother, Joey. His grandad was an actor too, appearing at London's Whitehall Theatre just after the war. HOBBIES: These days Mark is kept busy with his children but he was sports-mad when he worked on Grange Hill. Swimming, diving, running, football - he had cups for them all! And as if that wasn't enough he also went to Boys' Brigade. WHERE IS HE NOW...? Mark has quit acting and is now a full-time dad. Though as he was working on Grange Hill, his ambition was to carry on acting. His most recent TV appearance was in "From Grange Hill To Albert Square" in 1998.