Mark Williams Answers Your Questions on Harry Potter and The Fast Show

The Opportunity to Question Mark Williams

Twenty-five years have now passed since the first Harry Potter film and, with the HBO reboot due out this Christmas, Warner Bros is ramping up the celebrations. Key among them is the unveiling of a new feature at the studio tour showcasing key moments, costumes and props from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.

Mark Williams' Role in Harry Potter

And this is why Mark Williams is now taking your questions – although, as Potter purists will know, his character doesn’t actually appear in the first film. Arthur Weasley does, however, play a pretty big role in the other seven movies, so let’s muggle through regardless.

A Look Back at Mark Williams' Career

In the movies, Williams plays the ministry of magic employee, husband to Julie Walters’ Molly Weasley and father of Ron, Ginny, Fred, George, Percy, Charlie and Bill – a role for which he had to dye his hair red.

• Williams will be answering your queries about all things Potter, as well as about his career to date, from his early work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre in England to his breakthrough on The Fast Show in the 1990s.
• Other notable roles include Stardust, 101 Dalmatians, The Borrowers, Shakespeare in Love, A Cock and Bulk Story, Albert Nobbs, and Aardman’s Early Man.

How to Post Your Questions

Post your questions for Williams by noon BST on Monday 4 May and we’ll publish them in June in our regular reader interview series.