Charles Mayer

Charles Anthony Martin Mayer is an English actor. He has been living and working in Australia since 2012.

Early life and education Charles Anthony Martin Mayer was born in South Tidworth, Hampshire, England. In 1992 he entered Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, from where he was commissioned into the Welsh Guards. He spent four years as an officer in Northern Ireland, two years as an instructor at the Infantry Training Centre in Catterick, two years on ceremonial duties in London, and a further two years in Tidworth.

After completing ten years of service, Mayer left the army, decided to become an actor, and entered the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2002. Mayer plays the supporting role of Jensen.

In Mandarin Films' Ip Man 2 (2010), Mayer plays the villain opposite Sammo Hung.

In Greys Inbetween, a romantic tragedy written, directed, and produced by Andrew Rajan, Mayer plays the villain, the philandering husband who breaks his girlfriend's heart.

He appears in the Australian television series ANZAC Girls, Deadline Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Wastelander Panda and Pine Gap.

Theatre In London in 2006 he appeared in the West End in Martin Sherman's Bent, with Alan Cumming. The revival was directed by Daniel Kramer, under whom he has enjoyed several exploratory workshops. In Shanghai he worked with various professional theatre companies, appearing in Yazmena Reza's Art, I Am My Own Wife, No Exit, Oleanna and The Odd Couple.

In Australia, Mayer has appeared at the Adelaide Fringe in I Am My Own Wife and The Last Time I Saw Richard by Cat Commander; at State Theatre Company of South Australia's Othello, The Popular Mechanicals, and The 39 Steps; with Bluefruit Theatre in Dennis Kelly's Orphans; and at The Fitz, Sydney, in Anatomy of a Suicide. In New Zealand, he performed at Pop Up Globe in The Taming of The Shrew and Richard the Third.