Thanks in part to Bennett, the young Mr. Marsan was able to pay for drama school.
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As a teenager, he met Leslie Bennett, a local bookmaker who also ran a chain of menswear shops where Mr. Marsan worked.
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Growing up in London's working-class East End, the son of a teaching-assistant mother and truck-driver father, Mr. Marsan says he knew he wanted to become an actor from an early age.