Jason Merrells is an English actor, who received his big break when he starred in Casualty for three years (1994 to 1997) as receptionist Matt Hawley. He was educated at Buckhurst Hill County High School from 1980 to 1986, and later at Chichester University. Merrells is best known for two roles, one being that of stylist Gavin Ferraday in Cutting It.
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- Jason Merrells is an English actor, who received his big break when he starred in Casualty for three years (1994 to 1997) as receptionist Matt Hawley. He was educated at Buckhurst Hill County High School from 1980 to 1986, and later at Chichester University. Merrells is best known for two roles, one being that of stylist Gavin Ferraday in Cutting It. Jealous of the affair Allie was having with Finn, Gavin plotted with Finn's wife Mia, and slept with his ex-wife's daughter (who she had given up after a teenage pregnancy), and eventually rekindled his love with Allie before she was killed in a road accident. His other most notable role is as James Dowland in Lark Rise to Candleford. Dowland, a wealthy businessman, is the love interest for Dorcas Lane, the main character in the series. Jason Merrells also made guest appearances in successful dramas such as Queer as Folk, Fat Friends, A Touch of Frost, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries and The Project. He also starred in Clocking Off, playing a factory employee called Martin Leach. Merrells appeared in a series called Sweet Medicine, which failed to capture the viewers. It was moved from its 9pm slot to 11pm as the audience figures continued to fall. He later starred in BBC drama Waterloo Road as headmaster Jack Rimmer which lasted from early March 2006 and ended in late April 2006. His character was a tough-talking no nonsense secondary comprehensive school headteacher. While his methods were often controversial he had a strong moral code. The series returned to the BBC in January, 2007 and ended the second series on the 26th April 2007. The 3rd series aired on the 11th October 2007, and his character was written out - leaving a vacancy available for another headteaher. Merrells cites the growing direction towards more soap-opera elements as the reason for leaving. Merrells returned to Waterloo Road for one episode in 2008, before going on to play a wealthy newcomer James Dowland in the second series of the BBC costume drama Lark Rise to Candleford in 2009. Merrells is the brother of actor Simon Merrells, who played Conrad Williams in Family Affairs from 2004 to 2005. Merrells, from August to October 2007, performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. He played the role of Orsino in William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, or What You Will alongside his brother Simon Merrells who as Antonio. The Merrells brothers then went on to tour in A Comedy of Errors with the Royal Shakespeare Company from October - December 2007. From March - April 2009 he appeared in the Theatre Royal Plymouth and Thelma Hunt production of Measure for Measure as Angelo alongside Alistair McGowan as the Duke. The production is scheduled to transfer to the Almeida theatre in February 2010. Merrells has two daughters from his first marriage, Camille and Gina, who live in Oxfordshire with their mother, and one son, Jackson, with his present wife, Zerlina.
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- Jason Merrells is an English actor, who received his big break when he starred in Casualty for three years (1994 to 1997) as receptionist Matt Hawley. He was educated at Buckhurst Hill County High School from 1980 to 1986, and later at Chichester University. Merrells is best known for two roles, one being that of stylist Gavin Ferraday in Cutting It.
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