Mark Heap (born 13 May 1957) is an English actor best known for a variety of television comedy roles including struggling artist Brian Topp in Spaced, the pompous Dr. Alan Statham in Green Wing, and various roles in the sketch shows Big Train and Jam. He began his acting career in the 1980s, as a member of the Medieval Players: a touring company performing medieval and early modern theatre, and featuring spectacular stilt-walking, juggling and puppetry.
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- Mark Heap (born 13 May 1957) is an English actor best known for a variety of television comedy roles including struggling artist Brian Topp in Spaced, the pompous Dr. Alan Statham in Green Wing, and various roles in the sketch shows Big Train and Jam. He began his acting career in the 1980s, as a member of the Medieval Players: a touring company performing medieval and early modern theatre, and featuring spectacular stilt-walking, juggling and puppetry. After its demise, he became part of the street theatre duo The Two Marks who appeared on children's television shows Ghost Train and 321 in the early nineties. Heap appeared in Jam, and the radio predecessor Blue Jam, as well as Chris Morris's controversial documentary parody Brass Eye. In this he participated in the 'Good Aids/Bad Aids' sketch, in which, after learning that Heap's character has caught 'Bad Aids' from his boyfriend and not, as he had thought, 'Good Aids' from a blood transfusion, Morris' character asks for him to be removed from the studio, a suggestion met with loud cheers from the audience. Heap voiced the lead character of Eric in the animated comedy Stressed Eric but his voice was replaced by that of Hank Azaria when the show aired in America. Other recurring roles included Terry Roche in Paul Whitehouse's comedy-drama Happiness and Derek Few in How Do You Want Me?. He played Eliza's husband in The Eliza Stories (by Barry Pain, adapted by Jonathan Dryden Taylor), broadcast on BBC Radio 4, October 2006, and appeared as Marmite the Dwarf, in the short-lived BBC Radio 4 sitcom The Sofa of Time. In the film About a Boy, Heap played a school teacher. Alongside Kevin Eldon, he played 'Man with dog' in Tim Burton's 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He also guested in the second series of the BBC comedy Look Around You as Leonard Hatred, and starred in the music video for Four Tet's single "Smile Around The Face" in 2005. Heap also played a minor role in the 2006 film Confetti as the marriage registrar. He played an injured fairground patron in Tunnel of Love (2004), which also starred Jack Dee. In March 2007 he appeared in the BBC One sitcom Hotel Babylon as an unsuccessful businessman who became a bellboy. He plays the part of the prince Tertius in the 2007 film Stardust. In 2008 he appeared in the BBC period drama Lark Rise to Candleford in the role of Thomas Brown, the Post Office's head postman, as well as super villain Lightkiller in an episode of the sitcom No Heroics. He also appears as the dad of Chris Miles in the Channel 4 programme Skins. He is currently appearing as the love interest of the main character in the BBC comedy Love Soup. In 2008 he co-starred in the surreal sci-fi film Captain Eager and the Mark of Voth. In 2008 Heap played the role of Widmerpool in a BBC Radio 4 serialisation of A Dance to the Music of Time. In 2009 he played a car saleman in a currently showing SEAT television advert. In 2009 he played the role of Charles Dickens in a BBC Two drama Desperate Romantics.
- Mark Heap ist ein britischer Schauspieler. Als Sohn eines britischen Vaters und einer amerikanischen Mutter wurde er 1957 in Indien geboren. Er ist vor allem bekannt für seine Rollen in diversen Comedyserien auf den Sendern der BBC und Channel 4.
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- Mark Heap (born 13 May 1957) is an English actor best known for a variety of television comedy roles including struggling artist Brian Topp in Spaced, the pompous Dr. Alan Statham in Green Wing, and various roles in the sketch shows Big Train and Jam. He began his acting career in the 1980s, as a member of the Medieval Players: a touring company performing medieval and early modern theatre, and featuring spectacular stilt-walking, juggling and puppetry.
- Mark Heap ist ein britischer Schauspieler. Als Sohn eines britischen Vaters und einer amerikanischen Mutter wurde er 1957 in Indien geboren. Er ist vor allem bekannt für seine Rollen in diversen Comedyserien auf den Sendern der BBC und Channel 4.
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