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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 13, 1957
Place of Birth
Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, India
Also Known As
- مارک هیپ
Mark Heap
1.9 Popularity
Biography
Mark Heap (born 13 May 1957) is a British actor and comedian. Television credits include Ghost Train (1991), Smith & Jones (1997–1998), Brass Eye (1997–2001), Kiss Me Kate (1998), The Zig and Zag Show (1998), How Do You Want Me? (1998–1999), Stressed Eric (1998–2000), Green Wing (2004–2007), Spaced (1999–2001), The Strangerers (2000), Jam (2000), Doc Martin (2000), Happiness (2001–2003), Lark Rise to Candleford (2008–2011), Desperate Romantics (2009), Friday Night Dinner (2011–2020), Upstart Crow (2016–2018), and Benidorm (2017–2018). Film credits include About a Boy (2002), Stardust (2007), The World's End (2013), Time Travel is Dangerous (2024). Heap was born in Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, India, to an English father and American mother, the youngest of four boys. When the family moved to the United Kingdom, they lived in Wales. He stayed there until he moved to northern England, where he lives now. He began acting in the 1970s as a member of the Medieval Players, a touring company performing medieval and early modern theatre, and featuring stilt-walking, juggling and puppetry. His brother Carl Heap, who is also an actor, was the artistic director of the company. After its demise, he became part of the street theatre duo The Two Marks (with Mark Saban). Heap starred in the BBC sketch show Big Train, where he performed a barefoot gymnastics routine and other sketches between 1998 and 2002, alongside other burgeoning comedy stars Simon Pegg, Julia Davis, Kevin Eldon, Catherine Tate, Amelia Bullmore, Rebecca Front, Nick Frost and Tracy-Ann Oberman. He appeared as struggling artist Brian Topp in Spaced (1999–2001), and the pompous Dr. Alan Statham in Green Wing (2004–07). Heap worked with Chris Morris, in Blue Jam, radio predecessor to Jam, and the documentary parody series Brass Eye. He voiced the lead character of Eric Feeble in the animated comedy Stressed Eric. Other recurring roles included: Terry Roche in Paul Whitehouse's comedy-drama Happiness and Derek Few in How Do You Want Me?. He played Harry in the short-lived Rob Grant TV series The Strangerers, in 2000. He also guested in the second series of the BBC comedy Look Around You as Leonard Hatred. He appeared as an unsuccessful businessman who became a bellboy, in the 2007 BBC One drama Hotel Babylon. Between 2008 and 2010, he appeared as head postman Thomas Brown, in 32 episodes of the BBC period drama Lark Rise to Candleford. He was the super villain Lightkiller, in an episode of the sitcom No Heroics. He also appeared as the father of Chris Miles in the Channel 4 programme Skins. Heap played the love interest of the main character in the second series of the BBC comedy Love Soup. He played the role of Charles Dickens in the 2009 BBC Two drama Desperate Romantics. He also played Jessica Hynes' husband in the one-off comedy written by Hynes and Julia Davis: Lizzie & Sarah.
Known For
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Mr Oom Boom Boom
The Magic Faraway Tree
2026
0.0
William
Can You Keep a Secret?
2026
5.2
The Regency Dandy
Time Travel Is Dangerous!
2025
6.1
Superintendent Bob Weekes
Piglets
2024
7.2
Renegade Nell
2024
6.5
John Turpin
The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
2024
6.2
Ray
Significant Other
2023
6.4
Johnson
Your Christmas or Mine?
2022
7.0
George
Live at the Moth Club
2022
6.0
Flibbington (voice)
Incredible Ant
2022
Credits
The Magic Faraway Tree
as Mr Oom Boom Boom
2026
0.0
Can You Keep a Secret?
as William
2026
0.0
Time Travel Is Dangerous!
as The Regency Dandy
2025
5.2
Piglets
as Superintendent Bob Weekes
2024
6.1
Renegade Nell
2024
7.2
The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
as John Turpin
2024
6.5
Significant Other
as Ray
2023
6.2
Your Christmas or Mine?
as Johnson
2022
6.4
Live at the Moth Club
as George
2022
7.0
Incredible Ant
as Flibbington (voice)
2022
6.0
The School for Good and Evil
as Professor Manley
2022
7.0
Sister Boniface Mysteries
as Kirk Fabricant
2022
6.4
The House
as Mr. Thomas (voice)
2022
7.0
Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel
as Himself
2021
7.8
The Trouble with Maggie Cole
as Peter Cole
2020
6.4
Intelligence
as Barnaby Bailer
2020
6.2
Queens of Mystery
as Kurt Lee
2019
7.0
The Lost Films of Bloody Nora
as Dad
2019
8.5
The Midnight Gang
as Sir Quentin Strillers
2018
4.9
Killer Weekend
as Gerald
2018
4.5
Murder on the Blackpool Express
as Graham
2017
5.8
Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes
2017
8.0
The Comedian's Guide to Survival
as Pick up Driver
2016
4.4
Digby Dragon
as Mungo (voice)
2016
7.0
Upstart Crow
as Sir Robert Greene
2016
7.1
We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story
as Clive Dunn
2015
6.5
Undercover
as DCI Langdon
2015
6.5
The Team
as Albert Greaves
2015
6.4
The Last Post
2015
0.0
The World's End
as Publican 7
2013
6.8
All Stars
as Simon Tarrington
2013
5.6
Endeavour
as Felix Lorimer
2013
8.1
Heading Out
as Brian
2013
5.4
The Sick Party
as Norris
2012
0.0
A Moody Christmas
as Heathrow Passenger
2012
8.2
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Is This a Joke?
as Doctor
2011
0.0
Death in Paradise
as Alec Burton
2011
7.5
Holy Flying Circus
as Andrew Thorogood
2011
6.3
Spy
as Phillip
2011
7.6
Friday Night Dinner
as Jim
2011
7.9
The Indian Doctor
as Rev. Herbert Todd
2010
5.9
Single Father
as Robin
2010
7.5
The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret
as Lord Mountford
2010
6.8
The Great Outdoors
as Bob
2010
6.7
Lizzie and Sarah
as Michael
2010
7.4
Misfits
as Jonas
2009
7.6
Desperate Romantics
as Charles Dickens
2009
7.4
No Heroics
2008
6.2
Captain Eager and the Mark of Voth
as Scrutty Baker
2008
2.0
Lark Rise to Candleford
as Thomas Brown
2008
8.4
Stardust
as Tertius
2007
7.3
Hitler: The Comedy Years
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
2007
5.0
Benidorm
as Malcolm
2007
7.5
Skins
as Graham
2007
8.1
Alpha Male
as Darwin
2006
3.7
Scoop
as M.C.
2006
6.6
Confetti
as Registrar
2006
5.5
Hotel Babylon
2006
7.3
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
as Man with Dog
2005
7.0
Animal
as Hugh Getner
2005
4.8
The Crust
as Cowboy Keith
2005
0.0
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Mr. Humpries
2004
7.8
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Out of time
as Charlie
2004
8.0
Green Wing
as Alan Statham
2004
7.9
Blake's Junction 7
as Avon
2004
7.0
The Calcium Kid
as Sebastian Gore-Brown
2004
5.5
Spaced: Skip to the End
as Self
2004
6.0
Spine Chillers
as Balfus
2003
0.0
Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie
as Mitch
2003
6.3
Look Around You
as Leonard Hatred
2002
8.0
About a Boy
as Math Teacher
2002
6.7
Ant Muzak
as In-Store Tannoy Voice
2002
0.0
Happiness
as Terry Roche
2001
6.0
Doc Martin
as Mitch
2001
7.1
Jam
as Various
2000
7.9
The Strangerers
as Harry
2000
6.0
Spaced
as Brian Topp
1999
7.9
People Like Us
as Graham Atkinson
1999
8.0
Big Train
1998
7.1
Kiss Me Kate
1998
7.0
Stressed Eric
1998
6.0
How Do You Want Me?
1998
7.7
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
as DS Maskell (uncredited)
1997
6.5
Hospital!
as Dr. Ralph Crosby
1997
5.0
Midsomer Murders
as Simon Fergus-Johnson
1997
7.5
Brass Eye
as Simon Hottrin / Dr. Zeus Spofforth / Various Characters
1997
7.6
Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis
as Duncan
1997
4.1
Dalziel & Pascoe
1996
6.3
The World of Lee Evans
as Platform Guard
1995
6.3
The Children's Royal Variety Performance
as The 2 Marks
1993
0.0
Martin Luther, Heretic
as Medieval Player
1983
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