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 pu...
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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...
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