Mark Heap was born on 13 May 1957 and is a British actor and comedian.
36 Facts About Mark Heap
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Mark Heap stayed there until he moved to northern England, where he lives now.
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Mark Heap 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.
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Mark Heap's brother Carl Heap, who is an actor, was the artistic director of the company.
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Mark 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.
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Mark Heap appeared as struggling artist Brian Topp in Spaced, and the pompous Dr Alan Statham in Green Wing.
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Mark Heap worked with Chris Morris, in Blue Jam, radio predecessor to Jam, and the documentary parody series Brass Eye.
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Mark Heap voiced the lead character of Eric Feeble in the animated comedy Stressed Eric.
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Mark Heap played Harry in the short-lived Rob Grant TV series The Strangerers, in 2000.
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Mark Heap guested in the second series of the BBC comedy Look Around You as Leonard Hatred.
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Mark Heap appeared as an unsuccessful businessman who became a bellboy, in the 2007 BBC One drama Hotel Babylon.
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Mark Heap was the super villain Lightkiller, in an episode of the sitcom No Heroics.
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Mark Heap appeared as the father of Chris Miles in the Channel 4 programme Skins.
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Mark Heap played the love interest of the main character in the second series of the BBC comedy Love Soup.
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Mark Heap played the role of Charles Dickens in the 2009 BBC Two drama Desperate Romantics.
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In 2010, Mark Heap appeared as Bob Stevens, the leader of a rambling group in the BBC Four series The Great Outdoors.
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Mark Heap appeared as a psychiatrist in Miranda Hart's BBC2 comedy Miranda.
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From 2011 to 2020, Mark Heap played eccentric neighbour Jim Bell in the Channel 4 sitcom Friday Night Dinner, alongside Simon Bird, Paul Ritter, Tom Rosenthal and Tamsin Greig.
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Mark Heap played Andrew Thorogood in the BBC Four comedy Holy Flying Circus, and Jonas in the eighth episode of E4's sci-fi comedy-drama Misfits in Series 3.
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Mark Heap appeared as a misguided church minister during an outbreak of smallpox in the BBC series The Indian Doctor.
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Mark Heap appeared in the spin-off episode of Outnumbered, the Christmas special episode, aired on 24 December 2012 in which he portrayed Norris, for this single episode.
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Mark Heap played the owner of a pet crematorium in Sue Perkins's 2013 comedy Heading Out.
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Mark Heap had a leading role in BBC Radio 4's adaptation of Gogol's Dead Souls.
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Mark Heap appeared as Robert Greene in three series of Upstart Crow, a BBC Two sitcom about Shakespeare, written by Ben Elton.
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Mark Heap appeared as Dr John Hall in the stage show based on the programme.
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From 2017 to 2018, Mark Heap appeared in the sitcom Benidorm, playing the character Malcolm Barrett, the controlling and manipulative boyfriend of Pauline Maltby.
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In 2020, Mark Heap appeared in Intelligence, and played headmaster and husband in ITV's The Trouble with Maggie Cole.
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In 1983, Mark Heap made a brief appearance as a torch-juggler in the James Bond film Octopussy.
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Mark Heap played a school teacher in the 2002 film About a Boy.
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Mark Heap made a cameo appearance with Kevin Eldon in Tim Burton's 2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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Mark Heap played supporting roles in Confetti, Tunnel of Love, Stardust.
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In 2008, he co-starred in the surreal sci-fi B-movie spoof Captain Eager and the Mark Heap of Voth, and was a publican in The World's End.
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In 2008, Mark Heap played the role of Widmerpool in a Radio 4 serialisation of Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time.
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Mark Heap played Eliza's husband in 2006 Radio 4 play The Eliza Stories and appeared as Marmite the Dwarf in the short-lived Radio 4 sitcom The Sofa of Time.
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Mark Heap played the angel Aziraphale in the 2014 BBC radio adaption of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens.
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Mark Heap was the lead in a series of radio advertisements for telecommunications company TalkTalk.