Mark Heap Movies and Career Information

Mark Heap (born 13 May 1957) is an English actor. 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 (with Mark Saban) who appeared on television shows Ghost Train and 321. He is perhaps best known for a variety of television comedy roles, often playing obsessive and self-deluded characters, including struggling artist Brian Topp in Spaced, the pompous Dr. Alan Statham in Green Wing, and various roles in the sketch show Big Train. He has worked in a number of ventures with Chris Morris, appearing in Jam, its radio predecessor Blue Jam, and the documentary parody series Brass Eye. Heap voiced the lead character of Eric 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 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