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Mark Heap's career - Radio Times, August 2004 |
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Alison Graham casts an eye over the Green Wing star's CV.
"There are a handful of actors whose very
presence in a programme is an immediate hallmark of quality.
Spot a particular name,
and you know you're in for a treat.
Mark Heap is one such name.
Now he may
not mean too much to too many people,
but he's
one of our most gifted comic actors,
a man with
a rare touch for dark comedy.
This week he
stars in the brilliant new Channel 4 series Green
Wing
as the sexually obsessed,
possibly sexually
repressed,
undoubtedly humourless Dr
Alan
Statham.
Heap's scenes with co-star Pippa
Haywood,
complete with bizarre,
"erotic"
touching rituals,
are some of the series' highlights.
But Heap has a rare ability to pick up the
surreal and to run with it.
In the superb Spaced,
he was,
memorably,
the socially inept artist
Brian,
a jangling mix of festering hormones and a staggering lack of talent.
And Heap's other crucial roles in Chris
Morris's Jam and Brass Eye,
in Happiness and
Big
Train, have put him firmly at the top of any
discerning comedy lover's "best of" list.
Long
may he stay there."
**
Now take a look at our full Green Wing guide.
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