Bodies - The Finale
Biographies
Jed Mercurio – writer/producer
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Jed Mercurio trained at the University of Birmingham Medical School, qualifying as a doctor in 1991. While still a medical student, he joined the Royal Air Force with the intention of becoming a physician-pilot. He received extensive flying training but resigned his commission to pursue a career as a hospital doctor, working in various hospitals in the West Midlands.
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Jed became a full-time writer following the success of his first television medical drama - the controversial, ground-breaking Cardiac Arrest (written under the pseudonym John MacUre) – which he created after replying to an advertisement placed in the British Medical Journal.
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He scripted and directed ITV comedy-drama The Grimleys before writing his first novel, Bodies, which was chosen by the Guardian as one of the five best debuts of 2002. He adapted the novel for the Â鶹ԼÅÄ, winning the Royal Television Society Award for Best Drama Series of 2005. Jed's next novel, Ascent, will be published in March.
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Max Beesley is Rob Lake
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Max trained at the Guildhall School of Music and in New York. He switched from being a successful session musician and occasional model in his twenties, and got his first big break with The History Of Tom Jones, A Foundling.
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He went on to star in various films, before deciding to concentrate on his television career. Since then he has starred in several television shows including Bodies, Fields Of Gold and Hotel Babylon. Other television credits include Hustle, Shameless and Bloodlines.
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Film credits include Her Name Is Carla, The Porter, Torque, Red Roses And Petrol, The Emperor's Wife, Anita And Me, Hotel, Glitter, Take My Life Please, It Was An Accident, The Last Minute, Five Seconds To Spare and The Match.
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Theatre includes Doctor Faustus at the Manchester Royal Exchange.
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Max has extensive music experience providing percussion, keyboards and backing vocals for Style Council, Paul Weller, Brand New Heavies, Jamiroqui, Incognito, Mica Paris, Earth Wind and Fire, George Michael, Take That and Chake Khan.
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He was also seen playing keyboards on the concert video Robbie Williams Live At Knebworth.
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Patrick Baladi is Roger Hurley
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Patrick Baladi is best known to television audiences for Bodies and also for his portrayal of Neil Godwin in the Â鶹ԼÅÄ hit comedy series The Office. He appeared in the second and the final series of the award-winning show as well as in two subsequent Christmas specials.
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Other television credits include Party Animals, Heartbeat, Poirot, Taken At The Flood, Sensitive Skin, The Only Boy For Me, New Tricks, A Touch Of Frost, Trixie, Weekend Love, P.O.W., EastEnders, Casualty, Perfect World II, Midsomer Murders, Messiah II, Grafters, Ivanhoe, Sharman, Soldier Soldier and Dalziel And Pascoe.
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Film credits include Bridget Jones: End Of Reason, Alpha Male, Low Street, Ther Merchant Of Venice, High Heels And Low Lifes and Lady Audley's Secret.
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Patrick is a veteran stage actor and has appeared in numerous RSC productions.
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Theatre includes Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight (Soho Theatre), Dealer's Choice (Birmingham Rep), My Night With Reg (Birmingham Rep), Finding The Sun (National), Taste Of Honey (Palace Theatre, Watford), Battle Royal (National), Albert Speer (National), The Prince's Play (National), Mother Courage And Her Children (National), Heads (ADC, Cambridge), Much Ado About Nothing (Edinburgh Festival), Wuthering Heights (Crescent Theatre), The Clownmaker (Birmingham Rep), The Spanish Tragedy (RSC), Camino Real (RSC), Much Ado About Nothing (RSC) and The Backroom (Bush).
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Keith Allen is Tony Whitman
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Most recently seen starring as the Sheriff of Nottingham in Â鶹ԼÅÄ One's Robin Hood, Keith Allen is an experienced actor, director and presenter.
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His acting credits include Bodies, Viva Blackpool and the cult movies Shallow Grave and Trainspotting.
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In 1998 he joined forces with Blur's Alex James and artist Damien Hirst to form the group Fat Les, who released alternative World Cup football anthem Vindaloo.
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Other drama and comedy credits include Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years, Roger Roger and Martin Chuzzlewit.
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He has guest starred in Hotel Babylon and New Tricks and appeared in Murder In Mind.
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Other television credits include Ripley's Gold, Spinechiller, Trust, Murder In Mind, Bob Martin, Jack Of Hearts, Young Person's Guide To Becoming A Rockstar, You Are Here, The Life And Crimes Of William Palmer, Born To Run, Samson & Delilah, Sharman, Dangerfield, The Bite, Class Act, Preston Front, Faith, One More Thing, Gregory – Video Diary Of A Nutcase, Detectives On The Edge Of A Nervous Breakdown, Inspector Morse, Between The Lines, Space Virgins From Planet Sex, Red Nose Of Courage, The Crying Game, Secret Ingredient, Making Out, It's Keith Allen, I Love Keith Allen, Shooting Star, Breaking Rank, Ticket To Ride, A Very British Coup, The Strike, The Yob, Beat Generation, Fistful Of Travellers Cheques, The Bullshitters, Gino and Walter.
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Keith has appeared in many other films including The Others with Nicole Kidman and Christopher Eccleston, 24 Hour Party People with Steve Coogan, A Good Night, Agent Cody Banks 2, De Lovely, Bear's Kiss, My Wife Is An Actress, Harry On A Boat, Rancid Aluminium, Wrong Blonde, Preaching To The Perverted, Twin Town, Blue Juice, Loch Ness, Captives, Beyond Bedlam, Second Best, Young Americans, Carry On Columbus, Rebecca's Daughter, Kafka, Chicago Joe And The Showgirl, Robinson Crusoe, Scandal, Comrades and Supergrass.
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He has presented several television shows including Manchester Passion and documentaries about Mohamed Al Fayed and lottery winner Michael Carroll.
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He also appeared in last year's Art School which saw celebrities training to be artists.
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In the Eighties and Nineties he was part of the Comic Strip team, writing, producing, directing and starring in several episodes.
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Theatre includes Flander's Mare, Glastonbury, The Celebration & The Room, The Â鶹ԼÅÄcoming, Murmuring Judges, Street Trash, All Along The Watchtower, The Case Of Charles, Dextor Ward, Illuminatus and Macbeth.
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Tamzin Malleson is Polly
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Tamzin Malleson trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
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She played one of the lead roles in the Channel 4 comedy series Teachers for four seasons, has starred in Bodies and in ITV's Poirot adaptation Evil Under The Sun.
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She guest starred twice in The Bill and in the popular detective drama A Touch Of Frost.
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Other television credits include Kitchen, The Man-Eating Lions Of Njombe, Murder City, The Vice, Always And Everyone (regular in three series), Dangerfield (regular) and Kavanagh QC.
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Theatre includes: Nude With Violin (Royal Exchange, Manchester), Picasso At The Lapin Agile (West Yorkshire Playhouse) and Of Mice And Men (West Yorkshire Playhouse).
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Tamzin has appeared in the feature film The Fishmonger's Daughter.
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Neve McIntosh is Donna Rix
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Neve McIntosh trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
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One of her first professional engagements was in The Trick Is To Keep Breathing for Michael Boyd at the Tron Theatre.
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She has worked for Michael Grandage at the Crucible Theatre playing Donna Elvira in Don Juan and Melinda in The Recruiting Officer with Corin Redgrave which opened in the new Lichfield Theatre.
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Neve's first production with the RSC was in Victoria directed by Ian Brown at the Pit in the Barbican followed by Great Expectations.
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Her television work has been extensive including the series Psychos.
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Neve went on to play Fuschia in Â鶹ԼÅÄ Two's adaptation of Gormenghast opposite Jonathan Rhys Myers, followed by the Â鶹ԼÅÄ's production of The Hound Of The Baskervilles in which she played Miss Stapleton opposite Richard Roxborough.
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Neve played the title role in Lady Auderley's Secret for Warner Sisters and for La Plante productions she played Carla opposite Charles Dance in Trial And Retribution.
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She has starred in three series of Bodies.
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Her latest film role was Barbara in One Last Chance with Jamie Sives and Kevin McKidd.
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