Jac Naylor

Jac Naylor
Holby City character
Rosie Marcel as Jac Naylor
First appearance	"Bird on a Wire" (Holby City) 22 November 2005
Created by	Richard Stokes
Portrayed by	Rosie Marcel
Spinoff(s)	HolbyBlue (2008) Casualty (2016)
Information
Occupation	Consultant Cardiothoracic surgical Clinical lead (Darwin ward)
Family	Paula Burrows (mother) Jasmine Burrows (half-sister) Henry Burrows (grandfather)
Significant other(s)	Joseph Byrne Lord Byrne Jonny Maconie Guy Self
Children	Emma Naylor

Jacqueline "Jac" Naylor MBBS MS FRCS (Eng) FRCSTh is a fictional character from the BBC medical drama Holby City, portrayed by actress Rosie Marcel. She made her first screen appearance during the series eight episode "Bird on a Wire", which was originally broadcast on 22 November 2005. In August 2014, Marcel became pregnant and in the latter quarter of the year, went on maternity leave. Marcel made her on-screen temporary departure, alongside Michael Thomson, who made his indefinite departure, from the show in April 2015 when Jac took the maternity leave she didn't take when Emma was born. Both Jac and Jonny made a brief appearance on 23 June through Skype, before Jac made an additional brief appearance on 22 September. She made a full-time return on 24 November. Alongside her appearances in Holby City, Marcel has played Jac in the show's sister shows, HolbyBlue and is a recurring character in Casualty, Jac appeared in 2008 and February, August & September 2016 respectively.

Jac arrives at Holby City Hospital as part of a team performing a hemicorporectomy. She is initially unsuccessful in securing a permanent position as a registrar, but returns to the hospital in this capacity several weeks later. Jac develops a rivalry with her fellow registrar Diane Lloyd (Patricia Potter), which intensifies when they both apply for the same consultant post. Neither are successful, but Jac is disappointed when Diane is later promoted above her, to locum consultant and later to permanent consultant.

Unable to cope with the pressure of his job, cardiothoracic surgical registrar Joseph Byrne (Luke Roberts) accidentally overdoses, and is saved by Jac. She becomes romantically involved with him, hoping to ingratiate herself with his influential father, Lord Byrne (Ronald Pickup). Taking this further, Jac later lies to Lord Byrne, claiming that she and Joseph have separated, resulting in Jac sleeping with Lord Byrne. She attempts to blackmail him into securing her a consultancy. Lord Byrne falls in love with Jac, and confesses their affair to Joseph, who pleads with her to dump him and offers her the chance to resume their relationship. Jac declines, choosing to be with his father. Diane commits suicide, and Lord Byrne attempts to use his influence to secure her position for Jac, but has a stroke before succeeding. After a failed attempt at making amends with Joseph, he has a heart attack and dies. Jac refuses to show remorse for destroying Joseph's family, resulting in him hitting her. She uses the resultant bruising to garner sympathy and secure a position on a stent trial, She is attacked by patient Alan Clooney during the stent trial (James Weber Brown), who unsuccessfully attempts to rape her. Jac declines to report it, but assaults him when he returns to the hospital six months later. At the start of series 10, she claims to be suffering from residual headaches from Joseph's attack and blackmails him to make his mother support her application for a consultant post, which backfires when she is instead granted sick leave.