Rosie Marcel
| Rosie Marcel | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Rosie Ellen Celine Marcel Roehampton, South West London, UK |
| Notable work | Ms Jac Naylor |
| Spouse(s) | Scott Bunce (2004-2011) Ben Stacey (2013-) |
| Children | 1 |
Rosie Marcel is an English actress. She was born in Roehampton, London. Marcel is best known for her role as Jac Naylor, consultant cardiothoracic surgeon in the BBC drama series Holby City a role she has currently played for over 11 years She is also the daughter of television director Terry Marcel and sister of writer and actress Kelly Marcel.
Marcel describes herself as being from a 'dramatic' family, and she had her first job at the age of three as a fairy in A Midsummer Nights Dream at the National Theatre. In 1985 she appeared in Bergerac as an abducted child, Michelle. In November 2005, Marcel joined Holby as Jac Naylor. Prior to this she appeared in over twenty episodes of The Bill, in which her character, Louise Larson had an affair with Sergeant Dale Smith. It was revealed in the BBC's Annual Report for 2016 that Marcel was one of the BBC's highest paid stars, with an annual salary for her role in Holby City in the range of £200,000 to £249,000, making her the highest-paid actor on the series.
Marcel's mother, Lindsey Brook was an actress and her father, Terry Marcel, is a television director; they divorced in 1995. Her older sister Kelly is a writer and actress who has appeared in both Holby City and The Bill, but is now best known as the writer and executive producer of the television series Terra Nova They also have a younger brother, Luke.
When she was twenty years old, Marcel was diagnosed with endometriosis, and it was also discovered that she had a blood clotting disorder: "I was bleeding for about four months then I passed out in the shower and had to be rushed to hospital for an emergency blood transfusion. The doctors told me I'd almost bled to death and further tests revealed I had a blood clotting problem, the female form of haemophilia." Six years later she suffered further problems when she developed the rare condition Behcet's disease, an inflammatory disease in which the white blood cells attack healthy cells.
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