Rosie Marcel is an English actress. She is best known as Jac Naylor, the
consultant cardiothoracic surgeon in the BBC drama series, Holby City. She is the
daughter of television director Terry Marcel and sister of writer and actress
Kelly Marcel. Career
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 November 2005, Marcel joined Holby as Jac Naylor. Prior to this she
appeared in over twenty productions of The Bill, in which her character had an
affair with Sergeant Dale Smith. Personal life
Marcel's mother, Lindsey Brook was an actress and her father, Terry Marcel, is
a 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. Marcel and assistant director Scott
Bunce met whilst working together on the The Vice. She proposed to him via a
newspaper ad which said "Scott Bunce, I, Rosie Marcel, love you and wish to spend
the rest of my life with you. Will you marry me?" They married on 21 February
2004 in a small ceremony in Gretna Green. Marcel and Bunce have since
divorced. 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. The disease left her almost bed-bound for
two years until she was seen by an immunologist at St Bartholomew’s
Hospital in London, who diagnosed the condition and put her on
immuno-suppressants. During the two-year period, Marcel was unable to walk
unaided for approximately twelve months, instead relying on the use of two
walking sticks. Speaking about the condition, Marcel said: "I have liver
function and blood tests every three months. It's highly likely I'll die
before Scott, but I'm coming to terms with that. It's worth it not to go back
to the hell I was in for those two years. Untreated, Behcet’s can affect
your lungs, heart and blood vessels, so without the immuno-suppressants I might
not be here now." She now works to raise awareness of the condition. In 2008,
Marcel was diagnosed with cervical cancer. She discovered that the disease
had advanced to her pelvis and she had laser therapy to destroy the cancerous
cells while continuing to film Holby. Marcel has a black belt in karate, which
she mentioned when she revealed that she would like to be a stuntwoman; "I'd love
the physical challenge of doing stunts. I went to a stuntman's ball with dad
when I was 17 and I've been fascinated ever since. I'm a black-belt in karate
and I love water-skiing. I also love bungee jumping, which I could put to
good use. I'm tougher than I look." Marcel married gym owner Ben Stacey in
March 2013 in Las Vegas.In August 2014 Rosie announced her and Ben's pregnancy,
which they miraculously found out about two days before starting IVF treatment
following months of trying to conceive and suffering a miscarriage. The
miscarriage occurred just after she had finished filming the scenes in which her
onscreen character, Jac Naylor, gave birth. She later announced that she was
pregnant with a baby girl. She gave birth to her daughter on 21st January
2015. Due to Marcel's rare clotting disorder, known as storage pool disease,
the baby was born via caesarian section and is called Beau. Rosie returned to
filming Holby City in August. Filmography
Holby City The Bill
Nathan Barley Hotel Infinity
The Vice Time Gentlemen Please
The Secret World of Michael Fry Days Like These
Casualty Growing Pains
The Castle of Adventure Press Gang
Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star Bergerac
The Weather in the Streets HolbyBlue
References External links
Rosie Marcel at the Internet Movie Database