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Writer
Jed Mercurio
- Born January 1, 1966 in Staffordshire, England, UK
Jed Mercurio was born in Nelson, Lancashire, UK in 1966 but grew up in Cannock, Staffordshire. He graduated from the University of Birmingham Medical School in 1991 and practiced as a hospital doctor for three years. While still a medical student, he joined the Royal Air Force and received flying training with the intention of specializing in aviation medicine.
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Instead, after replying to an advertisement placed in the British Medical Journal, Mercurio ventured into writing the BBC medical drama Cardiac Arrest (1994) under the pseudonym John MacUre, after which he has continued a writing career under his own name.
Known for
Bodyguard2018
Line of Duty2012
Strike Back2010
Lady Chatterley's Lover2015
Trigger Point2022
DI Ray2022
Payback2023
Invasion: Earth1998
Filmography
- TBANight of Camp DavidFilmWriter
- TBATRINITYSeriesExecutive Producer, Writer, Creator
- TBANurse Lucy Letby BiopicSeriesCreator
- 2024BreathtakingSeriesWriter, Executive Producer, Creator
- 2023PaybackSeriesExecutive Producer
- 2023Jed Mercurio Remembers... Cardiac ArrestFilmSelf
- 2022Trigger PointSeriesExecutive Producer
- 2022DI RaySeriesProducer
- 2022Remembers…SeriesSelf
- 2021StephenSeriesExecutive Producer
- 2018BodyguardSeriesExecutive Producer, Writer, Creator
- 2015Lady Chatterley's LoverFilmWriter, Director
- 2015CriticalSeriesCreator, Executive Producer, Writer
- 2012Line of DutySeriesCar Driver (uncredited), Director, Writer, Creator, Executive Producer, Producer
- 2010Strike BackSeriesWriter, Creator
- 2007FrankensteinFilmScreenplay, Director
- 2004BodiesSeriesWriter, Creator
- 2004The Legend of the Tamworth TwoFilmWriter
- 1999The GrimleysSeriesWriter, Creator
- 1998Invasion: EarthSeriesProducer, Writer, Creator
- 1994Cardiac ArrestSeriesWriter, Creator
- 1979Question TimeSeriesSelf - Panellist
- 1978The South Bank ShowSeries