Jack Deam

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Jack Deam (born 1972 in Oldham, Lancashire) is an English actor. His most notable performance is of the pyromaniac, Marty Fisher, who has Tourette syndrome in Channel 4's Shameless.

In 1993, he played Vinnie, a young soldier for the Kings Fusiliers in award winning British drama, Soldier Soldier. He later joined the cast of Clocking Off (written by Paul Abbott).

In 1999, he appeared in an episode of Queer As Folk, as a Doctor Who obsessed one-night stand of one of the protagonists before taking the role of rapist Phil Simmonds on the top rated ITV1 soap opera Coronation Street in 2000.

In January 2007 he took part in The Afternoon Play, a daytime BBC drama series consisting of short stories.