Jake Maskall (born 1971 in

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) is an

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television, film and theatre actor.

Career

Jake has guest starred in '' Casualty'' as Paul Vessey and Scobie in '' Murder City''. Jake's most notable role came in the

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'' EastEnders'' where he played ladies' man and bad boy Danny Moon. His character first appeared on 30 December 2004 and was driven out of the show by gangster Johnny Allen seven months later. He returned to EastEnders for a brief stint in March 2006 when the character was killed off by brother

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(played by

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) after it was revealed he had killed

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under Johnny Allen's orders. In 2005, he appeared in '' Stars in Fast Cars''. In theatre he played Andrew in ''Troop'' and in March 2006, he toured across the UK in ''

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'' playing the lead character Louis Mazzini. Late 2006 saw Jake doing promotion for the department store chain

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. In May 2006, Jake played Aeneas in ''Dido'' (Queen of Carthage) for Angels in the Architecture at the Chapel of St Barnabas in Soho. This production was then revived at Kensington Palace in 2008. In the summer of 2006, Jake starred alongside ex-EastEnder, Michael Greco, in the independent thriller film '' Naked in London'' which is still awaiting an international release date. In November 2006, he starred as

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in a modern adaptation of '' Doctor Faustus'' by Christopher Marlowe. In 2008 he appeared in the

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''. In 2009 he appeared in adverts for

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and he appeared as Sir Henry Pole for a single episode of the Showtime series, ''

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''. In 2010, he appeared in ''

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'' in

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's Grosvenor Park. He appeared in '' The Adored'' by Carl Medland and Amarjeet Singh, a psychological lesbian thriller, released in 2012. He then starred in the drama series '' The Royals'' as Prince Cyrus Henstridge.

Personal life

In a 2005 interview with Now Magazine, while he was still working on EastEnders, Maskall revealed that he was gay, and that he'd been in a relationship for 12 years, saying "it's not a secret".

Filmography

*'' The Royals'' (2015) .... King Cyrus *''

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'' (2010) .... Argos. *''

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'' (2008) .... Strigoi *'' Naked in London'' (2006) .... Mark Tierney *'' EastEnders'' .... Danny Moon (2004-2005, 2006) *'' Murder City'' (2004) .... Alan Scobie *'' Casualty'' (2002) .... Paul Vesey

References

English male stage actors English male soap opera actors Actors from Essex Living people English gay actors 1971 births {{UK-tv-actor-1970s-stub