BBC Holby City: Jac Naylor’s famous real-life sister who was in Casualty and The Bill

Rosie Marcel, 44, has been well known for playing the straightforward, no-frills character of Jac Naylor on Holby City since 2005, but less well known is that her sister Kelly Marcel, 47, also had a minor role in the series – well that the siblings had very different experiences of the show.

While Rosie was a mainstay of drama for 16 years, Kelly says the Mail online in 2011, that a scene she was scheduled to play was “my worst experience of my life.”

She explained, “I was pretending to give birth. I had never had a baby, I didn’t know what to do and I said to myself: “This is the worst experience of my life”.

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After many small parties like this throughout her 20s, including in The Bill and Casualty, Kelly turned 30 and decided to take a £ 4.50 an hour job at a video store. from south London. Today, she is one of Hollywood’s most sought-after writing talents.

The highlights of Kelly’s career range from co-writing the movie Saving Mr. Banks to writing the steamy Fifty Shades of Gray movie.

While the sisters’ careers in the film and television industry may have taken different directions, the two began on a similar path.

Each started acting at the age of three – Rosie as a fairy in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the National Theater and Kelly appearing in the horror film Prey.

Rosie once described herself as coming from a ‘dramatic’ family – and Prey was actually directed by their father, British director Terry Marcel, 79.

All three have had impressive careers, with Rosie herself landing a role in another of Britain’s biggest dramas, The Bill.

Although, despite Kelly’s success, there were a few pitfalls down the road for her, especially when it came to her work on the film Fifty Shades.

The 47-year-old was apparently heartbroken after the final cut for the 2015 film ended up looking different than what she originally wrote.

“My heart has really been broken by this process, I really mean it,” she said. said Bret Easton Ellis’ podcast . “I’m not saying it out of bitterness or anger or anything like that. I just don’t feel like I can watch it without feeling some pain about how it differs from what I originally wrote.

But Kelly didn’t let that stop her, recently co-writing the 2021 film Cruella, which portrayed Cruella de Vil from Dodie Smith’s 1956 novel The One Hundred and One Dalmatians.

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Meanwhile, Rosie announced earlier this year that she wanted to be away from Holby City. Talk to the digital spy , she said: “I’m sad obviously – I love the show and have been on it for a very long time.

“But it got to a point where I was so tired and I really needed that break, to the point where I didn’t do anything else and I don’t want – I want to take time off.”

She also added that she wanted to spend time with her husband and daughter.

Sadly, it was revealed in June that the show itself will end in March 2022.

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