Martin Hancock

 ( 1970 Births ) 

Martin Hancock (born 10 January 1970) is an English actor best known for his roles as Spider Nugent in the English soap Coronation Street (between 1997 and 2003 and again from 2022 and 2023) and as Reg Lund in Holby City.

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Early life Hancock was born on 10 January 1970 in Fulham to an English father and a New Zealand mother. He attended Drayton Manor High School in West London and trained at the Drama Centre London.

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Career Hancock has had roles in a number of English television series, including BBC's This Life and the ITV1 cult drama Demons. He has also had film roles in 24 Hour Party People, Chasing Liberty (2004), Kingdom of Heaven (2005) and Defiance (2008), as well as in a number of theatre productions.

However, his most famous role remains that of Emily Bishop's eco-warrior nephew, Geoffrey "Spider" Nugent, in the long-running ITV soap Coronation Street. Hancock left the show as a regular in 2000, feeling that his character of Spider had run its course.

It was announced in May 2022, that Hancock is to return to the programme and reprise the role of Spider in July 2022.

In 2007, he appeared as himself on an episode of Celebrity MasterChef.

And more recently he played paramedic Indies father in Casualty on 30 March 2025.

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Personal life He lives in London with his wife, and is a supporter of West Ham United F.C.

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Filmography

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Film

+ !Year !Title !Role !Notes
2000	Liam	David
2002	24 Hour Party People	Howard Devoto
2004	Chasing Liberty	McGruff
2004	Trauma	Emery Jones
2005	Kingdom of Heaven	Gravedigger
2005	Hell to Pay	Martin	Direct-to-video
2005	The Best Man	Stan
2006	Rabbit Fever	Bill Johnson
2007	Hannibal Rising	Polygraph Operator
2008	Defiance	Peretz Shorshaty
2011	Screwed	Bowers
2011	7 Lives	Beggar
2013	The Physician	Merlin
2014	Closer to the Moon	Prosecutor
2014	Hoodies vs. Hooligans	DC Meyler
2015	Rough and Ready	Nick
2016	Brakes	Mark
2016	Blaze of Gory	Terry
2017	6 Days	Bill
2019	The Car: Road to Revenge	Talen
2019	The Last Faust	Dr. Faust

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Television

1993–2007	The Bill	Various roles	3 episodes
1994, 2015	Casualty	Mike Levin / Sam McGann	2 episodes
1995	Wycliffe	Dave	Episode: "Lost Contact"
1997	This Life	Philip Becks	Episode: "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?"
1997	London's Burning	Rick	Episode #10.6
1997–2001, 2003, 2022–2023	Coronation Street	Spider Nugent	190 episodes
1998	Our Mutual Friend	Sloppy	3 episodes
2000	Daddyfox	Nick Fry	Television film
2002	Crime and Punishment	Koch
2002–2014	Doctors	Various roles	4 episodes
2003	Keen Eddie	Fishy	2 episodes
2004	Top Buzzer	Barbara	Episode: "Drought"
2005	Born and Bred	Jimmy Ingram	Episode: "A Wrathful God"
2005	Totally Frank	Phil	Episode: "Debt"
2005	Line of Fire: The Somme	Andrews	Television film
2005–2006	Holby City	Reg Lund	18 episodes
2006	No Angels	Graham	Episode #3.6
2006	Children in Need	Reg Lund	Episode #1.27
2008	M.I. High	Charlie Chuckworth	Episode: "Face Off"
2009	Demons	Redlip	Episode: "They Bite"
2009	History's Hardest Prison	Thomas Bambridge	Television film
2009	Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution	Collot
2010	Little Crackers	Mr. Fix It	Episode: "Car Park Babylon"
2012	Crime Stories	Mathew Boyle	Episode #1.9
2013	Being Human	Leader	Episode: "Sticks and Rope"
2014	The Musketeers	Jailer	Episode: "The Good Soldier"
2014	Endeavour	'Nosey' Parker	Episode: "Neverland"
2014	Chasing Shadows	Eamonn Thirsk	Episode: "Off Radar: Part 2"
2015	The Enfield Haunting	Tony Watson	Episode #1.2
2015	Cradle to Grave	Soapy	6 episodes
2020	In the Long Run	Trevor	Episode #3.1
2025	Casualty	Samuel Jankowski	Recurring role

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