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name: "Jed Mercurio"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jed-mercurio"
roles: ["Creator","Director","Producer","Writer"]
born: "1 January 1966"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T02:09:18.961079+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Jed Mercurio

Creator and director. Born 1 January 1966 in Staffordshire, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Creator, Director, Producer, Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1966, Staffordshire, England, UK
- **Active:** 1994–2012
- **Also known as:** 제드 머큐리오
- **Works often with:** Douglas Mackinnon, John Strickland

## Biography

Jed Mercurio is a British television writer, producer, director and novelist. A former hospital doctor, he trained at the University of Birmingham Medical School and practised medicine before turning to writing after responding to an advertisement in the British Medical Journal. He wrote the BBC medical drama Cardiac Arrest (1994–1996) under the pseudonym John MacUre while still a doctor, and subsequently pursued a full-time writing career.

Mercurio created and wrote Bodies (2004–2006) and Line of Duty (2012–2021), on which he also served as producer and director. He created and wrote Bodyguard (2018). He has received an OBE for services to television drama.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Line of Duty* (2012), Fi1m 79, Creator, Director, Producer, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/line-of-duty.md)

## Also credited on (not yet reviewed)

- *Bodies* (2004), Creator, Writer
- *Cardiac Arrest* (1994), Creator, Writer

## Also known for

- *Bodyguard* (2018), Writer
- *Strike Back* (2010), Writer
- *Lady Chatterley's Lover* (2015), Writer, Director

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