Martin Hancock (born 10 January 1970) is an English actor best known for his roles as Geoffrey "Spider" Nugent in the English soap Coronation Street (between 1997 and 2003 and again between 2022 and 2023) and as Reg Lund in Holby City.
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.
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.
Personal life He lives in London with his wife, and is a supporter of West Ham United F.C.
Filmography
Film +YearTitleRoleNotes2000LiamDavid200224 Hour Party PeopleHoward Devoto2004Chasing LibertyMcGruff2004TraumaEmery Jones2005Kingdom of HeavenGravedigger2005Hell to PayMartinDirect-to-video2005The Best ManStan2006Rabbit FeverBill Johnson2007Hannibal RisingPolygraph Operator2008DefiancePeretz Shorshaty2011ScrewedBowers20117 LivesBeggar2013The PhysicianMerlin2014Closer to the MoonProsecutor2014Hoodies vs. HooligansDC Meyler2015Rough and ReadyNick2016BrakesMark2016Blaze of GoryTerry20176 DaysBill2019The Car: Road to RevengeTalen2019The Last FaustDr. Faust
Television YearTitleRoleNotes1993–2007The BillVarious roles3 episodes1994, 2015CasualtyMike Levin / Sam McGann2 episodes1995WycliffeDaveEpisode: "Lost Contact"1997This LifePhilip BecksEpisode: "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?"1997London's BurningRickEpisode #10.61997–2001, 2003, 2022–2023 Coronation StreetSpider Nugent190 episodes1998Our Mutual FriendSloppy3 episodes2000DaddyfoxNick FryTelevision film2002Crime and PunishmentKoch2002–2014DoctorsVarious roles4 episodes2003Keen EddieFishy2 episodes2004Top BuzzerBarbaraEpisode: "Drought"2005Born and BredJimmy IngramEpisode: "A Wrathful God"2005Totally FrankPhilEpisode: "Debt"2005Line of Fire: The SommeAndrewsTelevision film2005–2006Holby CityReg Lund18 episodes2006No AngelsGrahamEpisode #3.62006Children in NeedReg LundEpisode #1.272008M.I. HighCharlie ChuckworthEpisode: "Face Off"2009DemonsRedlipEpisode: "They Bite"2009History's Hardest PrisonThomas BambridgeTelevision film2009Terror! Robespierre and the French RevolutionCollot2010Little CrackersMr. Fix ItEpisode: "Car Park Babylon"2012Crime StoriesMathew BoyleEpisode #1.92013Being HumanLeaderEpisode: "Sticks and Rope"2014The MusketeersJailerEpisode: "The Good Soldier"2014Endeavour'Nosey' ParkerEpisode: "Neverland"2014Chasing ShadowsEamonn ThirskEpisode: "Off Radar: Part 2"2015The Enfield HauntingTony WatsonEpisode #1.22015Cradle to GraveSoapy6 episodes2020In the Long RunTrevorEpisode #3.12025CasualtySamuel JankowskiRecurring role2026IndustryDez Watkins2 episodes
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