Jake Wood
Jake Dylan Wood (born 12 July 1972) is a British actor and podcaster from Westminster, known for his role as Max Branning in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. He has also made guest appearances in series including Only Fools and Horses and Red Dwarf. In 2014, Wood competed on BBC's Strictly Come Dancing alongside professional dancer Janette Manrara. In the United States, he is known as the voice of the GEICO gecko in a series of television adverts for the American insurance company GEICO. In 2018, he began co-hosting Pound for Pound, a boxing podcast with Spencer Oliver.
65 acting credits
Acting · 65
EastEnders
1985
Casualty
1986
Silent Witness
1996
Minder
1979
A Touch of Frost
1992
Inspector Morse
1987
Red Dwarf
1988
Doc Martin
2004
Celebrity Juice
2008
Screen Two
1985
GMTV
1993
Richard Osman's House of Games
2017
Trial & Retribution
1997
Soccer AM
1995
Murder in Mind
2001
Murder Most Horrid
1991
Celebrity Mastermind
2003
Press Gang
1989
Dramarama
1983
One Foot in the Grave
1990
Celebrity Catchphrase
2018
The Thin Blue Line
1995
The Gentle Touch
1980
Screen One
1989
Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
2001
The Illusionist
2006
In Deep
2001
Virtually Famous
2014
Beat the Chasers
2020
Mayo
2006
Flesh + Blood
1985
Grease Monkeys
2003
Vera Drake
2004
A Little Princess
1987
Nightingales
1990
EastEnders: Secrets from the Square
2020
Uncle Adolf
2005
Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
1991
Archer's Goon
1992
Tube Tales
1999
The Wilsons
2000
The Golden Hour
2005
Scoop
1987
A Breed of Heroes
1994
Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie
2003
Crimetime
1996
Lenny Blue
2002
Tough Love
2000
The Crooked Man
2003
Dad Savage
1998
Gobble
1997
The Aryan Couple
2004
Skulduggery
1991
Sunday
2002
Eleven Men Against Eleven
1995
Watchmen
2001
Somewhere to Run
1989
National Theatre Live: London Tide
2024
The Best of Strictly Come Dancing - Len's Grand Finale
2016
Never Come Morning
1989
EastEnders: Last Tango in Walford
2010
Children Crossing
1990
Wolf Garden
2023
Legend of the Lizard
2024
Bodo - Eine ganz normale Familie
1989