Marc Todd is a maths teacher at Waterloo Road High School who first appears in Series 13.
Series 13[]
He first appears in Series 13 Episode 4 as the teacher supervising the Behavioural Unit (BU). He lets Kelly Jo go the toilet after she pretends to feel ill, allowing her to take a pregnancy test.
His first major scene involves him being locked in the supply cupboard in his classroom by Schuey Weever in Series 13 Episode 6. He is found by Kelly Jo and Samia Choudhry. He is not seen again in Series 13 after this episode, however it is mentioned that he is on sick leave in Series 13 Episode 7.
Series 14[]
In Series 14 Episode 1, Marc is among the staff who react with dismay when now-acting headteacher Joe brings them into the new "staffroom", a tiny cupboard-like space with no seating, and tells them that the large fully-furnished staffroom that they saw when they first came to the new building is being refurbished into a charging hub for the students' tablets.
When Amy lets slip to the staff that Joe offered to bump up her salary with a TLR payment, there is uproar and Joe is soon accused of cronyism. He abates the staff by telling them that all of them are being offered these payments, but later has to tell them that it is not viable as the school is already way over budget.
There is further uproar among the staff when Joe suspends Neil for restraining Dean on the floor after Dean tried to punch him. As the staff protest at Joe again, he escapes into a lift, which promptly gets stuck between floors. Neil sarcastically labels this a 'serious access issue', and Marc and the rest of the staff close the school 'for safety' and walk out, leaving Joe stuck in the lift. Steve Savage later chastises them all in the pub for contravening their conditions of service by allowing the children to go home without authorisation, and encourages them to find a peaceful resolution.
During this series, Marc struggles in the shadow of new Head of Maths Nisha Chandra. When he comes to her with departmental strategies, she later presents these ideas to senior management as if they are her own, to his annoyance.
He also begins giving Donte Charles one-to-one Maths lessons behind Nisha's back, after Donte struggles to understand Nisha's lessons, while studying to acquire a Maths GCSE in order to become a teacher himself. When Nisha finds out, she accuses Marc of betrayal.
Behind the scenes[]
- Marc is portrayed by Tom Wells, who is best known for playing the villainous Leo King in EastEnders from 2019 to 2020.