Jake's most notable role came in the BBC television soap opera EastEnders where he played ladies' man and bad boy Danny Moon.
In May 2006, Jake played Aeneas in Dido (Queen of Carthage) for Angels in the Architecture at the Chapel of St Barnabas in Soho.
In the summer of 2006, Jake starred alongside ex-EastEnder, Michael Greco, in the independent thriller film Naked in London which is still awaiting an international release date.
[4] He appeared in The Adored by Carl Medland and Amarjeet Singh, a psychological lesbian thriller, released in 2012.
[6] In a 2005 interview with Now Magazine, while he was still working on EastEnders, Maskall revealed that he was gay, and that he'd been in a relationship for 12 years, saying "it's not a secret".