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List Of Heartbeat Characters
''Heartbeat'' is a British period drama series, based upon the "Constable" series of novels written by Nicholas Rhea, and produced by ITV Studios (formerly Yorkshire Television until it was merged by ITV) from 1992 until 2010. The following is a list of actors who served as cast members for the programme, grouped by category of the role they maintained, ordered by first appearance and listing the series they served in. This list also included actors who maintained recurring roles during the programme's history. Main cast Aidensfield and Ashfordly police cast Medical staff cast "Lovable rogue" cast Aidensfield residents cast Recurring characters This section lists other characters who have appeared in more than one episode. *Jack Deam as Alan Maskell (1992). * Eileen O'Brien as Susan Maskell (credited as "Mrs Maskell") (1992). *Barrie Rutter as Walter Maskell (credited as "Mr Maskell") (1992). * Suzanne Hitchmough as Sandra Murray (1992). *Shirley Stelfox as Mrs. Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heartbeat (British TV Series)
''Heartbeat'' is a British police procedural period drama series, based upon the "Constable" series of novels written by Nicholas Rhea, and produced by ITV Studios (formerly Yorkshire Television until it was merged by ITV) from 1992 until 2010. The series is set during the 1960s around real-life and fictional locations within the North Riding of Yorkshire, with most episodes focused on stories that usually are separate but sometimes intersect with one another; in some episodes, a singular story takes place focused on a major incident. The programme initially starred Nick Berry, Niamh Cusack, Derek Fowlds, William Simons, Mark Jordon, and Bill Maynard, but as more main characters were added to the series, additional actors included Jason Durr, Jonathan Kerrigan, Philip Franks, Duncan Bell, Clare Wille, Lisa Kay, Tricia Penrose, Geoffrey Hughes, Peter Benson and Gwen Taylor. Production of episodes involved filming of outdoor and exterior scenes around the North Riding, includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Blakeley
Steven Blakeley (born 26 February 1982) is a British actor. He is best known for his role as Constable, PC List of Heartbeat characters#Other Ashfordly police, Geoff Younger in the British police drama ''Heartbeat (British TV series), Heartbeat'', guest roles in various other television programmes and multiple theatre roles. Early life Steven Blakeley was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Chesterfield, Derbyshire in 1982 and was brought up in the Derbyshire mining town of Bolsover. He attended the The Bolsover School, Bolsover School, and was initially interested in pursuing a medical career, before turning his attentions to performing. Career Blakeley started his career as a member of the Derby Playhouse Community and Youth Theatre companies, before going on to work professionally at Derby Playhouse. He trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow and at the Athanor Academy in Germany. His theatre credits include national tours of Peter Shaffe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Kay
Lisa Kay, is an English actress who has also worked in Australia. Early life and education Kay grew up in Levisham on the North York Moors and has three sisters, Samantha, Sara and Caroline. Kay first trained as a dancer with Sandra Burnham and then at the Bush-Davies School. Career UK Kay performed professionally in many professional stage shows before retraining at the Bristol Old Vic as an actress with considerable distinction. Kay made her debut in ITV1's '' Heartbeat'' in 2004 the episode entitled ''Wrecked.'' She played the character of Emma Bryden, a lonely single mother who forms a friendship with PC Phil Bellamy. She then became a cast regular from October 2006 until the series' end in September 2010, playing Nurse Carol Cassidy. She appeared as Eleanor Ross Heaney in the 2001 romantic comedy film ''Bridget Jones's Diary''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Ward
Sophie Anna Ward (born 1964) is an English stage and screen actress, and a writer of non-fiction and fiction. As an actress, she played Elizabeth Hardy, the female lead in Barry Levinson's ''Young Sherlock Holmes'' (1985), and in other feature film roles including in Cary Joji Fukunaga's period drama ''Jane Eyre'' (2011), and Jane Sanger's horror feature, ''Swiperight'' (2020). In 1982 she had a role in the Academy Award-winning best short film, ''A Shocking Accident''. On television she played Dr Helen Trent in British police drama series ''Heartbeat'' from 2004 to 2006, the character Sophia Byrne in the series ''Holby City'' from 2008 to 2010, the role of Lady Ellen Hoxley in the series ''Land Girls'' from 2009 to 2011, and that of Lady Verinder in the mini-series ''The Moonstone'' (2016). She has had a variety of other roles on stage and in short and feature films. Ward returned to higher education, earning a PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2019, in English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aislín McGuckin
Aislín McGuckin (born May 1974) is a Northern Irish actress. She has appeared in theatre, television, and film roles. Her early film work includes ''The Nephew'' and ''The White Countess''. From 2014 to 2015, she starred as Letitia MacKenzie in the Starz series '' Outlander'', and in 2020, played Marianne's mother, Denise, in the BBC One miniseries ''Normal People''. Early life McGuckin was born in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland to parents Lorcan and Margaret. She grew up the eldest of three children in a Catholic family in Lurgan, County Armagh. She attended Sacred Heart Grammar School in Newry. She was going to study law at university, but changed her mind and instead pursued a degree in acting at Rose Bruford College Rose Bruford College (formerly Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance) is a drama school in the south London suburb of Sidcup. The college has degree programmes in acting, actor musicianship, directing, theatre arts and various discipl ... in Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Tansey
Sarah Victoria M Tansey (born 1971 Wimbledon, London) is a British actress. She had a role in ''Heartbeat'' as pharmacist Jenny Merton (née Latimer) who was brought in to help Dr Summerbee (Clare Calbraith) in the Aidensfield surgery. When Dr Summerbee was killed off, Jenny continued as the pharmacist alongside Dr Merrick, but she developed mental health symptoms and was diagnosed with mania, which was Sarah and Duncan Bell’s (Dennis Merton) exit storyline. Other roles included the shows ''Casualty'', '' Where the Heart Is'' and ''The Bill''. She has also appeared in films ''Far from the Madding Crowd'' (1998) and ''Beginner's Luck'' (2001). She is married to actor Hywel Simons Hywel Simons (born 10 February 1970) is a British actor from Neath, Wales. Born in Neath, he was brought up in Porthcawl. He started acting while a pupil at Porthcawl Comprehensive School, before he went on to study at LAMDA. Simons first T .... External links * British actresses Peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clare Calbraith
Clare Michelle Calbraith (born 1 January 1974) is an English actress, born in Winsford, Cheshire, and raised in Liverpool and Cheshire, whose appearances include roles in the ITV period drama series '' Home Fires'' and ''Downton Abbey'', together with the BBC2 drama '' The Shadow Line''. Biography Calbraith has appeared in many other television series including ''DCI Banks'', '' Silent Witness'', ''Casualty'', '' Holby City'', ''The Bill'', ''55 Degrees North'' and Dr Tricia Summerbee in '' Heartbeat''. She joined '' Coronation Street'' in 2005 for a short time to play Robyn, girlfriend of Martin Platt. In 2007, she guest-starred in the '' Doctor Who'' audio dramas ''Urban Myths'' and '' Son of the Dragon''. In 2008 she guest-starred in the ''Sapphire and Steel'' audio drama ''Second Sight Extrasensory perception or ESP, also called sixth sense, is a claimed paranormal ability pertaining to reception of information not gained through the recognized physical senses, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Michaels (actor)
David Michaels (born 15 June 1964) is an English stage and screen actor. Career Screen In 1984–5, Michaels played Alexander Holroyd in the fifth series of ITV educational drama '' How We Used to Live''. He played hairdresser Jon Welch in Coronation Street between 1994 and 1996. He played Dr. Neil Bolton in the TV series Heartbeat (1998-1999). He also appeared in the series '' As Time Goes By'' as Harry the policeman (1998-2002). In 1991, he appeared in "Misterioso", an episode of the BBC series ''Play on One''. In 1993, he appeared as Mister Burger in "Money for Nothing", an episode in the fifth series of the BBC anthology series ''Screen One''. In 2001, he appeared in the film ''Nowhere in Africa'', which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 2011, he appeared as Brian Worsley in the BBC crime drama '' Hidden''. In 2019 he played CS Kier Pritchard in the ITV drama ''A Confession''. Stage In 1988, Michaels played Peter in Academy Award-winner Richard Rod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazia Pelka
Kazia Pelka (born 1962) is a British actress who has worked primarily in UK television, appearing in the soap opera series Brookside in the early 1990s, the period police drama series ''Heartbeat'' in the late 1990s, the police procedural series ''The Bill'', and the BBC medical drama series ''Doctors'', and ''Casualty''. Early life Pelka was born in Dewsbury, West Riding of Yorkshire, in December 1962 to a Polish engineer father and Irish stage actress Alma Herley. She is the niece of actor Randal Herley, and her maternal grandmother was Irish opera singer Anne Herley. She spent her childhood in the Roundhay district of Leeds and received her formal education at Notre Dame High School. Before becoming an actress, she briefly worked as a make-up artist. She subsequently trained in acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, where she was awarded the Wilfred Foulis prize. Upon graduating from L.A.M.D.A., she briefly worked as a theatre actress. A Granada Television ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Firth
Peter Macintosh Firth (born 27 October 1953) is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Sir Harry Pearce in the BBC One programme '' Spooks''; he is the only actor to have appeared in every episode of the programme's ten-series lifespan. He has given many other television and film performances, most notably as Alan Strang in '' Equus'' (1977), earning both a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination for the role. Early life, family and education Firth was born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, the son of publicans Mavis (née Hudson) and Eric Macintosh Firth. He attended Hanson School in Bradford. Early career Child actor Firth was a leading child actor by the middle of 1969, having starred in the first series of ''The Flaxton Boys'' as Archie Weekes and then the following year in the series ''Here Come the Double Deckers'', both of which featured child actors in the leading roles. Firth played Scooper, the leader of the gang. In 1972 he al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Middlemass
Francis George Middlemass (28 May 1919 – 8 September 2006) was an English actor, who even in his early career played older roles. He is best remembered for his television roles as Rocky Hardcastle in '' As Time Goes By'', Algy Herries in ''To Serve Them All My Days'' and Dr. Alex Ferrenby in 20 episodes of '' Heartbeat.'' Middlemass was also active in the Royal Shakespeare Company and was the fourth and final actor to play Dan Archer in ''The Archers''. Early life Middlemass was born in Eaglescliffe, County Durham, the son of a shipping company director. He was brought up in Newcastle upon Tyne, and educated in Stockton-on-Tees. He entered the army at the age of nineteen and was wounded in the Dunkirk retreat. He left the army when he was thirty and was by then a lieutenant colonel. Middlemass started his acting career in rep in Penzance, Cornwall and then went on to join the Old Vic Company. While with them he toured North and South America, Australia, New Zealand, Isr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niamh Cusack
Niamh Cusack ( ; born 20 October 1959) is an Irish actress. Born to a family with deep roots in the performing arts, Cusack has been involved as a performer since a young age. She has served with the UK's two leading theatre companies, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre and has performed in a long line of major stage productions since the mid-1980s. She has made numerous appearances on television including a long-running role as Dr. Kate Rowan in the UK series '' Heartbeat'' (1992–1995) which made her a household name and favourite. She has often worked as a voice actress on radio, and her film credits include a starring role in ''In Love with Alma Cogan'' (2011). Early life The daughter of the Irish actor Cyril Cusack, she is the sister of Sinéad Cusack and Sorcha Cusack, and half-sister of Catherine Cusack. She has two brothers, Paul Cusack, a television producer, and Pádraig Cusack, Producer for the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain. Cusa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
