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Chris Tate
Chris Tate is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera, ''Emmerdale'', played by Peter Amory. The character made his first appearance on 14 November 1989, when he arrived in the village alongside the rest of the Tate family – his father Frank (Norman Bowler); stepmother Kim (Claire King); and younger sister Zoe (Leah Bracknell). Initially a decent man, Chris was left permanently resentful of his life after a plane crash in 1993 left him paralysed from the waist down. His storylines on the show included his numerous feuds, including one with his father Frank; a longstanding rivalry with his stepmother Kim; and his marriages with local villager Kathy Merrick (Malandra Burrows), her best-friend Rachel Hughes ( Glenda McKay), and scheming ex-prostitute Charity Dingle (Emma Atkins). Towards the end of his story arc, Chris learned that he had an inoperable brain tumour and used this opportunity to get revenge on Charity for cheating on him with her cousin Cain Din ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Amory
Peter Amory (born Peter Walton on 2 November 1964) is an English actor best known for playing the role of Chris Tate in ITV's soap opera ''Emmerdale''. He was born in Norwich, Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the Nort .... Personal life He was married to actress Claire King, who played his stepmother Kim Tate, but the couple separated after ten years, they are however still good friends. He has a son, Thomas, from a previous relationship. He was good friends with his former on-screen sister Leah Bracknell ( Zoe Tate). Filmography Film Television References External links * 1964 births English male television actors Living people Actors from Norwich Actors from Norfolk People associated with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Alumni of the Roya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITV (TV Network)
ITV is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network. It was launched in 1955 as Independent Television to provide competition to BBC Television (established in 1936). ITV is the oldest commercial network in the UK. Since the passing of the Broadcasting Act 1990, it has been legally known as Channel 3 to distinguish it from the other analogue channels at the time, BBC1, BBC2 and Channel 4. ITV was for four decades a network of separate companies which provided regional television services and also shared programmes between each other to be shown on the entire network. Each franchise was originally owned by a different company. After several mergers, the fifteen regional franchises are now held by two companies: ITV plc, which runs the ITV1 channel, and STV Group, which runs the STV channel. The ITV network is a separate entity from ITV plc, the company that resulted from the merger of Granada plc and Carlton Communications in 2004. ITV plc holds the Channe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathy Merrick
Katherine "Kathy" Brookman (also Bates, Merrick, Tate and Glover) is a fictional character from the British television soap opera ''Emmerdale'', played by Malandra Burrows. She made her first appearance during the episode broadcast on 26 November 1985. In 2001, new series producer Steve Frost decided to write the character out. Burrows briefly reprised the role in 2005, as Kathy returns for the funeral of Seth Armstrong (Stan Richards). She was one of the show's central characters throughout that time. Development Burrows joined the cast in 1985. The actress admitted that she was not initially aware of "how agricultural" the show would be. She said "My first memory is the smell of cows when I walked in there. Clive Hornby and Frazer Hines, as Jack and Joe, loved winding me up. That first time, they said to me 'watch for the twitching tails.' I wondered what they meant. Then I felt something wet and warm and I realised I was covered." In July 2005 it was announced that Burrows ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Times
''Radio Times'' (currently styled as ''RadioTimes'') is a British weekly listings magazine devoted to television and radio programme schedules, with other features such as interviews, film reviews and lifestyle items. Founded in May 1923 by John Reith, then general manager of the British Broadcasting Company (from 1 January 1927, the British Broadcasting Corporation), it was the world's first broadcast listings magazine. It was published entirely in-house by BBC Magazines from 8 January 1937 until 16 August 2011, when the division was merged into Immediate Media Company. On 12 January 2017, Immediate Media was bought by the German media group Hubert Burda. The magazine is published on Tuesdays and carries listings for the week from Saturday to Friday. Originally, listings ran from Sunday to Saturday: the changeover meant 8 October 1960 was listed twice, in successive issues. Since Christmas 1969, a 14-day double-sized issue has been published each December containing sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Hordley
Jeff Hordley (born 7 March 1970) is an English actor, best known for portraying the role of Cain Dingle in the ITV soap opera, ''Emmerdale''. For his portrayal of Cain, he has been nominated for the British Soap Award for Best Actor at three ceremonies. Early and personal life Hordley grew up in Oldham, Greater Manchester where he attended North Chadderton Comprehensive, before he went on to gain a BA (Hons) Theatre Arts (Acting) degree from Manchester Metropolitan University School of Theatre in 1997. In 1996, Hordley was diagnosed with Crohn's disease. He has experienced symptoms since the age of 20 and has been hospitalised three times from his condition. Hordley married his ''Emmerdale'' co-star Zoe Henry in 2003; the couple have two children: a daughter named Violet, born in 2005, and a son called Stan, born in April 2008. They also have 15 cats, 8 dogs and a large collection of pigeons. He is a Manchester City fan. Career After making minor appearances in British soap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cain Dingle
Cain Dingle is a fictional character from the British soap opera '' Emmerdale'', played by Jeff Hordley. Cain made his first appearance on 30 March 2000, and in 2006, he was written out of the series when Hordley left the soap; however, the option for a return was confirmed, which occurred when Hordley returned to the cast in February 2009. Cain's main storylines have focused on discovering his "uncle" Zak Dingle ( Steve Halliwell) is his father; his relationship with his cousin Charity Dingle ( Emma Atkins); discovering he is Debbie's (Charley Webb) father; his affair and subsequent relationship with Moira Barton (Natalie J. Robb); being attacked in a whodunit storyline where his assailant was eventually revealed to be his father; being diagnosed with a brain aneurysm; supporting his nephew Aaron Livesy ( Danny Miller) after discovering Aaron was sexually abused by his father Gordon Livesy ( Gary Mavers) as a child; reuniting with his and Chas's mother Faith Dingle ( Sal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Atkins
Emma Jayne Atkins (born 31 March 1975) is an English actress, best known for her role as Charity Dingle in the ITV soap opera ''Emmerdale''. Early life Atkins grew up in the village of Silverdale, Lancashire, and then went to study at the University of Salford. Career Atkins is known for portraying the role of Charity Dingle on the ITV soap opera ''Emmerdale'' since 2000. After first leaving ''Emmerdale'', Atkins appeared in episodes of the BBC series '' Dalziel and Pascoe'', ''Mayo'', '' I'm with Stupid'', ''New Street Law'', '' Doctors'' and '' Casualty''. In 2008 she played Lesley Ashton in Heartbeat series 17 episode 8 On 18 March 2009, it was revealed that Atkins would be returning to ''Emmerdale'', reprising her role of Charity, and she made her reappearance on 1 October 2009. She took a brief break in 2015 when she gave birth to her son, but returned shortly after. Awards and nominations Atkins has been nominated for numerous awards for her work on ''Emmerdale''. Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenda McKay
Glenda McKay (born 2 February 1971) is a British actress. She is best known for playing the character of Rachel Hughes on the popular ITV soap ''Emmerdale'' from 1988 until the character was killed off in 1999, in a well-remembered scene in which she was pushed of a cliff by Graham Clark. Glenda's brother Craig McKay also starred alongside her in ''Emmerdale'' as her screen brother Mark Hughes (who was killed off in the air crash episode that was aired on 31 December 1993). McKay has since become a teacher in West Yorkshire West Yorkshire is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and Humber Region of England. It is an inland and upland county having eastward-draining valleys while taking in the moors of the Pennines. West Yorkshire came into exis ..., and following her marriage, is known as Glenda Cumberland. External links * 1971 births Living people English soap opera actresses People from Guiseley Actresses from Leeds {{UK-tv-actor-1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malandra Burrows
Malandra Elizabeth Burrows (born 4 November 1965) is an English actress and singer. She is best known for her long-running role as Kathy Glover in ITV soap opera ''Emmerdale''. Early life Burrows' first name, Malandra, is a portmanteau of her parents' names, ''Mal''colm and S''andra''. Her mother encouraged her at an early age to begin dancing; she initially trained under Billy Pearce's mother Jean. She appeared on Yorkshire Television's ''Junior Showtime'' at the age of six. In 1974 Malandra Newman became the youngest-ever winner of ''New Faces'', appearing on the same "all-winners" show with Les Dennis and Victoria Wood. Her interest in music continued throughout her early adolescence, and at age 13 she won the 1978 BBC Merseyside Songwriter of the Year award. She attended King David High School in Childwall. After deciding that she wanted to be a performer, she joined the Everyman Youth Theatre in Liverpool, did classes at Liverpool Theatre School and also did producti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmerdale Plane Crash
The ''Emmerdale'' Plane Crash, also known as the Beckindale Air Disaster, was a storyline for the British soap opera ''Emmerdale'', broadcast on ITV. The episode aired on 30 December 1993, and gave ''Emmerdale'' its highest-ever viewing figures of 18 million. Background ''Emmerdale Farm'' was originally devised as similar in concept to the long-running BBC Radio 4 soap ''The Archers'', focusing on the farm life of the Sugden family. Originally a low profile, rural drama broadcast in the daytime, efforts were made by Yorkshire Television to transform the show into a more dramatised serial along the lines of the ITV network's main soap Coronation Street, beginning in 1989 when the show's focus moved to the nearby village of Beckindale and 'Farm' was dropped from the title accordingly. Phil Redmond, creator of Channel 4 soap '' Brookside'' was brought in to develop ideas and advise on storylines. The plane crash was the culmination of these efforts and the end of the show's tran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leah Bracknell
Alison Rosalind Bracknell (12 July 1964 – 15 September 2019), known professionally as Leah Bracknell, was an English actress who played the role of Zoe Tate in the ITV soap opera ''Emmerdale'' (1989–2005), for which she was nominated for the 2002 National Television Award for Most Popular Actress and won the 2006 British Soap Award for Best Exit. She was also a qualified teacher with the British School of Yoga and designed and produced a jewellery line. Early life Born in Westminster, London, Bracknell was the daughter of English television director David Ian Bracknell (1932–1987) and Chinese-Malaysian actress Li-Er Hwang. Her parents met while filming ''The World of Suzie Wong'' in Hong Kong in 1959. David was an assistant director and Li-Er played the part of "Wednesday Lu" in the film. The adopted name "Leah" is an anglicization of her mother's name "Li-Er". Bracknell grew up in London and Oxford and spent a year in New Zealand and Fiji. Career Bracknell first appea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire King
Jayne Claire King (born Jayne Claire Seed; 10 January 1962) is an English actress. She is known for her roles as Kim Tate in the ITV soap opera ''Emmerdale'' and Karen Betts in '' Bad Girls''. She has appeared in the fourth series of ''Strictly Come Dancing'' in 2006, '' Safari School'' in 2007, and '' Celebrity Big Brother 14'' in 2014. She also played Erica Holroyd in ''Coronation Street'' from 2014 until 2017. Early life and early career King grew up in Harrogate with her brother and sister. King attended Harrogate Ladies College, and as a punk chose a career in the music business, as a disc jockey in a Leeds nightclub. She then managed, sang and played keyboards in the Alternative Pop group ''Fidei'' and later ''To Be Continued'' as lead singer. Career In 1987, King played a role in the film '' Eat the Rich''. In 1988, King appeared in an episode of ''Wish Me Luck'' as a cinema usherette. In 1989, she appeared in the film ''Cold Light of Day'' as a prostitute. Soon a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
