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Tom Mannion
Tom Mannion is a Scottish actor. His television credits include Brookside, Only Fools and Horses, Up the Garden Path, The Bill, Boon, Cadfael, Doctor Finlay, Doctors, Eleventh Hour, Holby City, Hustle, Life on Mars, Midsomer Murders, New Tricks, Red Cap, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Spatz, Taggart, The Agatha Christie Hour, The Chief, The Royal, and Wycliffe. He has recently been in the BBC TV series Lip Service,Moving On and Inside Men. His film credits include Brothers, Beyond the Sea, Iris, Beautiful Creatures and Croupier as Detective Inspector Ross. In 2011-12, he went on tour throughout the UK, playing Inspector Goole, in Stephen Daldry's production of An Inspector Calls. In December 2012 he joined the cast of Emmerdale as horse trainer Steve Harland. He made his final appearance in the soap on 11 September 2013.
Tony Scoggo
Tony Scoggo (born Anthony Scoggins on 6 May 1936) is a British actor best known for his role in the television soap opera Brookside. He played Matty Nolan in the series from 1982 to 1992. Other TV roles include: Boys from the Blackstuff and Doctor Who (in the serial Terror of the Vervoids). Scoggins developed an interest in politics while working on the Vauxhall Community Development Project in the early 1970s. He gave up acting in the 1990s to become councillor in Knowsley. As a Labour councillor, Tony took part in the Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council elections of 1999, 2003and 2004. In 2003, he was Knowsley Council's Cabinet Member for Leisure, Community and Culture.
Annette Ekblom
Born in New Brighton in 1956, Annette Ekblom is a British actress whose credits include Brookside, Peak Practice and Fever Pitch. She was also an original cast member in the hit musical Blood Brothers and features on the original recording. She had previously been married to Alun Lewis and their daughter, Amelia Warner, is also an actress, married to Jamie Dornan.
Michael Starke
Cast · Known for Brookside
Michael Starke is a British actor best known for his role as Thomas 'Sinbad' Sweeney which he played for sixteen years in the soap opera Brookside. Starke then appeared in the ITV drama The Royal as Kenneth Hopkirk, as policeman Arthur in the film The 51st State and as himself on Lily Savage's Blankety Blank.
Kenneth Cope
Cast · Known for Brookside
Kenneth Charles Cope is an English actor. He was best known for his roles as Marty Hopkirk in Randall and Hopkirk, Jed Stone in Coronation Street and Ray Hilton in Brookside.
Claire Sweeney
Cast · Known for Brookside
English actress, singer and presenter. She is arguably best known for playing the role of Lindsey Corkhill in UK soap opera, Brookside in the 90s and early 00s. In recent years she has become known for her appearances on Loose Women, Comic Relief, A Song for Europe and presenting 60 Minute Makeover. She released a music album called Claire in 2013.
Meg Johnson
Cast · Known for Emmerdale
Actress known for appearing in various British television soap operas. She was Eunice Gee in Coronation Street, Brigid McKenna in Brookside and Pearl Ladderbanks in Emmerdale.
Tony Audenshaw
Cast · Known for Emmerdale
Antony Audenshaw (born 13 January 1965) is an English actor and singer. Audenshaw appeared in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside from 1994 to 1996. Then in 2000, he began playing Bob Hope on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale.
Alyson Spiro
Cast · Known for Barriers
Alyson Spiro is a British actress, best known for portraying Sarah Sugden on the British television soap opera Emmerdale from 1994 to 2000. She has also appeared programmes such as programmes Brookside, Casualty, The Bill, Doctors, Holby City, Sapphire and Steel
Amanda Burton
Cast · Known for Silent Witness, Peak Practice, Brookside
Amanda Burton (born 10 October 1956) is a Northern Irish actress. Her notable credits include Heather Haversham in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside (1982–1986), Beth Glover in the ITV drama series Peak Practice (1993–1995), Sam Ryan in the BBC crime drama series Silent Witness (1996–2004, 2022), Clare Blake in the ITV crime drama series The Commander (2003–2008), Karen Fisher in the BBC school-based drama series Waterloo Road (2010–2011) and Katherine Maguire in the ITV detective series Marcella (2020).
Xia-Louise Brooks
Xia-Louise Brooks (born October 16, 1998), better known by the ring name Xia Brookside, is an English professional wrestler. She is currently signed to American promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA); she previously worked for Japanese promotion World Wonder Ring Stardom, where she was a member of the Club Venus stable, and American promotion WWE, where she performed on the NXT UK brand. She is the daughter of fellow professional wrestler Robbie Brookside.
Sue Johnston
Cast · Known for Brookside
Susan Johnston, OBE (née Wright; born 7 December 1943) is an English actress known for playing Sheila Grant in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside (1982–1990), Barbara Royle in the BBC comedy The Royle Family (1998–2000, 2006, 2008–2010, 2012), Grace Foley in the BBC drama Waking the Dead (2000–2011), Gloria Price in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street (2012–2014) and Miss Denker in the ITV drama Downton Abbey (2014–2015). She won the 2000 British Comedy Award for Best TV Comedy Actress and was nominated for the 2000 BAFTA TV Award for Best Comedy Performance for The Royle Family.
Jack McMullen
Cast · Known for This City Is Ours, Ford v Ferrari, Waterloo Road
Jack Michael McMullen (born 22 February 1991) is an English actor and writer. He is best known for his role as Finn Sharkey in Waterloo Road, as well as other appearances in Brookside and Grange Hill.
Julie Neubert
Julie Neubert is a British actress, known for playing the ill-fated Wendy in the first series of Survivors in 1975. Other regular roles have included playing Judy Matthews in Family Affairs and Joan Hope in Brookside. Her other television credits include: Shoestring, Inspector Morse, Harbour Lights, Softly, Softly and Doomwatch. In 2019, she appeared in an episode of Doctors as Ruth Webster.
Barbara Marten
Barbara Marten is a British actress. She is most known for playing 'Eve Montgomery' in Casualty. She has appeared in various soaps, including Eastenders and Brookside, as well as many other drama serials such as Harry, The Bill and Band of Gold.
John McArdle
John McArdle is an English actor. He is most notable for playing Billy Corkhill in the soap opera Brookside, with many other smaller appearances in other soaps and dramas.
Sandra Maitland
Sandra Maitland was born in Coventry, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Brookside (1982), Ferryman (2023) and Angie (2012).
Francis Johnson
Francis Johnson is a British actor and writer known for roles in Sex Education (Lizzie's Dad), Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators, and Knightfall. His extensive TV credits include Holby City, Brookside, and Dalziel and Pascoe. He is also recognized for his work in the 1990s as a character in The Illustrated Hitchhiker.
Alan Rothwell
Alan Rothwell was a British actor and television presenter. He played David Barlow in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street as a regular from 1960 to 1961, and again from 1963 to 1968. He was Nicholas Black in Brookside between 1985 and 1986. He presented the children's TV series Picture Box from 1968 to 1989.
Christian Ealey
Cast · Known for Brookside
British actor and musician. He was best know for playing the role of Matt Musgrove in both Brookside and Hollyoaks and as the lead vocalist of band Tramp Attack.
Paul Marquess
Producer · Known for Brookside
Paul Marquess (born 23 June 1964) is a television producer from Belfast, Northern Ireland. His credits include Brookside, The Bill, Family Affairs, Hollyoaks, Crime Stories, Suspects and Hope Street. He also originated the idea for the series Footballers' Wives. He currently holds the post of managing director of Newman Street, a label of Fremantlemedia.
Philip Olivier
Cast · Known for Brookside
Philip Olivier was born on June 4, 1980 in Liverpool, England as Philip Lee Borg-Olivier. He is an actor, known for Brookside (1982), Clubbing to Death (2008) and The Crew (2008).
Sarah White
Cast · Known for Brookside
Sarah White is a British stage, film and television actress, best known for playing Bev on Chanel 4's soap opera Brookside from 1993 to 2003.
Karl Lornie
Karl Lornie is known for Boys from the Blackstuff (1982), And the Beat Goes On (1996) and Brookside (1982).