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Call the Midwife

2012

Drama

Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.

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Rebecca Lee

Rebecca Lee is known for The Cleaner (2021), Call the Midwife (2012) and The B@it (2019). Rebecca trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Her stage credits include Tanya in Jerusalem, Viola in Twelfth Night (Watermill Theatre), Franny in Small Island (National Theatre), Lily in The First Man (Jermyn St Theatre). Rebecca was nominated for the Ian Charleston award for Friar Lawrence in Romeo and Juliet at the Watermill. Her TV credits include Babs (BBC), Sparks (Channel 4) and she has voiced commercials for Calm (2019) and The Body Shop (Christmas 2020). She has recorded numerous audiobooks including Crossfire by Malorie Blackman, The Wintering by Catherine May, Cream Buns and Crime by Robin Stevens and video games including Umbra In Sea of Thieves.

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Ellie-May Sheridan

Theatre For the National Theatre: Bacchae and London Tide TV Transaction, Dodger, Strike: The Ink Black Heart, The Kemps: All Gold, Call the Midwife and Casualty Awards London Tide – 2024 The Stage Debut Award for Best Performer in a Play (Updated September 2025. Photo: Jennie Scott) Source: National Theatre

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Paul Cawley

Paul Cawley is an actor, known for Call the Midwife (2012), Ghosts (2019) and McMafia (2018).

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Dereke Oladele

Dereke Oladele is known for Wicked (2024), Call the Midwife (2012) and Christmas with the King (2020).

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Stephen McGann

Cast · Known for Call the Midwife

Stephen McGann is a British actor perhaps best known for playing Dr Turner in the BBC's Call The Midwife. He is one of a family of acting brothers including Joe, Paul, and Mark.

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Kate Lamb

Kate Lamb is a Welsh actress best known for playing Nurse Delia Busby in the BBC drama series Call the Midwife from 2015 to 2017.

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Colin Mace

Colin Mace is a British theatre, film and TV actor that has appeared in Call the Midwife, Foyles War and the acclaimed ITV drama The Lost Honour by Peter Morgan and directed by Roger Michell. He starred in the National Theatre’s One Man, Two Guvnors and has a leading role in the feature Dead in Tombstone, directed by Roel Reine. Theatre credits include War Horse, Crash, and The Odyssey. Other TV credits include The Thick of It, The Night Watch, Eastenders, Peep Show and The Project, directed by Peter Kosminsky for BBC.

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Daniel Laurie

Daniel Laurie is a British Actor best known for playing Reggie Jackson in BBC drama series Call The Midwife. He is the son of actor Leslie Grantham and Jane Laurie.

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Francesca Fullilove

Nominated for Favourite Young Actor - TV Times Awards 2 years running Best known for Playing Colette Corrigan in BBCs Award winning CALL THE MIDWIFE - 4 series

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Lucy Black

Cast · Known for Break Clause

Lucy was born in Bradford and is most known for playing Florence in The Durrells. Other TV includes Grantchester, Call The Midwife, Jericho, Endeavour, Mary Snowden in Gentleman Jack, Innocent(ITV), Silent Witness (BBC), and Better (BBC) She voiced Queen Meve in Thronebreaker (an offshoot of The Witcher Games). Lucy trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

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George Whitehead

George Whitehead is an Actor known for Empire of Light (2022), Slow Horses (2022) and Call the Midwife (2021).

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Jack Hawkins

Jack Hawkins (born 6 October 1985) is an English actor, known for his work on the BBC One series Call The Midwife and the HBO Max series Raised by Wolves.

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Ella Bruccoleri

Cast · Known for Wicker

Ella Bruccoleri is an actress and singer best known for playing Mary Bennett, the lead role in the hit 2026 BBC series The Other Bennett Sister and Sister Frances in Call the Midwife (2018 - 2022) and has starred in the movies Paddington in Peru (2024), Joy (2024), The Strangers: Chapter 1 (2024), Extraordinary (2023), Polite Society (2023), and The Last Kingdom (2015). Alongside her acting career, Bruccoleri is the lead vocalist of the dream pop band Marry Me Emelie!, formed with musician Yoan Segot.

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Katie Moore

Katie Moore is known as an Actor and Model, Some of her work includes The Paradise, Merlin, Misfits, Call the Midwife, and The Merchant of Venice.

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Charlotte Ritchie

Cast · Known for You

Charlotte Anne Ritchie (born 29 August 1989) is an English actress and singer-songwriter. She is famous for her roles in the TV series Fresh Meat (2011–2016), Siblings (2014–2016) and Call the Midwife (2015–2018) and for her lead role in Benny and Jolene (2013). She is currently starring in BBC's Ghosts (2019–) as Alison. In 2004, she played a lead in a short film entitled The Open Doors with Michael Sheen. She appeared as an uncredited extra in the 2005 film, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. She also featured in The Pierglass at the Young Pleasance Theatre in August 2006 at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. She was a presenter on Boomerang and performed with All Angels in an episode of Emmerdale. She also played Emily Owen, a neighbour in the BBC's Life of Riley. From 2011 to 2016, she portrayed Oregon in the Channel 4 comedy series Fresh Meat. She stars in Siblings which was first broadcast in summer 2014 and she appeared as a guest panellist in the same year on 8 Out of 10 Cats. In 2015, she joined the cast of popular period drama Call The Midwife. In 2016, she appeared in the UK production of Noel Coward's Private Lives, playing the role of Sibyl Chase. On New Years Day 2019, she had the guest-starring role of Lin in the Doctor Who episode "Resolution". In 2019, she played Alison in Ghosts, a BBC sitcom, and Alison in Dead Pixels. She played the role of George in Channel 4 series Feel Good in 2020. Description above is from the Wikipedia article Charlotte Ritchie, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Sam Gittins

Sam Gittins is a British actor known for Break (2020), Await Further Instructions (2018), EastEnders (2016) and Call the Midwife (2015).

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Philip Cairns

Philip Cairns is an actor known for National Theater Live: Cyrano de Bergerac (2019), Slow Horses (2022) and Call the Midwife (2012).

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Jessica Raine

Jessica Raine (born May 14, 1982) is an English stage, film and television actress, best known for her roles as midwife Jenny Lee in the BBC drama Call the Midwife (2012–2014) and Doctor Who's first producer Verity Lambert in the biographical film An Adventure in Space and Time (2013). She has also portrayed Catherine Parr in the historical drama Becoming Elizabeth (2022).

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Bryony Hannah

Cast · Known for Call the Midwife

Bryony Hannah (born 1984) is a British actress, best known as Cynthia Miller in BBC One's Call the Midwife.

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Emily Barber

Cast · Known for MobLand

Emily Barber (born 26 September 1991) is an English stage, television and film actress having had roles in Endeavour and The Royals (2018), Call The Midwife and Backdraft 2 (2019), The Alienist (2020), and Bridgerton in 2022. Her theatre career started with Best Newcomer at the Manchester Theatre Awards for her debut as Liz in Billy Liar at the Royal Exchange Theatre in 2015. She followed that with a nomination for the Ian Charleson Awards for her performance as Imogen in Cymbeline at the Globe Theatre in 2016.

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Victoria Yeates

Cast · Known for Call the Midwife, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

Victoria Natalie Yeates (born 19 April 1983) is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Sister Winifred in the period drama series Call the Midwife. She also appeared in the film Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald and its sequel Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. Yeates was born and raised in Bournemouth, Dorset and practised ballet dancing as a child. In 2006, she earned a degree in acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). She began her career on the stage, earning critical praise for her roles in Noël Coward's Private Lives, in the Rookery Nook and in Michael McClure's The Beard. In 2017, she began touring in a production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible. In 2014, she joined the cast of the BBC period drama Call the Midwife as Sister Winifred, a midwife who moves to Poplar, London in the late 1950s to work at Nonnatus House. She became engaged to musician Paul Housden in 2016 in South Africa, during filming for the Call the Midwife Christmas special. They reside in London and married in June 2018.

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Helen George

Cast · Known for Call the Midwife

Helen Elizabeth George (born 19 June 1984) is an English actress, best known for playing Trixie Franklin on the BBC drama series Call the Midwife. In 2015, she participated in the thirteenth series of BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing; she was paired with Aljaž Skorjanec, and finished in sixth place. She was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards for her contribution to the cast recording of Cinderella.

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Hayley Squires

Hayley Squires (born April 16, 1988) is an English actress and a playwriter. Hayley trained at the Rose Bruford College and graduated in 2010. Hayley is mostly known for Call The Midwife (2012). Hayley is originally from South London.