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Paris Froggatt

Minor background parts in Father Brown, Sister Bonniface, Doctors etc

Reis Bruce

Reis Bruce is an actor, known for Father Brown, Danny and the Human Zoo, and Casualty.

Catherine Skinner

Catherine Skinner is an Actress and Writer known for Doctors (2000), The Nevers (2021) and Father Brown (2013). After studying Drama at Manchester University, Catherine began her career at Birmingham Rep and since then has worked consistently in theatre, television and radio. Her extensive theatre credits include RSC, Wyndams/ATG, Hightide and the Finborough where she appeared in “Little Madam” by James Graham as Margaret Thatcher and in “Mirror Teeth” by Nick Gill both directed by Kate Wasserberg. Her television work includes “Housewife 49” by Victoria Wood, “Close to the Enemy” by Stephen Poliakoff and “The Nevers” on HBO.

Celine Arden

Celine Arden is a British actor best known for Bergerac (2025). Celine appeared in episodes of McMafia (2018), Bridgerton (2020), Father Brown (2023), and Obsession (2023) before becoming a series regular in Bergerac (2025). She appeared in various short films including Devil's Breath (2011), Myrtle (2017) and Immune (2020). Arden has also appeared in several feature films including The Scapegoat (2015), Sparks and Embers (2015), The Hustle (2019), The Postcard Killings (2020), Us or Them (2023), Forgive Me Father (2024) and Cleaner (2025). Arden appeared in 'The Knowing' at Charing Cross Theatre (2017). Since appearing in Bridgerton (2020), she has been credited as Celine Arden, after previously being credited as Celine Abrahams.

Harry Long

Harry can be seen in ITV’s Unforgotten, Breathtaking and Protection. Most recently Harry played Doctor Smith in Queenie the highly anticipated series for Channel 4 and Billy Morgan in Beyond Paradise for BBC. Further television credits include: Father Brown (BBC), Captive (Netflix), The Hunt for Tony Blair (BBC), Lark Rise to Candleford (BBC), Doc Martin (ITV), One Summer (BBC). Film credits include: Boxing Day (Boxing Day Productions Ltd), A Serial Killer’s Guide to Life (Forward Motion Pictures), Gold (Bollywood feature – Eros International). Theatre credits include: Looking Good Dead (josh Andrews Productions); The Crucible, North&South and Blithe Spirit (Pitlochry Festival Theatre) and The Big Corner,The Winters Tale, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Secret Garden, An Enemy of the People, The Family Way and Private Lives (Octagon Theatre, Bolton). Harry trained at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

Lisa Jackson

Lisa Jackson (born 1 June 1979) is an English actress. She has played Alice Butler in Holby City, Ellie Thomas in Hoff the Record, Portia in Toast of London, Phyllis Stanwyck in Father Brown, Lady Lushingham in Mr Selfridge, Deborah in Panto!, Imogen Moffat in the Channel 4 Comedy Showcase sitcom Campus,[1] Sandra in Mike Bartlett's Love, Love, Love,[2][3] Janice Pearce in BBC Four's Dirk Gently[4] and Joan Helford in Rupert Goold's production of Time and the Conways at the National Theatre.[citation needed] Earlier in her career she appeared in Stephen Fry's film Bright Young Things.[4] She trained at LAMDA. From 6 April to 25 June 2016 she appeared in The Suicide at the National Theatre, starring Javone Prince, directed by Nadia Fall.[5]

Jude Tindall

Judith Mary Tindall (née Tompkinson) was an English writer and producer, known for her work on "Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators", "Sister Boniface Mysteries", and "Father Brown". She married Mark Donald Papillon Tindall in 1989, with whom she had three children, and the pair remained married until her death in 2024.

Joanna Horton

Joanna Horton is an English actress, notable for her stage and television work, including an episode of Robin Hood (series 1 episode 4), Father Brown, Spooks and Foyle's War. In 2009, Horton played Hannah in Days of Significance, written by Roy Williams, as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and played Barbara in The Gods Weep, written by Dennis Kelly, in 2010. In the same year, Horton also played Dunyasha in The Cherry Orchard, written by Anton Chekhov, at the Birmingham Rep, and Anna in Town, written by D.C. Moore, at the Royal & Derngate in Northampton. She appeared as Deb in an adaptation of Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's Belongings at Hampstead Theatre and Trafalgar Studios in 2011. During summer 2013 she appeared again with the Royal Shakespeare Company as Celia in As You Like It and Helena in All's Well That Ends Well. In 2017, she played Cassio in Othello at Shakespeare's Globe.

Maya Grant

Maya Grant is a British actress. Maya's feature film debut came with Alien Uprising. She has gone on to portray roles in popular British TV shows such as Emmerdale, Father Brown and Holby City.

Sorcha Cusack

Cast · Known for Father Brown, Snatch

Sorcha Cusack (Irish pronunciation: [ˈsˠɔɾˠəxə]; born 9 April 1949) is an Irish television and stage actress. Her numerous television credits include playing the title role in Jane Eyre (1973), Casualty (1994–1997), Coronation Street (2008) and Father Brown (2013–2022). From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mark Williams

Cast · Known for Father Brown

Mark Williams (born August 22, 1959) is an English actor, comedian, presenter and screenwriter. He first achieved widespread recognition as one of the central performers in the popular BBC sketch show The Fast Show. His film roles include Horace in the 1996 adaptation of 101 Dalmatians and Arthur Weasley in seven of the Harry Potter films. He made recurring appearances as Brian Williams in the BBC television series Doctor Who and as Olaf Petersen in Red Dwarf. Since 2013, Williams has portrayed the title character in the long-running BBC series loosely based on the Father Brown short stories by G. K. Chesterton.

Perdita Avery

Perdita Avery is an actress who played Jane, a woman who Gilly Roach flirted with, in July 2006. Avery has also appeared in Family Affairs, My Hero, Ashes to Ashes, Moving Wallpaper, Doctors, Skins, Midsomer Murders, Silent Witness, Father Brown, Casualty and The Archers.

Nancy Carroll

Cast · Known for Father Brown

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nancy Carroll (born 1974) is an English actress. She has worked extensively in theatre productions, particularly with the Royal Shakespeare Company. She also has numerous film and television credits, including a long-running feature role as Lady Felicia in the BBC series Father Brown.

Susannah Wise

Susannah Walker Wise is an English television and stage actress. She trained as an actress at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, graduating in 1995. Wise is best known for her work in the soap opera EastEnders and the Channel 4 comedy Peep Show. On stage, she has had roles in Christopher Shinn's Where Do We Live and in Nina Raine's Rabbit. She also played Rebecca Shaw in the Channel 4 series Derek. She appeared in the final episode of Kavanagh QC, starring John Thaw, in 2001. In 2015 she portrayed Sylvie in the Mystery miniseries The Enfield Haunting. In 2020 she appeared as Emily Helmsley in Father Brown episode 8.10 "The Tower of Lost Souls". Her debut novel This Fragile Earth was released in 2021, her second novel Okay Then That’s Great in 2022. Both books have been longlisted for the Mslexia prize

Justin Edwards

Cast · Known for 1917

Justin Matthew Edwards (born 21 July 1972) is an English actor, comedian and writer. His roles include Ben Swain in the BBC political comedy The Thick of It and the lead role in the short-lived Channel 5 sitcom Respectable. His television work includes roles in Black Books, Endeavour, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, The Old Guys, Skins, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Fast and Loose, The Trip, Veep, Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, and Black Mirror amongst many others. He won an RTS Award in 2014 for Best Male Actor for his performance in Father Brown ("The Daughters of Jerusalem"). He has played Jeremy Clarkson three times for television, twice for Harry & Paul, and once for Murder in Successville. In 2016 he played Mr Rumbold in the BBC remake of Are You Being Served? His film work includes the role of Charles Vernon in Whit Stillman's Love & Friendship, Spartak Sokolov in The Death of Stalin, John Forster in The Man Who Invented Christmas, Inept Policemen in both Paddington and Thor 2, a fop in The Duchess, Leo in Yesterday, and as Giant Haystacks and Gan in Tim Plester's short films World of Wrestling and Blakes Junction Seven Born in Southampton, Hampshire, Edwards studied Drama at the University of Manchester before training at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. He is married to Lucy Porter and they have two children.

Jordan Metcalfe

Jordan Metcalfe (born 24 May 1986) is an English actor. Metcalfe has appeared as Jake in The Queen's Nose in 2003. He has played the roles of Chris Travis in Heartbeat, and Kieran Tyler in Tea with Betty, Afternoon Play in 2006. He also played 'Mould' in Fungus the Bogeyman (2004), the character 'Chip' in My Parents Are Aliens in 2006, Young Garstin in These Foolish Things (2006), Lightfoot in the documentary The Iceman Murder (2005), John Chappel Jr. in the drama-documentary The Last Flight To Kuwait, Byron in Ultimate Force, Wayne in Jacqueline Wilson's Girls In Love and Brian in Misfits. 2019 saw Metcalfe join the cast of Father Brown on BBC1 afternoons. Other notable appearances include Timon in Maddigan's Quest and Oliver in Neil Bartlett's acclaimed production of Oliver Twist at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith in 2004. He also played the roles of Jack in The Dreaming, and Young Katurian in The Pillowman.

Lorna Watson

Cast · Known for Father Brown

Lorna Watson (born 1977) is a British comedian, actress and television presenter. She was one of the presenters of Spy School. Her acting roles include various characters in television sketch shows Rush Hour, The Wrong Door and Watson & Oliver with comedy partner Ingrid Oliver. In March 2012 she appeared on Let's Dance for Sport Relief with Ingrid Oliver; they danced to Ravel's Boléro. The two met at Tiffin Girls' School in Kingston upon Thames. Her influences are French & Saunders and Fry & Laurie. In 2013, Watson appeared as Sister Boniface in the Father Brown episode "The Bride of Christ" and took part in a special series of The Great British Bake Off. In 2015, she starred in a special episode of Horrible Histories in which she played Boudicca. She also played a one-off character called 'Thingy' in the 'Fashion Phonies' episode of CBBC's Hotel Trubble. In January 2020, it was announced that Watson would be reprising her Sister Boniface role for a new series called Sister Boniface Mysteries, with a ten-episode first series premiering on the streaming service BritBox. The second series aired in 2023 with filming for a third series beginning in June for broadcast in 2024, with Watson also recording a return to Father Brown

Giles Gale

Costume Design · Known for Father Brown

Giles started his career working within the costume department at the BBC in London. Over a number of years, he progressed through various job roles within the department working on a great range of productions. All during a period when the Corporation was at the height of its creative output. In the 1990’s and with his skills and contacts established, the opportunity arose for him to branch out into the freelance sector. He explains that since that point and because of his ‘on the job’ training, hard work and a passion for the craft, he has rarely had a day without work. As a TV and film costume supervisor he has been working continuously alongside some of the most influential Costume Designers working today on productions including Game of Thrones, The Crown and The Secret Garden. During the same period, he has also worked as a costume designer on his own productions including Father Brown, Doc Martin and WPC 56.

Claire Prempeh

Claire Prempeh is an actress who played Lisa Loveday's kidnapper Margaret Smith in flashback scenes to 2001 and 2008, airing in September 2015. The role would be recast to Suzette Llewellyn when the character returned in 2016. Prempeh has also appeared in The Bill, Misfits, Holby City and Father Brown.

William Travis

William Travis is a British character actor from Lancashire known for his roles in Where the Heart Is, This Is England '90, and numerous appearances in Coronation Street. He is a prolific TV actor with credits including The Responder, Father Brown and Waterloo Road.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton KC*SG (29 May 1874 - 14 June 1936) was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as the "prince of paradox". Time magazine observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories-first carefully turning them inside out". Chesterton created the fictional priest-detective Father Brown, and wrote on apologetics. Even some of those who disagree with him have recognised the wide appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an "orthodox" Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting to Catholicism from High Church Anglicanism. George Bernard Shaw, his "friendly enemy", said of him, "He was a man of colossal genius". Biographers have identified him as a successor to such Victorian authors as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, Cardinal John Henry Newman, and John Ruskin.

Jasmine Hyde

Jasmine Hyde is an English actress who has appeared on stage, radio, film and television. She is best known for playing the young Hilda Rumpole in BBC Radio 4's Rumpole of the Bailey between 2009 and 2019, and Leonie Snell in The Archers (2014-19). Jasmine's television roles include Doctors, Father Brown, Beyond Paradise, Casualty, Holby City, Coronation Street, and Murder in Provence. In 2017 she played the lead role in Gary Sinyor’s psychological thriller The Unseen.

Lauren O'Neil

Lauren O'Neil Is a British stage, screen and radio actor. O'Neil was born Lauren Frances Rogers in Liverpool, England, the eldest daughter of two dentists. She left Liverpool to attend the University of Glasgow, before returning to Liverpool to complete an English degree. It was there that she first took up acting. O'Neil attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, graduating in 2009. In 2017, she married Ollie Clueit, bassist of Meanwhile, Back in Communist Russia.... Upon graduating from Guildhall, O'Neil was awarded the 2009 Spotlight Showcase prize for Best Actress. O'Neil's professional debut was as the character Kirsty in a Series 2 episode of BBC drama Being Human. Her stage debut came at the National Theatre where she played Bianca in Marianne Elliot's revival of Women Beware Women. Her first feature film lead was as Nina in The Abominable Snowman (originally Deadly Descent). In July 2011 she became the face of the Match.com advertising campaign, in "The Girl On The Platform". O'Neil and her Match.com advert co-star, Steven Mitchell, also appear in the music video for 'She Began To Dance' sung by Matthew P. The music video shows the couple in similar but not identical outfits leaving the unidentified train station and going on a date to the beach. This suggests the advert and the music video were not filmed at the same time. Matthew P plays most of the 'characters' in the video whilst simultaneously singing his song with a ukulele. In 2012 O'Neil appeared in two premieres at the National Theatre: in Nicholas Wright's Travelling Light and James Graham's This House. In 2014 O'Neil appeared in King Lear alongside Frank Langella and in Richard III with Martin Freeman, playing Regan and Lady Anne respectively. In 2015 she appeared in a 2-part episode "Squaring the Circle" in Series 18 of BBC One's Silent Witness as young City DI Sarah Parks. She played Rowena in the Midsomer Murders season 18 finale 'Harvest of Souls'. She appeared as Steph in the UK premiere of Neil LaBute's Reasons to be Happy at The Hampstead Theatre in 2016, followed by the West End transfers of This House at the Garrick Theatre and The Twilight Zone, directed by Richard Jones, at the Ambassadors Theatre, along with television roles in No Offence, comedy pilot, Bugsplat!, Father Brown, London Kills, Casualty, Grace and Queens of Mystery. In 2022, O'Neil played Romaine Vole in Witness For The Prosecution at London County Hall.

Joseph Prowen

Joseph Prowen is an actor and multi-instumentalist based in London. He works in theatre, television and film. Joseph Prowen trained as an actor at The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). Upon graduating, he won the Highly Commended Award at the Spotlight Prize with this speech from Chatroom by Enda Walsh.​ Theatre credits includes: A Christmas Carol, Twelfth Night (Royal Shakespeare Company); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Scoot Theatre, Tour), Trial by Laughter (Watermill & UK Tour); Bury the Hatchet, Boris III (Vaults Festival); A View From Islington North (Arts Theatre/Out of Joint); Single Spies (Chichester Festival Theatre/Birmingham Rep/UK tour); Jefferson’s Garden, Dick Whittington (Watford Palace Theatre); Teddy (Southwark Playhouse); An Ideal Husband (Chichester Festival Theatre) plus rehearsed readings and workshops at Watford Palace Theatre, The Print Rooms and Shakespeare’s Globe. Television credits includes: Father Brown, Decline and Fall, And Then There Were None, Casualty (BBC), Midsomer Murders (ITV). Film credits includes: Chevalier (Searchlight Pictures); Small Talk (Short)