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Hollyoaks

1995

Soap

The daily soap that follows the loves, lives and misdemeanours of a group of people living in the Chester village of Hollyoaks where anything could, and frequently does, happen...

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Rob Norbury

Rob Norbury is an Actor known for Hollyoaks Later (2008), Hollyoaks (1995) and Grange Hill (1978). Norbury is involved in the restaurant business, opening a restaurant called Muse in Uppermill and taking over a pub called The Farrars Arms in Grasscroft.

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Owen Warner

Cast · Known for Spider Island

Owen Warner is known for his work on Hollyoaks (1995), Notts TV Debate (2016) and Beverley (2015).

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Dominic Doughty

Dominic Doughty. Actor: Hollyoaks. Dominic Doughty is known for Hollyoaks (1995), Bancroft (2017) and Platform 7 (2023).

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Sarah Manners

Cast · Known for The Bill

British actress of Casualty, Hollyoaks, The Bill and Doctors fame.

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Jazmine Franks

Jazmine Franks is a British actor best known for playing Esther Bloom in Hollyoaks from 2011 to 2018.

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Kerrie Taylor

Kerrie Taylor is an actress, known for Hollyoaks (1995), Where the Heart Is (1997) and The Bay (2019) and has been married to Jason Farrell since 2001.

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Danny Mac

Cast · Known for Black Box

Danny Mac Greene is a British actor and singer, known for Hollyoaks (2011-2015), Midsomer Murders (2019) and others.

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Ray MacAllan

Ray MacAllan is known for Freak of Nurture (2015), Dream Team (1997) and Hollyoaks (1995).

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Dylan Llewellyn

Dylan John Llewellyn is an English actor, known for portraying Martin "Jono" Johnson in Hollyoaks, James Maguire in the Channel 4 sitcom Derry Girls and Jack in Big Boys.

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Nico Mirallegro

Nico Cristian Mirallegro is an English actor who played the role of Barry "Newt" Newton in the British soap opera Hollyoaks between 22 October 2007 and 25 June 2010. His father is Sicilian and his mother is Anglo-Irish. He has a younger sister called Claudia Marissa, born in 1992. Prior to winning the Hollyoaks role, he was a student, starting in February 2007, at the Manchester School of Acting. At the same time as filming for Hollyoaks, he was also playing Cam Spencer in web series LOL, which explores sex, drugs and relationships. Mirallegro appeared in a short film by Plato Films and All-Seeing Eye Productions, called Six Minutes of Freedom, in July 2009, between filming for Hollyoaks. Mirallegro stars as a troubled teenager called Chris who is training to be a boxer. His sister Claudia also makes an appearance. This film was entered into four film festivals. Six Minutes of Freedom was released for download at Mi Shorts on January 12, 2011, following a successful festival run in the summer of 2010. On 10 November 2010, Mirallegro appeared as a gay character called Jamie, who suffers bullying (because of his sexuality) in an episode of series 2 of the BBC drama series Moving On. The episode is called "Losing My Religion". Mirallegro recently appeared as a guest in nine episodes of the regular BBC series Doctors; this was announced on 7 June 2010 in an article by Digital Spy. He appeared in the role of Italian foreign exchange student Giovanni Mannasorri, who arrived in Letherbridge to study at university. His first episode in this role was shown on 24 September. He finished filming for his role in McQueen the Movie by Bitter Sweet Pictures in the summer of 2010. He played Sam, a young Jewish lad (one of the two main protagonists of the story: Sam and Nick). The film is set in suburbia in the North of England in the 1990s. From 26 to 28 December 2010, Mirallegro appeared in series 1 of BBC1 1930s period remake of Upstairs Downstairs. He played a young footman called Johnny Proude, who took up a position in service to escape the poverty of the northern mining town where he was born. In the first episode, Proude got into trouble with the police within his first week of service at 165 Eaton Place, and was sent away to a borstal, but returned in the third episode. On 10 February 2011, the BBC Press Office announced that the series has been re-commissioned for a further six episodes, which would be shown in 2012. In May 2011, Mirallegro appeared in the BBC's 3-part psychological thriller Exile, playing the teenage version of leading character Tom Ronstadt (played by John Simm). Later that same year, Mirallegro played the role of Sam, a gay heroin addict in the BBC drama The Body Farm. From Sunday 19 February to Sunday 25 March 2012, Mirallegro appeared again as Johnny Proude in Series 2 of BBC's remake of Upstairs Downstairs.[10] The episode which featured Mirallegro's character the most was "All The Things You Are"; which showed Johnny Proude in training to take part in a boxing competition, and gave some hint of his fears about becoming a soldier in World War II. Mirallegro completed filming in a new film about The Stone Roses called Spike Island, which was released in November 2012. He is appearing in E4's new teenage comedy My Mad Fat Diary, which began airing from 14 January 2013. He plays the role of Finn.

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Nick Pickard

Cast · Known for Hollyoaks

English actor best known for playing Tony Hutchinson in long-running soap, Hollyoaks. He has had memorable roles in Eastenders, Us Girls and Grange Hill as well.

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Matt Milburn

Matt Milburn was born in Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK. He is known for Hollyoaks (1995), Hollyoaks: After Hours (2004) and The Dead Room.

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Paul Clayton

Paul Clayton is an actor and a theatre director. He is best known for his appearances the series Peepshow, Him and Her, Coronation Street and Hollyoaks.

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Emmett J. Scanlan

Cast · Known for A Working Man, In the Grey, MobLand

Emmett J. Scanlan is an Irish actor from Dublin. He is best known for playing the villain Brendan Brady in Hollyoaks. He is currently filming BBC2 drama The Fall in 2013-2014 and hitman movie Breakdown in which he appears alongside Craig Fairbrass, James Cosmo, Bruce Payne, Olivia Grant and Tamer Hassan. Scanlan recently finished filming BBC3 In The Flesh Series 2, and Guardians of the Galaxy.

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Benedict Shaw

Benedict Shaw. Actor: Boat Story. Benedict Shaw is known for Boat Story (2023), Hollyoaks (1995) and Emmerdale Farm (1972).

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Greg Wood

Cast · Known for The Sixth Sense

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Greg Wood is a British actor. He was previously known as Greg Milburn. Greg's first acting role was in Hollyoaks, playing one of the bully's in the ground breaking portrayal of Luke Morgan's rape. Greg would then go on to play what is possibly his best known role in the now defunct soap Brookside playing a drug dealer called Terry Gibson, he later reprised the role for the spin-off DVD Unfinished Business and was one of four nominated for Soap Villan of the Year. Since leaving Brookside Greg Wood has appeared in The Courtroom, Casualty 1907 and has appeared twice in Emmerdale. Greg is the brother of Matt Milburn who played Joe Spencer in Hollyoaks His most recent role has been playing a debt collector, Rick Neelan, in Coronation Street. Greg will be going up for the 'Best Villain' award for Coronation Street in the British Soap Awards this year. On April 14, 2010 Coronation Street was cleared by Ofcom for broadcasting a scene where Greg's characher Rick Neelan pushed a burning newspaper through someone's letterbox. 31 people complained about the scene, claiming that the show had incited and encouraged crime. However Ofcom ruled that it was "not likely to encourage or incite the commission of crime or lead to disorder". Description above from the Wikipedia article Greg Wood, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Bronagh Waugh

Bronagh Waugh is an actress from Northern Ireland. She played Cheryl Brady in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks from 2009 to 2013. At the 2010 British Soap Awards, Waugh was nominated for awards for Best Newcomer, Best Actress and Best Comedy Performance for her portrayal of Cheryl. She was also nominated for two National Television Awards. Since leaving Hollyoaks, Waugh has appeared in dramas including The Fall, Unforgotten and the crime dramas Ridley and Strike.

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Hannah Tointon

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Hannah Marie Tointon  is an English actress. She is best known for playing Katy Fox in the long running Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, and Tara in British sitcom The Inbetweeners. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hannah Tointon, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Tamaryn Payne

Tamaryn Payne is an English actress and voice artist, best known for playing Annalise Appleton in the series Hollyoaks.

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Mandip Gill

Cast · Known for Doctor Who

Mandip Kaur Gill is an English actress. Her first television role came in 2012 when she was cast as Phoebe McQueen in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks. After departing the series in 2015, Gill went on to have guest roles in Cuckoo, Doctors, The Good Karma Hospital and Casualty. In October 2017, the BBC announced that Gill had been cast as companion Yasmin Khan in the long-running BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who.

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Yasmin Bannerman

Yasmin Bannerman (born 1970) is an English actress. Bannerman was born and brought up in Gloucestershire and attended the Rose Bruford College in London until 1993. She has had roles in television series such as Hollyoaks, Cold Feet, Merseybeat and Doctor Who, and in the films Maybe Baby and Killing Me Softly. Her first television role came in 1995 when she appeared in an episode of Crown Prosecutor. Shortly afterwards she was cast as Maddie Parker in Channel 4's soap opera Hollyoaks. She describes her role in the soap as "demanding", though the character appeared less frequently as time went on. Further appearances include a brief role in Red Dwarf and a recurring role in the third series of Cold Feet as Jessica Barnes, a local political activist who has an affair with David Marsden (played by Robert Bathurst). In the same year she appeared in Ben Elton's Maybe Baby as Melinda. Further appearances include roles in Queen of Swords, In Deep, Holby City, Life on Mars, and an eight-episode stint in Merseybeat. In 2005 she played Jabe (an alien that resembles a tree) in the second episode of BBC Wales' revival of Doctor Who. Her audition was "shrouded in secrecy" and the part required a lengthy make-up process; the prosthetics took three hours to apply and 90 minutes to remove. Further involvement in the Doctor Who franchise includes guest roles in the audio dramas The Bride of Peladon and The Fourth Wall, and a part in the Torchwood episode "They Keep Killing Suzie". In 2015, she played Roz Forrester, a companion of the Seventh Doctor, in three novel adaptations of the Virgin New and Missing Adventures, Damaged Goods, Original Sin and Cold Fusion. These stories were adapted by Big Finish Productions. She later reprised the role in a series of four stories released in November 2018, entitled "The Seventh Doctor: The New Adventures". In 2017, Bannerman is playing Dayna Mellanby, a character in the Blake's 7 audio adventure series by Big Finish Productions. Bannerman is the third actress to play Dayna following Josette Simon in the television series and Angela Bruce in the BBC Radio series.

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Elize du Toit

Cast · Known for Skyfall

Elize du Toit (born 21 February 1980) is a South African-born English former actress best known for playing the role of Izzy Davies in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks from 2000 to 2004, with a brief return in 2007. Elize du Toit was born in Grahamstown, South Africa, the second of four children, to an artist mother and an orthodontist father. She spent most of her childhood in Pretoria. She moved to Berkshire, United Kingdom, in December 1994, where she attended Wellington College, completed her A-levels; attaining straight As in English, French, history and history of art. She was a member of Reading's Progress Theatre. She studied history at the University of Edinburgh and performed with the Edinburgh University Theatre Company. Elize du Toit won the role of Izzy Davies in the Channel 4 Soap opera Hollyoaks after an open audition; beating 40,000 hopefuls. She left the show in 2004 after four years filming in Liverpool. In November 2011, Du Toit made an appearance in Coronation Street as Jenny, the ex-girlfriend of Matt Carter.

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Warren Brown

Cast · Known for Luther, Strike Back

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Warren Brown (born 11 May 1978) is an English actor and former professional Thaiboxer, well known for his roles as Andy Holt in teen soap opera Hollyoaks and Lee Hibbs in the three-part BBC drama series Occupation written by Peter Bowker. Brown was born in Warrington, Cheshire, England. Description above from the Wikipedia article Warren Brown (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.