Casualty (TV Series) - Characters and Cast

Characters and Cast

Casualty follows the professional and personal lives of the medical and ancillary staff of Holby City Hospital's emergency department. It features an ensemble cast of regular characters, and began with ten main characters in its first series. The original characters were consultant Ewart Plimmer (Bernard Gallagher), Senior house officer Baz Samuels (Julia Watson), nurses Charlie Fairhead, Megan Roach, Clive King and Lisa "Duffy" Duffin (Derek Thompson, Brenda Fricker, George Harris and Cathy Shipton), paramedics Sandra Mute and Andrew Ponting (Lisa Bowerman and Robert Pugh), receptionist Susie Mercier (Debbie Roza) and porter Kuba Trzcinski (Christopher Rozycki). New main characters have been both written in and out of the series since, with only Charlie remaining in the show.

As of the twenty-seventh series, the main cast encompasses senior charge nurse Charlie, consultants Zoe Hanna and Dylan Keogh (Sunetra Sarker and William Beck), paediatric speciality doctor Tom Kent (Oliver Coleman), CT3 doctor Sam Nicholls (Charlotte Salt), clinical nurse manager Tess Bateman (Suzanne Packer), staff nurses Linda Andrews, Lloyd Asike and Adrian "Fletch" Fletcher (Christine Tremarco, Michael Obiora and Alex Walkinshaw), paramedics Kathleen "Dixie" Dixon and Jeff Collier (Jane Hazlegrove and Matt Bardock), porter Mackenzie "Big Mac" Chalker (Charles Dale) and receptionists Noel Garcia and Louise Tyler (Tony Marshall and Azuka Oforka).

A survey published by Radio Times magazine in March 2004 revealed that Casualty has featured more future stars than any other UK soap or drama series. Actors who appeared in the show prior to becoming famous include Kate Winslet, Orlando Bloom, Minnie Driver, Christopher Eccleston, Tom Hiddleston, Parminder Nagra, Sadie Frost, Ray Winstone, David Walliams, Jonny Lee Miller, Helen Baxendale, Robson Green and Brenda Fricker. Discussing her 1993 appearance in Casualty, Winslet told the Radio Times: "In England, it almost seems to be part of a jobbing actor's training . As far as I was concerned it was a great episode, a great part. Appearing in Casualty taught me a big lesson in how to be natural in front of the camera." In addition, the series has featured a variety of more established stars, including Norman Wisdom, Amanda Redman, Anita Dobson, Jenny Seagrove, Rula Lenska, Prunella Scales, Celia Imrie, Toyah Willcox, Maureen Lipman, Frances Barber, Andrew Sachs, Russ Abbot and Stephanie Beacham in cameo roles.