Roger Roger - Cast & Characters

Cast & Characters

Main Characters

• Robert Daws as Sam: The owner of Cresta Cabs. He struggles to keep the company operational despite financial problems. His wife is in a nursing home with early-onset Alzheimer's and later dies. He had a brief affair with his married colleague Reen and still has feelings for her.
• Keith Allen as Dexter: Sam's business partner. He has a young wife Tina and a lavish lifestyle, which he supports by embezzling company funds. He apparently commits suicide in series 1, leaving Sam in financial trouble, but reappears in series 3, having faked his death.
• Pippa Guard as Reen: The office manager and dispatcher at Cresta Cabs. She is married to an alcoholic but is in love with Sam.
• David Ross as Baz: A postman who drives mini-cabs part-time. Baz goes on a series of unsuccessful first dates through a dating agency. He has a developmentally disabled stepson Marlon.
• Philip Glenister as Phil (played by Neil Morrissey in the pilot): A mini-cab driver and aspiring rock star with a girlfriend Chrissie and two children, Madonna and Cher. In the second series, he is hired as a personal driver by a businessman who turns out to be a criminal. He does not appear in series 3.
• Helen Grace as Chrissie (played by Lesley Vickerage in the pilot): Phil's girlfriend who wants him to settle down and be realistic about his chances of becoming a rock star. She does not appear in series 3.
• Barbara Durkin as Tina: Dexter's flighty wife who makes advances on Sam after Dexter's death.
• Terence Maynard as Andre: A mini-cab driver and ladies' man who has several children with different women. He does not appear in series 3.
• Paul Sharma as Rajiv: A mini-cab driver who later becomes Sam's business partner.
• Jude Akuwidike as Henry: A mini-cab driver notorious for getting lost.
• Ricci Harnett as Marlon: Baz's developmentally disabled stepson.
• Chris Larkin as Cambridge: A mini-cab driver who went to university. He does not appear in series 3.
• John Thomson (series 1) and Jonathan Moore (series 2–3) as Barry: A mini-cab driver.

Recurring and Other Characters

• Barry Foster as Pieter Eugene: A shady businessman who employs Phil in series 2.
• Kirstie Kober as Madonna: Daughter of Phil and Chrissie.
• Lauren Ashby as Cher: Daughter of Phil and Chrissie.
• Joan Hodges as Marilyn: The night-shift dispatcher at Cresta Cabs.
• Robert Glenister as Dr. Geoff: Sam's therapist in series 3.
• Beth Goddard as Melanie: One of Baz's dates who turns out to have a child with Andre. (Series 1, Episode 5)
• Sam Spiegel as Monsieur Pierre
• Anthony Head as Jimmy Price: A rock star whose wife makes advances on Phil. (Pilot)
• Sally Dexter as Maddie Price: The wife of rock star Jimmy Price. (Pilot)