List of Doctors characters

Doctors is a British medical soap opera which began broadcasting on BBC One on 26 March 2000.[1] Set in the fictional West Midlands town of Letherbridge, the soap follows the lives of the staff and patients of the Mill Health Centre, a fictional NHS doctor's surgery, as well as its two sister surgeries, the University of Letherbridge Campus Surgery and Sutton Vale Surgery. The following is a list of characters who currently appear in the programme, listed in order of first appearance. In the case that more than one actor has portrayed a character, the current actor portraying the character is listed last.

The word "Doctors" in orange, stylised in all lowercase.
Doctors logo.

Doctors currently has a core cast of thirteen regular characters: business manager Bear Sylvester (Dex Lee); surgery partners and general practitioners Daniel Granger (Matthew Chambers) and Zara Carmichael (Elisabeth Dermot Walsh); general practitioners Jimmi Clay (Adrian Lewis Morgan), Emma Reid (Dido Miles), Al Haskey (Ian Midlane), Sid Vere (Ashley Rice) and Suni Bulsara (Rahul Arya); consultant midwife Ruhma Carter (Bharti Patel); nurse practitioner Luca McIntyre (Ross McLaren); receptionists Scarlett Kiernan (Kia Pegg) and Kirsty Millar (Kiruna Stamell) and police sergeant Rob Hollins (Chris Walker). As well as the regular characters, Doctors also features numerous recurring and guest characters. These currently include general practitioner and partner Nina Bulsara (Wendi Peters); nurse Tasha Verma (Maria Pike); relatives Imogen Hollins (Charlie Clemmow), Joe Granger Carmichael (Oliver Falconer), Eve Haskey (Rachel Bell), Rich Millar (Richard Atwill), Ollie Millar (Isaac Benn) and Binita Prabhu (Nina Wadia).

Present characters

Regular characters
Character Actor(s) First appearance Ref.
Jimmi Clay Adrian Lewis Morgan 5 September 2005 [2]
Daniel Granger Matthew Chambers 9 July 2007 [3]
Zara Carmichael Elisabeth Dermot Walsh 4 June 2009 [4]
Rob Hollins Chris Walker 24 July 2009 [5]
Emma Reid Dido Miles 2 October 2012 [6]
Al Haskey Ian Midlane 13 November 2012 [7]
Sid Vere Ashley Rice 27 April 2015 [8]
Ruhma Carter Bharti Patel 15 October 2015 [9]
Bear Sylvester Dex Lee 18 November 2019 [10]
Luca McIntyre Ross McLaren 24 February 2021 [11]
Scarlett Kiernan Kia Pegg 7 April 2022 [12]
Kirsty Millar Kiruna Stamell 11 January 2023 [13]
Suni Bulsara Rahul Arya 8 March 2023 [14]

Recurring and guest characters
Character Actor(s) First appearance Ref.
Imogen Hollins Charlie Clemmow 4 August 2009 [15]
Joe Granger Carmichael Emily and Lewis Whitehouse 13 February 2012 [16]
Olivia and Oscar Wilson
Harrison and Lily-Sue Horbury
River Mahjouri
Nathaniel Arthur Stocks
George Black
Corey and Luka Donnelly
Kaiden and Kori Leigh Miles
Roman Law
Oliver Falconer
Tasha Verma Maria Pike 30 August 2016 [17]
Eve Haskey Rachel Bell 6 March 2017 [18]
Rich Millar Richard Atwill 11 January 2023 [19]
Ollie Millar Isaac Benn 11 January 2023 [20]
Nina Bulsara Wendi Peters 20 February 2023 [21]
Binita Prabhu Nina Wadia 6 April 2023 [22]

Cast changes

Departing characters
Character Actor(s) Ref(s)
Daniel Granger Matthew Chambers [23]

Returning characters
Character Actor Ref.
Rosie Colton Janice Connolly [24]

Former characters
Main article: List of former Doctors characters

The original nine regular characters to be introduced in Doctors were Mac McGuire (Christopher Timothy), Steve Rawlings (Mark Frost), Helen Thompson (Corrinne Wicks), Rana Mistry (Akbar Kurtha), Caroline Powers (Jacqueline Leonard), Kate McGuire (Maggie Cronin), Anoushka Flynn (Carli Norris), Ruth Harding (Yvonne Brewster) and Joanna Helm (Sarah Manners), all of whom have since left.[25] In the early 2000s, the Woodson family consisting of Ronnie (Seán Gleeson), George (Stirling Gallacher) and Bracken (Jessica Gallacher) were introduced, with the family appearing until the later half of the decade.[26] The late 2000s also saw the departures of regulars Vivien March (Anita Carey),[27] Archie Hallam (Matt Kennard)[28] and Melody Bell (Elizabeth Bower).[29] The early 2010s also featured the exits of several regular characters, including Lily Hassan (Seeta Indrani),[30] Ruth Pearce (Selina Chilton),[31] Simon Bond (David Sturzaker)[32] and Freya Wilson (Lu Corfield).[33] In 2013, producers wrote three characters out of the series, with Jack Hollins (Nicolas Woodman), Imogen Hollins (Charlie Clemmow) and Elaine Cassidy (Janet Dibley) exiting.[34]

2015 saw Ian Kelsey leave his role as Howard Bellamy after three years due to the heavy filming schedule; his exit saw his character killed off.[35] 2019 saw the exit of mainstay character Mrs Tembe (Lorna Laidlaw), who had gone from the receptionist to the practice manager of the Mill during her tenure.[36] She was replaced by manager Becky Clarke (Ali Bastian), who left nine months into her tenure so that Bastian could focus on getting pregnant in real life.[37] 2020 saw a brief guest appearance from former regular Julia Parsons (Diane Keen), who had originally appeared in Doctors from 2003 to 2012.[38] Later that year, Ayesha Lee (Laura Rollins) left the soap.[39] 2022 then saw the departure of another Doctors mainstay, Valerie Pitman (Sarah Moyle),[40] with Princess Buchanan (Laura White) leaving in 2023 after getting Valerie fired.[41] 2023 also saw the departure of mainstay Karen Hollins (Jan Pearson) after fourteen years.[42]

Lists of characters by year of introduction

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