Peak Practice Cast List
- Pride and Prejudice, Peak Practice, Chandler & Co.Adrian Leonard Fellowes Lukis (born 28 March 1957, Birmingham) is an English actor who has appeared regularly in British television drama since the late 1980s. He trained at Drama Studio London. His most recent notable appearances have been as Sergeant Douglas 'Doug' Wright in the police drama series The Bill, and as Marc Thompson in the BBC legal drama Judge John Deed. He was educated at Mount House School (now known as Mount Kelly), in Tavistock, Devon. He was a regular, playing Mark Judd in the 2nd series of Chandler & Co during 1995 and playing Dr David Shearer in Peak Practice between 1997 and 1999. He also played Mr. George Wickham in the BBC's 1995 adaption of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and he had appeared in the ITV one-off drama Back Home and in the BBC rural drama series Down to Earth. He had previously appeared in The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (as Bennett in The Creeping Man), Maigret, Miss Marple, Campion, The Strauss Dynasty and Prime Suspect. Adrian Lukis played Simon Avery in Silent Witness Series 15 Episode 2, Death Has No Dominion. For radio, he appeared as George Vavasour in BBC Radio 4's 2004 adaptation of Anthony Trollope's The Pallisers. From 2013, up to present day, Lukis plays the recurring role of Colonel Blair Toast in the Channel 4 series Toast of London. In 2015, Lukis appeared as Francis Davison in the BBC TV series Death in Paradise episode 4.3, and appeared as Laurence Olivier in the European premiere of the Austin Pendleton play Orson's Shadow, at the Southwark Playhouse in London. In 2016, he appeared as Home Secretary Alex Wallis in "Hated in the Nation", an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror. Lukis is descended from the Channel Islands archaeologist Frederick Lukis.
Amanda Burton
Silent Witness, Waterloo Road, BrooksideIrene Amanda Burton (born 10 October 1956) is an Irish actress, well known for her television roles, including Heather Black in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside, Beth Glover in Peak Practice, Sam Ryan in the BBC crime drama series Silent Witness, Clare Blake in The Commander and Karen Fisher in Waterloo Road.- Gimme Gimme Gimme, Peak Practice, Daylight RobberyElizabeth Jane Goddard (born 31 March 1969) known as Beth Goddard is a British actress.
- Bread, Bergerac, Peak PracticeDeborah Grant (born Deborah Jane Snelling; 22 February 1947) is an English actress.Born in London, Grant trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and appeared on stage at the Bristol Old Vic and in the West End of London. She has had a successful television acting career. Since 2007, she has appeared on and off in the sitcom Not Going Out, as the mother of Tim (Tim Vine) and Lucy (Sally Bretton).She has been married twice, including to the actor Jeremy Child by whom she has a daughter.
Fiona Gillies
Peak Practice, Joking Apart, Mother LoveFiona Gillies (born 19 June 1966) is a British actress who has appeared on television and the stage. She first appeared in the 1988 version of The Hound of the Baskervilles as Beryl Stapleton. A year later she appeared in the mini-series Mother Love. Her first major television role was perhaps Steven Moffat's sitcom Joking Apart, where she played Becky. She has also appeared as Clare Shearer in Peak Practice, as Philippa Kinross in Casualty and The Jury. She played Lady Florence Craye in the third series of Jeeves and Wooster. She has had many guest roles, including appearances in Powers, A Bit of Fry & Laurie, Holby City, PhoneShop, Waking the Dead and Coronation Street.She has also performed for the RSC in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Beaux Strategem, The Comedy of Errors and Hamlet. She appeared in the West End productions of The Prisoner of Second Avenue with Jeff Goldblum and Mercedes Ruehl as well as Trevor Nunn's Production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are DeadIn 2011 she co-produced the feature film City Slacker, written by her husband, Michael Müller. In the film, Gillies plays Amanda, a high-powered businesswoman who suddenly needs to conceive a baby when her frozen eggs are destroyed.Gillies also produced The Beat Beneath My Feet, about a former rock God, played by Luke Perry, who is discovered living in a flat in South London. The film also stars Nicholas Galitzine. Production was completed in 2014Gillies produced Some Sweet Oblivious Antidote, a short film starring Lenny Henry, Colin Salmon, Wunmi Mosaku and Sylvestra Le Touzel. The film was nominated for Best Family Film at the Sydney Indie Film Festival.- Coronation Street, River City, Peak PracticeGray O'Brien (born Gerard O'Brien, 11 August 1968) is a Scottish television and film actor, best known for his portrayal of the villainous Weatherfield businessman Tony Gordon in the popular ITV soap opera Coronation Street from 2007–10, and as Dr. Richard McCaig on the BBC medical drama Casualty from 1996-98.O'Brien was born in Glasgow, the 2nd youngest of seven children, and is a graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Resident for a time in Cumbernauld, he has appeared in many television productions, including Taggart, Peak Practice, River City (as serial womaniser Billy Davies), and the 2007 Doctor Who Christmas special, "Voyage of the Damned". He played Prince Charles' valet in the 2006 motion picture The Queen. O'Brien joined the cast of Coronation Street as the murderous factory boss, Tony Gordon in September 2007. The actor explained in an interview that he uses sense-memory technique, drawing on "something dark from the past", to emote his powerful performances. Asked about female reaction to his character's on-screen conspiracy to murder love rival Liam Connor, played by pin-up Rob James-Collier, O'Brien joked: "I'm sure most viewers believe that it's just a story." O'Brien won Villain of the Year for the role at the 2009 British Soap Awards.The Manchester show drew the ire of football fans when, in October 2008, several months after the 2008 UEFA Cup Final riots, in a scripted line, O'Brien's evil character made a jibe about Rangers F.C.. Complaints led to a similar line being cut from the script of a later episode. Professing surprise at the outcry, the star said: "I'm a Celtic supporter but I need to be clear that I certainly wasn't going out of my way to antagonise any Rangers supporters."In May 2009 Coronation Street producers announced that O'Brien's contract with the show had been extended to 2010. Gray left Coronation Street when his character was killed off at the end of a storyline, in which Tony Gordon held Hayley Cropper (Julie Hesmondhalgh) and Carla Connor (Alison King) hostage in the Underworld factory, which he sets ablaze; although his prisoners manage to escape alive. He played Abanazar in the pantomime Aladdin at the Opera House, Manchester from 5 December 2009 to 3 January 2010. Between 4 December 2010 and 16 January 2011 he played the role again at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham.O'Brien was judged Scotland's eleventh most eligible man in February 2009 by a Scotland on Sunday panel. He once said: "I actually find the heartthrob thing laughable," adding: "I am just a jobbing actor from Scotland and I don't think of myself as particularly good looking."O'Brien has also appeared on Lily Savage's Blankety Blank.In 2017, he appeared in ITV drama The Loch.
- Drop the Dead Donkey, Peak Practice, MerseybeatHaydn Gwynne (October 5, 1957 – October 20, 2023) was an English actress. She was nominated for the 1992 BAFTA TV Award for Best Light Entertainment Performance for the comedy series Drop the Dead Donkey (1990–1991), and won the 2009 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical for her role in the Broadway production of Billy Elliot the Musical. She was also a four-time Olivier Award nominee. Her other television roles included Peak Practice (1999–2000), Merseybeat (2001–2002), and playing Camilla in The Windsors (2016–2023).
- EastEnders, River City, Peak PracticeJacqueline Leonard is an English actress. She is known for playing Sarah Preston in the ITV drama Peak Practice from 1993 to 1996, Lorraine Wicks in the BBC soap opera EastEnders from 1996 to 1997, Dr. Caroline Powers in the BBC medical drama Doctors from 2000 to 2001, Lydia Murdoch in the Scottish soap opera River City from 2007 to 2010 and again from 2017 to 2019, and as Linda Hancock in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street in 2015.
- Battlestar Galactica, Law & Order: London, Law & Order: UKJamie St John Bamber Griffith (born 3 April 1973) is an English/Irish/American actor, known for his roles as Lee Adama in Battlestar Galactica and Detective Sergeant Matt Devlin in the ITV series Law & Order: UK. He also had a supporting role in the Hornblower series and was a regular on the British series Ultimate Force and Peak Practice. In 2013, Bamber starred in the TNT medical drama Monday Mornings, and in 2014, in the Sky 1 drama The Smoke.
EastEnders, The Bill, Auf WiedersehenJohn Bowler is an English actor who is probably best known for playing P.C. Roger Valentine in ITV’s The Bill from 2004 until 2010.- Peak Practice, Talk to Me, CampusJoseph Millson (born 27 April 1974) is an English actor and singer. He trained at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in Sidcup, London.
- The Thin Blue Line, Peak PracticeJoy Brook (born Joy Beadle, 9 May 1969 in Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire) is an English actress who played Detective Constable Kerry Holmes in The Bill and Joanne Pearson in Peak Practice. She has also appeared in The Thin Blue Line, Dalziel and Pascoe, Dream Team and Doctors. She can currently be seen in the short Maltesers sponsor films that accompany Loose Women on ITV1. She can currently be seen in the short Go Compare adverts on TV, and appeared as Dr. Melville in Emmerdale on 12 January 2018
- Peak Practice, Merseybeat, The GrandJulia Louise Haworth (born 27 July 1979) is an English actress. She is best known for playing the role of Claire Peacock in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street from 2003 to 2011.
Karl Davies
Emmerdale, Kingdom, Peak PracticeKarl Davies (born 6 August 1982) is an English actor, who portrayed Lyle Anderson in the TV series Kingdom. Previously he had portrayed Robert Sugden in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale.- Inspector Morse, Lewis, Inspector LewisKevin Whately (born 6 February 1951) is an English actor. Whately is primarily known for his role as Robert "Robbie" Lewis in the crime dramas Inspector Morse from 1987-2000 and Lewis from 2006-2015, his role as Neville "Nev" Hope in the British television comedy Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, and his role as Jack Kerruish in the drama series Peak Practice, although he has appeared in numerous other roles.
- Gormenghast, Peak Practice, ChancerLynsey Baxter is an English actress. Born in London, she began as a child actress in 1974 and later trained at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). She has worked in theatre, television, film, radio and voiceover. Baxter trained in reflexology in 1998, while appearing in the television series Dangerfield, and in her spare time worked in hospitals. Additionally she is reported to be a trained remedial masseuse and transpersonal counsellor.
- EastEnders, Shameless, Peak PracticeMargaret O'Neill (born 15 November 1962) is an English actress. She is known for her television roles in Peak Practice (2000–2002), Shameless (2004–2007) and EastEnders (2008). In 1986 she appeared in the music video for Simply Red's single Holding Back The Years. In 1988 she appeared in the film Gorillas in the Mist.
- Peak Practice, A Family At War, A Family at WarMargery Mason (27 September 1913 – 26 January 2014) was an English actress and director.She was the artistic director of the Repertory Theatre in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland in the 1960s.She played Sarah Stevens, the mother in John Hopkins' four-play cycle Talking to a Stranger (1966). A family drama with four characters, the viewpoint of Sarah Stevens was depicted in the fourth play, The Innocent Must Suffer. Her film roles included Charlie Bubbles (1967), Clegg (1970), The Raging Moon (1971), Made (1972), Hennessy (1975), the bullying teacher's wife in Pink Floyd – The Wall (1982), Terry on the Fence (1985), A game show contestant in Victoria Wood Presents (1989), 101 Dalmatians (1996), Love Actually (2003), and the lady who works the sweets trolley in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005). She played "The Ancient Booer" in the 1987 film The Princess Bride. Her television roles include appearances on Midsomer Murders, Peak Practice and Juliet Bravo (1982) (Series 1, Ep. 8). She played Mrs Porter in the Granada TV series A Family at War during 1970-71.Mason learned to scuba dive and received her diving certificate at the age of 81. Her farewell to the stage came in 2003 at the age of 90. She loved to travel and had been a keen horsewoman and tennis player. Until she was 99 she swam five times a week at the Swiss Cottage baths.She is related to British-Jamaican Fashion Photographer and Leeds Arts University alumna, Ailsa Eugenie Jones.
- Game of Thrones, Married... with Children, Still StandingMark Ian Addy (born 14 January 1964) is an English actor and voice artist. He is known for varied roles in British television, including Detective Constable Gary Boyle in the sitcom The Thin Blue Line (1995–1996) and Hercules in the fantasy drama series Atlantis (2013–2015). He made his film debut as Dave Horsefall in The Full Monty (1997), earning a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Other notable roles include Fred Flintstone in The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000), Bill Miller in the CBS sitcom Still Standing (2002–2006) and King Robert Baratheon in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones (2011).
- The Pillars of the Earth, Hatfields & McCoys, MistressesSarah Parish (born 7 June 1968) is an English actress. She is known for her work on television series including: The Pillars of the Earth, Peak Practice, Hearts and Bones, Cutting It, Doctor Who, Mistresses, Merlin, Atlantis, Monroe, Trollied and W1A.
- Boon, Peak Practice, DemonsSaskia Wickham (born 14 January 1967) is an English actress best known for playing Alex Wilton in the drama series Boon and Dr. Erica Matthews in the ITV television drama series Peak Practice between 1996 and 1998.
- Peak Practice, ChancerSimon Stephen Shepherd (born 20 August 1956) is an English actor best known to TV audiences from many appearances, including as Dr Will Preston in five series of ITV's Peak Practice and Doctor Jonathan Barling in Casualty in Five Days. Shepherd was born in Bristol. He went to school at Clifton College in Bristol and was a contemporary of the director Roger Michell in Brown's House. He subsequently attended Manchester Metropolitan University and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and was a member of the National Youth Theatre. As well as his television appearances he has had many notable stage and film roles since 1980, including as Lord Ashbrook in the 2011 Bristol Old Vic production of Helen Edmundson's Coram Boy.
- True Blood, Ultraviolet, GrandStephen Moyer (born Stephen John Emery; 11 October 1969) is an English film and television actor and director who is best known as vampire Bill Compton in the HBO series True Blood. He was born in Brentwood, Essex and attended St Martin's, a comprehensive school in Hutton, Essex. His first television role was in 1993 as Philip Masefield in the TV adaptation of the play Conjugal Rites, written by actor/playwright Roger Hall.This was followed by the television film Lord of Misrule, filmed in Fowey, Cornwall, which also featured Richard Wilson, Emily Mortimer and Prunella Scales. In 1997, Moyer made his big-screen debut landing the lead role in the film adaptation of the long-running comic strip Prince Valiant by Hal Foster, working alongside Ron Perlman and Katherine Heigl. From 2 October 2017, he starred as Reed Strucker, the lead role in Fox series The Gifted.
- Peak PracticeSukie Smith (born 23 September 1964) is a British actress and musician. Her credits include the role of Rachel Branning in EastEnders in 2006, as well as appearances in Peak Practice and Doctors. She also appeared in several films, including Lawless Heart and Topsy Turvy. She is an accomplished composer and has written the soundtrack for Hush Your Mouth, the debut feature for Neophyte Films directed by Tom Tyrwhitt. Smith writes and records songs and poems, which are performed under the name Madam. She has collaborated with artists such as Saskia Volde to make the Tate Gallery exhibited piece "Placebo". Her shows are regularly attended by English artists such as Georgina Starr, Paul Noble and Tim Noble and Sue Webster.
- Peak Practice, At Home with the Braithwaites, The Glass VirginSylvia May Laura Syms OBE (January 6, 1934 – January 27, 2023) was an English actress, best known for her roles in the films Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957), Ice Cold in Alex (1958), No Trees in the Street (1959), Victim (1961), The Tamarind Seed (1974) and The Queen (2006). She remained active in films, television and theatre, appearing last in Gentleman Jack in 2019.
- Peak Practice, TenkoVeronica Roberts is a British actress, best known for playing Dorothy Bennett in the BBC drama Tenko and Laura Elliott in the ITV series Peak Practice. In 1975 she also had a regular role playing Deborah Wilson in the Granada series Sam (1973 TV series) Play Miss Robinson in the "Mr Ellis versus the people" in the Granada TV series Village Hall 1974. She has also made short-term appearances in EastEnders, Casualty, The Bill, Holby City, Heartbeat, Little Britain, New Tricks and Emma (BBC TV Adaptation 2009).
- Bread, Peak Practice, Goodnight SweetheartVictor McGuire (born 17 March 1964 in Tuebrook, Liverpool) is an English actor perhaps best known for playing Jack Boswell in series 1–3, 5-7 of Carla Lane's Bread, Ron Wheatcroft in series 1-6 of Goodnight Sweetheart and its 2016 one off episode and Sean Hughes' neighbour Tony in Sean's Show ("the kind of guy you can ask to build you a shed"). McGuire appeared as Gary, of the pair of thieves in Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. He has also appeared in a number of TV programmes, including Dalziel and Pascoe, Casualty and 2point4 Children. He played the character of Amos Hart in the West End musical Chicago and was Lazar Wolf in the West End production of Fiddler on the Roof at the Savoy Theatre. He later reprised the role of Amos Hart in the theatrical production of Chicago, in the Cambridge Theatre, London. Since 2012 he appeared as security guard Ian in the Sky1 sitcom Trollied but left the show in 2017. His last appearance was in the Christmas special episode in December 2017. In February 2019 McGuire appeared in Coronation Street as a character called Big Garth. In May 2019 McGuire played Garanin in the Sky / HBO Mini-Series Chernobyl. McGuire is a supporter of Everton F.C.
Esther Coles
Peak Practice- Peak Practice, Cream in My CoffeeShelagh McLeod (born 7 May 1960), sometimes credited as Shelagh MacLeod or Sheleigh McCleod, is a British-based Canadian film and television actress.
- Henry VIII, Peak Practice, The CommanderThomas Lockyer is an actor.
