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Scottish actress Georgie Glenn is adored for playing Miss Higgins on BBC drama - but she has been in showbiz for decades.

Actress Helen George has shared an adorable update featuring her rarely-seen daughters, Wren and Lark. Taking to her ...

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Soapland has always found ingenious ways to rest, retire and revive characters - but Call The Midwife has refined this to an art form. Part of the secret of its long-running success, now ...

Jenny Agutter has starred as Sister Julienne since the first series of Call the Midwife. The character is the Sister-in-Charge of Nonnatus House and often helps other Sisters and nurses through the ...

Call the Midwife has had many big names appear in the feel-good drama ... Yak before gaining critical acclaim in productions like 1989's Blood Brothers, 2003's Art, and 2006's musical take on the ...

Laura Main has been a shining star in Call the Midwife since its inception in 2012 ... for drama to the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. The TV darling began her acting journey ...

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Call the Midwife is back for the third episode of its ... Jenny met husband Swedish hotelier Johan Tham in 1989 at an arts festival. The couple married in August 1990 and their son Jonathan ...

Callard is a University of Chicago moral philosopher with a madcap streak, and a perpetually controversial figure for making offbeat public pronouncements and unconventional romantic choices, and ...

An ultrasound picture of Avril Monaghan's unborn twins has been shown at the Omagh Bombing Inquiry - an attack which also claimed the lives of her mother and daughter. The inquiry heard the Real IRA ...