List of Emmerdale characters
Emmerdale is a British television soap opera first broadcast on ITV on 16 October 1972. The following is a list of characters who are currently appearing in the series, listed in order of first appearance.
Present characters
Regular characters
Character |
Actor(s) |
Duration |
Robert Sugden |
Ryan Hawley | 1986–2005, 2009, 2014– |
Karl Davies |
Christopher Smith |
Richard Smith |
Eric Pollard | Chris Chittell | 1986– |
Victoria Sugden |
Isabel Hodgins | 1994– |
Hannah Midgley |
Jessica Haywood |
Zak Dingle | Steve Halliwell | 1994– |
Sam Dingle | James Hooton | 1995–98, 2000– |
Andy Sugden | Kelvin Fletcher | 1996– |
Lisa Dingle | Jane Cox | 1996– |
Marlon Dingle | Mark Charnock | 1996– |
Ashley Thomas | John Middleton | 1996– |
Paddy Kirk | Dominic Brunt | 1997– |
Bernice Thomas | Samantha Giles | 1998–2002, 2004, 2012– |
Belle Dingle |
Eden Taylor-Draper | 1998– |
Emily Mather |
James Mather |
Diane Sugden | Elizabeth Estensen | 1999– |
Cain Dingle | Jeff Hordley | 2000–06, 2009– |
Charity Tate | Emma Atkins | 2000–05, 2009– |
Bob Hope | Tony Audenshaw | 2000– |
Rodney Blackstock | Patrick Mower | 2000– |
Nicola King | Nicola Wheeler | 2001– |
Carly Hope |
Gemma Atkinson | 2001, 2006, 2015– |
Rebecca Ryan |
Rhona Goskirk | Zoe Henry | 2001–02, 2010– |
Laurel Potts | Charlotte Bellamy | 2002– |
Chas Dingle | Lucy Pargeter | 2002– |
Debbie Dingle | Charley Webb | 2002– |
Pearl Ladderbanks | Meg Johnson | 2003– |
Gordon Livesy | Gary Mavers | 2003−04, 2006, 2008, 2015− |
Gerard Fletcher |
Aaron Livesy |
Danny Miller | 2003–04, 2006, 2008–12, 2014– |
Danny Webb |
Jimmy King | Nick Miles | 2004– |
Sandy Thomas | Freddie Jones | 2005– |
David Metcalfe | Matthew Wolfenden | 2006– |
Doug Potts | Duncan Preston | 2007–11, 2014– |
Brenda Walker | Lesley Dunlop | 2008– |
Leyla Harding | Roxy Shahidi | 2008–11, 2013– |
Moira Barton | Natalie J. Robb | 2009– |
Adam Barton | Adam Thomas | 2009– |
Holly Barton | Sophie Powles | 2009–12, 2016– |
Jai Sharma | Chris Bisson | 2009– |
Priya Sharma |
Fiona Wade | 2009– |
Effie Woods |
Rishi Sharma | Bhasker Patel | 2011– |
Dan Spencer | Liam Fox | 2011– |
Megan Macey | Gaynor Faye | 2012– |
Kerry Wyatt | Laura Norton | 2012– |
Vanessa Woodfield | Michelle Hardwick | 2012– |
Ross Barton | Michael Parr | 2013– |
Joanie Wright | Denise Black | 2013, 2015– |
James Barton | Bill Ward | 2013– |
Harriet Finch | Katherine Dow Blyton | 2013– |
Pete Barton | Anthony Quinlan | 2013– |
Finn Barton | Joe Gill | 2013– |
Tracy Shankley | Amy Walsh | 2014– |
Rakesh Kotecha | Pasha Bocarie | 2014– |
Lawrence White | John Bowe | 2014– |
Chrissie White | Louise Marwood | 2014– |
Lachlan White | Thomas Atkinson | 2014– |
Emma Barton | Gillian Kearney | 2015– |
Ronnie Hale | John McArdle | 2016– |
Recurring and guest characters
Cast changes
Departing characters
Returning characters
Past characters
Introduced by year
References
External links
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