Holby City: Comfort of Strangers
09:50 am - 11:05 am, Tuesday, July 7 on U&Drama (20)
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Comfort of Strangers
Episode 8
Lola finds Amy drinking heavily in an attempt to cause a miscarriage. Donna decides to contact social services, but the troubled teenager's stepfather has other ideas and secretly arranges for her to go to another hospital. Chrissie tells Owen she is leaving Holby, forcing him to finally make a choice between her and Diane
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General
Movie/Drama
Soap/Melodrama/Folkloric
Cast & Crew
Rachel Hyde-Harvey
(Actor)
.. Amy Jones
Jaye Jacobs
(Actor)
.. Donna Jackson
Tina Hobley
(Actor)
.. Chrissie Williams
Mark Moraghan
(Actor)
.. Owen Davis
Patricia Potter
(Actor)
.. Diane Lloyd
Robert Powell
(Actor)
.. Mark Williams
Sharon D Clarke
(Actor)
.. Lola Griffin
Ace Bhatti
(Actor)
.. Andy Fishman
Tara Ellis
(Actor)
.. Molly Cooper
Sally Armstrong
(Actor)
.. Jane Higgins
Brett Fancy
(Actor)
.. Glenn Cooper
Paul Broughton
(Actor)
.. Bruno McKenna
Lorren Bent
(Actor)
.. Fiona Murray
Jonty Stephens
(Actor)
.. Nigel Alton
Oliver Kent
(Producer)
Steve Finn
(Director)
Jonathan Myerson
(Writer)
Rob Fraser
(Writer)
More Information
Did You Know..
Rachel Hyde-Harvey
(Actor)
.. Amy Jones
Jaye Jacobs
(Actor)
.. Donna Jackson
Tina Hobley
(Actor)
.. Chrissie Williams
Born:
May 20, 1972
in
London
Best Known For:
Holby City and her Corrie days.
Early-life:
Very shy as a child, London-born Tina was sent to speech and drama classes in an attempt to counter her introversion. Hobley enrolled with a very strict speech and drama teacher, whom she adored and stayed with for many years, before moving from there to the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art (WDADA).
Career:
Hobley is best known for playing feisty ward sister Chrissie Williams in BBC medical drama Holby City. After graduating from WDADA, where she trained from 1990 to 1993, Hobley starred in a number of TV dramas, including Coronation Street, Harbour Lights and The Bill. In 2014, she took part in Celebrity MasterChef. She has also appeared in All Star Mr & Mrs, Comic Relief Does Fame Academy and Big Star's Little Star with her daughter Olivia. In early 2016, she was a contestant on Channel 4's sporting reality show The Jump.
Quote:
'I haven't lived the normal actor's life, where I don't know where my next job is coming from - but that in itself feels exciting.'
Trivia:
Hobley supports the Starlight Foundation.
Mark Moraghan
(Actor)
.. Owen Davis
Patricia Potter
(Actor)
.. Diane Lloyd
Robert Powell
(Actor)
.. Mark Williams
Born:
June 01, 1944
in
Salford
Best Known For:
Jesus of Nazareth and The Thirty Nine Steps.
Early-life:
Robert Thomas Powell was born on June 1, 1944, in Salford, Manchester, the youngest of three children. After leaving school, Powell studied law at Manchester University, where he became hooked on acting. The director of a student play advised him to ditch his plans to become a solicitor and try treading the boards instead. He left university so he could hone his craft at a theatre in Stoke-on-Trent, before moving to London in 1964.
Career:
Powell made his film debut in 1967's Robbery, and had a small part in 1969's The Italian Job. A role in spooky TV show Doomwatch made him a star in the UK, but he quit after a year to tackle different projects. Roles in such productions as Asylum, The Edwardians, Mahler, and Tommy followed. In 1977 he landed the lead in epic miniseries Jesus of Nazareth, which introduced him to an international audience. Powell followed it with remakes of The Four Feathers and The Thirty-Nine Steps. Since then, he's continued to work steadily, appearing in the likes of The Detectives, Hannay, The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Colour Me Kubrick. In 2005, he joined the cast of Holby City as surgeon Mark Williams, where he remained for six years.
Quote:
'I did say about 30 years ago that I would not be acting all my life. It's extraordinary how wrong I was.'
Trivia:
In December 2014, he played Ebenezer Scrooge in a Radio 4 adaptation of A Christmas Carol.
Sharon D Clarke
(Actor)
.. Lola Griffin
Ace Bhatti
(Actor)
.. Andy Fishman
Best Known For:
Playing Yusef Khan in EastEnders.
Early-life:
Ahsen Rafiq Bhatti was born on September 13, 1969 in Nottingham. He started his acting career at age 14, appearing in the children's series Dramarama. Ace trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Career:
In the 1990s, Bhatti's career started to take off. He got roles in such TV series as Family Pride, Band of Gold, Cardiac Arrest and Holding On. In 2002, he made an appearance in the film Bend It Like Beckham. The next year, he had the lead part in the TV dark comedy Grease Monkeys. He went on to appear in New Street Law, Secret Diary of a Call Girl and The Sarah Jane Adventures before landing the role of Yusef Khan in EastEnders in 2010. Bhatti departed from the soap opera in 2011 and, since then, he has made appearances in a number of TV series, including Black Work, Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands, DCI Banks and Three Girls.
Quote:
'In my career, I've played quite a few dysfunctional people! But what I've learned is that you also have to find empathy in any character and there's reasons why people are a certain way.'
Trivia:
He used to be part of a lifeboat crew.
Tara Ellis
(Actor)
.. Molly Cooper
Sally Armstrong
(Actor)
.. Jane Higgins
Brett Fancy
(Actor)
.. Glenn Cooper
Paul Broughton
(Actor)
.. Bruno McKenna
Lorren Bent
(Actor)
.. Fiona Murray
Jonty Stephens
(Actor)
.. Nigel Alton
Oliver Kent
(Producer)
Steve Finn
(Director)
Jonathan Myerson
(Writer)
Rob Fraser
(Writer)
