Shameless

Cast & Crew

Sally Carman-Duttine (Actor) .. Kelly Maguire

Sarah Totty (Actor) .. Sherilee

Sue Vincent (Actor) .. Derilee

David Threlfall (Actor) .. Frank Gallagher

Alice Barry (Actor) .. Lillian Tyler

Michael Taylor (Actor) .. Billy Tutton

Tina Malone (Actor) .. Mimi Tutton

Karen Bryson (Actor) .. Avril Powell

Jacqueline Boatswain (Actor) .. Patreesha St Rose

Adelle Leonce (Actor) .. Mary Mae

Kira Martin (Actor) .. Letitia Powell

Jack Deam (Actor) .. Marty Fisher

Rebecca Atkinson (Actor) .. Karen Maguire

Aaron McCusker (Actor) .. Jamie Maguire

Qasim Akhtar (Actor) .. Chesney Karib

Nicky Evans (Actor) .. Shane Maguire

Jalaal Hartley (Actor) .. Kassi Blanco

Naomi Radcliffe (Actor) .. Mrs Tattersall

Glenn Cunningham (Actor) .. Clive Tattersall

Clive Mantle (Actor) .. Mr Banbury

Mark Brotherhood (Writer)

Daikin Marsh (Director)

Tim Whitby (Producer)

Jean Holdsworth (Series producer)

Did You Know..

Sally Carman-Duttine (Actor) .. Kelly Maguire

Sarah Totty (Actor) .. Sherilee

Sue Vincent (Actor) .. Derilee

David Threlfall (Actor) .. Frank Gallagher

Born: October 12, 1953 in Manchester

Best Known For: Playing foul-mouthed Frank Gallagher in Shameless.

Early-life: Born in Manchester on October 12, 1953. He has a brother; their father was a plumber. David never wanted to be an actor, his first love was football, but thanks to a little encouragement from teachers, he trod the boards in a school production of The Crucible. After a short stint at art college in Sheffield, and a few months labouring, he became a student at Manchester Polytechnic School of Drama. His breakthrough role came in the gritty 1977 drama Scum.

Career: Aside from a lean period at the back end of the 1990s, Threlfall has rarely been out of work. His small-screen work includes roles in Mike Leigh's Kiss of Death, a 1984 staging of King Lear (opposite Laurence Olivier), Conspiracy and The Queen's Sister. His most famous on-screen character is that of chain-smoking patriarch Frank Gallagher, a role he held in Channel 4 drama Shameless between 2004 and 2013. Other projects include The Russia House, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Housewife 49, Hot Fuzz, Nowhere Boy and The Ark. He was also made a surprisingly good Tommy Cooper in the ITV biopic Not Like That, Like This.

Quote: On acting: 'I just like getting up and pretending. It's the game of pretending you're other people, that's the liberating thing.'

Trivia: He supports Manchester City. He received an honorary doctorate from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2013.

Alice Barry (Actor) .. Lillian Tyler

Michael Taylor (Actor) .. Billy Tutton

Tina Malone (Actor) .. Mimi Tutton

Born: January 30, 1963 in Liverpool

Best Known For: Shameless.

Early-life: Tina Malone was born in Liverpool on January 30, 1963. She attended Liverpool Institute High School for Girls and showed a passion for acting. After some minor TV roles, she landed parts in Brookside and Blonde Fist, as well as appearing in Victoria Wood's dinnerladies, before landing a part as the terrifying Mimi Maguire in Shameless in 2005.

Career: Malone has been praised for her acting but her own personality came to the fore when she was a contestant on Celebrity Big Brother in 2009, where she was one of the more popular housemates. Since then, she has also received recognition for her extraordinary weight loss - having a gastric balloon fitted to help her lose four stone in weight. She has been outspoken about her bipolar disorder and health problems. She also runs a theatre school in Liverpool.

Quote: 'You can go on forever about ‘my metabolism slower than yours.' The point is: you need to exercise to speed up your metabolism and then you can eat anything you want in life. But just have a bite, not the whole box which is what I've done for 15 years.'

Trivia: In December 2013, at the age of 50, she gave birth to a daughter.

Karen Bryson (Actor) .. Avril Powell

Jacqueline Boatswain (Actor) .. Patreesha St Rose

Born: June 22, 1962 in Bedford, England

Best Known For: Playing Simone Loveday in Hollyoaks.

Early-life: Born on June 22, 1962 in Bedford, England. As a child, Jacqueline showed a musical talent and joined a London ballet school at age 17. She sang and danced on the West End for 15 years before turning to acting.

Career: Boatswain's first acting role was in Doctors in 2001, although she had previously appeared in such TV series as Red Dwarf as a dancer. One of Boatswain's best known roles is that of Mrs Bassinger in Grange Hill, which she played between 2003 and 2005. After that, she had guest appearances in such TV series as Life on Mars, The Royal and Torchwood. She played Patreesha St Rose in Shameless in 2013 and also Victoria in Wolfblood from 2014 to 2016. In 2015, she joined the cast of Hollyoaks as Simone Loveday.

Quote: On changing from dancing to acting: 'In this country we don't see musical theatre as acting so I thought I had to retrain. That doesn't happen in the States as it's all one industry, but we do love a bit of inverted snobbery here!'

Trivia: She was nominated for Best Female Vocal Performance in a Video Game in a Supporting Role at the Behind the Voice Actors Awards 2016 for her performance in Bloodborne.