Timothy is the son of Patrick Turner and stepson of Shelagh Turner. Castigating his co-worker in anger, Alec falls through an old staircase in the building they are renovating. She volunteers as a uniformed leader of the local Brownie pack as the Brown Owl of the unit. Jenny sees Jimmy as a grown man for the first time which instantly turns her head, but unfortunately she discovers that Jimmy is engaged to pregnant Francine, whom Jenny met at the prenatal clinic. They plan to move into a flat together at the end of Series 4, but their future is shattered when Delia is involved in a cycling accident and suffers a serious head injury which results in amnesia, leaving her with no memory of Patsy. When at the clinic or being the acting sister-in-charge at Nonnatus House in Sister Julienne's absence, Shelagh dons smart civilian dress, rather than uniform of the order's other lay nurses, although she eventually obtained a uniform to wear when serving in a nursing capacity at Dr Turner's surgery. In Series 2, it becomes clear that Sister Bernadette is lonely and unhappy, questioning whether the convent is her calling, and wishes to do what the other young midwives of her age are doing: going out to the cinema, dancing, etc. She was an Army nurse, but resigned her commission when she grew weary of the routineness of such nursing. Behind the scenes on Call the Midwife series 7: A growing family :-) Seven seasons is a long time in television. Mrs. Busby is the mother of Delia Busby. Jane (girlfriend) His age is either 25 or 26 years old. And later on in the episode, Reggie … He lives just across the road from Nonnatus House and is shown to have a relationship with Trixie, whom he met when the two were working the same shift in a women's prison. She confides in Vaughan Seller, the father of a terminated baby, that she was born an illegitimate child, and to former street walker Roseanne Dawley that Phyllis' mother too was a prostitute. Call The Midwife has some wonderfully unique characters that all have interesting personalities. In Series 4, Cynthia returns to Nonnatus House after her training is complete, having chosen the religious name of Sister Mary Cynthia. The show was inspired by a series of memoirs from Jennifer Worth—Call the Midwife, Shadows of the Workhouse, and Farewell to the East End. Though many of the characters and situations, particularly in the early seasons, are borrowed from Worth's books, the show is nonetheless a work of fiction. Following her father's death Patsy seemed to drop all correspondence with Delia, and it looked like she wouldn't return to Nonnatus House, but she came back to London on the day of Tom and Barbara's wedding. She shares a room with Nurse Patsy Mount. Middle class, loquacious and good-humoured, Sister Hilda is a great facilitator in the social setting with her gregarious nature, readily putting people at ease. After a year of maternity leave Shelagh returns to Nonnatus House as senior midwife and nursing sister to cover for Barbara who is taken ill and eventually dies. Delia undertakes training in the following series. In Series 6, Shelagh is overcome with joy when she falls pregnant with her first biological child. Reggie is a kind hearted soul, though easily trusting. Thus begins Reggie's journey. And, since his exact date of birth is not available, his zodiac sign is unknown. NEWS! Reggie says to the person at the group home when he asks him what his job is. He says in Series 4 (set in 1960) that he has been struggling with the building's boiler for 15 years. But when Sister Ursula asks about her life vows, it becomes clear that the attack is still affecting her. Discovering that Barbara is going out with Tom gave her quite a shock and she finds it very difficult to accept, but after a talk with Tom and Barbara she finally accepts that she can no longer hold on to Tom and must let him go. Her pre-order name was Louise. After recovering from a short bout of tuberculosis, Sister Bernadette leaves the convent and reverts to her birth name of Shelagh (née Mannion). Edward ("Teddy") is the son of Shelagh and Patrick Turner, born in the final episode of Series 6. On Call the Midwife, this week’s adventures in Poplar take us right back to where we left off last time - the local council elections. His mother had recently died, leaving him orphaned, and the nuns and the community stepped in to help him. His Wiki bio does not exist right now. Frederick Buckle (caregiver)Violet Buckle (caregiver) 6 – 9 He prescribes thalidomide for women suffering from morning sickness, but when it's linked to birth deformities, he must deal with his guilt. Phyllis is a veteran nurse who also arrives at Nonnatus House in mid-1960. There is some blood, during hemorrhaging when a midwife's hand is shown dripping with blood. She died peacefully in Chummy and Peter's bed in the Series 3 finale. Lady Browne is Chummy's upper-class, snobby mother. She forgives him because he was scared to tell her fearing he would be rejected. He is very smart and tall and goes to the local grammar school. This makes her turn even more to alcohol for comfort, but after struggling with alcoholism, with Cynthia's help, she joins a support group. [3] In the evenings, he volunteers as a scout leader and as a deputy party leader[4] in charge of the neighbourhood Civil Defence Corps squad. In addition to her nursing duties, she helped teach Sunday school at the local church. Sister Winifred is the same age as Jenny, Trixie and Cynthia. By the end of Series 4 Fred proposes to Violet—and, after dealing with his clingy daughter Marlene, he and Violet marry. Well, the cast of the new series of Call the Midwife will be the same as the Christmas special. Alive By the end of Series 1, after a string of dates she marries Police Constable Peter Noakes. Hello all! Nurse Anderson arrives at Nonnatus House in Series 7 as their first black nurse. Nurse Anderson is religious, joining a local Black house church after finding a larger, White-majority congregation unwelcoming of her "kind". Daniel Laurie, Actor: Vera. She is also very close to her roommate, Barbara, and serves as something of a surrogate mother figure to her much younger colleague. She announces that she had a stroke two months after she left the convent and has now lost movement in her left arm. A few very disturbing shots of gray, supposedly dead infants, and an abortion is discussed rather graphically. In series 7, Reggie returns for a picnic that Violet is hosting, and is the first person to find where the smallpox infected dock worker is hiding. She is also close with Sister Winfred and Barbara. In another, Sister Monica Joan points out that she spends most of her time praying for forgiveness. Reggie Jackson is a ward that sometimes lives with Frederick and Violet Buckle. Fans of BBC1 show Call The Midwife were left sobbing as the show reached an emotional ending. She was hard working, optimistic, and somewhat naïve. In haste, she can make tactless comments, but is never offensive and is quick to apologise. Cynthia begins to doubt her abilities, which takes a heavy toll on her work and health. They marry in the 2013 Christmas Special and she becomes stepmother to his 11-year-old son Timothy. This puts her pregnancy in jeopardy and even after she is released from hospital she could have still lost the baby. One morning when she is headed to church, she tells Reggie she will be back at half past noon, making sure Reggie understands what that will look like on the clock. Growing up in poverty has toughened her up, making her a very comical character in the show. She attended a girl’s catholic boarding school, worked and lived in the East End during the Blitz in the WAAFS but has not been back for 20 years and is surprised at the multicultural and geographical changes to the area. She has a habit of devouring all the cakes, leading everyone to try to hide them from her. One of the UK's earliest registered nurses, and the last surviving founder of Nonnatus House, Sister Monica Joan (whose birth name was Antonia Keville) retired from practice prior to the events of the series. In Series 5 Episode 3 it is revealed that Sister Winifred is missing teaching and takes a temporary job teaching a class replacing one of her patients who was fired due to pregnancy. It is mentioned in the series that she has a fear of squirrels. After her diagnosis with tuberculosis forces her to examine what she truly wants, he makes it quietly clear to her that while the decision is hers, he is in love with her and wishes to share his life with her. As you may recall, there was a bit of a cliffhanger regarding the voting results, interspersed with some touching stories about a family struggling with a mysterious health condition and a lonely pensioner with a brave and difficult past. Relationships By the end of Series 5, she appears to be quite close to Trixie and Barbara, and is delighted when Trixie confides in her that she attends Alcoholics Anonymous each week. When trying to adopt, it is revealed that he suffered mental health issues after the war. She is very close to Sister Julienne, to whom she often serves as a sounding board. She becomes engaged to Dr Turner, who has also fallen in love with her. He originally lived with his mother Ivy. She has a very different nature from Sister Evangelina's and misses no opportunity to bait her. Her pre-order name was Enid Atwood. Position He is first introduced in Series 1, when he is run over by Chummy on her bicycle and takes an immediate shine to her. Sister Julienne expresses that it is now their privilege to care for her. Call the Midwife Season 7, Episode 5: Hiding in fear, the ill Ade Babayaro (JORDEN PETERS) is found by Nurse Phyllis Crane (LINDA BASSETT). She is portaryed by Georgie Glen. He realises the man is in trouble, and goes to investigate, and is kind and leaves him bread to eat, when he hears he is hungry :). At times she is struggling, in Series 4 it becomes clear Shelagh desperately misses her nursing and midwifery so she returns to full-time work at the surgery and maternity home, first as a medical secretary, and then also as the sister-in-charge at the surgery after Dr Turner is taken ill. She is now the medical sister-in-charge at the surgery and works alongside the other midwives and nuns at the surgery, but still doesn't perform house calls. He is best known for playing the role of Reggie Jackson in Call The Midwife. Tom arrives in Series 3 as the new Poplar curate. In the sixth series after her return from Africa, Sister Julienne becomes deputy sister-in-charge to Sister Ursula, meaning Phyllis is demoted to Nursing Sister. He has Downs Syndrome which means he is intellectually disabled, though not incapable of learning. Daniel Laurie (born circa 1995) is an actor. She finds midwifery hard. After clinic, she swaps her nursing uniform for a scouting one, as Akela of the local Wolf Cubs whom she leads with Fred—a role later taken on by Patsy. In Series 6 she sets about learning to drive with Phyllis' help. She is tall elegant and favours slightly tailored clothes and becoming the first midwife to wear trousers. He's always got a new money-making scheme under his belt, but none of them is ever much good. Jimmy and Francine marry and have a baby, Caroline. As of the 2012 Christmas Special and from Series 2 onward, it becomes clear that Sister Bernadette has fallen in love with the local physician, Dr Turner. When she moved to Poplar she was diagnosed with TB and Cancer. Not exactly. In light of Monica Joan's age and moments of forgetfulness, she is acquitted of the trinket thefts. After carrying out work on the woman which brings on her labour while he is in theatre, Trixie is forced to deliver the baby with his assistance after the general anaesthetic brings on labour. This also impacts the continuity, as Nonnatus House had relocated to that building at the start of Series 3, their former building having been rendered structurally unsound by a bomb blast on Christmas, 1958. Nonnatus House welcomes a new recruit, Fred and Violet take in a vulnerable young man, Sister Monica Joan makes a discovery, and Trixie meets a charming dentist. Nevertheless, it is clear that work is first in her life, until Curate Tom Hereward proposes to her and she accepts. In Series 7, Barbara dies after contracting meningococcal sepsis, leaving Tom, Nonnatus House and the rest of the Poplar community heartbroken and shattered. It is never entirely clear how much of Sister Monica Joan's eccentricity is due to the frailty of age, or (as Jenny and Sister Bernadette suspect) sheer wilful naughtiness. It is revealed in the Series 5 finale that Patsy and Delia are going to Paris together in spring 1962. Everything we learnt from the BBC drama Call the Midwife Christmas special 2019 starring Miriam Margolyes, Helen George, Jennifer Kirby, Leonie Elliott, Stephen McGann. In Series 6, Dr Turner is overcome with joy when Shelagh falls pregnant with her first biological child. Trixie has a much more outgoing disposition than Jenny, but the two share the sense of adventure in their work and become firm friends. Tom asked her to marry him while they are out in South Africa after consulting with his former fiancée Trixie. In her St John capacity, she works with Patsy's and Fred's scouts, principally teaching them first aid. In 2017, the beauty snatched up the role of Miss Hannigan in the popular drama Annie. Reggie to Violet after Fred brings him home from the group home to help Violet cope with menopause. The following is a list of characters from Call the Midwife, a British television period-drama series shown on BBC One since 2012. In the sixth series, after her return from Africa, Sister Julienne becomes deputy sister-in-charge to Sister Ursula. Her disgust of a young father arrested in a cottaging sting was entirely the result of his infidelity; with whom he cheated was immaterial to her. Nevertheless, he has an IMDb bio. Barbara Gilbert arrived in Poplar in the early 1960s still finding her feet in district nursing and midwifery. Reggie’s first appearance in Call the Midwife came in series six. Staff nurse at the London (until 1961), trainee midwife, nurse, Nun, midwife and nurse, former teacher (before 1959), This page was last edited on 15 April 2021, at 13:18. Valerie first appears following an explosion in Episode 2 of Series 6 coming to the aid of Shelagh following a fire in the docks. 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It is then seen in Series 4 that she has a very close friendship with veteran Nurse Trixie and new Nurse Barbara. In the final episode of that series, he and Chummy have a baby, whom they name Fred. Miss Millicent Higgins is the surgery receptionist who works with GP, Patrick Turner & Nurse/Midwife, Shelagh Turner at the local surgery and maternity home. So to delve deeper, why not explore what their MBTI®'s would be? She is found in an asylum where she has been admitted as a patient, but it is apparent that she isn't getting the help she needs. She studied nursing and midwifery for four years in England before joining Nonnatus. She turns him down and they remain friends. She makes her first apperance in the 2018 Christmas special. Timothy sets off on a crusade to make his parents give up smoking after seeing the damage it's doing to their health. She orders Sister Mary Cynthia to return to the mother house, before being informed of her sexual assault. He has Downs Syndrome which means he is intellectually disabled, though not incapable of learning. They are married in a hurried wedding at the end of Series 6, when Barbara learns that her father has accepted a three year missionary posting in New Guinea, so he can marry them. She is still not happy that Delia has decided to stay in Poplar at the convent. She’s timid and naïve with an eagerness to please and demonstrates a humble obedience to the Order. When Trixie returns to Poplar from South Africa, it is realised that Sister Mary Cynthia has gone missing from the Mother House. Her steadfast, compassionate guidance makes her an anchor for her colleagues and in a very real way, it is she who holds the inhabitants of Nonnatus House together. Her energy and drive make her extraordinarily effective at her job. She is seen to be close to Cynthia since she joined the order. In January 1962, while seconded to a clinic in Africa and dozens of miles from a physician, Trixie becomes the only one of the midwives—lay or nuns—to have performed a Cesarean section. In 2013 Christmas special he suffers from polio which affects his legs. However, she does not suffer fools gladly and her blunt speech and attitude often offend. She owns her own haberdashery called Violet Gee. In Series 1, Jimmy is madly in love with Jenny, even though she still pines for the married man, the reason she escaped to London. Reggie Jackson, who has Down Syndrome, was orphaned when his mother unexpectedly died. Reggie has Down syndrome. Throughout Series 1, they go on a string of dates, eventually marrying in the series' final episode. Sister Winifred arrives at Nonnatus House at the beginning of Series 3. While in the next series the Turners go on holiday with a locum, who puts a mother in danger. In Series 7, Phyllis nearly dies after a fire destroys a local shop. She returns to Poplar a few months later as she stays on at the clinic returning via the Mother House, when it's realised that Sister Mary Cynthia has gone missing. She is crippled by a severe lack of confidence but with Sister Julienne’s gentle nurturing she will gradually find her voice.[6]. She has a son who lives in Plymouth. Patsy is first seen in Series 2, Episode 3, as a nurse in the male surgical ward at the London Hospital. ‘Tis the season, and what better way to celebrate the holidays than to treat ourselves with the 2020 Call the Midwife Holiday Special? Despite her gruff exterior and apparent lack of patience with others, she is deeply cherished and respected by not only her colleagues, but her Poplar community, a great many of whom she delivered—as evidenced by the masses who turned out to congratulate her on the occasion of her jubilee, and to pay their final respects two years later. 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