Stirling Gallacher has joined ‘Casualty’ as Jan Jenning’s wife.
The 49-year-old actress – perhaps best known for playing Georgia Woodson in BBC daytime series ‘Doctors’ from 2003 to 2009 – is joining the cast of the medical drama as police officer Ffion Morgan, the partner of Di Botcher’s paramedic alter ego.
She said in a statement: "I am entirely delighted to be joining the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world… what’s not to be thrilled about!
"The added bonus is of course the folk that work on this fantastic show, I could not have felt more personally welcomed or professionally supported in what is often a bit of a nerve wracking build up to your first days filming.
"I look forward to many happy hours on Ffion Morgan’s pretend beat."
As well as her ‘Doctors’ role, Stirling – who has already started filming for her first appearances in late spring – previously played the Prime Minister’s wife alongside Anthony Head in classic sketch show ‘Little Britain’, while she recently stepped onto the cobbles as Paula Martin ‘Coronation Street’.
Simon Harper – executive producer of ‘Casualty’ and ‘Holby City’ – added: "The audience may recall a single, somewhat loaded reference last year from Jan’s son Ross to her wife Ffion and the kids back home – so we’ve had her off-screen marriage up our sleeve for some time now and are really excited to explore it – not least with an actor as distinguished as Stirling, whom we are thrilled to welcome to the ‘Casualty’ company, playing alongside the brilliant Di Botcher.
"Jan has a huge and terrifying story coming up in the next series where Ross comes into her life again – and given that Ross is pretty dodgy and Ffion is a police officer, it’s all going to get pretty turbulent!"
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