List of Bad Girls characters
The following is a full list of actors / actresses featured in all eight series of Bad Girls. The character Shell Dockley was voted #8 on Virgin Media's "Top 10 TV Criminals". Listed by the series they were first introduced.
Series 1
[|Helen Stewart]
- Portrayed by Simone Lahbib
- Duration: 1-3
Nikki Wade
- Portrayed by Mandana Jones
- Duration: 1-3
Shell Dockley
- Portrayed by Debra Stephenson
- Duration: 1–3, 5
Jim Fenner
- Portrayed by Jack Ellis
- Duration: 1-7
Denny Blood
- Portrayed by Alicya Eyo
- Duration: 1-5
Rachel Hicks
- Portrayed by Joanne Froggatt
- Duration: 1
Lorna Rose
- Portrayed by Luisa Bradshaw-White
- Duration: 1
Dominic McAllister
- Portrayed by Joe Shaw
- Duration: 1-2
Julie Saunders & Julie Johnston
- Portrayed by Victoria Alcock and Kika Mirylees
- Duration: 1-8
Sylvia Hollamby
- Portrayed by Helen Fraser
- Duration: 1-8
Zandra Plackett
- Portrayed by Lara Cazalet
- Duration: 1-2
Monica Lindsey
- Portrayed by Jane Lowe
- Duration: 1, 3
Crystal Gordon
- Portrayed by Sharon Duncan Brewster
- Duration: 1-4
Crystal returns to prison after harbouring Shell Dockley and Denny Blood while they were on the run. While in prison the second time, she becomes pregnant but claims that she was still a virgin and that the pregnance was the result of a miracle. When the child is born, she names it Zandra and moves into the Mother and Baby Unit. After another baby dies on the MBU, she loses her faith and starts running "anti-Bible classes". Due to a sample mix-up by [|Di Barker], Crystal is accused of being on drugs until Charlotte Myddleton organises a second test - the mix-up was a scam by Di to break up Crystal and Josh's relationship.
Yvonne Atkins
- Portrayed by Linda Henry
- Duration: 1-5
Series 2
Di Barker
- Portrayed by Tracey Wilkinson
- Duration: 2-7
Malcolm Nicholson
- Portrayed by Philip McGough
- Duration: 2–3, 5-7
In series five, Nicholson returns. He proves to be as incompetent as ever; in Series 6 he lazily assumes an outbreak of vomiting, caused by hooch is just a viral infection. In Series 7, he helps Jim Fenner get a vasectomy and when Sylvia Hollamby comes into a large inheritance, Nicholson is conveniently there to help. The two marry and go off on their honeymoon, safe in the knowledge they now have millions. A provision in Sylvia's lesbian aunt's will makes it so that the estate is not to be given to her but to several charities of choice if she remarries. When Sylvia explains this to Malcolm, he becomes enraged and ties Sylvia down to a chair and fills a syringe with Air which he plans to inject her with in order to bring on an embolism thus killing her and making it look natural. Just before Nicholson puts the needle in, the "Costa Cons" Phyl Oswyn and Bev Tull appear on the balcony, having been staying in a suite next door belonging to a Russian gangster, where they find a bag of diamonds and a gun. Phyl shoots Nicholson, and frees Sylvia. Phyl goes on the run, but after dropping the diamonds in the hotel lobby, Bev is captured by the Spanish police and is returned to Larkhall. Sylvia returns the favour to Bev and Phyl by providing them both with alcohol back in prison.
Following this, the position of Senior Medical Officer is taken over by [|Rowan Dunlop].
Babs Hunt
- Portrayed by Isabelle Amyes
- Duration: 2-5
She loathes her stepchildren, who testified against her in court and reveal that she didn't get properly divorced from her first husband, so wasn't legally married to Peter, and then contest her inheritance. Some of the inmates on G-Wing start a campaign of bullying her stepchildren over the phone, until the prison officers get wind of it.
At the end of season five, she marries Rev. Henry Mills, the prison chaplain.
Upon first arrival, Babs is screaming with a bitter, fearful rage at her imprisonment. "Mad" Tessa Spall logically damaged prisoner takes advantage of this and pretends to be Babs. Babs is put into segregation, while Tessa is inducted onto the wing - she manages to then threaten Karen Betts with a syringe of HIV positive blood.
Karen Betts
- Portrayed by Claire King
- Duration: 2-6
Shaz Wiley
- Portrayed by Lindsey Fawcett
- Duration: 2-4
Series 3
Tina O'Kane
- Portrayed by Victoria Bush
- Duration: 3-8
Maxi Purvis
- Portrayed by Kerry Norton
- Duration: 3-4
Al McKenzie
- Portrayed by Pauline Campbell
- Duration: 3-6
Buki Lester
- Portrayed by Kim Oliver
- Duration: 3-5
Virginia O'Kane
- Portrayed by Kate O'Mara
- Duration: 3
Series 4
Neil Grayling
- Portrayed by James Gaddas
- Duration: 4-8
Cassie Tyler
- Portrayed by Kellie Bright
- Duration: 4
Roisin Connor
- Portrayed by Siobhan McCarthy
- Duration: 4
Snowball Merriman
- Portrayed by Nicole Faraday
- Duration: 4-5
Series 5
Kris Yates
- Portrayed by Jennifer Ness
- Duration: 5-6
Selena Geeson
- Portrayed by Charlotte Lucas
- Duration: 5-6
Colin Hedges
- Portrayed by Tristan Sturrock
- Duration: 5-7
Bev Tull
- Portrayed by Amanda Barrie
- Duration: 5-8
Phyl Oswyn
- Portrayed by Stephanie Beacham
- Duration: 5-8
Series 6
Natalie Buxton
- Portrayed by Dannielle Brent
- Duration: 6-8
Darlene Cake
- Portrayed by Antonia Okonma
- Duration: 6-8
Frances Myers
- Portrayed by Eva Pope
- Duration: 6
This role was originally offered to Denise Welch.
Series 7
Pat Kerrigan
- Portrayed by Liz May Brice
- Duration: 7-8
Janine Nebeski
- Portrayed by Nicola Stapleton
- Duration: 7-8
Arun Parmar
- Portrayed by Rebecca Hazlewood
- Duration: 7
Sheena Williams
- Portrayed by Laura Rogers
- Duration: 7
Joy Masterton
- Portrayed by Ellie Haddington
- Duration: 7-8
Later on in the series, new inmate Stella Gough pleases Joy when she tells her she wants to join the army, and she sustains a nasty fall when she tries to show Joy just how much she wants to be in the army. While she is in the hospital, Stella reveals that she knows Joy is her mother, and Joy is stunned to know that she has been reunited with her daughter. Stella reveals that she knows why Joy gave her up for adoption, she had told Social Services that she was raped, when it was actually a drunken one-night stand. Stella confides in Joy saying that she too was also raped. When Joy sees Stella being attacked by Darlene Cake and Tina O'Kane, she steps in and is punched in the stomach by Darlene. Joy then reveals the awful truth to Stella that she was not raped, and that she just drunkenly had sex while she was in the army. Stella then attacks Joy with a smashed glasses lens attached to a toothbrush, and new prison officer Mandy Goodhue saves her. Joy then takes optional leave when she turns to alcohol for comfort. When she returns, she has to deal with the fact that Janine Nebeski has now fallen pregnant. Janine tells Joy that her boyfriend, "Michael", is responsible, but the biological father is in fact prison officer, Donny Kimber. Joy discovers this and threatens to fire him. When Darlene sets fire to herself on the landing of G-Wing, Donny puts her out and Joy congratulates Donny for his quick-thinking, and she says that he is allowed to keep his job. Joy is not seen after this.
Kevin Spiers
- Portrayed by Andrew Scarborough
- Duration: 7
Series 8
Lou Stoke
- Portrayed by Amanda Donohoe
- Duration: 8
Dr. Rowan Dunlop
- Portrayed by Colin Salmon
- Duration: 8
Mandy Goodhue
- Portrayed by Angela Bruce
- Duration: 8
Donny Kimber
- Portrayed by Sid Owen
- Duration: 8
Stella Gough
S8 E4: Stella Entered Larkhall in an attempt to meet her birth mother, Joy Masterton. Athletic and confident she makes a good impression on the staff after showing interest in the joining the army. This is partly in attempt to spend more time with Joy, knowing that she was in the army.She falls from a rope which she had climbed, and was then showing off. She got off lucky with a concussion, and when Joy visited her in the hospital wing she told her that she was her daughter. Joy did not take it well, denied it and told her she would be shipping back out.
S8 E5: After talking with Joy again, and hearing that she had lied about being becoming pregnant through rape, she became furious. She made a weapon using a toothbrush and a piece of glass and took Joy hostage. Joy tried to explain why, but Stella didn't want to hear it. Joy was saved by Mandy Goodhue after the staff became aware of her absence. After this she was sent back to her previous prison, claiming she didn't care about Joy anymore.
Tabular breakdown by series of introduction
Series 1
Prisoners
Staff
Minor Characters
Character | Actor/Actress | Series | Last Seen |
Jessie Devlin | Denise Black | Series 1, 2 | Being given an ultimatum by daughter, Denny Blood. She later died from years of alcohol abuse. |
Sean Parr | Oliver Fox | Series 1 | Walking away from Helen Stewart in the prison yard after she ended their relationship. |
Series 2
Prisoners
Character | Actor/Actress | Series | Last Seen |
Barbara "Babs" Hunt | Isabelle Amyes | Series 2-5 | Celebrating her marriage to Rev. Henry Mills. She was later released off-screen. |
Shaz Wiley | Lindsey Fawcett | Series 2-4 | Begging for her life and for Denny Blood to come back and save her when she was trapped in the burning visiting room. She later burned to death. |
Staff
Character | Actor/Actress | Series | Last Seen |
Karen Betts | Claire King | Series 2–5,6 | Being arrested on G-Wing after being framed by Jim Fenner for death by dangerous driving. She later returned and was last seen with Neil Grayling as they presented Fenner and his wedding guests evidence that he had framed her. |
Di Barker | Tracey Wilkinson | Series 2-7 | On G-Wing as a prisoner watching as the other inmates celebrated Christmas. Her ultimate fate was never revealed. |
Josh Mitchell | Nathan Constance | Series 2-4 | Starting a new life with Crystal Gordon and their baby girl, Zandra, when he collected Crystal from Larkhall. |
Dr. Malcolm Nicholson | Philip McGough | Series 2–3, 5-7 | Dead after being shot by Phyl Oswyn after attempting to murder his new wife, Sylvia Hollamby, on their honeymoon on the Costa Del Sol. |
Minor Characters
Character | Actor/Actress | Series | Last Seen |
Bobby Hollamby | Geoffrey Hutchings | Series 2, 3, 5 | Dead after committing suicide by gassing himself in his company hearse after being unable to pay off his debts. |
"Mad" Tessa Spall | Helen Schlesinger | Series 2-3 | Upset on the mental health wing after Shell Dockley was attacked in the shower by "Podger" Pam Jolly. |
Renee Williams | Alison Newman | Series 2 | Lying dead on the floor of G-Wing after suffering an allergic reaction to nuts, brought on by Yvonne Atkins. |
Series 3
Prisoners
Character | Actor/Actress | Series | Last Seen |
Buki Lester | Kim Oliver | Series 3-5 | Looking forward to a new life with her son Lennox. She was released off-screen. |
Al McKenzie | Pauline Campbell | Series 3-6 | Lying dead on the floor of the four-bed dorm after suffering oxalic poisoning accidentally caused by Phyl Oswyn and Bev Tull. |
Virginia O'Kane | Kate O'Mara | Series 3-4 | Dead in the bath after being drowned by Maxi Purvis and Al McKenzie. |
Maxi Purvis | Kerry Norton | Series 3-4 | Dead in the chapel, where her corpse was stored by Sylvia Hollamby and the Julies, after committing suicide by choking herself to death on toilet paper, aided by Al McKenzie. |
Tina O'Kane | Victoria Bush | Series 3-8 | Celebrating Christmas with her fellow inmates. |
Staff
Character | Actor/Actress | Series | Last Seen |
Gina Rossi | Lisa Turner | Series 3 | Being taken away by paramedics after suffering a miscarriage caused by a fight with Di Barker. She later resigned and got a transfer to a men's prison off screen. |
Mark Waddle | Paul Opacic | Series 3-4 | Being transferred to another prison after a disagreement with Neil Grayling. |
Dr. Thomas Waugh | Michael Higgs | Series 3 | Walking away from a relationship with Helen Stewart after discovering her feelings for Nikki Wade. |
Minor Characters
Character | Actor/Actress | Series | Last Seen |
Femi Bada | Athonia Lanre-Ajose | Series 3 | Being transferred to E-Wing with another Nigerian inmate. |
"Podger" Pam Jolly | Wendi Peters | Series 3 | Being accepted by the women of G-Wing when they finally saw she was not a "nutter". Later transferred off screen. |
Caroline Lewis | Helen Grace | Series 3 | Panicking in her cell with Josh Mitchell after being revealed as a sex offender by Maxi Purvis. She was later transferred. |
Charlotte Myddleton | Kate Steavenson-Payne | Series 3 | Transferred to an open prison. |
David Saunders | Steven Webb | Series 3, 8 | Celebrating Christmas with mum Julie Saunders, wife Fidelity and their daughter Ashanti on G-Wing. |
Series 4
Prisoners
Character | Actor/Actress | Series | Last Seen |
Roisin Connor | Siobhan McCarthy | Series 4 | Last seen being taken to the hospital wing for treatment of her burns. She was later transferred and pardoned along with girlfriend, Cassie Tyler after saving Neil Grayling's life during the fire. |
Snowball Merriman | Nicole Faraday | Series 4-5 | Dead after committing suicide by hanging herself from the G-Wing landings - in front of the other inmates. |
Cassie Tyler | Kellie Bright | Series 4 | Last seen being taken to the hospital wing for treatment of her burns. She was later transferred and pardoned along with girlfriend, Roisin Connor after saving Neil Grayling's life during the fire. |
Rhiannon Dawson | Jade Williams | Series 2, 4 | Promising her mother, Julie Johnston, and "aunt" Julie Saunders that she would go to college and make something of her life. |
Staff
Character | Actor/Actress | Series | Last Seen |
Neil Grayling | James Gaddas | Series 4-8 | Lying dead on his office floor after the outbreak of Legionnaires' Disease. |
Rev. Henry Mills | Michael Elwyn | Series 4-5 | Marrying inmate Barbara Hunt. |
Barry Pearce | Andrew Lancel | Series 4 | Last seen being restrained from attacking Babs Hunt and Shaz Wiley. He was later sacked off-screen. |
Minor Characters
Character | Actor/Actress | Series | Last Seen |
Ritchie Atkins | Alex King | Series 4-5 | Dead after committing suicide from an overdose. |
Noreen Biggs | Maria Charles | Series 4, 5 | Losing her battle with lung Cancer in the prison hospital. |
Spike Harding | Sarah Hadland | Series 4 | Mourning the death of her baby, Baxter. |
Series 5
Prisoners
Character | Actor/Actress | Series | Last Seen |
Phyl Oswyn | Stephanie Beacham | Series 5-8 | Celebrating Christmas with her fellow inmates. |
Bev Tull | Amanda Barrie | Series 5-8 | Celebrating Christmas with her fellow inmates. |
Kris Yates | Jennifer Ness | Series 5-6 | Staging a protest of Innocence on top of the Wellington Arch Monument with Selena Geeson. |
Staff
Character | Actor/Actress | Series | Last Seen |
Selena Geeson | Charlotte Lucas | Series 5-6 | Joining Kris Yates in her protest on top of the Wellington Arch Monument. She was later sacked off-screen. |
Colin Hedges | Tristan Sturrock | Series 5-7 | Last seen attacking Father Kelly who, along with Sister Thomas Moore, were revealed as child abusers by Pat Kerrigan. He was suspended off-screen but never returned to work. |
Minor Characters
Character | Actor/Actress | Series | Last Seen |
as himself | Christopher Biggins | Series 5 | Informing Buki Lester he has adopted her son Lennox. |
Eric Bostock | Paul Brennen | Series 5 | Pulling the plug on his bid to privatize Larkhall. |
Paula Miles | Nikki Amuka-Bird | Series 5, 6 | Last seen dealing with the oxalic acid poisoning case on G-Wing. |
Tony Verrall | Jamie King | Series 5 | He was last seen walking out on Neil Grayling, ending their relationship. |
Milly Yates | Holly Palmer | Series 5, 6 | She was last seen feeling sorry for herself after wanting to back out of admitting to killing her father. Her body was pulled from a river by police divers after committing suicide. |
Series 6
Prisoners
Character | Actor/Actress | Series | Last Seen |
Natalie Buxton | Dannielle Brent | Series 6-8 | Being dumped down a drain after being murdered by Pat Kerrigan. She also appeared in ghost form to Sylvia Hollamby at Christmas. |
Darlene Cake | Antonia Okonma | Series 6-8 | Setting herself on fire after being manipulated to commit murder at the hands of evil Catherine Earlham. Though she survived her suicide bid, she was not seen again, leaving her fate unknown. |
Staff
Character | Actor/Actress | Series | Last Seen |
Frances Myers | Eva Pope | Series 6 | Last seen dealing with a near-riot on G-Wing following the revelation of Kris Yates and Selena Geeson's relationship. She was later transferred off-screen and became the new Governor of HMP Whitehouse. |
Minor Characters
Character | Actor/Actress | Series | Last Seen |
Janan Hamad | Meera Syal | Series 6 | Last seen talking to her mother in law who was willing to help her. She was later released off-screen following her roof-top protest. |
Rick Revoir | Geoff Francis | Series 6 | Last seen negotiating with Frances Myers to take the wrap for Tanya Turner's convictions. He was later arrested and sent to prison off screen. |
Tanya Turner | Zöe Lucker | Series 6 | Being chauffeur driven out of Larkhall after Rick Revoir took the blame for the drug charges she had been locked up for. |
Ben Hennessy | Richard Mylan | Series 6,7 | Being escorted away by the police, he was later charged for the hit-and-run murder caused by Jim Fenner, after Di Barker planted evidence in order to free Fenner. |
Series 7
Prisoners
Character | Actor/Actress | Series | Last Seen |
Pat Kerrigan | Liz May Brice | Series 7-8 | Celebrating Christmas with her fellow inmates. |
Janine Nebeski | Nicola Stapleton | Series 7-8 | Celebrating the birth of her daughter, Beverly-Janine with fiancé, Donny Kimber at Christmas. |
Arun Parmar | Rebecca Hazlewood | Series 7 | Playing the role of Prince Charming in the 2005 Christmas Episode. |
Sheena Williams | Laura Rogers | Series 7 | Celebrating Christmas with her fellow inmates watching the pantomime of "Snow Black". She was released off-screen. |
Staff
Character | Actor/Actress | Series | Last Seen |
Vicky Floyd | Orlessa Altas | Series 7 | She was last seen celebrating Christmas with inmates and colleagues watching the performance of "Snow Black". |
Joy Masterton | Ellie Haddington | Series 7-8 | Praising Donny Kimber for his quick-thinking that saved Darlene Cake's life. |
Kevin Spiers | Andrew Scarborough | Series 7 | Looking worried after Natalie Buxton had manipulated inmate Miranda Miles into killing Chaplain. Christy Mackay. |
Minor Characters
Character | Actor/Actress | Series | Last Seen |
Laura Canning | Francesca Fowler | Series 7 | Dead after committing suicide by jumping from a high ledge. |
Chaplain. Christy Mackay | Gaynor Howe | Series 7 | Dead in the shower after being murdered by Miranda Miles. |
Miranda Miles | Nicola Redmond | Series 7 | Transferred after murdering Chaplain. Christy Mackay. |
Sister Thomas More | Colette O'Neil | Series 7 | Transferred after being revealed as a child abuser by Pat Kerrigan. |
Series 8
Prisoners
Character | Actor/Actress | Series | Last Seen |
Emira Al Jahani | Laura Dos Santos | Series 8 | Last seen warning Janine Nebeski about Donny Kimber being an undercover police officer. She was later released from Larkhall off-screen after her husband was arrested on terrorism charges. |
Stella Gough | Helen Modern | Series 8 | Transferred back to her original prison after rejecting Joy Masterton's apology. |
Staff
Character | Actor/Actress | Series | Last Seen |
Dr. Rowan Dunlop | Colin Salmon | Series 8 | Lying in hospital after Lou Stoke attacked him for trying to kill her sister Vicky with a drugs overdose. |
Mandy Goodhue | Angela Bruce | Series 8 | Celebrating Christmas with the fellow staff and inmates of G-Wing. |
Donny Kimber | Sid Owen | Series 8 | Celebrating the birth of his daughter Beverly-Janine with fiancée, Janine Nebeski, at Christmas. |
Lou Stoke | Amanda Donohoe | Series 8 | Was last seen phoning Rowan Dunlop's wife, Hannah, to reveal to her his adultery and attempted murder. |
Minor Characters
Character | Actor/Actress | Series | Last Seen |
Hassan Al Jahani | Conor Alexander | Series 8 | Being arrested for terrorism crimes. |
Catherine Earlham | Jan Francis | Series 8 | Being chauffeur driven from Larkhall with her new lover in tow after Darlene Cake killed her husband, the only prosecution witness to her crimes. |
Angela Robbins | Annette Badland | Series 8 | Transferred after her dissociative identity disorder was uncovered by Dr. Rowan Dunlop. |
Fidelity Saunders | Gugu Mbatha-Raw | Series 8 | Celebrating Christmas with her husband David Saunders and their daughter Ashanti on G-Wing. |
Vicky Stoke | Melanie Cameron | Series 8 | Recovering in hospital after Dr. Rowan Dunlop tried to kill her by causing her to overdose on drugs. |
Ashley Wilcox | Sandra De Sousa | Series 8 | Dead in the four-bed dorm after falling victim to the outbreak of Legionnaires' disease. |