Lilian played by Paula Wilcox
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Lilian is in her fifties, and recently divorced. She's enjoying her
new-found freedom, but deep down would love to meet someone new and
start again. Things may not have worked out as she'd planned but she
hasn't given up hope just yet.
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Paula Wilcox
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Paula was offered her first television series, The Lovers, after appearing
with the National Youth Theatre as a student - and her most famous television
role is in Man About The House.
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She has recently appeared in Down To Earth, Murder in Suburbia, All
About Me, Holby City, The Queen's Nose, Footballers' Wives and Peak
Practice.
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Other television credits include the Stalker's Apprentice, Coronation
Street, Life After Birth, Smokescreen, Blue Heaven, Casualty, Fiddler's
Three, Boon, Mrs Capper's Birthday and The Bright Side.
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Her theatre work spans four decades and has taken her as far afield
as Hong Kong, Australia and America.
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Did you know there is a song - by Belle and Sebastian, called Lazy
Line Painter Jane - that mentions Paula?!
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Clint played by Frazer Ayres
Clint is in a world of his own and is frequently carried away by his
own flights of fancy. He always sees the best in things and is touchingly
easy to please. If there's one thing that annoys him it's
when people in the smoking room try to talk shop …
Frazer Ayres
Frazer's TV work has included Frances Tuesday, Bella and the Boys, The
Vice, London's Burning, Unconditional Love, Dogma TV - Fierce, and Trail
of Guilt.
He won a Best Actor award for his Edinburgh Festival performance in
The People Next Door and also starred in Ramayana, Workers Writes, Vurt,
Telling Tales, Four and Bluebird and Sandman.
Films include Revenger's Tragedy, Intimacy, It was an Accident, Rage,
Speak Like a Child, Dinner For Two and Kevin and Perry.
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Heidi played by Emma Kennedy
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Heidi is devoted to her domineering husband, Keith,
and their little baby, Dane. They are all she ever wants to talk about.
She's so deadly boring that no-one even noticed when she took six months'
maternity leave.
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Emma Kennedy
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Upon graduating, Emma trained as a solicitor and for
three years practised in London. She left the law in 1995 and has been
writing and performing ever since.
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Known as the face of the Heat magazine advert, Emma's
most recent television credits include The Lenny Henry Show, Rescue
Me, People like Us, Goodness Gracious Me, Kiss me Kate and Jonathan
Creek.
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For radio, The Sunday Format won four awards. Emma won
the Comedy Lounge Award for Best Actress for her performance in Bill
Shakespeare's Italian Job in 2003 and was the runner up World Conker
champion in 1991!
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Janet played by Selina Griffiths
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Janet is the boss's long-suffering PA. She finds it
difficult to bond with the rest of the workforce but badly needs a friend
she can share all her troubles with. If only her job didn't make her
so short-tempered…
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Selina Griffiths
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Selina Griffiths trained at the Central School of Speech
and Drama and has been in plays including The Way of the World, Miss
Julie, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Peggy For You, Noises Off and
Hotel in Amsterdam.
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Television credits include Doctor Findlay, Wycliffe,
Underworld, Scarlet Pimpernel, Drop The Dead Donkey and Trial by Fire.
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Annie played by Debbie Chazen
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Annie sees herself as permanently hard done by, but whatever Annie
wants - be it a shoulder to cry on or a little cigarette - Annie gets.
As longs as she's the centre of attention, Annie's happy. It's when
she feels she's being ignored that the waterworks start…
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Debbie Chazen
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Debbie has been in Murder in Suburbia, Mile High, Holby City, Gimme
Gimme Gimme, Nicholas Nickleby, Casualty, Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married,
A Christmas Carol, The Bill, Midsomer Murders, Tess of the D'Urbervilles,
Killer Net and The Lakes.
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Her theatre credits include A Player For Owen Meaney and Mother Clapp's
Molly House for the Royal National Theatre, understudying Dawn French
in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and The Rise and Fall of Little Voice.
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Films include Suzie Gold, Tooth, Beginner's Luck, Topsy Turvy and Rendezvous.
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Sally played by Nadine Marshall
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Sally is no-nonsense, straight-talking - in her own words, 'rock hard'.
She keeps her social life apart from work and doesn't take any crap
from anyone. But she's soft at heart - just look at how she puts up
with Annie.
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Nadine Marshall
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Nadine trained at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama.
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Since leaving drama school she has built up extensive experience working
for the RSC on productions such as Oroonoko, Timon of Athens, Henry
VIII, Spanish Tragedy, and Camino Red. She was also directed by Kathy
Burke in Born Bad.
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For television, credits include The Bill, Club le Monde and Family
Affairs.
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Len played by Leslie Schofield
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Len may be a little gruff - and distinctly foul-mouthed
- but he's a decent man who raised his two sons on his own after his
much-loved wife, Diana, dropped dead. He's something of a child at heart
and is obsessed with the films of Walt Disney. He takes his work as
a security guard very seriously.
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Leslie Schofield
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Leslie has been in television shows The Brittas Empire,
EastEnders, Holby City, Coronation Street, The Last Detective, The Fall
and Rise of Reginald Perrin and Heartbeat.
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Films include Star Wars, The Moth, Night of the Fox,
Dead Man's Folly, Lost in London, Doctor Who, Clockwise, Force 10 in
Navarone, and Wild Geese.
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Barry played by Jeremy Swift
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Barry is not the most confident of men. He's been consistently
overlooked for promotion and doesn't find it easy to talk to people.
That's why he always hides behind his crossword. It's a shame he can
never get the answers right…
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Jeremy Swift
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Jeremy played Mr Bumble in Oliver Twist and the Earl
of Whitby in Cromwell and Fairfax and also starred in the award- winning
film Gosford Park as well as The Affair of the Necklace, Vanity Fair,
Bertie and Elizabeth, To Kill a King and Dark Blue World.
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Jeremy has appeared in numerous popular television dramas
- including 55 Degrees North, Casualty, Nighty Night, Blind Men, Next
of Kin and Dalziel and Pascoe - and starred alongside Paul Merton in
The Paul Merton Show.
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