document_title: List of Call the Midwife characters

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text: List of Call the Midwife characters

text: Cast[edit]

text:
Actor

Character

Role

Series

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Jessica Raine

Jenny Lee

Nurse, midwife

Main

Does not appear

Miranda Hart

Chummy Noakes(Camilla Browne)

Nurse, midwife

Main

Does not appear

Jenny Agutter

Sister Julienne

Sister-in-charge, midwife

Main

Judy Parfitt

Sister Monica Joan

Retired midwife

Main

Pam Ferris

Sister Evangelina †

Nurse, midwife

Main

Does not appear

Bryony Hannah

Sister Mary Cynthia(Cynthia Miller)

Nurse, midwife

Main

Does not appear

Helen George

Beatrix "Trixie" Franklin

Senior nurse, midwife

Main

Laura Main

Shelagh Turner(Sister Bernadette)

Sister and Practice manager, practice midwife, Senior midwife (Nonnatus House) (Series 6-)

Main

Stephen McGann

Patrick Turner

General practitioner

Main

Cliff Parisi

Frederick "Fred" Buckle

Caretaker

Main

Ben Caplan

Peter Noakes

Police Sergeant

Main

Does not appear

Vanessa Redgrave

Voice of Jennifer Worth

Nurse, midwife

Main

Emerald Fennell

Patience "Patsy" Mount

Nurse, midwife

Does not appear

Guest

Main

Does not appear

Victoria Yeates

Sister Winifred

Midwife

Does not appear

Main

Jack Ashton

Tom Hereward

Curate

Does not appear

Main

Charlotte Ritchie

Barbara Hereward †

Nurse, midwife

Does not appear

Main

Linda Bassett

Phyllis Crane

Nursing sister, midwife

Does not appear

Main

Annabelle Apsion

Violet Buckle

Wife of Fred Buckle

Does not appear

Recurring

Main

Kate Lamb

Delia Busby

Nurse

Does not appear

Recurring

Main

Does not appear

Jennifer Kirby

Valerie Dyer

Nurse, midwife

Does not appear

Main

Leonie Elliott

Lucille Anderson

Nurse, midwife

Does not appear

Main

Max Macmillan

Timothy "Tim" Turner

Patrick Turner's son

Recurring

George Rainsford

James "Jimmy" Wilson

Friend of Jenny Lee

Recurring

Does not appear

Cheryl Campbell

Lady Browne †

Chummy's mother

Recurring

Does not appear

Recurring

Does not appear

Dorothy Atkinson

Jane Sutton

Medical orderly

Does not appear

Recurring

Does not appear

Leo Starr

Alec Jesmond †

Boyfriend of Jenny Lee

Does not appear

Recurring

Does not appear

Alice Brown

Angela Turner

Adopted daughter of Shelagh and Patrick Turner

Does not appear

Recurring

Maxine Evans

Mrs Busby

Delia Busby's mother

Does not appear

Recurring

Does not appear

Harriet Walter

Sister Ursula

Sister-in-charge, midwife, nurse

Does not appear

Recurring

Does not appear

Jack Hawkins

Christopher Dockerill

Dentist

Does not appear

Recurring

Daniel Laurie

Reggie Jackson

Fred and Violet Buckle's ward

Does not appear

Recurring

Trevor Cooper

Sergeant Woolf

Police Sergeant

Does not appear

Recurring

Nina Yndis

Magda

The Turners' au pair

Does not appear

Recurring

text: Characters[edit]

text: Sister Julienne[edit]

text:
Sister JulienneCall The Midwife characterPortrayed by
Jenny AgutterDuration
2012–First appearance
Series 1, Episode 1Introduced by
Jennifer WorthClassification
Present; regularProfileOccupation
Sister-in-charge, nun, midwife and nurse

text: By necessity, Sister Julienne conceals an iron fist in a velvet glove, managing both her charges and fellow sisters with a combination of tact, compassion, and no-nonsense advice.

text: 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. She always offers comfort and help to the young midwives and also has a notably close, warm and maternal relationship with Sister Bernadette, serving as her chief mentor and confidante. Beginning with series 4, it becomes clear that the weight of always having to be "the  wise one" takes a heavier toll on her than many would guess, and she is increasingly shown leaning on Shelagh (formerly Sister Bernadette) for counsel and support; nevertheless, her faith is not shaken and she remains a serene, guiding presence for all of Nonnatus House. Her pre-Order name was Louise.

text: In the sixth series after her return from Africa, Sister Julienne becomes Deputy Sister-in-Charge to Sister Ursula. Although Sister Ursula leaves in the third episode and Sister Julienne becomes sister in charge again.

text: Sister Monica Joan[edit]

text:
Sister Monica JoanCall The Midwife characterPortrayed by
Judy ParfittDuration
2012–First appearance
Series 1, Episode 1Introduced by
Jennifer WorthClassification
Present; regularProfileOccupation
Nun, retired midwife and nurse

text: 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, who is suffering from the early stages of dementia and feeble body. Desperate to be of service and feel useful, she is given make-work tasks to keep her occupied, such as rolling bandages (which the nurses secretly unrolled beforehand). Sister Julienne expresses that it is now their privilege to care for her.

text: She has a very different nature from Sister Evangelina's and misses no opportunity to bait her. 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. She has a habit of devouring all the cakes, leading everyone to try to hide them from her. She also knits woollen teddy bears and casts her horoscope in the stars and planets in order to tell her future. In the final episode of Series 1, after recovering from pneumonia, she is arrested for stealing trinkets from the market: some ribbons, a handkerchief, a china robin and several other things.

text: Later, she is suspected of stealing a ring, a bracelet and a pearl necklace, which were discovered by Jenny Lee; Sister Monica Joan then went to hide them in her knitting bag and they were found by Sister Evangelina and who called the constable. Mother Jesu Emanuel (Mother Superior of the order) testifies that Sister Monica Joan inherited those items from her mother and no crime was committed. In light of Monica Joan's age and moments of forgetfulness, she is acquitted of the trinket thefts. In Series 2, she reconciles with her nephew and his family, fears that she is useless, spends a lot of money on taxis to see her nephew, much to the chagrin of Sister Julienne, recovers from angina, escapes a holiday with Sister Evangelina to Chichester, judges a baby show, and pays for a child's funeral. Sister Monica Joan is very close to and gets on well with Jenny. In the 2015 Christmas special, she runs away from the convent after an argument with Sister Evangelina, returning to her childhood home with the belief that everyone should go back to their home, prompted by Barbara's comment that she wasn't allowed back to Liverpool for Christmas. She returns just in time for their appearance on the BBC.

text: Beatrix "Trixie" Franklin[edit]

text:
Beatrix "Trixie" FranklinCall The Midwife characterPortrayed by
Helen GeorgeDuration
2012–First appearance
Series 1, Episode 1Introduced by
Jennifer WorthClassification
Present; regularProfileOccupation
Senior midwife and nurse

text: Trixie has a much more outgoing disposition than Jenny, but the two share the sense of adventure in their work and become firm friends. Trixie loves nothing more than gossiping with her colleagues and is quite nosey when it comes to other people's business.

text: She occasionally comes across as a bit rude, but she means no harm by it. When it comes to her friends, she takes great pleasure in teasing them about what is going on in their lives. She is caring but no-nonsense to her patients and is encouraging at hopeless times. She is light and carefree, jokes a lot, tries to set her colleagues up with boys and is generally a little boy-mad. Nevertheless, it is clear that work is first in her life, until Curate Tom Hereward proposes to her and she accepts. But their engagement breaks down when Trixie discovers that Tom has a placement in a slum in Newcastle, an industrial city in North East England. This makes her turn even more to alcohol for comfort, but after struggling with alcoholism, with Cynthia's help, she joins a support group. She shares a room with Nurse Patsy Mount.

text: Trixie's acceptance of male homosexuality is decades ahead of her time. Prior to the events of the series, she happily served as cover for a gay medical student, providing him the appearance of propriety. 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.

text: 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. She is now very close to Patsy, Delia, Barbara and Sister Mary Cynthia.

text: 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. 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.

text: Later in 1962, she meets dentist Christopher Dockerill.  When a turn of events leads to them delivering a baby, they grow close. But, later she suspects that she is being cheated on by Dockerhill, but learns that he actually has a child from a prior marriage, which he had not previously disclosed. She forgives him because he was scared to tell her fearing he would be rejected.

text: Shelagh Turner[edit]

text:
Shelagh TurnerCall The Midwife characterPortrayed by
Laura MainDuration
2012–First appearance
Series 1, Episode 1Introduced by
Jennifer WorthClassification
Present; regularProfileOccupation
Midwife and nurse (series 1–2, 4-), Medical Sister-in-charge (surgery) (Series 4-), nun, acting sister in charge (series 1–2), medical secretary (series 3–5), Senior midwife and nursing sister (Nonnatus House) (Series 7-)
showFamilyHusband
Patrick TurnerChildren
Timothy Turner Angela Turner Edward Teddy Turner[1]

text: Sister Bernadette, as she is first known, is Scottish and in her early 30s – the closest in age to Jenny and the other lay midwives. She is the most educated of the nuns and tutors the other nurses whilst providing administrative assistance to Sister Julienne, sometimes covering as her deputy. She joined the order in July, 1948. A consummate professional, she has a fresh, uncomplicated approach to her work that means she connects well with Jenny and her other colleagues. In one episode, she is shown to remove her veil, take her hair down and take off her glasses, expressing her hidden desire to be free.

text: 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. One scene shows Sister Bernadette looking in on the midwives' room while they are drinking and gossiping, but then the door closes; it is a life that cannot be opened to her while she remains a nun. In another, Sister Monica Joan points out that she spends most of her time praying for forgiveness. Sister Bernadette eventually breaks down and turns to Sister Julienne for help, confessing that what she really wants is a family and children of her own. 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.

text: After recovering from a short bout of tuberculosis, Sister Bernadette leaves the convent and reverts to her birth name of Shelagh (née Mannion). She becomes engaged to Dr Turner, who has also fallen in love with her. They marry in the 2013 Christmas Special and she becomes stepmother to his 11-year-old son Timothy. They later adopt a baby girl called Angela after a struggle with infertility. However, she still remains close to her faith, joining the Nuns at compline. At times she is struggling, in series four 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. 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.

text: Shelagh also feels guilty after thalidomide is prescribed for women suffering from morning sickness. When it's linked to with birth deformities of the kind observed in recent months, she says she is as guilty as Patrick because she supported the drug being prescribed.

text: In series 6, Shelagh is overcome with joy when she falls pregnant with her first biological child. However, she suffers complications and is taken ill during an inspection of the maternity home and rushed to hospital fearing a miscarriage, forcing Barbara and Phyllis to take over the running of the surgery. This puts her pregnancy in jeopardy and even after she is released from hospital she could have still lost the baby.[2] But she gives birth to a son (Edward 'Teddy' Patrick Turner) with the help of  Sister Julienne in the series finale.

text: After a year of materity leave Shelagh returns to Nonnatus House as senior midwife and nursing sister to cover for Barbara who is taken ill and eventually dies.

text: Sister Winifred[edit]

text:
Sister WinifredCall The Midwife characterPortrayed by
Victoria YeatesDuration
2014–First appearance
Series 3, Episode 1Introduced by
Heidi ThomasClassification
Present; regularProfileOccupation
Nun, midwife and nurse, former teacher (before 1959)

text: Sister Winifred arrives at Nonnatus House at the beginning of Series 3. Sister Winifred is the same  age as Jenny, Trixie and Cynthia. She finds midwifery hard. She tries twice to make a harvest loaf for the Harvest Festival, stating 'my mother made it look so easy.' She eventually succeeds on the second attempt. She seems to be close to Patsy Mount. She is now close to Sister Mary Cynthia since she joined the order and is very passionate about her work in Poplar. 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. In episode 4 she had returned to midwifery. She is seen to be close to Cynthia since she joined the order. In series 6 she sets about learning to drive with Phyllis' help.

text: Phyllis Crane[edit]

text:
Phyllis CraneCall The Midwife characterPortrayed by
Linda BassettDuration
2015–First appearance
Series 4, Episode 2Introduced by
Heidi ThomasClassification
Present; regularProfileOccupation
Senior nurse, midwife, Deputy Sister-in-charge (medical)

text: Phyllis is a veteran nurse who also arrives at Nonnatus House in mid-1960. When she pulls up in her sparkling car everybody knows that she's going to be a tiny bit snobby and she is. She is vegetarian and is not scared to put her ideas forward to improve Nonnatus House. 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. In series 5 it is seen that she has formed more of a relationship with Barbara and has taken quite a high role in Nonnatus House. Having discovered Patsy and Delia's relationship, she is supportive of heartbroken Delia when Patsy sails to Hong Kong to care for her dying father.

text: She is also very close to her roommate, Barbara, and serves as something of a surrogate mother figure to her much younger colleague. 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. Although Sister Ursula leaves and Phyllis is reinstated as deputy sister in charge again.

text: Driving back from a successful delivery, Phyllis knocks over one of the family's other children with her car and is left devastated by the possible consequences. She faces suspension by the Central Midwives Board, over her actions and is told by Sister Julienne to focus on the administrative duties. But, the family ask Sergeant Noakes to drop the case.

text: When Shelagh is unwell and goes on maternity leave, it expected she will take over as acting sister in charge of the surgery. Following Patsy's departure she took over as a leader of the local Wolf Cub Scouts.

text: In Series 7, Phyllis nearly dies after a fire destroys a local shop.

text: Valerie Dyer[edit]

text:
Valerie DyerCall The Midwife characterPortrayed by
Jennifer KirbyDuration
2017–First appearance
Series 6, Episode 2Introduced by
Heidi ThomasClassification
Present; regularProfileOccupation
Nurse, midwife
showFamilyAunts
JeanFlorrie

text: Valerie first appears following an explosion in Episode 2 of series 6 coming to the aid of Shelagh following a fire in the docks. She was an Army nurse, but resigned her commission when she grew weary of the routinness of such nursing. A native of Poplar, she took a barmaid job while sorting out her ambitions.

text: In episode 4, she becomes a midwife at the Nonnatus House. Sister Monica Joan somehow immediately recognises Valerie as having been a baby whom she delivered, reciting the details as if it had been yesterday. But it's a baptism of fire as Valerie is caught up with a woman who had FGM which creates difficulties for the pregnancy and the woman is rushed to hospital. Later she finds out the woman had sent her younger sister to be cut in Somalia and with Barbara rushes to stop the girl from boarding the boat. But it's too late.

text: Frederick "Fred" Buckle[edit]

text:
Fred BuckleCall The Midwife characterPortrayed by
Cliff ParisiDuration
2012-First appearance
Series 1, Episode 1Introduced by
Heidi ThomasClassification
Present; regularProfileOccupation
Handyman, Scout Leader, Civil Defence Corps Deputy Party Leader
showFamilyWife
Mrs Buckle (deceased)Violet Gee (1960-)Daughters
Marlene Dooley  DollyGrandsons
AnthonyGranddaughters
SamanthaFirst cousins
Ivy JacksonOther relatives
Reggie Jackson

text: Fred is the handyman at Nonnatus House since the end of the war.[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. He is friends with all of the midwives and often gives them help and advice. He's always got a new money-making scheme under his belt, but none of them is ever much good. Fred is the father of two daughters – Dolly, who lives in Australia with her husband and their two children, Anthony and Samantha; and Marlene, who is also married and has recently moved back to England after living in Canada for several years.

text: Before becoming the handyman at Nonnatus he was in the British Army, during which time his wife was killed leaving his daughters to be shuffled around between several of his family members, causing him great pain and temptation to desert. In series four, after twenty years of being a widower, Fred takes an interest in local shop owner Violet Gee; after several months of flirting during their community volunteering duties, Fred asks Violet to a charity dance. By the end of series four Fred proposes to Violet – and, after dealing with his clingy daughter Marlene – he and Violet marry.

text: Dr. Patrick Turner[edit]

text:
Patrick TurnerCall The Midwife characterPortrayed by
Stephen McGannDuration
2012–First appearance
Series 1, Episode 1Introduced by
Jennifer WorthClassification
Present; regularProfileOccupation
General practitioner
showFamilyWife
WidowedShelagh Mannion (1958-)Sons
Timothy TurnerEdward "Teddy" Turner[1]Daughters
Angela Turner  (adopted)

text: Dr Turner is Poplar's local physician, as well as being the GP to all the midwives and nuns. He works closely with the midwives, helping at clinics, deliveries and at the birthing hospital and is incredibly dedicated to his patients and to his work, including fighting bureaucratic red tape to save lives with a tuberculosis x-ray screening van. He is a widower and father to Timothy and does his best to juggle the demands of being a single parent with his responsibilities as a doctor. In Series 2, it becomes apparent that he has fallen in love with Sister Bernadette, but her vows stand in the way of that love. 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. She leaves the convent and chooses a different path, accepting his proposal of marriage after she has overcome her tuberculosis.

text: When trying to adopt, it is revealed that he suffered mental health issues after the war. Overwork and a misdiagnosis in Series 4, drives him to illness forcing Shelagh and Patsy to take over the running of the practice. While in the next series the Turner's go on holiday, with a locom who puts a mother in danger. Also he had regularly prescribed thalidomid for women suffering from morning sickness. When it's linked to with birth deformities of the kind observed in recent months, he must deal with his guilt.

text: In series 6, Dr Turner is overcome with joy when Shelagh falls pregnant with her first biological child. However, she suffers complications and is taken ill during an inspection of the maternity home and rushed to hospital fearing a miscarriage. This puts her pregnancy in jeopardy and even after she is released from hospital she could have still lost the baby. But she gives birth to a son (Edward 'Teddy' Turner) with the help of Sister Julienne in the series finale, with Dr Turner in the room.

text: Tom Hereward[edit]

text:
Tom HerewardCall The Midwife characterPortrayed by
Jack AshtonDuration
2014–First appearance
Series 3Introduced by
Jennifer WorthClassification
Present; regularProfileOccupation
Curate
showFamilyWife
Barbara Gilbert (deceased) (1962-1963)

text: Tom arrives in series 3 as the new Poplar curate. 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. Their engagement is broken off in series 4. Now he is seen doing a lot with the children's group and is getting a bit closer to Nurse Barbara Gilbert. Tom asks Barbara to marry him while they are out in South Africa after consulting with his former fiancée Trixie. 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.

text: Sadly, Tom later becomes a widower after Barbara dies from meningococcal septicemia.

text: Lucille Anderson[edit]

text:
Lucille AndersonCall The Midwife characterPortrayed by
Leonie ElliottDuration
2018–First appearance
Series 7Classification
Present; regularProfileOccupation
Nurse, midwife

text: Nurse Anderson arrives at Nonnatus House in series 7 as their first West Indian nurse.

text: Supporting characters[edit]

text: Timothy Turner[edit]

text:
Timothy TurnerCall The Midwife characterPortrayed by
Max MacillanDuration
2012–First appearance
Series 1, Episode 1Introduced by
Jenny WorthClassification
Present; recurringProfileOccupation
Student
showFamilyFather
Patrick TurnerMother
Shelagh Turner (step-mother)

text: Timothy is the son of Patrick Turner and stepson of Shelagh Turner. He is very smart and tall and goes to the local grammar school. In 2013 Christmas special he suffers from polio which affects his legs. He slowly recuperates and is now fully recovered. He is seen to have an interest in medicine, and in Series 5 he helps his mother and father out more in the surgery. Timothy sets off on a crusade to make his parents give up smoking after seeing the damage it's doing to their health. He is pleased when, in the following series, his stepmother gives birth to his brother.

text: Angela Turner[edit]

text:
Angela TurnerCall The Midwife characterPortrayed by
Alice BrownDuration
2014–First appearance
Series 3, Episode 8Introduced by
Heidi ThomasClassification
Present; recurring
showFamilyFather
Patrick TurnerMother
Shelagh TurnerBrothers
Timothy Turner (half-brother), Edward "Teddy" Turner[1]

text: Angela is the adopted daughter of Shelagh and Patrick Turner. She is first seen in the series 3 finale and is briefly seen in series 4 and 5 usually with Shelagh, Patrick or Timothy. She was born to a 16-year-old mother, and was put up for adoption after birth, when the Turners adopted her. It is mentioned in the series that she has a fear of squirrels.

text: Edward Turner[edit]

text:
Edward TurnerCall The Midwife characterPortrayed by
TBCDuration
2017–First appearance
Series 6, Episode 8Introduced by
Heidi ThomasClassification
Present; recurring
showFamilyFather
Patrick TurnerMother
Shelagh Turner

text: Edward is the son of Shelagh and Patrick Turner, born in the final episode of series 6.

text: Violet Buckle[edit]

text:
Violet BuckleCall The Midwife characterPortrayed by
Annabelle ApsionDuration
2015-First appearance
Series 4, Episode 1Introduced by
Heidi ThomasClassification
Present; recurringProfileOccupation
Haberdashery owner, Girls' Brigade Leader
showFamilyHusband
Bert Gee (deceased) Fred Buckle (1960-)

text: Violet Buckle is the second wife of Fred Buckle. She owns her own haberdashery called Violet Gee. She has a son who lives in Plymouth. She also had a previous husband called Bert who was killed in the war like Fred's deceased wife. She volunteers as a uniformed leader of the local Girls' Brigade, replacing Patsy when she returns to Hong Kong.

text: Christopher Dockerill[edit]

text:
Christopher DockerillCall The Midwife characterPortrayed by
Jack HawkinsDuration
2017–First appearance
Series 6, Episode 5Classification
Present; recurringProfileOccupation
Dentist
showFamilyWife
Moira (divorced)Daughters
Alexandra Dockerill

text: Introduced in Series 6 when Trixie escorts a patient to see him who has a fear of dentists. 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. Later Trixie believes he's seeing another woman after he cancels a number of dates, but he tells her he has been looking after his daughter from a previous marriage.

text: Previous characters[edit]

text: Nurse Jenny Lee[edit]

text:
Jenny LeeCall The Midwife characterPortrayed by
Jessica RaineVanessa Redgrave (mature)Duration
2012–14First appearance
Series 1, Episode 1Last appearance
Series 4, Episode 0Introduced by
HerselfClassification
Former; regularProfileOccupation
Nurse, midwife, nursing sister (Series 3)

text: Nurse Jenny Lee arrives at Nonnatus House in 1957, at the age of 22, completely unaware of the world she is about to enter. Believing she has accepted a job with a small private hospital, she is somewhat surprised to find she's moving into a convent. Furthermore, the deprivation of the East End is a huge culture shock for the young woman who has enjoyed a privileged upbringing in the home counties and spent time in Paris before training as a nurse. However, although initially shocked by the conditions in which her patients live, Jenny comes to accept the material limitations of the world in which she works and to love the people who must live there.

text: She went to London to escape her forbidden love to a married man, Gerald. Her best friend Jimmy arrives and although he makes her feel more at ease, he also makes things more complicated by revealing that he's in love with her. She turns him down and they remain friends. She becomes good friends with all of her colleagues and patients and always tries to help those around her. Toward the end of Series 2 and halfway through Series 3, she starts dating Alec, a friend of Jimmy's. After Alec's death and her return to Nonnatus House after taking time off to grieve, Jenny decides to begin working at the London Hospital in the Maternity Ward although she leaves soon after, not liking the hospital's policy of requiring impersonal relationships between nurses and their patients.

text: At the end of Series 3, she meets Phillip Worth (her future husband), the cousin of an expectant mother for whom she is caring and begins a relationship with him. She eventually decides to pursue a career change to care for those with terminal illnesses; she leaves Nonnatus House to work at the Marie Curie Hospital in Hampstead. It is shown in the Series 3 Christmas Special that she eventually married Phillip and started a family, and still kept in contact with the friends she made at Nonnatus House.

text: Camilla "Chummy" Noakes (née Fortescue-Cholmondeley-Browne)[edit]

text:
Camilla "Chummy" NoakesCall The Midwife characterPortrayed by
Miranda HartDuration
2012–15First appearance
Series 1, Episode 2Last appearance
Series 4, Episode 8Introduced by
Jennifer WorthClassification
Former; regularProfileOccupation
Midwife and nurse, Matron Aston Lodge
showFamilyFamily
Peter Noakes (husband), Fred Noakes (son), Lady Browne (mother)

text: By the end of Series 1, after a string of dates she marries Police Constable Peter Noakes. 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 2, Chummy applies for a place as a CMS missionary in Sierra Leone, Africa. She is accepted and she and Peter move to Africa for six months. Upon their return, Chummy reveals that she is pregnant, much to the delight of her fellow nurses. In the final episode of Series 2 Chummy goes into labour and, despite complications, she gives birth to a son, Fred. Chummy once stated that she had never been happier than when she was at Nonnatus House. In series 4 Chummy, Peter and Freddie move to Aston Lodge mother and baby home, where Chummy is employed as the temporary, replacement matron.

text: Sister Evangelina[edit]

text:
Sister EvangelinaCall The Midwife characterPortrayed by
Pam FerrisDuration
2012–16First appearance
Series 1, Episode 1Last appearance
Series 5, Episode 8Classification
Former; regularProfileOccupation
Nun, midwife and nurse

text: Sister Evangelina is the only one of the sisters who comes from the same tough, uncompromising background as the community they serve. Physically vigorous, she has a robust sense of humour. Her energy and drive make her extraordinarily effective at her job. However, she does not suffer fools gladly and her blunt speech and attitude often offend. She has a particularly contentious relationship with the aristocratic Sister Monica Joan, who often provokes her to breaking point. Growing up in poverty has toughened her up, making her a very comical character in the show.

text: Sister Evangelina knows a lot about the poverty and hardships in Poplar and often shares her insights with the young midwives. She is very close to Sister Julienne, to whom she often serves as a sounding board. In Series 3, it is revealed she has several siblings including an older brother who was killed on active service in a war and a younger brother, Vincent, who returns to her life after being absent for several years during her golden jubilee. It was seeing the birth of Vincent that inspired a young Sister Evangelina to become a nun during her formative years, a goal she achieved in 1909. In 1960 Sister Evangelina has to have an operation due to illness. Her pre-order name was Enid Atwood. In 1961, Sister Evangelina temporarily left Nonnatus House for an enclosed order. She returns in episode 7. She announces that she had a stroke 2 months after she left the convent and has now lost movement in her left arm. In episode 8, Sister Evangelina passes away following a second stroke.

text: 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.

text: Sister Ursula[edit]

text:
Sister UrsulaCall The Midwife characterPortrayed by
Harriet WalterDuration
2017First appearance
Series 6, Episode 1Last appearance
Series 6, Episode 4Classification
Former; recurringProfileOccupation
Sister-in-charge, nun, midwife and nurse

text: Sister Ursula arrives to replace Sister Julienne when she went to South Africa, as the new sister in charge in 1962. She appears to have a strict running form when the staff return following their return, clashing with Shelagh over the way clinic is run and the behaviour of Sister Monica Joan. Patsy and Delia appear to be keen for her to return to the mother house. She orders Sister Mary Cynthia to return to the mother house, before being informed of her sexual assault. She returns to the mother house after she is deemed unfit to run Nonnatus House.

text: Sister Mary Cynthia[edit]

text:
Sister Mary CynthiaCall The Midwife characterPortrayed by
Bryony HannahDuration
2012–17First appearance
Series 1, Episode 1Last appearance
Series 6, Episode 6Introduced by
Jennifer WorthClassification
Former; regularProfileOccupation
Nurse, midwife; later nun (series 4-)

text: Nurse Cynthia Miller, like Trixie, is also a resident at Nonnatus House when Jenny arrives. She volunteers as a uniformed leader of the local Girls' Brigade.

text: Cynthia is the most sensitive of the young midwives, and gets very emotionally involved with some of her patients.

text: In Series 2, when a child she delivers dies, the people of Poplar suspect her of making a mistake that cost the baby its life. Cynthia begins to doubt her abilities, which takes a heavy toll on her work and health. She suffers a breakdown, but recovers with the help of Sister Julienne. An autopsy report confirms that the baby's death was due to lungs that never fully inflated. In the 2014 Christmas Special, Cynthia decides to become a postulant and leaves Nonnatus House for six months of training, promising Trixie and Patsy that she will return. In Series 4, Cynthia returns to Nonnatus House after her training is complete, having chosen the religious name of Sister Mary Cynthia. Though she now spends less time with her friends, she remains close to Trixie and ultimately convinces her to get help for her alcoholism. She is also close with Sister Winfred and Barbara.

text: In series 5 episode 6 Sister Mary Cynthia is violently attacked at the docks by a man. She thinks it is a test of faith but with the help of Sister Monica Joan, she goes to the police, and is able to return to her own quiet, kind religious self. But when Sister Ursula asks about her life vows, it becomes clear that the attack is still affecting her. In series 6, Sister Mary Cynthia is sent to the Mother House by Sister Ursula.

text: When Trixie returns to Poplar from South Africa, it is realised that Sister Mary Cynthia has gone missing from the Mother House. 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. Dr Turner and Sister Julienne work to get her discharged into their care, and send her to a community for mental health care. She reverts to her birth name Cynthia.

text: Peter Noakes[edit]

text:
Peter NoakesCall The Midwife characterPortrayed by
Ben CaplanDuration
2012–2017First appearance
Series 1, Episode 2Last appearance
Series 6, Episode 7Introduced by
Jennifer WorthClassification
Former; regularProfileOccupation
Police sergeant

text: Peter is a Police Constable, and later Sergeant, in Poplar. He is first introduced in Series 1, when he is run over by Chummy on her bicycle and takes an immediate shine to her. Throughout series 1, they go on a string of dates, eventually marrying in the series' final episode. In series 2, he follows Chummy to Sierra Leone while she fulfills her desire to be a missionary. In the final episode of that series, he and Chummy have a baby, whom they name Fred. During his service in the Second World War, he earned the 1939–1945 Star, Defence Medal, France and Germany Star, and War Medal 1939–1945, as shown on his uniform tunic.

text: Patience "Patsy" Mount[edit]

text:
Patience "Patsy" MountCall The Midwife characterPortrayed by
Emerald FennellDuration
2013–17First appearance
Series 2, Episode 3Last appearance
Series 6, Episode 8Introduced by
Heidi ThomasClassification
Former; regularProfileOccupation
Midwife and nurse

text: Patsy is first seen in Series 2, episode 3, as a nurse in the male surgical ward at the London Hospital. She then appears in Series 3, Episode 5 as a new midwife. She is tall elegant and favours slightly tailored clothes and becoming the first midwife to wear trousers. She has a very brisk manner but later reveals that at the age of 9 that she and her mother and sister were sent to a Japanese war camp, and that she was the only one to survive of the three of them. Like Chummy before her, Patsy works with Fred as a leader of the local Wolf Cub Scouts; she recruits Delia to help teach first aid. It is then seen in Series 4 that she has a very close friendship with veteran Nurse Trixie and new Nurse Barbara. She is also quite close to Sister Mary Cynthia and Sister Winifred. Patsy is seen to have a very close and romantic relationship with female surgical Nurse Delia Busby, with whom she had previously worked at the London. 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. The amnesia is only temporary however and Patsy and Delia are reunited in Series 5 when Delia accepts an offer from Sister Julienne to live at Nonnatus House. Later in Series 5 Patsy and Delia go to the Gateways Club, a private club for lesbians. It is revealed in the Series 5 finale that Patsy and Delia are going to Paris together in Spring 1962. She shares a room with Nurse Trixie, replacing Jenny Lee. Series 6, sees her temporarily leave Nonnatus House after learning her father is dying in Hong Kong. Delia is upset that she can't go with her as support, as she is training to be a midwife. 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.

text: Delia Busby[edit]

text:
Delia BusbyCall The Midwife characterPortrayed by
Kate LambDuration
2015–17First appearance
Series 4, Episode 2Last appearance
Series 6, Episode 8Classification
Former; regularProfileOccupation
Staff nurse at the London (until 1961), trainee midwife, nurse, St John Ambulance volunteer

text: Originally from Wales, Delia is a very close friend of Patsy's, having worked together in the London Hospital's male surgical ward. She resides in the hospital's nurses home,[5] and volunteers evenings for St John Ambulance. In her St John capacity, she works with Patsy's and Fred's scouts, principally teaching them first aid. She is revealed to be in a romantic relationship with Patsy, but together they conceal their feelings due to society's view of homosexuality at the time. At the end of Series 4, just as the two of them have found a flat to share, she is involved in a cycling accident which leaves her with amnesia, leaving Patsy heartbroken. By the following Christmas, she has regained her memories of Patsy and their relationship, and at the start of Series 5, despite continued efforts from her mother to take her home to Wales, Delia accepts Sister Julienne's invitation to board at Nonnatus House when she returns to work at the London in the coming months. 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.

text: In the final episode of series five Busby considers additional training as a midwife after successfully talking a young mother through her delivery over the telephone earlier in the series. Busby undertakes training in the following series.

text: Barbara Hereward (neé Gilbert)[edit]

text:
Barbara HerewardCall The Midwife characterPortrayed by
Charlotte RitchieDuration
2015–2018First appearance
Series 4, Episode 1Last appearance
Series 7, Episode 7Introduced by
Heidi ThomasClassification
Former; regularProfileOccupation
Midwife and nurse
showFamilyFather
Canon Arthur GilbertSisters
MargaretHusband
Tom Hereward (1962-1963)

text: Barbara Gilbert arrived in Poplar in the early 1960s still finding her feet in district nursing and midwifery. While she was educated and middle class, she was surprisingly in tune with the needs of the community she serves, having grown up the daughter of a Canon serving in an impoverished area of Liverpool. She was hard working, optimistic, and somewhat naïve. In addition to her nursing duties, she helped teach Sunday school at the local church. In series 5 she began a romantic relationship with Tom Hereward after they become close while working together in the parish. She was also quite close to her roommate, Nurse Phyllis Crane, who served as something of a surrogate mother figure to her much younger colleague. Tom asked her to marry him while they are out in South Africa after consulting with his former fiancée Trixie. They were married in a hurried wedding at the end of series 6, after Barbara learned that her father has accepted a three year missionary posting in New Guinea. In Series 7, Barbara dies after contracting meningococcal septicemia, leaving Tom, Nonnatus House and the rest of the Poplar community heartbroken and shattered.

text: Previous recurring characters[edit]

text: George Rainsford as James "Jimmy" Wilson (Series 1–2)

text: Jimmy is an old friend of Jenny's. 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. Jenny convinces Jimmy they are "just friends" and he stops pursuing her. In Series 2, the tables are turned when Jimmy returns, having graduated school and now working as a municipal surveyor/architect. 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. Jimmy and Francine marry and have a baby, Caroline.

text: Dorothy Atkinson as Jane Sutton (Series 2)

text: Jane is the medical orderly at Nonnatus House. She arrives to fill in for Chummy while she's in Africa. Jane is very shy and does not talk unless it is necessary. We later find out the reason for her being shy – her parents sent her to an asylum when she was young, leaving her with no self-esteem. Throughout the series, she grows in confidence and makes friends with her fellow nurses. She also finds love with Reverend Applebee-Thornton (Jason Watkins), a local Anglican priest. She does not return for Series 3, with a deleted scene from the 2013 Christmas special explaining that she has gone to nursing school.

text: Leo Staar as Alec Jesmond (Series 2–3)

text: Alec is a friend of Jimmy's who develops romantic feelings for Jenny. They eventually start dating after a long period in which Jenny continues to mourn her loss of Jimmy, but who encourages her to enjoy life and Alec. Alec and Jenny eventually date, but Jenny's abundant caution about affairs of the heart lead to a misunderstanding and argument. Castigating his co-worker in anger, Alec falls through an old staircase in the building they are renovating. In the hospital, his foot is amputated and he seems to be recovering. He later dies, thought to be because of a blood clot in his wounded leg, and his funeral is attended by a distraught Jenny and the other midwives and the nuns.

text: Cheryl Campbell as Lady Browne, Chummy's mother (Series 1, Series 3)

text: Lady Browne is Chummy's upper-class, snobby mother. She formerly lived in Madeira before she separated from Chummy's father. When she moved to Poplar she was diagnosed with TB and Cancer. In series 1 she was featured in the series finale before Chummy and Peter's wedding. She moved to Poplar in 1959 and was diagnosed with TB and cancer by Dr. Turner. She died peacefully in Chummy and Peter's bed in the series 3 finale.

text: Maxine Evans as Mrs. Busby, Delia's mother (Series 4–5)

text: Mrs. Busby is the mother of Delia Busby. Her first appearance was when Delia was in hospital with was the series finale of series 4, she was also seen in 1960 Christmas special, series 5, episode 1 and the series finale of series 5. She is still not happy that Delia has decided to stay in Poplar at the convent. She also seems not to accept her decision to become a midwife and doesn't really like Patsy. It is clear that, by the end of series 5, she is aware of Delia's and Patsy's sexual relationship and does not approve.


document_title: Customer Service Week

question_text: when is national customer service week celebrated annually

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text: Customer Service Week

text: Customer Service Week is celebrated annually during the first full week in October when customer-oriented organizations and institutions around the world recognize the importance of customer service excellence to their organizations.

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text: History of Customer Service Week[edit]

text:
Customer Service Week was established by the International Customer Service Association (ICSA) in 1984 and proclaimed a national event by the U.S. Congress in 1992. National Customer Service Week is celebrated annually during the first full week of October.
In 1992, Former U.S. Senators Robert Dole and Nancy Kassebaum, along with U.S. Representatives Dan Glickman and Pat Roberts, championed this dynamic legislation on Capitol Hill resulting in the U.S. Congress proclaiming the first full week of October as National Customer Service Week. The proclamation was the culmination of two years of persistent work and effort by ICSA members who, through letters and phone calls, contacted their congressmen urging support of National Customer Service Week.
According to John Kressaty who served as President of the ICSA during these efforts, National Customer Service Week activities have far-reaching effects in October and throughout the year. "There are two main purposes of National Customer Service Week,” says Kressaty.  "It lets you recognize the job that your customer service professionals do 52 weeks a year. The other purpose is to get the message across a wide range of business, government and industry that customer service is very important along with bottom line profit in running a business," explains Kressaty.

text: The range of organizations participating is equally broad, including leading financial, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, retailing, hospitality, communications, not-for-profit, and educational organizations, as well as government agencies, and others. [1] [2]

text: Participating in Customer Service Week provides an opportunity for organizations to:[3]

text:
Boost morale, motivation and teamwork.
Reward frontline reps for the important work they do all year long.
Raise companywide awareness of the importance of customer service.
Thank other departments for their support.

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document_title: Eros

question_text: who is the god of love in greek mythology

text: Eros

text: Etymology[edit]

text: The Greek ἔρως, meaning "desire," comes from ἔραμαι "to desire, love", of uncertain etymology. R. S. P. Beekes has suggested a Pre-Greek origin.[4]

text: Cult and depiction[edit]

text: Eros appears in ancient Greek sources under several different guises. In the earliest sources (the cosmogonies, the earliest philosophers, and texts referring to the mystery religions), he is one of the primordial gods involved in the coming into being of the cosmos. But in later sources, Eros is represented as the son of Aphrodite, whose mischievous interventions in the affairs of gods and mortals cause bonds of love to form, often illicitly. Ultimately, in the later satirical poets, he is represented as a blindfolded child, the precursor to the chubby Renaissance Cupid, whereas in early Greek poetry and art, Eros was depicted as an adult male who embodies sexual power, and a profound artist.[5][6]

text: A cult of Eros existed in pre-classical Greece, but it was much less important than that of Aphrodite. However, in late antiquity, Eros was worshiped by a fertility cult in Thespiae. In Athens, he shared a very popular cult with Aphrodite, and the fourth day of every month was sacred to him (also shared by Herakles, Hermes and Aphrodite).[7]

text: Primordial god[edit]

text: According to Hesiod (c. 700 BC), one of the most ancient of all Greek sources, Eros (the god of love) was the fourth god to come into existence, coming after Chaos, Gaia (the Earth), and Tartarus (the Abyss or the Underworld).[8]

text: Homer does not mention Eros. However, Parmenides (c. 400 BC), one of the pre-socratic philosophers, makes Eros the first of all the gods to come into existence.[9]

text: The Orphic and Eleusinian Mysteries featured Eros as a very original god, but not quite primordial, since he was the child of Night (Nyx).[5] Aristophanes (c. 400 BC), influenced by Orphism, relates the birth of Eros:

text: At the beginning there was only Chaos, Night (Nyx), Darkness (Erebus), and the Abyss (Tartarus). Earth, the Air and Heaven had no existence. Firstly, blackwinged Night laid a germless egg in the bosom of the infinite deeps of Darkness, and from this, after the revolution of long ages, sprang the graceful Love (Eros) with his glittering golden wings, swift as the whirlwinds of the tempest. He mated in the deep Abyss with dark Chaos, winged like himself, and thus hatched forth our race, which was the first to see the light.[10]

text: Son of Aphrodite and Ares[edit]

text: In later myths, he was the son of the deities Aphrodite and Ares: it is the Eros of these later myths who is one of the erotes. Eros was associated with athleticism, with statues erected in gymnasia,[11] and "was often regarded as the protector of homosexual love between men."[11] Eros was depicted as often carrying a lyre or bow and arrow. He was also depicted accompanied by dolphins, flutes, roosters, roses, and torches.[11]

text: [Hera addresses Athena:] “We must have a word with Aphrodite. Let us go together and ask her to persuade her boy [Eros], if that is possible, to loose an arrow at Aeetes’ daughter, Medea of the many spells, and make her fall in love with Jason . . .” (Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 3. 25 ff – a Greek epic of the 3rd century BC)

text: "He [Eros] smites maids’ breasts with unknown heat, and bids the very gods leave heaven and dwell on earth in borrowed forms." (Seneca, Phaedra 290 ff.)

text: "Once, when Venus’ son [Eros] was kissing her, his quiver dangling down, a jutting arrow, unbeknown, had grazed her breast. She pushed the boy away. In fact the wound was deeper than it seemed, though unperceived at first. [And she became] enraptured by the beauty of a man [Adonis]." (Ovid, Metamorphoses 10. 525 ff.)

text: "Eros drove Dionysos mad for the girl [Aura] with the delicious wound of his arrow, then curving his wings flew lightly to Olympus. And the god roamed over the hills scourged with a greater fire.” (Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48. 470 ff – a Greek epic of the 5th century AD)

text: Eros and Psyche[edit]

text: The story of Eros and Psyche has a longstanding tradition as a folktale of the ancient Greco-Roman world long before it was committed to literature in Apuleius' Latin novel, The Golden Ass. The novel itself is written in a picaresque Roman style, yet Psyche retains her Greek name. Eros and Aphrodite are called by their Latin names (Cupid and Venus), and Cupid is depicted as a young adult, rather than a child.[12]

text: The story tells of the struggle for love and trust between Eros and Psyche. Aphrodite was jealous of the beauty of mortal princess Psyche, as men were leaving her altars barren to worship a mere human woman instead, and so she commanded her son Eros, the god of love, to cause Psyche to fall in love with the ugliest creature on earth. But instead, Eros falls in love with Psyche himself and spirits her away to his home. Their fragile peace is ruined by a visit from Psyche's jealous sisters, who cause Psyche to betray the trust of her husband. Wounded, Eros leaves his wife, and Psyche wanders the Earth, looking for her lost love. Eventually she approaches Aphrodite and asks for her help. Aphrodite imposes a series of difficult tasks on Psyche, which she is able to achieve by means of supernatural assistance.

text: After successfully completing these tasks, Aphrodite relents and Psyche becomes immortal to live alongside her husband Eros. Together they had a daughter, Voluptas or Hedone (meaning physical pleasure, bliss).

text: In Greek mythology, Psyche was the deification of the human soul. She was portrayed in ancient mosaics as a goddess with butterfly wings (because psyche was also the Ancient Greek word for 'butterfly'). The Greek word psyche literally means "soul, spirit, breath, life or animating force".

text: Eros in art[edit]

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Eros depicted as an adult male, Attic red-figure bobbin (c. 470–450 BC)

A Red-Figure Plate with Eros as a youth making an offering. (c. 340-320 BC) Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

This Roman Eros once rode a dolphin, a common convention for 1st century AD depictions of the deity. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.

Eros Stringing his Bow, second-century AD Roman copy from the Capitoline Museum of a Greek original by Lysippos

Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss (1787–1793) by Antonio Canova.


document_title: Tiffany Valentine

question_text: how did tiffany get her body back in chucky

text: Tiffany Valentine

text: Personality[edit]

text: Tiffany has many different personalities which can be a little skeptical. She dresses in a gothic fashion and can be described as a hopeless romantic. She has a "bimbo" air, but is sweet, creative, inventive, and somewhat feminist. Unlike Chucky, she possesses a genuinely kind and compassionate side, although she can be quite short-tempered, and is struck sometimes by remorse which is out-of-sync with her love of killing. Not much is known about Tiffany before Bride of Chucky. However, shortly into the movie it is shown that she loves deeply, believing "love would set her free". She is easily disappointed, terribly violent, and unforgiving when angered. She attempts to reform in her second appearance, in Seed of Chucky, to "break her addiction" to killing. However, Tiffany's urge to maim is strong, and she continues to use creative means to murder. She is demure in a way that gives her more humanity than Chucky, making them an unusual pair. Tiffany's 'ordinariness' is highlighted in several ways through the two movies—making her all the more compelling and dangerous.

text: Backstory[edit]

text: Tiffany Valentine was once the girlfriend of Charles Lee Ray, the serial killer known as the Lakeshore strangler. She, like so many others, referred to him solely by his nickname, Chucky. Tiffany was drawn to Ray because of her fetish for murderers and psychopaths. Although never said on-screen, it is likely that Tiffany helped Chucky in committing his murders and acted as his accomplice. Tiffany and Charles lived together for years until the night Chucky was gunned down in a Toy store by police officer Mike Norris. However before he was killed, Chucky managed to transfer his soul into the body of a Good Guy doll. After the news spread of Chucky’s first killing spree as a doll, Tiffany spent the next ten years searching for the remains of Chucky, to bring him back to life. Tiffany was under the impression that Chucky planned on proposing to her, after finding a ring on the mantle in their apartment the night he was killed. In reality Chucky had taken the ring off the corpse of one of his victims, a woman named Vivian Van Pelt because it was worth roughly $2000.

text: Appearances[edit]

text: Bride of Chucky (1998)[edit]

text: Tiffany sets up and murders a police officer in order to steal Chucky's remains from an evidence vault. Stitching and patching the remains together with new doll parts, she re-enacts the voodoo ritual which put his soul inside the doll. When an argument reveals that Chucky has no intention of marrying her, an outraged and hurt Tiffany confines him in a playpen and taunts him with a bridal doll. Chucky soon breaks out of the pen and rushes at Tiffany, whom is having a bath, then throws her TV inside electrocuting her and leaving her Lifeless. he repeats the chant which transfers her soul into the doll. Stuck in the same circumstances, they need the Heart of Damballa (a voodoo amulet) buried with Chucky's human remains in Hackensack, New Jersey. to escape their doll bodies, Tiffany phones and tricks Tiffany's neighbor, Jesse, into transporting these 'dolls' for $1000.

text: Several people are gruesomely killed during the road trip. Tiffany's particularly creative murder of a con-artist couple in a bridal suite moves Chucky to proclaim his love and propose to Tiffany; she accepts and they have sex. Jesse and Jade become wanted for the murders as all evidence links back to them and Chucky and Tiffany reveal they are alive and take the couple hostage, needing new wheels they steal a Campervan. The hostages instigate a fight between Chucky and Tiffany, Distracted, Jade kicks her into the oven and Jesse throws Chucky out the window, Jesse spins out which ends with their stolen Campervan crashing. Chucky forces Jade to his grave site to retrieve the amulet, when Jesse arrives to trade Tiffany for Jade. Chucky does so but quickly recaptures the couple and prepares to transfer Tiffany's soul into Jade. However, touched by Jade and Jesse's love, Tiffany stabs Chucky and they fight. Tiffany is stabbed in the heart by Chucky, and avenged by Jade who shoots Chucky to death. As she lies dying, Tiffany gives birth to a bloody baby doll which attacks the crime investigator.

text: Seed of Chucky (2004)[edit]

text: Chucky and Tiffany are brought back by their child when he reads the inscription on the Heart of Damballa. When they see he has no genitals (though he generally appears and sounds like a boy) Tiffany sees it as proof the child is a girl and names it Glenda (feminizing the name, Glen, which Chucky had given to him previously). Seed of Chucky focuses on their capers in Hollywood, where a movie is being made about their urban legend. Now going by "Tiffany Ray", Tiffany plans to transport her soul into the body of Jennifer Tilly (who happens to be playing her in the film). They also plan to impregnate her and put Glen/Glenda's soul in the baby's body. Their plan is successful, as Tilly swiftly gives birth to two babies, a boy and a girl. This works out perfectly as Glen/Glenda has a split personality: a sweet and caring boy, and a homicidal girl. However, Chucky decides to remain a doll, seeing that being human isn't so great. Disturbed by this, Tiffany leaves Chucky, taking Glen/Glenda with her, causing Chucky to get angry.

text: Tiffany and Glen/Glenda go to Tilly's hospital. Chucky follows them and hits her in the head with an axe for leaving him, thus killing her. However, at the very last minute, she successfully passes her soul into Jennifer before dying. Five years later, she is happily living in Holllywood while inhabiting Jennifer's body, and is raising Glen and Glenda on her own. On the twins' birthday, one of the maids tries to quit her job because she is afraid of "troubled child" Glenda. Tiffany tells her she can go, but then beats her to death with her doll body (which has a mark from the axe injury on it). Her eyes then turn green while she evilly laughs. In the extended version, she then hides the body and tells Glenda to keep a secret.

text: Curse of Chucky (2013)[edit]

text: Nine years after the events of Seed of Chucky, Tiffany's soul still possesses actress Jennifer Tilly's body. She does not appear onscreen until the ending moments of the film where it is revealed that she was the one responsible for mailing Chucky out to Nica's home, facilitating his murder spree on the family he blames for his human death. She pays a police officer to get Chucky from evidence after Nica’s trial and once he is in his car she jumps up from the back and slits his throat with a nail file, like she did with officer Bailey in a previous film. Given the past events, it appears Tiffany has forgiven Chucky and still enjoys killing. The status of their twins is never stated; it is most likely they are still alive. Six months later, Tiffany mails Chucky to the home of Nica's niece, Alice, and he kills her paternal grandmother. Chucky attempts to transfer his soul into Alice. At the end of the movie, he again meets one of his old enemies, Andy.

text: Cult of Chucky (2017)[edit]

text: Four years after the events of the last film, Tiffany is seen visiting Nica Pierce in a mental institution after she was framed by Chucky for the murders of her family which Tiffany helped orchestrate. Nica is shocked by her “resemblance” to Jennifer Tilly, which Tiffany claims she gets a lot. She is revealed to be the legal guardian of Nica’s niece Alice and came to tell Nica that Alice had passed away, supposedly of a “broken heart”. She leaves Chucky as a gift for Nica, saying that it was a gift from Alice as a ruse to get Chucky into the Asylum. She is next seen calling Andy Barclay, giving him a taunting message about Chucky’s growing “Cult”.

text: Tiffany later kills a security guard outside the Asylum, slitting his throat with a nail file like she did with Officers Bailey and Stanton in previous Chucky films. Tiffany is also shown to still be in possession of her former doll body, which is sitting in the back of her car. At the end of the film, Tiffany is reunited with Chucky (now possessing the body of Nica) and the two reaffirm their relationship with a kiss. Tiffany expresses some remorse at Alice’s apparent death and say’s it was nice having her around. Chucky/Nica replies by saying “fuck that kid” and then they both begin laughing maniacally, along with the Tiffany doll, which is revealed to hold part of Tiffany’s soul before they drive off into the night.

text: Other appearances[edit]

text: On the special features of the Seed of Chucky DVD, Tiffany sits alongside Chucky and Glen on a sofa in their family home, where they watch a slideshow of their holiday to various places. Nearly all of these places have evidence of Chucky having killed someone; this upsets Tiffany and makes Glen feel uncomfortable. Also on the special features of Seed of Chucky DVD, Chucky and Tiffany are interviewed by the Fuzion interviewer to promote the movie.


document_title: Total Divas

question_text: when is the new season of total divas coming out

text: Total Divas

text: Production[edit]

text: Total Divas was revealed in May 2013, as a part of a partnership with E!.[11] It was announced on August 14, 2013, that E! had ordered an additional six episodes to the already eight episode first season, bringing the total episode number up to fourteen episodes.[12] The mid-season finale aired on September 15, 2013, with the season continuing on November 10, 2013.[13] WWE commentator Josh Mathews revealed on November 20, 2013, that Total Divas had been renewed for a second season.[14][15][16][17][18] The second season premiered on March 16, 2014, with Summer Rae joining the cast, replacing JoJo Offerman as she decided to focus more on wrestling.[19]

text: Unlike other WWE programs, most of the performers use their real names instead of their ring names, leading to Cameron, Naomi, Natalya, Jimmy Uso, and Tyson Kidd being referred to as Ariane, Trinity, Nattie, Jon, and TJ respectively. During the first season, Daniel Bryan was similarly credited as Bryan Danielson. Beginning with the second season, performers are credited with both their ring name and real name on lower third graphics where applicable (exceptions include Daniel Bryan now being credited with his ring name even though he is still usually addressed as "Bryan", and Natalya still being credited as just "Nattie"). Summer Rae, Paige, and Alicia Fox along with other performers mentioned or rarely appearing (such as Brodus Clay, Fandango, and Titus O'Neil) are referred to solely by their ring names.

text: On May 19, 2014, E! announced that the third season of Total Divas would premiere on September 7, 2014, with Rosa Mendes joining the cast.[20] On February 24, 2015, Paige announced Total Divas was renewed for a fourth season, with filming commencing at the end of the month.[21] It was then announced at the end of season three, that the fourth season would premiere on July 7, 2015, moving from Sunday to Tuesday nights.[22] On April 1, 2015, E! announced the show had been renewed for a fourth season via a press release. In the press release, it was confirmed that Naomi would return as a series regular with Cameron and Rosa Mendes being removed from the main cast. All of the other Divas would return as series regulars.[23]

text: On September 5, 2015, an online article stated that there could be a strong possibility Total Divas will be renewed for a fifth season. It read that season four will "wrap up this fall" and the new season "won't air till 2016 some time".[24] After the September 22 episode of Total Divas aired, it was announced that the following week's episode would serve as the season finale, rather than a mid-season finale.[25] On September 9, 2015, Naomi revealed on Twitter that she had been taken off the main cast after the season four finale, which aired on September 29.[26] WWE Tough Enough runner-up Mandy Rose joined the cast for season five.[27]

text: Season 5 was announced on October 6, 2015, which started airing on January 19, 2016 with majority of last season's cast returning. Naomi was officially removed from the main cast with Mandy taking her place and Rosa Mendes returning as a series regular.[28][29]

text: Season 6 was officially confirmed on April 18, 2016, by the E! Network with a fall premiere date and the majority of last season's cast returning, along with Naomi returning as a series regular and Renee Young, Lana, and Maryse replacing Rosa Mendes, Alicia Fox, and Mandy Rose. Additionally, the E! Network announced that the Bella Twins (Brie and Nikki) would be getting their own spinoff show also with a fall premiere date, titled Total Bellas, that will be following the lives of the twins and their family.[30][31]

text: On July 7, TJ, Natalya's husband, confirmed via Twitter that he would not be appearing on the upcoming season of Total Divas, making him the first partner of a current cast member to not be featured on the show in a recurring capacity.[32]

text: On January 28, 2017, it was announced that Nikki Bella will serve as an executive producer of the show when the series returns in April 2017.[33]

text: In speculation of the seventh season of Total Divas, on May 16, 2017, it was announced that Eva Marie would not be returning as a series regular, and questions have been raised in regards to Paige remaining on the show. However, Brie, Nikki, Naomi, and Natalya will definitely return as series regulars for the upcoming season. Filming began in June 2017.[34] On June 9, 2017, it was reported that Alexa Bliss and Nia Jax would be joining the upcoming season of Total Divas. However, the rest of the seventh-season cast is still to be announced.[35][36] On June 10, 2017, Renee Young confirmed via Twitter that she will not be returning for the seventh season.[37] In a recent interview, it was confirmed Lana would be returning to the show for the upcoming season, along with her storyline of becoming an independent superstar on the SmackDown Live brand.[38] On June 29, 2017, it was reported that Carmella would be joining the cast and that Paige wouldn't be returning for the upcoming season.[39] On September 20, 2017, E! revealed that the seventh season will premiere on November 1, 2017.[40]

text: On January 8, 2018, WWE announced that The Miz and Maryse would be getting their own spinoff show, set to premiere in 2018 on the USA Network, titled Miz & Mrs., that will be following the personal lives of the couple.[41]

text: On April 4, 2018, speculations arose about the upcoming eighth season of Total Divas, as reports stated that E! cameras had been filming a handful of WWE female superstars in New Orleans during the WrestleMania weekend.[42][43] Paige, who was a part of the main cast from seasons 3 to 6, was also seen being followed by E! cameras, speculating her possible return to the series.[44] On April 13, it was confirmed that Paige would be returning to the series for the eighth season, along with Sonya Deville, who had posted a video alongside Total Divas cast members Lana, Natalya, and Naomi while filming an episode for the show. The report also speculates Liv Morgan could be joining the show, as she was seen filming an episode with current cast member Lana.[45] With these reports, the status of the remaining cast members are left unknown. On May 15, 2018, it was announced that Carmella would not be returning for the show's eighth season.[46]

text: On May 7, 2018, E! and WWE announced that Total Divas had been renewed for seasons 8 and 9. Season 8 is expected to air in fall 2018.[47][48]

text: Cast[edit]

text: Main[edit]

text:
Cast member (real name)
Seasons

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8[45]

Brie Bella (Brianna Danielson)
Main
TBA

Nikki Bella (Stephanie Nicole Garcia-Colace)
Main
TBA

Natalya (Natalie Neidhart-Wilson)
Main

Naomi (Trinity Fatu)
Main
Guest
Main

Cameron (Ariane Andrew)
Main
Recurring

Eva Marie (Natalie Coyle)
Main

JoJo (Joseann Offerman)
Main

Guest

Alicia Fox (Victoria Crawford)
Guest
Main
Recurring
Guest

Renee Young (Renee Paquette)
Guest

Recurring
Main
Guest

Summer Rae (Danielle Moinet)

Main
Recurring

Rosa Mendes (Milena Roucka)

Guest
Main
Recurring
Main
Guest

Paige (Saraya-Jade Bevis)

Main

Main

Lana (Catherine Perry)

Guest

Main

Alexa Bliss (Alexis Kaufman)

Guest

Guest
Main
TBA

Carmella (Leah Van Dale)

Guest

Guest
Main

Nia Jax (Savelina Fanene)

Guest

Guest
Main
TBA

Mandy Rose (Amanda Saccomanno)

Main

Maryse (Maryse Mizanin)

Main
TBA

Sonya Deville (Daria Berenato)

Main

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text: Recurring[edit]

text:
Cast member
Seasons

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8[45]

Daniel Bryan (Brie's husband)
Recurring
TBD

John Cena (Nikki's ex-fiancé)
Recurring
Guest
TBD

Tyson Kidd (Natalya's husband)
Recurring

Recurring
TBD

Jimmy Uso (Naomi's husband)
Recurring
Guest
Recurring
Guest
Recurring
TBD

Vincent Isayan (Cameron's boyfriend)
Recurring
Guest

Jonathan Coyle (Eva Marie's husband)
Recurring
Guest

Mark Carrano (WWE Senior Director of Talent Relations)
Recurring
TBD

Jane Geddes (WWE's former Vice President of Talent Relations)
Recurring

Sandra Gray (WWE's former seamstress)
Recurring
Guest

Kathy Colace-Laurinaitis (Brie & Nikki's mother)
Guest
Recurring
Guest
TBD

Ellie Neidhart (Nattie's mother)
Guest
Recurring
Guest
Recurring
TBD

Jim Neidhart (Nattie's father)
Guest
Recurring
Guest
Recurring
TBD

J.J. Garcia (Brie & Nikki's brother)

Guest
Recurring
Guest
TBD

Dolph Ziggler (WWE Superstar)

Guest
Recurring
Guest

Tamina (WWE Superstar)

Guest

Recurring
Guest

Dean Ambrose (Renee's husband)

Guest

Guest
Recurring
Guest

Emma (WWE Superstar)

Guest
Recurring
Guest

Brian Kendrick (Eva's personal trainer & WWE Superstar)

Recurring

Kevin Skaff (Paige's ex-boyfriend)

Recurring

Bobby Schubenski (Rosa's fiancé)

Recurring
Guest

Rusev (Lana's husband)

Recurring
TBD

The Miz (Maryse's husband)

Recurring
TBD

text: Episodes[edit]

text: As of January 31, 2018,[update] 100 episodes of Total Divas have aired.

text:
Season
Episodes
Originally aired

First aired
Last aired

1
14
July 28, 2013 (2013-07-28)
December 15, 2013 (2013-12-15)

2
11
March 16, 2014 (2014-03-16)
June 1, 2014 (2014-06-01)

3
20
September 7, 2014 (2014-09-07)
March 8, 2015 (2015-03-08)

4
13
July 7, 2015 (2015-07-07)
September 29, 2015 (2015-09-29)

5
14
January 19, 2016 (2016-01-19)
April 19, 2016 (2016-04-19)

6
16
November 16, 2016 (2016-11-16)
May 10, 2017 (2017-05-10)

7
12
November 1, 2017 (2017-11-01)
January 31, 2018 (2018-01-31)

8
TBD
Fall 2018 (Fall 2018)[49][50]
TBA (TBA)

text: Awards and nominations[edit]

text:
Year
Award
Category
Nominee(s)
Result
Ref

2014
Teen Choice Awards
Choice TV: Reality Show
Total Divas
Nominated
[51]

2014
PopSugar Best of 2014 Awards
Best Reality Show
Total Divas
Won
[52]

2016
Teen Choice Awards
Choice Female Athlete
The Bella Twins
Won
[53]

2016
Teen Choice Awards
Choice TV: Reality Show
Total Divas
Nominated
[54]

2017
Teen Choice Awards
Choice Female Athlete
The Bella Twins
Nominated
[55]

text: Reception[edit]

text: Ratings[edit]

text: The series premiered on July 28, 2013, drawing 1.34 million viewers, as well as becoming the series' highest rated premiere to date.[56] The highest rated episode is "Planet Funk is Funked Up" garnering 1.67 million viewers.[57] The lowest rated episode of season one is "Seeing Red" garnering 0.92 million viewers.[58] The season two premiere episode "New Diva On The Block" received 1.07 million viewers.[59] The following episode "The Braniel Bus" had a strong rise in viewers garnering 1.28 million viewers.[60] The lowest rated episode of season two is "Red and Gold" garnering 0.75 million viewers.[61] The season three premiere attracted over 1.2 million viewers and 821K Adults 18-49, the series was up +15% and +17% respectively versus the season 2 premiere, as well as garnered 26,000 tweets and ranked as the #1 ad-supported cable program of the night. The third-season premiere of Total Divas did not post spectacular ratings. It did, however, outdraw last season's opener.[62][63]

text: Critical response[edit]

text: Melissa Camacho of Common Sense Media gave the show 2 stars out of 5.[64] Tom Conroy of Media Life Magazine said the show is uninteresting.[65] Tom Conroy of Media Life Magazine said of the show, "Total Divas feels real-ish. If the stars are doing any damage to their reputations, it's that they appear to be too nice. That might make their fans happy, but viewers expecting a smackdown can and will go elsewhere."[66] Diva-Dirt.com stated "Meet Your New Guilty Pleasure!".[67] Eric Gargiulo of Camel Clutch Blog said "I tuned in to WWE Total Divas expecting to see a scripted reality show in the vein of Hogan Knows Best. Instead I got an interesting look behind the scenes of the WWE and its superstars more in the same vein as Beyond the Mat."[68]