List of Emmerdale characters

Emmerdale is a British television soap opera first broadcast on ITV on 16 October 1972. The following is a list of characters who currently appear in the programme, listed in order of first appearance. In the case that more than one actor has portrayed a character, the current actor portraying the character is listed first.

Present characters[change | change source]

Regular characters[change | change source]

Character	Current actor	Duration	No. of episodes
Eric Pollard	Chris Chittell	1986–	3,167
Kim Tate	Claire King	1989–1999, 2018–	1,290
Victoria Sugden	Isabel Hodgins	1994–	2,164
Zak Dingle	Steve Halliwell	1994–	2,787
Sam Dingle	James Hooton	1995–1998, 2000–	2,246
Mandy Dingle	Lisa Riley	1995–2001, 2019–	840
Marlon Dingle	Mark Charnock	1996–	3,451
Paddy Kirk	Dominic Brunt	1997–	2,893
Bernice Blackstock	Samantha Giles	1998–2002, 2004, 2012–2019, 2021–	1,476
Belle Dingle	Eden Taylor-Draper	1998–	1,629
Charity Dingle	Emma Atkins	2000–2005, 2009–	2,571
Cain Dingle	Jeff Hordley	2000–2006, 2009–	2,730
Bob Hope	Tony Audenshaw	2000–	2,717
Rodney Blackstock	Patrick Mower	2000–	1,877
Nicola King	Nicola Wheeler	2001–	2,438
Rhona Goskirk	Zoe Henry	2001–2002, 2010–	1,369
Gabby Thomas	Rosie Bentham	2001–	1,092
Laurel Thomas	Charlotte Bellamy	2002–	2,303
Chas Dingle	Lucy Pargeter	2002–	2,950
Jimmy King	Nick Miles	2004–	2,029
Noah Dingle	Jack Downham	2004–2005, 2009–	717
Sarah Sugden Jr.	Katie Hill	2005–	946
Samson Dingle	Sam Hall	2006–	482
David Metcalfe	Matthew Wolfenden	2006–	1,814
Cathy Hope	Gabrielle Dowling	2007–	294
Heath Hope	Sebastian Dowling	2007–	245
Brenda Walker	Lesley Dunlop	2008–	1,317
Leyla Harding	Roxy Shahidi	2008–2011, 2013–	1,347
Moira Barton	Natalie J. Robb	2009–	1,759
Matty Barton	Ash Palmisciano	2009–2012, 2018–	554
Jai Sharma	Chris Bisson	2009–	1,451
Jacob Gallagher	Joe-Warren Plant	2010–	765
Amy Wyatt	Natalie Ann Jamieson	2010–2013, 2019–	740
Amelia Spencer	Daisy Campbell	2011–	529
Rishi Sharma	Bhasker Patel	2011–	794
Dan Spencer	Liam Fox	2011–	966
Kerry Wyatt	Laura Norton	2012–	1,043
Vanessa Woodfield	Michelle Hardwick	2012–	999
Liam Cavanagh	Jonny McPherson	2014–	430
Tracy Metcalfe	Amy Walsh	2014–	779
Lydia Hart	Karen Blick	2016−	516
Dawn Taylor	Olivia Bromley	2018–	472
Ryan Stocks	James Moore	2018–	215
Manpreet Sharma	Rebecca Sarker	2018–	352
Billy Fletcher	Jay Kontzle	2018–	382
Vinny Dingle	Bradley Johnson	2019–	322
Bear Wolf	Joshua Richards	2019–	210
Will Taylor	Dean Andrews	2019–	354
Nate Robinson	Jurell Carter	2019–	371
Wendy Posner	Susan Cookson	2019–	187
Mackenzie Boyd	Lawrence Robb	2020–	269
Charles Anderson	Kevin Mathurin	2020–	244
Ethan Anderson	Emile John	2021–	176
Chloe Harris	Jessie Elland	2021–	107
Mary Goskirk	Louise Jameson	2022–	77
Suzy Merton	Martelle Edinborough	2022–	69
Naomi Walters	Karene Peter	2022–	81
Caleb Miligan	William Ash	2022–	31

Recurring and guest characters[change | change source]

Character	Current actor	Duration	No. of episodes
PC Mike Swirling	Andy Moore^[1]	2004–	197
Arthur Thomas	Alfie Clarke	2007–	533
Angelica King	Rebecca Bakes	2009–	300
Elliot Windsor	Luca Hoyle	2011–2012, 2016–	131
Leo Goskirk	Harvey Rogerson	2011–	267
Kyle Winchester	Huey Quinn	2011, 2013, 2015–	266
Archie Breckle	Kai Assi	2012–2015, 2019–	148
April Windsor	Amelia Flanagan	2014–	407
Amba Metcalfe	Ava Jayasinghe	2014–	117
Carl Holliday	Charlie Munro Joyce	2014, 2016–	106
Moses Dingle	Arthur Cockroft	2015–	189
Johnny Woodfield	Jack Jennings	2015–2020, 2022–	144
Dotty Thomas	Tilly-Rue Foster	2016–	118
Isaac Dingle	Bobby Dunsmuir	2017–	155
Lucas Taylor	Noah Ryan Aspinall	2019–	71
Eve Dingle	Bella James	2019–	59
Theo Metcalfe	Beau-Ronnie Newton	2019–	21
Harry Sugden	Brody and Teddy Hall	2020–	27
Frankie Robinson	Uncredited	2021–	26
Thomas Tate	Uncredited	2021–	22
Alex Moore	Liam Boyle	2021–	28
Colin Hamston	Mark Noble	2022–	10
Clemmie Reed	Mabel Addison	2022–	29
Esther Spencer	Florence Mae Dyson	2022–	16
Nicky	Lewis Cope	2022–	24
Marshall Hamston	Max Fletcher	2023–	18