A lot of famous faces have walked through the ED doors at Holby City Hospital (Pictures: BBC)
Casualty’s Holby City Hospital has welcomed many a famous face over the last four decades.
The BBC medical drama kicked off in 1986, which means multiple cast members that have featured in the show have gone on to become well-known faces in the entertainment industry.
We thought it was high time to take another delve into the Casualty history books and remind you of the very famous stars who were once caught up in classic Casualty drama.
He was once the nation’s favourite Timelord, travelling through time and space alongside Billie Piper in the first series of the revived Doctor Who, but fifteen years prior, Christopher Eccleston popped up in Casualty!
He played a patient with HIV and delivered a powerful performance that now gives viewers an insight into people’s attitudes over the disease in the early 90s.
Alfred Molina – Spider-Man and The Da Vinci Code
Episode – Jump Start – 1986
Tony award-winning actor Alfred Molina starred in the show all the way back in episode four,playing a smarmy reporter on the hunt for a life and death story.
He’s gone on to appear in Spider-Man as well as having an illustrious West End and Broadway career.
Jerome Flynn – Ripper Street and Game of Thrones
Episode – Living in Hope – 1991
Better known as sellsword Bronn in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones, in a Casualty episode that centred on conflict in marriage, Jerome played a husband whose ambitions led to his wife collapsing.
Julia Sawalha – Absolutely Fabulous
Episode – Living in Hope – 1991
Featuring in the same episode as Jerome Flynn, Julie appeared in the medical drama playing a domestic abuse victim who was admitted to the ED with concerning injuries.
At the time, she was a series regular in CITV drama Press Gang.
This was just one year before she would become a huge hit in the Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley sitcom vehicle Ab Fab. Julia, playing Saffy, would continue in the series for two decades as well as reprising the part for the 2016 big screen spin-off.
