"new but he did say he would like to pop in on the Gavin and Stacey characters in a one off special. Ruth Jones said in January 2014 that she would like to work with Corden again and make a Gavin & Stacey special or a film. In October 2014, Joanna Page said that ""Gavin & Stacey"" would not return as she thought that the show ended in 2010. In March 2016, Ruth Jones denied claims that ""Gavin & Stacey"" would be returning, saying ""there are no plans to make a new one."" In March 2008, it was reported the"
"nephew, Chris Davies, at a ceremony in the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea. Margaret John Margaret John (14 December 1926 – 2 February 2011) was a Welsh, BAFTA award-winning actress, best known for her role as Doris O'Neill in ""Gavin & Stacey"". She has been described, by fellow actress Ruth Jones, as ""an absolute national treasure"". Born in Swansea, as a child she wanted to be a nurse or vet, but she could not stand the sight of blood. She occasionally acted at school with her sister Mair. Spotted while acting in a chapel pagent competition, after an audition John trained at"
"Margaret John Margaret John (14 December 1926 – 2 February 2011) was a Welsh, BAFTA award-winning actress, best known for her role as Doris O'Neill in ""Gavin & Stacey"". She has been described, by fellow actress Ruth Jones, as ""an absolute national treasure"". Born in Swansea, as a child she wanted to be a nurse or vet, but she could not stand the sight of blood. She occasionally acted at school with her sister Mair. Spotted while acting in a chapel pagent competition, after an audition John trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, graduating in 1950."
"Ruth Vincent Ruth Vincent (22 March 1877 – 4 July 1955) was an English opera singer and actress, best remembered for her performances in soprano roles of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in the 1890s and her roles in the West End during the first decade of the 20th century, particularly her role as Sophia in ""Tom Jones"". Vincent joined D'Oyly Carte in 1894 in the chorus at the age of 17. She began to play small roles in 1896, taking on larger roles in Gilbert and Sullivan revivals the following year and soon creating leading"
"Bella Thorne Annabella Avery Thorne (born October 8, 1997) is an American actress, model, singer and music video director. She began her career appearing as a child model. Thorne played Ruthy Spivey in the television series ""My Own Worst Enemy"" (2008) and Tancy Henrickson in the fourth season of ""Big Love"" (2010), before gaining prominence for her role as CeCe Jones on the Disney Channel series ""Shake It Up"" (2010–2013). She also portrayed the lead role of Paige Townsen in the Freeform drama series ""Famous in Love"" (2017–2018). She has also appeared in several films, including ""Blended"" (2014), ""The DUFF"""
"third episode. She would later co-write the acclaimed series ""Gavin & Stacey"", in which both Brydon and Davis would star. The series was written by Julia Davis and Rob Brydon, who were so sure of a commission they wrote all six episodes before finalising the deal. They wrote it in a flat in the same building complex which once housed the late Kenneth Williams. It was directed by Matt Lipsey and produced by Alison Mcphail. Executive producers were Henry Normal and Steve Coogan. After creating the concept for the series, Davis and Brydon set about developing the material for the"
"Mathew Horne Mathew Frazer Horne (born 6 September 1978) is an English actor, comedian, television presenter, and narrator. He is best known for appearing on several BBC sketch shows and sitcoms, most notably ""Gavin & Stacey"" (as Gavin Shipman), ""The Catherine Tate Show"", ""20 Things to do Before You're 30"", ""Teachers"", ""Horne and Corden"", and ""Bad Education"". Horne was born on 6 September 1978 in Burton Joyce, Nottingham, the son of Brian Horne and Glenis Reynolds. He grew up there. Horne has an elder brother, Daniel who has autism. He attended Burton Joyce Primary School. He studied A level performing"
"Kit, on 1 April 2015 and, on 13 December 2016, a son, Noah. Page was nominated for ""Best Female Comedy Newcomer"" at the 2007 British Comedy Awards. Joanna Page Joanna Louise Page (born 23 March 1978) is a Welsh actress, model, and comedian, best known for her role as Stacey West Shipman in the BAFTA-winning television series ""Gavin & Stacey"". Page was born in Treboeth, Swansea, Wales, the only child of Susan Angela (née Foster) and Nigel Leslie Page. She attended Mynyddbach Comprehensive School, where she was head girl. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in"
"Ruth Gordon Ruth Gordon Jones (October 30, 1896 – August 28, 1985) was an American film, stage, and television actress, as well as a screenwriter and playwright. Gordon began her career performing on Broadway at age nineteen. Known for her nasal voice and distinctive personality, she gained international recognition and critical acclaim for film roles that continued into her seventies and eighties. Her later work included performances in ""Rosemary's Baby"" (1968), ""Harold and Maude"" (1971), and the Clint Eastwood films ""Every Which Way but Loose"" (1978) and ""Any Which Way You Can"" (1980). In addition to her acting career, Gordon"
"Joanna Page Joanna Louise Page (born 23 March 1978) is a Welsh actress, model, and comedian, best known for her role as Stacey West Shipman in the BAFTA-winning television series ""Gavin & Stacey"". Page was born in Treboeth, Swansea, Wales, the only child of Susan Angela (née Foster) and Nigel Leslie Page. She attended Mynyddbach Comprehensive School, where she was head girl. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in 1998. On graduation from RADA, Page spent ten years in stage-based roles, mainly costume dramas for the Royal National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company. This led to"
"of Eve Ensler's ""The Vagina Monologues"". Gless appeared on ""The Alan Titchmarsh Show"" on 17 October 2011. In 1991, at the age of 48, Gless married Barney Rosenzweig, the producer of ""Cagney & Lacey"". Sharon Gless Sharon Marguerite Gless (born May 31, 1943) is an American actress, who is known for her television roles as Maggie Philbin, the naïve, young receptionist of Frank MacBride and Pete Ryan (played by Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner) on ""Switch"" (1975–78), Sgt. Christine Cagney in the police procedural drama series ""Cagney & Lacey"" (1982–88), the title role in ""The Trials of Rosie O'Neill"" (1990–92),"
"""The Waltz Song"" from Edward German's ""Tom Jones,"" and songs by Luigi Arditi, Haydn Wood, Percy Fletcher, and Frederic Hymen Cowen. Her voice can be heard on the CD ""The Art of the Savoyard"" (Pearl GEMM CD 9991). Ruth Vincent Ruth Vincent (22 March 1877 – 4 July 1955) was an English opera singer and actress, best remembered for her performances in soprano roles of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in the 1890s and her roles in the West End during the first decade of the 20th century, particularly her role as Sophia in ""Tom Jones""."
"American network NBC had bought the rights to produce an American remake from Baby Cow Productions. Initial ideas according to Corden were to have Gavin coming from New Jersey and Stacey from South Carolina, meeting up in New York City. In December 2008 however, Jones stated ""There was a script written for NBC. They optioned it, but then that went away. I read the script and it wasn't great to be honest with you. But now ABC are looking into writing a pilot and hopefully that will work out"". At the time, both Corden and Jones were reportedly acting as"
"she played Sandy, and smaller parts in shows such as ""The Bill"" and ""Fat Friends"". She featured as Rudi: Smithy's little sister in the second and third series of the BBC Three sitcom ""Gavin & Stacey"". She guest starred in the Christmas 2008 episode of ""Lark Rise to Candleford"". Since 2009, she has played Joey Ross in special seasonal episodes of ""Jonathan Creek"", namely ""The Grinning Man"" (2009), ""The Judas Tree"" (2010), and ""The Clue of the Savant's Thumb"" (2013). She played Brandy in the third series of ""Benidorm"". During 2010, Smith acted as a mentor to the contestants of"
"NBC, followed by the series, ""The Michael Richards Show"" (2000), for the same network. She then went on to star in pilots for several networks and guest-starred and recurred on numerous sitcoms including ""Will & Grace"" (1998), ""Just Shoot Me!"" (1997), ""Malcolm in the Middle"" (2000), ""Two and a Half Men"" (2003), ""The King of Queens"" (1998) and ""The New Adventures of Old Christine"" (2006). Amy Farrington Amy Farrington (born September 20, 1966) is an American actress and model that is best known for her role as Stacey Devers on ""The Michael Richards Show"". She was born in Boston, Massachusetts"
"considered for the part of Margaret Schlegel before Emma Thompson accepted the role. James Ivory was unaware of Emma Thompson before she was recommended to him by Simon Callow, who made a small cameo as the music lecturer in the concert scene.Jemma Redgrave (Evie Wilcox), who played the daughter of Vanessa Redgrave (Ruth Wilcox), is her niece off-screen. Samuel West, who played Leonard Bast, is the son of Prunella Scales, who played Aunt Juley. According to James Ivory, although Vanessa Redgrave was his preferred choice for the role of Ruth Wilcox, her participation was uncertain until the last moment, because"
"in May"" (1976) and ""Abigail's Party"" (1977). She received BAFTA TV Award nominations for the 1986 BBC serial ""The Singing Detective"", and in 2001 for the ITV drama series ""Fat Friends"" (2000–05). Other television roles include ""Pride and Prejudice"" (1995), ""Gavin & Stacey"" (2007–10) and ""Orphan Black"" (2015–16). Her other film appearances include ""A Private Function"" (1984), ""Clockwise"" (1986), ""Shirley Valentine"" (1989), ""Topsy Turvy"" (1999) and ""The Life and Death of Peter Sellers"" (2004). Steadman was born in Liverpool, the youngest of three sisters born to Marjorie (née Evans) and George Percival Steadman, who worked as a production controller for"
"Sharon Gless Sharon Marguerite Gless (born May 31, 1943) is an American actress, who is known for her television roles as Maggie Philbin, the naïve, young receptionist of Frank MacBride and Pete Ryan (played by Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner) on ""Switch"" (1975–78), Sgt. Christine Cagney in the police procedural drama series ""Cagney & Lacey"" (1982–88), the title role in ""The Trials of Rosie O'Neill"" (1990–92), as Debbie Novotny in the Showtime cable television series ""Queer as Folk"" (2000–2005), and as Madeline Westen on ""Burn Notice"" (2007–2013). A 10-time Emmy Award nominee and seven-time Golden Globe Award nominee, she won"
"""The Lucy Show"", followed immediately in 1968 by six more years on a third sitcom, ""Here's Lucy"", finally ending her regular appearances on CBS in 1974. Both ""The Lucy Show"" and ""Here's Lucy"" included Vance as recurring characters named ""Viv"" (Vivian Bagley Bunson on ""The Lucy Show"" and Vivian Jones on ""Here's Lucy""), so named because she was tired of being recognized on the street and addressed as ""Ethel"". Vance was a regular during the first three seasons of ""The Lucy Show"" but continued to make guest appearances through the years on ""The Lucy Show"", and on ""Here's Lucy"". In"
"Cagney & Lacey Cagney & Lacey is an American television series that aired on the CBS television network for seven seasons from March 25, 1982, to May 16, 1988. A police procedural, the show starred Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly as New York City police detectives who led very different lives: Christine Cagney (Gless) was a career-minded single woman, while Mary Beth Lacey (Daly) was a married working mother. The series was set in a fictionalized version of Manhattan's 14th Precinct (known as ""Midtown South""). For six consecutive years, one of the two lead actresses won the Emmy for Best"
"ITV medical series ""Harley Street"". Her performance drew mixed reviews, with one critic commenting on a ""ludicrous"" received pronunciation accent that the character possessed; the programme's tepid critical reception, combined with poor viewer ratings, signalled its end after just one series. In January 2009, Jones appeared in ""Unforgiven"", a three-part drama on ITV1, where she plays Ruth Slater, a woman released from prison after serving a 15-year prison sentence for the murder of two policemen. Naturally brown-haired, Jones dyed her hair ""tobacco yellow"" with ""big roots""; Jones joked that whilst not filming she ""really should have worn a wig"". Additionally,"
"Julia Davis Julia Charlotte L Davis (born 25 August 1966) is an English comedian, actress, writer, and director. She is known for writing and starring in the BBC Three comedy ""Nighty Night"" (2004–2005) and the comedies ""Hunderby"" (2012–15) and ""Camping"" (2016), which she also directed. A seven-time BAFTA TV Award nominee, she won Best Comedy Writing for ""Hunderby"" in 2013. She is also known for playing Dawn Sutcliffe in ""Gavin & Stacey"" (2007–2009). Her film roles include ""Love Actually"" (2003), ""Cemetery Junction"" (2010) and ""Four Lions"" (2010). Davis was born in Lambeth, to a secretary mother and a civil servant"
"critical praise for her work in the medium, and acted in countless radio productions throughout the 1940s. Her radio work included runs in two ongoing radio soap operas. The first, "" Big Sister"", in which she starred as Ruth Evans, aired nationally for five years from 1942. After it ended, she acted in the serial ""Crossroads of Life"". She won the Macquarie Award in 1947 and, in 1949, again acted on film, playing family matriarch Jane O'Riordan in Charles Chauvel's epic ""Sons of Matthew"". In 1951 she travelled to London, where she was later joined by her former Sydney housemate,"
"Miss Inch), Alfred Hitchcock's ""The Birds"" (as Mrs. MacGruder, the pet store saleslady), ""Boys' Night Out"", ""Dear Heart"", ""The Shakiest Gun in the West"", ""Angel in My Pocket"", ""The Love God?"", ""Change of Habit"", ""The War Between Men and Women"", and ""Mixed Company"". McDevitt died, aged 80, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California and is interred in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery. Ruth McDevitt Ruth McDevitt (September 13, 1895 – May 27, 1976) was an American stage, film, radio and television actress. She was born Ruth Thane Shoecraft in Coldwater, Michigan. After attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, she married"
"Ruth Sheen Ruth Sheen (born 1952, London) is an English actress. Born in London, Sheen began her career training at the East 15 Acting School, and has appeared regularly on British television and in British films since 1988. On television she played Maureen Tacy in the series ""Doc Martin"" (2002) and had recurring roles as Nanny Simmons in ""Berkeley Square"" (1998) and Nurse Ethel Carr in the series ""Bramwell"" (1995–98). She also appeared as four different characters in six episodes of ""The Bill"" between 1989 and 2004. Sheen has appeared in six Mike Leigh films: ""Mr. Turner"" (2014); in the"
"2009, she appeared in Alan Bennett's new play ""The Habit of Art"" at the National. In 2012, she returned to the National in her third Bennett premiere, ""People"". Her many television appearances during the 1980s and 1990s include the 1980 miniseries ""Flickers"" opposite Bob Hoskins, the TV version of ""Duet for One"", for which she received a BAFTA nomination, the series ""A Kind of Living"" (1988–89), Dennis Potter's ""Cold Lazarus"" (1996), and ""Tom Jones"" (1997). Of all her TV roles, however, she is best known for playing spinster Ruth Jones in the successful Yorkshire television comedy ""Rising Damp"", from 1974"
"Caroline Paterson Caroline Paterson (born 28 November 1965 in Kirkcaldy, Scotland) is a Scottish actress who has appeared in many Scottish television shows such as one-off STV drama, ""The Steamie"" and the BBC's ""Rab C. Nesbitt"". However, she is most recognized for her role in ""EastEnders"" as Mark Fowler's wife, Ruth. She also appeared as Patricia Cullen in BBC Scotland soap ""River City"".In 2005 she had a one episode appearance in the BAFTA award-winning BBC series Spooks as Jessica Mortimer. In 2008, Paterson appeared in ""Coronation Street"" as police detective D.C. Weller after David Platt pushed his mother, Gail down"
"Ruth, Lauren Bacall as Elvira and Mildred Natwick as Madame Arcati. A British commercial television adaptation in 1964 was directed by Joan Kemp-Welch, with Griffith Jones as Charles, Helen Cherry as Ruth, Joanna Dunham as Elvira and Hattie Jacques as Madame Arcati. Another American television TV production was presented in 1966 on the Hallmark Hall of Fame, with Dirk Bogarde as Charles, Rachel Roberts as Ruth, Rosemary Harris as Elvira and Ruth Gordon as Madame Arcati. BBC Radio's broadcasts of the play include a 1983 version with Paul Eddington as Charles, Julia McKenzie as Ruth, Anna Massey as Elvira and"
"a news reporter in ""The Opposite of Sex"". Bevis married then Cincinnati Bengals punter and wide receiver Pat McInally in 1984. They have two children and reside in Seal Beach, California. Leslie Bevis Leslie Bevis (born February 13, 1954) is an American actress. Bevis worked as a model in Europe before her work in film and television. Besides making several appearances on """", she has made numerous other television appearances, such as in ""V"", ""Dallas"", ""Street Hawk"", ""Night Court"", ""Falcon Crest"", ""MacGyver"", ""Hunter"" and ""Murder, She Wrote"". Bevis is perhaps best known for the role of Ruth Perkins in ""The"
"friends with them. While under contract with Universal, she co-starred in a number of properties, including the 1979 Steven Bochco television sitcom, ""Turnabout"" (based on the Thorne Smith 1931 novel about a husband and wife who temporarily switch bodies), which failed to be a ratings blockbuster, and, briefly in the sitcom ""House Calls"" (in which she replaced Lynn Redgrave, who'd left due to a contract dispute). Beginning with the series' seventh episode/first full season, Gless replaced actress Meg Foster in the role of NYPD police detective Christine Cagney on ""Cagney & Lacey."" (The role had been originated, in the pilot"
"by John Cleland, in the role of Mrs Jones. She also played the mother of Jim Sturgess's character, Jamie, in Philip Ridley's 2009 feature film ""Heartless"". She appeared in the films ""Run Fatboy Run"" (2007) and ""Welcome to the Punch"" (2013), and was the titular Elizabeth in ""The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge"", a 2015 episode of ""Inside No. 9"". In 2016 she played Elsie in the hit film adaptation of ""A Street Cat Named Bob"". Ruth Sheen Ruth Sheen (born 1952, London) is an English actress. Born in London, Sheen began her career training at the East 15 Acting School,"
"announced in the role of police Captain Stark. On May 11, 2018, CBS passed on the pilot. Cagney & Lacey Cagney & Lacey is an American television series that aired on the CBS television network for seven seasons from March 25, 1982, to May 16, 1988. A police procedural, the show starred Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly as New York City police detectives who led very different lives: Christine Cagney (Gless) was a career-minded single woman, while Mary Beth Lacey (Daly) was a married working mother. The series was set in a fictionalized version of Manhattan's 14th Precinct (known as"
"by Phil Redmond in 1995 as part of the original cast. Her family were introduced a year later and are still part of the serial today. Dwyer was cast as Ruth in 1995 after auditioning for the part. On getting the role Dwyer said ""they took a big risk on me. I had done nothing in terms of acting, and for two years I never understood why I wasn't sacked. I thought I was appalling."" On her audition Dwyer said ""here were all these girls from stage school, and I came away thinking I didn't stand a chance. Three auditions"