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Camilla "Chummy" Noakes (née Fortescue-Cholmondeley-Browne) is a nurse and midwife. Chummy is described as very tall. Her hair is brown and cut into a bob and she wears round-rimmed glasses. "Eternally good-humored and monumentally kind, Chummy is crippled by lack of self-confidence.
The following is a list of characters from Call the Midwife, a British television period-drama series shown on BBC One since 2012.
ActorCharacterRoleSeries(1)Jenny LeeNurse, midwifeChummy Noakes (Camilla Browne)Nurse, midwifeMainSister JulienneSister-in-charge, midwifeMainSister Monica JoanRetired midwifeMain- Jessica Raine - Jenny Lee. Jessica was one of the original Call the Midwife cast and played main character Nurse Jenny Lee for the first three series. In 2014, it was announced Jessica was hanging up her nurse's uniform to pursue other projects, and she's certainly been in demand since.
- Pam Ferris - Sister Evangelina. Pam Ferris was already a veteran of the acting world prior to her Call the Midwife days, appearing in iconic movies such as Matilda and Harry Potter.
- Miranda Hart – Camilla ‘Chummy’ Browne. Actress and comedian Miranda Hart played Matron Camilla Fortescue-Cholmondeley-Browne, aka Nurse Chummy, from 2012 until 2015.
- Ben Caplan – Sergeant Peter Noakes. Ben played Peter the policeman and husband to Nurse Chummy, from 2012 to 2017, before announcing it was time to head on to pastures new.
In season one we are introduced to the local community through the eyes of young nurse Jenny Lee as she lives and works as a midwife alongside the Nuns of the Order of St. Raymond of Nonnatus in the deprived Poplar district of London's desperately poor East End in the 1950s.
Season 1 – Call the Midwife. Watch Call the Midwife — Season 1 with a subscription on Netflix, or buy it on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, Apple TV. Call the Midwife is an...
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Meet the nuns, nurses and all other characters who bring Call the Midwife to life -- and explore Q&As with the cast.
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Call the Midwife: Created by Heidi Thomas. With Jenny Agutter, Vanessa Redgrave, Laura Main, Stephen McGann. Chronicles the lives of a group of midwives living in East London in the late 1950s to late 1960s.
