Recurring guest characters in Green Wing
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There are many characters in Green Wing that make numerous appearances, or are referred to but never appear. These are not considered to be main characters, but still play a part in the main plot. This article also features other minor guest characters and actors.
[edit] Lyndon Jones (Paterson Joseph)
Lyndon Jones is the head of I.T. at East Hampton. He is a very attractive man, and many of the women staff have taken a shine to him, most notably Joanna Clore. Not surprisingly, many of the men such as Guy and Alan feel threatened by him. Alan went so far as to challenge him to a tug-of-war, which Alan lost.
However, Lyndon is not really interested in the women who admire him, and prefers to keep himself to himself. But it is known that he does have an odd fetish for large underpants. This led him to his attraction to Harriet Schulenburg, who has the biggest underpants in human resources (and perhaps in human history).
During a charity slave auction, Lyndon was brought by Joanna. During the night he made it clear that he found her "Disturbing, tedious and desperate". This did not stop Joanna however, and during another attempt to ask him out, Lyndon got out of it by saying he was on a date with Harriet (who was there when Joanna asked). After they spent the night together, Harriet felt guilty and left him. The incident lead to Harriet being thrown out by her husband Ian. This left the door open for Joanna again, but he only got out of their relationship by claiming he was gay, and kissing Jake Leaf.
[edit] Dr. Holly Hawkes (Sally Phillips)
Holly Hawkes was Mac's girlfriend for six years. However, their relationship ended after they had an argument about children. Holly became pregnant, and wanted to have an abortion, but Mac objected. Holly said that a child would be "A spanner in the works", and an obstruction to her career. Eventually Holly had the abortion and they separated.
Holly still kept in touch with the hospital, with Angela often talking to her. She was the first person to tell Mac that she was getting married to John James Wyard and that she was pregnant again. Although that seemed to be the end of it, it was not. Holly left John, and when Angela left the hospital to become an actress, Holly became her replacement as senior registrar in paediatrics.
With Holly back, Caroline obviously felt threatened that she might break up their relationship, but Holly made it clear that she was not interested in him. However, this turned out to be a lie. In order to make Mac fall in love with her again, she told Mac that she never aborted their son, and that their son Mackenzie is now four years old. Everyone believed her. Even Mac and Mackenzie's hair was the same. Sue White later discovered that Holly just dyed Mackenzie's hair. After the lie was uncovered, Holly left the hospital.
[edit] Ian, Oscar, Jamie, Robbie and Stuart Schulenburg
Harriet's family are her greatest burden on her life. Ian and Harriet met at an evening class, and have been together for some time now. However, their relationship has now gone way downhill. The only time they ever have sex is when Harriet is asleep. They also have problems with condoms. Harriet once admitted that a condom once got lost inside her.
Harriet's four boys are probably even more troublesome. Harriet has to drop them off at school before she arrives at work, often leading to her making mistakes, such as dropping off the wrong thing or person at the wrong place.
Out of all her children, seven-year-old Robbie causes the most trouble. He twitches frequently, often pretends to be dead for several hours, has urinated over the school statue of the Virgin Mary, eats bread straight from the freezer, and on a globe of the world, scribbled out Australia and Denmark because he "Bombed" them. Harriet even brought him into the hospital once. He ruined her desk, and Harriet said to him "I'll see if you can watch an amputation, but I doubt they'll let you cut anything".
Recently, Ian has been thinking of leaving her for Rosey "Pin-Legs Frizzy-Eyed" Kendal which led Harriet to have a night of passion with Lyndon. However, Ian discovered what had happened, and threw her out of the house.
[edit] Oliver (Ken Charles)
Oliver is one of the few men working in human resources. Not much is known about him, except that it is known that he does use office equipment for his own personal use, and that he smokes.
Oliver is one of the many men that has had sex with Rachel, but it is known that he is often involved in all the perverted acts done by the women in the department. He has even licked cream off their faces and chests.
He also often takes part in the rather odd games that the women play in the department, such as falling to the ground every time the telephone rings.
[edit] Lady Emily “Emmy” Lewis Westbrook (Daisy Haggard)
Emmy is a physiotherapist, and a member of the aristocracy, who is considered to be one of the more attractive women in the hospital. She ranks top of Guy's list of women in the hospital. Mac even dates her. Caroline and Angela however, are rather jealous, and consider her to have too wide a mouth. Guy also seems to think so to an extent as well, as in Series One, she delivers him a letter from his father and Guy initiates a scenario in which he causes her to become rather emotional and succeeds in getting her to agree to go with him for a drink. After she leaves on the verge of tears, he comments "I'll have to try that one day with someone with smaller teeth".
When Mac announces that he is moving to Sheffield, Emmy also plans to move up north with him, much to Caroline's horror. Caroline then goes out of her way to find anything wrong with Sheffield. When she fails, she tries to find some information on Emmy. She discovered that she was actually jailed for "Forging physiotherapist qualifications" amongst other things. The plan backfired at Emmy pointed out it was a different Emily Lewis-Westbrook.
After the incident, Emmy was angered by Mac after he failed to take the incident seriously. She threw a pint of beer over him and left for Sheffield without him.
[edit] Liam (Oliver Milburn)
Liam is Angela's boyfriend in series 1. They get on very well, and Liam often claims that she absolutely perfect, except for the fact that "She dances like a wolf".
Liam is extremely rich, although he never shows it. He dresses in rather ordinarily and drives a slightly battered Volvo PV544. It is not discovered that is wealthy until after Angela decides to dump him. She leaves a message on his mobile telling him that she does not like "The way that he eats, as well as other things". He proposes to her, and gives her a wedding ring which is part of a large set of jewellery. However, just as Angela changes his mind, Liam receives Angela's message on his mobile. He promptly leaves her.
[edit] Cordelia Denby (Saskia Wickham)
Cordelia is the hospital chaplin. She provides the staff and patients with moral and religious guidance. When Joanna dumped Alan, he turned to Christianity because he thought that Cordiela was a very attractive woman. However, Cordiela just tried to ignore him.
She has also help Martin when he discovered that he and Guy were related, and comforted Caroline, Sue, Karen and Angela when Guy went mad and stole an ambulance.
[edit] Charles Robertson (Robert Harley)
Charles Robertson is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of East Hampton Hospital Trust. Not much is known about Charles, although it is safe to assume that unlike most of the staff at the hospital, his life is much closer to normality.
Charles basically takes meetings, but he is also the head of tribunals. He was in charge of the tribunal of Guy Secretan, which later reinstated his job as an anaesthetist. He was also the auctioneer at the charity slave auction.
Like most of the other characters, he also appears to strongly dislike Dr. Alan Statham and Sue White.
[edit] Jake Leaf (Darren Boyd)
First appearing in series 2, Jake is a complementary therapist, dealing with more alternative therapies such as acupuncture. Amongst his patients include Joanna (after she slept with Guy) and Alan (who wanted him to relieve his sexual tension).
Another patient was Caroline, who visited him in order for her to forget Mac after he seemed to be falling in love with Holly again. After this encounter, Jake seemed to be falling in love with Caroline, at around the same time as Guy was becoming infatuated with her. Caroline too started to feel attracted to Jake.
Despite Guy's best attempts to stop him, Jake managed to successfully ask Caroline out. He even managed to trick Guy into think that he was a professional Guyball player, claiming to have a settle-rate of 37. This seemed to by high due to Guy "forgetting" his settle-rate.
The date went badly. During the night, Jake brought with him his most prized possession, a 12-year-old tamagochi pet. However, Caroline dropped it in to a glass of wine, killing it. When Jake dropped Caroline off, Guy took it upon himself to get rid of Jake, by throwing a Swiss Army Knife into his head.
Caroline dumped Jake after she received proposals from Guy, Mac and Martin. Jake went drinking with Lyndon to drown his sorrows. Unfortunately, Joanna Clore was in the pub and attempted to chat-up Lyndon. To put Joanna off, both Lyndon and Jake claim that they are gay. Joanna calls their bluff and gets them to prove it by kissing each other.
[edit] Dr. Jeff Jennings (Pip Torrens)
After the crash, neurosurgeon Dr. Jeff Jennings is put in charge of Mac's case. He is constantly harassed by Caroline who wants to know if Mac will ever recover form his amnesia and remember their relationship.
Although not much is known about him personally, he does smoke, and it is known that he does not like giving out bad news, which made it very difficult for him to tell Mac that his injuries where much more serious than first thought, and that in fact he is dying.
Jeff does have the rather odd quirk of pretending to ride a horse whilst walking down the hospital corridors.
[edit] Markus Geissler
Markus Geissler is a character that never appears Green Wing, but is frequently mentioned. Markus, known as "The Big Austrian", is one of the world's best Guyball players. He is Guy's biggest rival in the sport, and they have played against each other on a few occasions. The first time we hear of him, we learn that Guy walked over him, because Markus was suffering from shin splints.
It is unknown if Markus attended Whiteleaf Public School, but it is likely if he is a Guyball player.
According to Green Wing - The Complete First Series Scripts, Markus was sent off in a match between him and Guy, after "Illegal use of the "hefty fondue"." He lost the match 12:3.
[edit] Other guests
These are guest actors who have had only small characters.
- Car Salesman (John Oliver) - Tries to sell a car to Joanna, but only gets abused and hit on when he says that none of the cars can make her look young, "As they are both just cars."
- Lab Technician (Stephen Merchant) - Works in the path lab. Has a very sarcastic and dry sense of humour. In the end credits, "technician" is spelt with an extra "-ian" on the end. Whether it was deliberate or a mistake is not known.
- Julian "Scissors" Bentley (Kevin Eldon) - A hit-barber whom Guy considers paying £200 to cut Mac's hair.
- Just a Man (Nick Frost) - Just a man in the hospital bar that Guy talks to about the ambulance accident. He is one of many men Joanna has had a one night stand with.
- Patrick the Director (Peter McDonald) Patrick is an Irish director that comes to make a documentary about the hospital. Currently making a program starring Angela in Toronto.
Other famous actors and actresses who appear in Green Wing include Rosie Cavaliero, who appears in both series as different characters. She plays Teacher in "Slave Auction" and Voice Coach in Series 2, Episode 5.
[edit] External links
- Green Wing "microsite" biography of Lyndon Jones
| Green Wing |
| Series 1 | Series 2 | Special |
| Characters: |
| Main Characters: Dr. Caroline Todd | Dr. Guillaume "Guy" Secretan | Dr. "Mac" Macartney | Dr. Alan Statham | Sue White | Joanna Clore | Dr. Martin Dear | Boyce | Dr. Angela Hunter |
| Minor Characters: Harriet Schulenburg | Karen Ball | Naughty Rachel | Kim Alabaster |
| Other: |
| Recurring guest characters | Cultural references | Guyball | East Hampton Hospital Trust | Whiteleaf Public School |
