Lucky Day

Shriek! It's the Shreek!

One episode (Lucky Day)

First broadcast: May 3 2025
Audience for story: 2.80m

REGULAR CAST

Ncuti Gatwa (The Doctor) Born Oct 15 1992 Click here for Ncuti Gatwa's entry on The Giggle

Varada Sethu (Belinda Chandra) Born May 12 1992 Click here for Varada Sethu's entry on Boom

Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday) Born Jun 19 2004 Click here for Millie Gibson's entry on The Church on Ruby Road

GUEST CAST

Selorm Adonu (Influencer 1) Born 2003

Career highlights

Selorm's other acting work includes PRU (2022), Casualty (2023), Queen of Diamonds (2023) and Curfew (2024). He also wrote and appeared in the short film Man to Man (2022), which won three Bucharest Film Awards.

Gethin Alderman (The Shreek)

Career highlights

Movement artist and creature performer Gethin debuted in the 2009 short film Caught Short, followed by roles in Friends of Money (2013), Casualty (2020), The Outlaws (2021), Doctors (2022), Somewhere Boy (2022), Andor (2022), The Great (2021-23), Wolf (2023), The Winter King (2023) and EastEnders (2024).

Facts

Gethin is multilingual, speaking Welsh, English, Spanish and French.

Kareem Alexander (Jordan Lang) Born 1993

Career highlights

Anglo-Egyptian Kareem debuted in the 2015 short My Firing Squad, followed by The Litch (2018), Marriage (2022), Vampire Academy (2022), Litvinenko (2022) and Silent Witness (2025). Until 2021 he was credited as Alexander Yousri.

Blake Anderson (Jack)

Career highlights

Blake debuted in Aids: The Unheard Tapes (2022), followed by Vampire Academy (2022), Halo (2024), The Gray House (2024) and The Six Triple Eight (2024). He is usually credited as Blake Patrick Anderson.

Facts

As well as being an actor, bisexual Blake is also a singer and hairdresser.

Nicholas Briggs (Voice of the Vlinx) Born Sep 29 1961 Click here for Nicholas Briggs' entry on Rose

Lachele Carl (Reporter [Trinity Wells]) Born Apr 29 1960 Click here for Lachele Carl's entry on Aliens of London

Reeta Chakrabarti (Reeta Chakrabarti) Born Dec 12 1964

Career highlights

BBC journalist Reeta began her career as a producer on Radio 4's The World at One, Today and PM before moving on to become a reporter on Radio 5 Live, and then Radio 1's Newsbeat. In 1997 she became a BBC community affairs correspondent, then a political reporter in 1999 across BBC TV and radio. From 2010 Reeta became an education correspondent, and has since become on the BBC's foremost news reporters and presenters.

Facts

Reeta published her first novel, Finding Belle, in 2025. Her sister is actor Lolita Chakrabarti, who was once married to actor Adrian Lester.

Benjamin Chivers (Young Conrad) Born 2014

Career highlights

Benjamin's other work includes Lockwood and Co (2023), Napoleon (2023) and The Devil's Hour (2022-24).

Aidan Cook (The Vlinx) Click here for Aidan Cook's entry on The Rings of Akhaten

Calypso Cragg (Influencer 2) Born 2004

Career highlights

Calypso's other work includes several short films plus An American in Austen (2024).

James Craven (Influencer 3)

Career highlights

James debuted in How to Be a Person (2022), then Geek Girl (2024), House of the Dragon (2024), The Salt Path (2024), Curfew (2024) and Alchemy of the Word (2025). He is best known for playing Aaron Sandford in 85 episodes of soap Coronation Street (2022-23).

Alexander Devrient (Colonel Ibrahim)

Played: Colonel Christopher Ibrahim in The Giggle (2023), The Legend of Ruby Sunday/ Empire of Death (2024), Lucky Day (2025), Wish World/ The Reality War (2025)

Career highlights

German/ French actor Alexander made his screen debut in the 2010 short Detente, followed by We are What We Drink (2010), Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), Voodoo Magic (2013), Emmerdale (2014), The Danish Girl (2015), SS-GB (2017), Genius (2018), The Bureau (2018), Industry (2020), Motherland (2021), Ted Lasso (2021), All the Old Knives (2022) and The Bastard Son and the Devil Himself (2022).

Anita Dobson (Mrs Flood) Born Apr 29 1949 Click here for Anita Dobson's entry on The Church on Ruby Road

Joel Dommett (Joel Dommett) Born Jun 8 1985

Career highlights

Joel started out as an actor in minor roles in series such as Casualty (2004), The Golden Hour (2005) and Teenage Kicks (2008), then moved into stand-up comedy, making his breakthrough in 2011's Russell Howard's Good News (2011). Acting roles continued, such as in The Edge of Love (2008), Skins (2010) and White Island (2016). However, he is best known as a comedian and TV presenter, having fronted programmes such as Reality Bites (2015), I'm a Celebrity: Extra Camp (2017-19) and, since 2019, The Masked Singer. He also competed in the 2016 series of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here, finishing second.

Aoife Gaston (Michelle)

Career highlights

Other work includes A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story (2022) and Reawakening (2024).

Tina Gray (Audrey) Born 1940

Career highlights

Further work includes In Suspicious Circumstances (1996), Heartbeat (2001), The Decoy Bride (2011), Scott & Bailey (2013), Angels in Notting Hill (2016), The Last Kingdom (2017), Crooked House (2017), Scarborough (2019), A Castle for Christmas (2021), Emmerdale (2024) and Apartment 7A (2024).

Michelle Greenidge (Carla) Born Jun 15 1970 Click here for Michelle Greenidge's entry on The Church on Ruby Road

Jonah Hauer-King (Conrad Clark) Born May 30 1995

Doctor Who credits

Played: Conrad Clark in Lucky Day (2025), Wish World/ The Reality War (2025)

Career highlights

Jonah's TV debut came in 2017's The Last Photograph, followed by roles in Howards End (2017), Little Women (2017), Postcards from London (2018), Old Boys (2018), Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar (2019), The Flatshare (2022), The Little Mermaid (2023), World on Fire (2019-23), The Tattooist of Auschwitz (2024), William Tell (2024) and The Threesome (2025).

Facts

Jonah's mother is producer Debra Hauer. Jonah also wrote and performed the song Lover (Muse) for the BFI's Postcards from London soundtrack.

Kirsty Hoiles (Moira Clark) Born 1976

Career highlights

Kirsty's other work includes Confetti (2006), Call the Midwife (2014), Remember Me (2014), The Scandalous Lady W (2015), The Undeclared War (2022), Silent Witness (2023), Passenger (2024) and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2024). She has also performed in many stage plays and musicals.

Paul Jerricho (Alfie) Born Nov 18 1948
Doctor Who credits
Played: Castellan in Arc of Infinity, The Five Doctors (both 1983)

Played: Alfie in Lucky Day (2025)
Career highlights
Paul, who was brought up in the Caribbean, debuted in Clayhanger in 1976, followed by roles in Space: 1999 (1977), Force 10 from Navarone (1978), Grange Hill (1981), The Biko Inquest (1984), Knights of God (1987), Cry Freedom (1987), Howards' Way (1990), Love Hurts (1993), The Ice House (1997), Mosley (1998), A Likeness in Stone (2000), Footballers' Wives (2004), Look Around You (2005), Jericho (2005), EastEnders (2009), The Whistleblower (2010), Lewis (2012) and Casualty (2014). He also had a regular role as Charles Woodhouse in 78 episodes of the soap Triangle (1981-83).
Facts
Until 1984, Paul was married to actress Barbara Kinghorn, the only guest star to survive the Doctor Who story The Caves of Androzani (1984). His current partner is actress Helena Little.

Alex Jones (Alex Jones) Born Mar 18 1977

Career highlights

Alex is one of the BBC's foremost TV presenters, having started out as a contestant on Sky's reality show Prickly Heat (1998) before becoming a researcher. She then moved into TV presentation, working on BBC Choice, Channel 4 and S4C. She became the main female host of the BBC's The One Show in 2010, and has remained on the weekday evening magazine programme's sofa ever since. She competed in the 2011 series of Strictly Come Dancing, finishing fifth.

Facts

Alex became a member of the Gorsedd of the Bards at the 2015 National Eisteddfod of Wales in recognition of her contribution to Welsh culture. In 2016 Alex was granted a restraining order against a homeless man who sent her vulgar tweets and stalked her at her workplace, claiming to be in love with her.

Faye McKeever (Louise Miller) Born Jan 18 1985

Doctor Who credits

Played: Louise Miller in The Legend of Ruby Sunday/ Empire of Death (2024), Lucky Day (2025)

Career highlights

Faye debuted in Hollyoaks: In the City (2006), followed by Massive (2008), Unforgiven (2009), The Street (2009), Shameless (2010), No Offence (2015), Little Boy Blue (2017), Moving On (2019), Plebs (2019), The Salisbury Poisonings (2020), Des (2020), Death in Paradise (2021), The Reckoning (2023), Time (2023) and Adolescence (2025). She might be best known as Linda in more than 60 episodes of Trollied (2011-18) or Jodie Sweeney in The Responder (2022-24).

Facts

Faye was in a relationship with singer Shayne Ward between 2003-14, having got engaged in 2012 but since split up.

Ruth Madeley (Shirley Anne Bingham) Born Aug 4 1987 Click here for Ruth Madeley's entry on The Star Beast

Jemma Redgrave (Kate Stewart) Born Jan 14 1965 Click here for Jemma Redgrave's entry on The Power of Three

Paddy Stafford (Sparky)

Career highlights

Paddy's other credits include Doctors (2022) and the short films Kiddo (2022) and Half Way (2023).

Madison Stock (Elsa)

Career highlights

Further work includes Holby City (2021) and Code of Silence (2025).

Michael Woodford (Derek)

Career highlights

Michael debuted in Touching Evil (1999), followed by parts in Peak Practice (2001), Eleventh Hour (2006) and Black Economy (2010).

Angela Wynter (Cherry) Born Jul 14 1957 Click here for Angela Wynter's entry on The Church on Ruby Road

CREW

Pete McTighe (writer) Born 1972
Doctor Who credits
Wrote: Kerblam! (2018), Praxeus (2020), Lucky Day (2025)
Career highlights
Pete began his writing career as a story editor on Australian soap Neighbours in 2008, after which he graduated to writing almost 100 episodes between 2008-2014 (including its 6,000th episode). He has also written scripts for Crownies (2011), Tricky Business (2012), EastEnders (2011-13), Nowhere Boys (2014), Love Me (2014), Tatau (2015), Winners and Losers (2012-15), The Doctor Blake Mysteries (2014-16), Wentworth (2013-20, which he also devised), A Discovery of Witches (2021), The Pact (2021, which he also created) and The Rising (2022). He's also worked as a producer on A Discovery of Witches, The Pact and The Rising.
Facts
Pete wrote several of the sleeve notes for the Doctor Who classic series DVD range, and in 2018 became content consultant for the BBC's Doctor Who blu-ray range. Here he is on Twitter.

Peter Hoar (director)

Doctor Who credits

Directed: A Good Man Goes to War (2011), The Robot Revolution (2025), Lucky Day (2025)
Career highlights
Peter's first directorial work was on Hollyoaks in 2002, after which he worked on Grange Hill (2004-05), Dream Team (2006), Wire in the Blood (2006-08), Spooks (2008), Mistresses (2008-09), Breaking the Mould (2009), Vera (2011-12), Shetland (2013), The Last Kingdom (2015-17), Da Vinci's Demons (2014-15), Daredevil (2016), Iron Fist (2017), The Defenders (2017), Altered Carbon (2018), The Umbrella Academy (2019), It's a Sin (2021), Cipher (2022), Nolly (2023) and The Last of Us (2023-25). He has also been producer on series such as Da Vinci's Demons, The Last Kingdom, The Umbrella Academy and It's a Sin. However, he started out as a location manager on Dressing for Breakfast (1998), The Wedding Tackle (2000) and Heartlands (2002).

Awards

2021: Royal Television Society Craft and Design Award for Best Director - Drama (It's a Sin)

2022: BAFTA TV Award for Best Director, Fiction (It's a Sin)

2024: BAFTA TV Award for Best Director, Fiction (The Last of Us)

2024: Directors' Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series (The Last of Us)

2024: Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form (The Last of Us)