jessica raine, miranda hart played dr turner's wife in call the midwife.
jessica raine, miranda hart played dr turner's wife in call the midwife.
who plays dr turner's wife in call the midwife?
jessica raine, miranda hart
call the midwife is a bbc period drama series about a group of nurse midwives working in the east end of london in the late 1950s and early 1960s. it stars jessica raine, miranda hart, helen george, bryony hannah, laura main, jenny agutter, pam ferris, judy parfitt, cliff parisi, stephen mcgann, ben caplan, emerald fennell, victoria yeates, jack ashton, linda bassett, charlotte ritchie, kate lamb, jennifer kirby, annabelle apsion and leonie elliott. the series is produced by neal street productions, a production company founded and owned by the film director and producer sam mendes, "call the midwife" executive producer pippa harris, and caro newling. the first series, set in 1957, premiered in the uk on 15 january 2012.
call the midwife
after recovering from a short bout of tuberculosis, sister bernadette leaves the convent and reverts to her birth name of shelagh ("née" mannion). she becomes engaged to dr turner, who has also fallen in love with her. they marry in the 2013 christmas special and she becomes stepmother to his 11-year-old son timothy. they later adopt a baby girl called angela after a struggle with infertility. however, she still remains close to her faith, joining the nuns at compline. at times she is struggling, in series 4 it becomes clear shelagh desperately misses her nursing and midwifery so she returns to full-time work at the surgery and maternity home, first as a medical secretary, and then also as the sister-in-charge at the surgery after dr turner is taken ill. she is now the medical sister-in-charge at the surgery and works alongside the other midwives and nuns at the surgery, but still doesn't perform house calls. when at the clinic or being the acting sister-in-charge at nonnatus house in sister julienne's absence, shelagh dons smart civilian dress, rather than uniform of the order's other lay nurses, although she eventually obtained a uniform to wear when serving in a nursing capacity at dr turner's surgery.
list of call the midwife characters