all the Midwife’s 12th season finished airing in its native U.K. last month, and now it’s U.S. viewers’ turn to get back with the nuns and nurses of Nonnatus House.Season 12 debuts on PBS on March 19, with Rebecca Gethings (The Serpent Queen) joining the cast as Sister Veronica.
“It is now 1968, and there are changes in the air,” PBS says in a synopsis of the Season 12 premiere. “Enoch Powell’s infamous speech casts a long shadow over the borough. Nonnatus House welcomes a new nun to the team, Sister Veronica, who impresses everyone except for Nurse Crane [Linda Bassett].”
As we get ready to greet a new cast member on Call the Midwife, where are the show’s alums now? Catch up with 13 of the show’s former stars in the gallery below.After leaving Midwife in 2014, Raine had weighty roles in TV shows like Wolf Hall, Fortitude, and Informer. And last year, she played Catherine Parr in Starz’s Becoming Elizabeth and starred as social worker Lucy Chambers in Prime Video’s The Devil’s Hour.
Hart, who joined Melissa McCarthy in the 2015 action-comedy film Spy, continues to collaborate with top talent. In 2020, for example, she shared the screen with Anya Taylor-Joy in the Jane Austin adaptation Emma. And in March, she joined other British comedians in the charitable event “Comic Relief: The Truth & Everything Except The Truth.”
Ferris went regal after Call the Midwife, portraying Queen Victoria in the 2018 Will Ferrell–John C. Reillycomedy Holmes & Watson. The following year, she played Mrs. Faulkner in the biopic film Tolkien. And in 2021, she appeared in BBC Two’s Beauty and the Beast: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas.
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