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Channel 4 2017

Estranged foster-brothers Stephen and Andrew vie to take over the family business following the death of their father.
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The Top 10 Actors and Characters of Back (Ranked Cast in 2024)

David Mitchell

#1 - David Mitchell (Will Shakespeare)

British comedian, actor and writer. He is half of the comedy duo Mitchell and Webb alongside Robert Webb.

David Mitchell plays as Will Shakespeare in Back.
David Mitchell is the top #1 member of the cast and appears in 18 episodes.

Louise Brealey

#2 - Louise Brealey (Cass)

Louise Brealey (born 27 March 1979) is an English actress, writer and journalist. She played Molly Hooper in Sherlock (2010–), Cass in Back (2017), Scottish professor Jude McDermid in Clique (2017), Gillian Chamberlain in A Discovery of Witches (2018) and Donna Harman in Death in Paradise (2020). She made her TV debut as Nurse Roxanne Bird in two series of BBC drama Casualty (2002–2004) before playing Judy Smallweed in Bleak House (2005). Brealey plays pathologist Molly Hooper in all four series of Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss's television drama, Sherlock. She has also made her name as an accomplished stage actress. Her stage debut was at London's Royal Court in 2001 as 14-year-old Sophie in Max Stafford-Clark's production of Judy Upton's Sliding With Suzanne. She portrayed child prodigy Thomasina in the Bristol Old Vic production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia in 2005. In 2011, she was the short-frocked daughter of Julian Barratt and Doon Mackichan at the Young Vic in Richard Jones's Government Inspector. She next played three lead roles – Cassandra, Andromache and Helen of Troy – in Caroline Bird's sold-out production of The Trojan Women at London's Gate Theatre. In February 2014, she starred as Julie in August Strindberg's Miss Julie at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow. She won Best Actress at the Manchester Theatre Awards for her role as Marianne in Constellations, directed by Michael Longhurst and played the lead alongside Anne Marie Duff in Marianne Elliott's Husbands and Sons at the National Theatre. Description above is from the Wikipedia article Louise Brealey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Louise Brealey plays as Cass in Back.
Louise Brealey is the top #2 member of the cast and appears in 12 episodes.

Penny Downie

#3 - Penny Downie (Ellen)

Penny Downie plays as Ellen in Back.
Penny Downie is the top #3 member of the cast and appears in 12 episodes.

Robert Webb

#4 - Robert Webb (Andrew)

Robert Webb plays as Andrew in Back.
Robert Webb is the top #4 member of the cast and appears in 12 episodes.

Oliver Maltman

#5 - Oliver Maltman (Mike)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Oliver Maltman is a British actor notable for his appearances in the TV series Star Stories, The Kevin Bishop Show, No Heroics and Clone. He has also appeared in Mike Leigh's films Happy-Go-Lucky in 2008 and Another Year in 2010. Born on 19 January 1976, in South London, Maltman trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Description above from the Wikipedia article Oliver Maltman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Oliver Maltman plays as Mike in Back.
Oliver Maltman is the top #5 member of the cast and appears in 12 episodes.

Olivia Poulet

#6 - Olivia Poulet (Alison)

Olivia Poulet plays as Alison in Back.
Olivia Poulet is the top #6 member of the cast and appears in 12 episodes.

Geoffrey McGivern

#7 - Geoffrey McGivern (Uncle Geoff)

Geoffrey McGivern plays as Uncle Geoff in Back.
Geoffrey McGivern is the top #7 member of the cast and appears in 6 episodes.

Matthew Holness

#8 - Matthew Holness (Laurie)

Born in Whitstable, Kent in 1975, Matthew Holness is an English comedian, actor, writer and director. He is best known for his comic creation, the fictional horror novelist Garth Marenghi. He read English at Trinity College, Cambridge and was vice-president of the Cambridge Footlights. His contemporaries included Footlights president, David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Olivia Colman and his Marenghi co-writer Richard Ayoade. Holness first appeared on television as a cast-member of the 2000 BBC Choice TV series Bruiser, which starred Mitchell, Webb, Colman and Martin Freeman. In that same year he won the Perrier at the Edinburgh Fringe for Garty Marenghi's Fright Night, which was transferred to UK television in the guise of the 2004 Channel 4 horror comedy Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. Other credits include 2006's Man to Man with Dean Learner, several productions with Ricky Gervais such as The Office, Life's Too Short and Cemetery Junction, and the 2017 Channel 4 sitcom Back which starred Mitchell and Webb. In 2018 he made his feature length directorial debut with the film Possum, having previously helmed short films The Snipist and A Gun For George.

Matthew Holness plays as Laurie in Back.
Matthew Holness is the top #8 member of the cast and appears in 6 episodes.

Michael Wildman

#9 - Michael Wildman (Tom)

Michael Wildman plays as Tom in Back.
Michael Wildman is the top #9 member of the cast and appears in 6 episodes.

John Macmillan

#10 - John Macmillan (Julian)

John Macmillan plays as Julian in Back.
John Macmillan is the top #10 member of the cast and appears in 6 episodes.

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