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Not Going Out

Not Going Out

BBC One 2006

Lee is a childish northerner who lives in a fancy penthouse apartment in London who goes through a variety of jobs such as a janitor and ice cream man, as well as attempting relationships with female flatmates. His best mate, Daily Mail reading, middle-class citizen Tim is always there to stop Lee from getting in trouble, or not? Mayhem is never far away with cleaner Barbara who has never done an honest day's work in her life.
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The Top 10 Actors and Characters of Not Going Out (Ranked Cast in 2024)

Sally Bretton

#1 - Sally Bretton (Lucy, Lucy Adams)

Sally Bretton plays as Lucy, Lucy Adams in Not Going Out.
Sally Bretton is the top #1 member of the cast and appears in 73 episodes.

Geoffrey Whitehead

#2 - Geoffrey Whitehead (Geoffrey Adams)

Geoffrey Whitehead plays as Geoffrey Adams in Not Going Out.
Geoffrey Whitehead is the top #2 member of the cast and appears in 73 episodes.

Deborah Grant

#3 - Deborah Grant (Wendy Adams)

Born in London, Grant trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and appeared on stage at the Bristol Old Vic and in the West End of London. One of her best known early roles was as Sarah Francis in British drama Bouquet of Barbed Wire (1976). She has had a successful television acting career. Since 2007, she has appeared on and off in the sitcom Not Going Out, as the mother of Tim (Tim Vine) and Lucy (Sally Bretton).

Deborah Grant plays as Wendy Adams in Not Going Out.
Deborah Grant is the top #3 member of the cast and appears in 73 episodes.

Bobby Ball

#4 - Bobby Ball (Frank)

Oldham born comedian famous for his comic partnership with Tommy Cannon. The pair reached their peak in the 1980s with TV shows, sell out tours and even a film, Boys in Blue. In later years Ball has branched out into solo acting, appearing in TV shows such as Not Going Out and Mount Pleasant.

Bobby Ball plays as Frank in Not Going Out.
Bobby Ball is the top #4 member of the cast and appears in 57 episodes.

Hugh Dennis

#5 - Hugh Dennis (Toby)

Peter Hugh Dennis is an English comedian, actor, writer, impressionist and voice-over artist, best known for being one half of Punt and Dennis with comedy partner Steve Punt, and playing Pete Brockman, the father in the BBC One sitcom Outnumbered. Since 2005, Dennis has been a regular panellist on the BBC Two satirical comedy show Mock the Week.

Hugh Dennis plays as Toby in Not Going Out.
Hugh Dennis is the top #5 member of the cast and appears in 37 episodes.

Abigail Cruttenden

#6 - Abigail Cruttenden (Anna)

Abigail Cruttenden (born 23 March 1968) is an English actress. Cruttenden played opposite Sean Bean as his character's onscreen wife Jane in several episodes of Sharpe. The couple wed in real life in 1997 and had a daughter, Evie. Three months later they started divorce proceedings, and divorced in 2000. In 2003, Cruttenden married Jonathan Fraser. They have a child, Merle. Cruttenden's grandmother Cynthia Coatts runs the Rosslyn School of Dance and Drama in London, while her mother Julia Cruttenden, runs the stage make-up school Greasepaint in London. It was reported that her character Kate Weedon was axed from Benidorm, along with her onscreen husband Nicholas Burns. Description above from the Wikipedia article Abigail Cruttenden, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Abigail Cruttenden plays as Anna in Not Going Out.
Abigail Cruttenden is the top #6 member of the cast and appears in 37 episodes.

Tim Vine

#7 - Tim Vine (Tim Adams)

Tim Vine plays as Tim Adams in Not Going Out.
Tim Vine is the top #7 member of the cast and appears in 34 episodes.

Miranda Hart

#8 - Miranda Hart (Chummy)

Miranda Katherine Hart Dyke (born 14 December 1972), known professionally as Miranda Hart, is an English actress, comedian, and writer.

Miranda Hart plays as Chummy in Not Going Out.
Miranda Hart is the top #8 member of the cast and appears in 14 episodes.

Katy Wix

#9 - Katy Wix (Gemma Simpson)

Katy Wix (born 28 February 1980) is a Welsh actress and comedian. She is best known for her television roles as Daisy in Not Going Out (2007–2015), Carole in Stath Lets Flats (2018–), Mary in Ghosts (2019–) and Sarah Ferguson in The Windsors (2016–). She has also appeared in Outnumbered (2010), Miranda (2009) and as a regular contestant in series 9 of Taskmaster (2019). In 2007, she joined the cast of sitcom Not Going Out as recurring character Daisy and then went on to be a regular from Series 3. In Torchwood: Children of Earth she plays Rhiannon Davies. In 2010, she presented the BBC Three series The King Is Dead. She made guest appearances on the BBC shows Horrible Histories (2009–2011), Outnumbered (2010) and Absolutely Fabulous (2011). She also appeared in the Harvey's Furniture Store sponsorship bumpers for Coronation Street. She played Phoebe in Tom Basden's stage comedy Party (2010–2012) and its subsequent three series spin-off on BBC Radio 4 also called Party. She wrote and co-starred in the same station's comedy series Bird Island (2012). In 2017, for the BBC, she portrayed Nurse Cornish in an episode of the TV crime drama Sherlock, and Florence Fagin in the TV dramatisation of Decline and Fall. She also plays Mary, one of the main characters, in the 2019 BBC One sitcom Ghosts. Description above is from the Wikipedia article Katy Wix, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Katy Wix plays as Gemma Simpson in Not Going Out.
Katy Wix is the top #9 member of the cast and appears in 11 episodes.

Lee Mack

#10 - Lee Mack (Self - Presenter)

Lee Mack plays as Self - Presenter in Not Going Out.
Lee Mack is the top #10 member of the cast and appears in 8 episodes.

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