Waterloo Road (series 8)
The series
The show follows the lives of the teachers and the pupils at Waterloo Road, a failing comprehensive school.
The school has a lot of problems such as alcoholism, pyromania, teenage pregnancy, fostering, exorcism, coercive control, freeganism, adoption, pole-dancing, rape, burn injury, terminal illness, workplace bullying, self-harming, deafness, activism, blackmail, gender identity disorder, euthanasia, alcoholic hepatitis, assault, kidney failure, kidney donation and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Cast and characters
Staff
- Alec Newman as Michael Byrne; headteacher (28 episodes)
- Laurie Brett as Christine Mulgrew; Head of English and Acting headteacher (30 episodes)
- Jason Done as Tom Clarkson; Deputy headteacher and English teacher (30 episodes)
- Georgie Glen as Audrey McFall; Head of History (29 episodes)
- Daniela Denby-Ashe as Lorraine Donnegan; School benefactor (27 episodes)
- Melanie Hill as Maggie Budgen; Home Economics teacher, Senior Canteen Assistant and Housemistress (27 episodes)
- Philip Martin Brown as Grantly Budgen; English teacher and Housemaster (24 episodes)
- Victoria Bush as Sonya Donnegan; School secretary (22 episodes)
- Mark Benton as Daniel "Chalky" Chalk; Head of Mathematics (20 episodes)
- Heather Peace as Nikki Boston; Deputy Headteacher, English teacher and Head of Pupil Referral Unit (20 episodes)
- Jaye Jacobs as Sian Diamond; Deputy Headteacher and Head of Science (19 episodes)
- Richie Campbell as Ndale Kayuni; School handyman (7 episodes)
- Chelsee Healey as Janeece Bryant; School secretary (6 episodes)
- Daniela Nardini as Esther Fairclough; Acting Head of Science (4 episodes)
- Angus Deayton as George Windsor; Head of Modern Foreign Languages (3 episodes)
- Richard Mylan as Simon Lowsley; Deputy Headteacher and English teacher (2 episodes)
Pupils
- Shane O'Meara as Connor Mulgrew (30 episodes)
- Kirstie Steele as Imogen Stewart (30 episodes)
- Kane Tomlinson-Weaver as Harley Taylor (30 episodes)
- Rebecca Craven as Rhiannon Salt (28 episodes)
- Marlene Madenge as Lula Tsibi (26 episodes)
- Tommy Lawrence Knight as Kevin Chalk (23 episodes)
- Carl Au as Barry Barry (20 episodes)
- Brogan Ellis as Kacey Barry (20 episodes)
- Abby Mavers as Dynasty Barry (20 episodes)
- Katie McGlynn as Jodie "Scout" Allen (20 episodes)
- Adiza Shardow as Liberty Gordon (20 episodes)
- Taylor Rhys as Jack McAllister (19 episodes)
- Paige Meade as Jade Fleming (18 episodes)
- Kaya Moore as Phoenix Taylor (12 episodes)
- Naveed Choudhry as Tariq Siddiqui (8 episodes)
- Benjamin Gur as Angus "Gus" Hancock (8 episodes)
- William Rush as Josh Stevenson (7 episodes)
- Georgia Henshaw as Madi Diamond (6 episodes)
Others
Recurring
- Zöe Lucker as Carol Barry; Mother of the Barry children (8 episodes)
- Ron Donachie as Billy Byrne; Michael's terminally ill father (7 episodes)
- Alex Norton as Gerard Findlay; Headteacher of Havelock High (5 episodes)
- Jody Latham as Steve-O Malone; Dynasty's boyfriend (4 episodes)
- Jenny Ryan as Sally Stewart; Imogen's mother (3 episodes)
- Alisa Anderson as Zoe Foster; Pupil (2 episodes)
- Leyla Ogulyaymis as Cheryl Bryant; Janeece's young daughter (2 episodes)
- Lisa Riley as Tina Allen; Scout's mother (2 episodes)
- Shaun Prendergast as Robert Bain; Director of the Department for Education (2 episodes)
Guest
- Mhairi Anderson as Morag Murray; Pupil (1 episode)
- Fraser Ayres as Duncan Kilty; Owner of a pole-dancing bar (1 episode)
- Patrick Baladi as Julian Noble; Television presenter for Noble Thoughts (1 episode)
- James Daffern as Ray Keats; Head of Lorraine's call centre and careers advisor (1 episode)
- James Doherty as Martin Johnson; School governor (1 episode)
- Nicola Duffett as Daisy Skelton; Kevin's estranged mother (1 episode)
- Niall Greig Fulton as Kai Murray; Morag and Ewan's father (1 episode)
- Jan Goodman as Maureen Donnegan; Lorraine and Sonya's mother (1 episode)
- Clare Grogan as Sandra Gordon; Liberty's mother (1 episode)
- Bill Fellows as Trevor Croft; Maggie's husband (1 episode)
- Max Fowler as Drew Kelly; Jade's abusive boyfriend (1 episode)
- Gaynor Howe as Sarah Winters; Adoptive mother of Jade's unborn baby (1 episode)
- Emmanuel Ighodaro as Kaz Winters; Adoptive father of Jade's unborn baby (1 episode)
- Raji James as Usman Haq; Owner of Prince of Spices fast food (1 episode)
- Cornell S John as Lionel Tsibi; Lula's uncle (1 episode)
- Daniel Kerr as Ewan Murray; Pupil (1 episode)
- Pollyanna McIntosh as Olivia McAllister; Jack's mother (1 episode)
- Anna-Maria Nabirye as Cecile Tsibi; Lula's mother (1 episode)
- Tachia Newall as Bolton Smilie; Ex-pupil and Army officer (1 episode)
- Derek Riddell as Joe Mulgrew; Christine's ex-husband (1 episode)
- George Sampson as Kyle Stack; Pupil (1 episode)
- Sam Lucas Smith as Fergal Doherty; Pupil (1 episode)
- John Kay Steel as Dr. Fielding Granger; Grantly's consultant (1 episode)
- Elizabeth Tan as Princess Windsor; George's wife (1 episode)
- Vishal Thakur as Nasir Haq; Pupil (1 episode)
- John Thomson as Nelson Smith; Phoenix and Harley's father (1 episode)
- Josie Walker as Theresa Doherty; Fergal's mother (1 episode)
DVD release
The Autumn Term (episodes 1–10) was released on 4 February 2013. The Spring Term (episodes 11–20) was released on 3 June 2013. The Summer Term (episodes 21–30) was released on 7 October 2013. The Complete Series Eight was released on 15 September 2014.
