Emmerdale is a British television soap opera created by Kevin Laffan and set in the countryside of the Yorkshire Dales in the fictional village of Emmerdale, which chronicles the joys and heartbreaks of a tightly-knit community.
The Tate, Sugden, Dingle and King families rely on the farm and its nearby village for their livelihoods, but the locale also provides plenty of danger and drama as well.
Car crashes, shootings, fires, a Home Farm raid and even a plane crash have rocked the region, but its inhabitants carry on and even thrive in the bustling village they call home - where there's never a dull moment.
Emmerdale is produced by ITV Studios Yorkshire in Leeds.
Broadcast Notes
Emmerdale debuted in South Africa on ITV Choice on the day the channel went live (5 May, 2015), beginning with Episode 7173. The South African broadcast is two days behind the UK one.
Starring
Ryan Hawley
as
Robert Sugden
Chris Chittell
as
Eric Pollard
Isabel Hodgins
as
Victoria Sugden
Paula Tilbrook
as
Betty Eagleton
Steve Halliwell
as
Zak Dingle
James Hooton
as
Sam Dingle
Kelvin Fletcher
as
Andy Sugden
Mark Charnock
as
Marlon Dingle
John Middleton
as
Ashley Thomas
Dominic Brunt
as
Paddy Kirk
Samantha Giles
as
Bernice Blackstock
Eden Taylor-Draper
as
Belle Dingle
Elizabeth Estensen
as
Diane Sugden
Jeff Hordley
as
Cain Dingle
Emma Atkins
as
Charity Tate
Shirley Stelfox
as
Edna Birch
Tony Audenshaw
as
Bob Hope
Patrick Mower
as
Rodney Blackstock
Nicola Wheeler
as
Nicola King
Gemma Atkinson
as
Carly Hope
Zoe Henry
as
Rhona Goskirk
Charlotte Bellamy
as
Laurel Thomas
Lucy Pargeter
as
Chas Dingle
Charley Webb
as
Debbie Dingle
Meg Johnson
as
Pearl Ladderbanks
Danny Miller
as
Aaron Livesy
Charlie Hardwick
as
Val Pollard
Freddie Jones
as
Sandy Thomas
Matthew Wolfenden
as
David Metcalfe
Duncan Preston
as
Douglas Potts
Lesley Dunlop
as
Brenda Walker
Roxy Shahidi
as
Leyla Harding
Natalie J. Robb
as
Moira Barton
Adam Thomas
as
Adam Barton
Chris Bisson
as
Jai Sharma
Fiona Wade
as
Priya Sharma
Natalie Anderson
as
Alicia Gallagher
Gemma Oaten
as
Rachel Breckle
Kelli Hollis
as
Ali Spencer
Alicya Eyo
as
Ruby Haswell
Bhasker Patel
as
Rishi Sharma
Trudie Goodwin
as
Georgia Sharma
Gaynor Faye
as
Megan Macey
Laura Norton
as
Kerry Wyatt
Michelle Hardwick
as
Vanessa Woodfield
Michael Parr
as
Ross Barton
Bill Ward
as
James Barton
Katherine Dow Blyton
as
Harriet Finch
Anthony Quinlan
as
Pete Barton
Amy Walsh
as
Tracy Shankley
Pasha Bocarie
as
Rakesh Kotecha
Adam Fielding
as
Kirin Kotecha
John Bowe
as
Lawrence White
Louise Marwood
as
Chrissie White
Thomas Atkinson
as
Lachlan White
Gillian Kearney
as
Emma Barton