As Emmerdale celebrates their most well-known characters in new documentary sequence Emmerdale Household Timber, right here is RadioTimes.com‘s information to 2 of the cleaning soap’s most iconic clans and the hyperlinks between them – the downtrodden Dingles and the glamorous Tates.
It’s going to get difficult. Very difficult.
CURRENT DINGLES
Zak Dingle (Steve Halliwell)
First look: 1994
Authentic Patriarch Zak introduced the primary wave of his limitless brood to the village again in 1994. As with many Dingles, explaining his relationship to the remainder of the clan rapidly will get difficult, as there’s all the time a long-lost member of the family ready to emerge from the woodwork. So to summarise: he’s had three wives (Nellie, Lisa – twice – and Joanie, widowed twice by the final two), seven children that we all know of (considered one of which known as Nathan, with Nellie, we’ve by no means seen) and is said in a roundabout way to everybody on this listing.
Sam Dingle (James Hooton)
First look: 1995
The second longest-serving Dingle is considered one of Zak’s 5 sons. The great-but-dim farmer (the household’s stock-in commerce) is probably the most innocent of the bunch and simply needs a quiet life with spouse Lydia and teenage son Sam, from his first marriage to the late Alice who he helped to die when she found she had terminal most cancers.
Marlon Dingle (Mark Charnock)
First look: 1996
Zak’s subtle nephew has all the time barely despaired of his household’s law-breaking, uncouth antics. Chef Marlon has a daughter April from his marriage to useless Donna, and a son Leo from his relationship with vet Rhona Goskirk. First spouse Tricia was killed in a hurricane when she was buried underneath a collapsed Woolpack.
Mandy Dingle (Lisa Riley)
First look: 1995
Bigger than life and all the time attempting to make a fast buck, Mandy, Zak’s niece, was amongst one of many earliest Dingle divas. She left the common forged in 2000 and made a comeback in 2019 with a teenage son Vinny, who it was later revealed she’d adopted after his dad, her ex, Paul walked out when he was four-years-old.
Cain Dingle (Jeff Hordley)
First look: 2000
Brooding unhealthy boy Cain grew up pondering Zak was his uncle till discovering he was truly his dad, following a fling with flighty sister-in-law Religion. He’s softened his tough edges through the years however the moody mechanic is all the time embroiled in some form of trauma. His on/off romance with cousin Charity resulted in daughter Debbie, he has three sons with three mums: Kyle with Amy Wyatt, Isaac with present spouse Moira Dingle, and Nate Robinson, who he solely knew existed after he tracked him down in 2019 and revealed Cain’s previous flame Cara was pregnant after they cut up over 20 years earlier than.
Charity Dingle (Emma Atkins)
First look: 2000
Gold-digging minx Charity has finished all of it, however like kissing cousin Cain is extra settled now in comparison with her early days on the present, when she was marrying a unique millionaire each week and bedding half the village. She’s liked up with Vanessa Woodfield and fortunately operating the Woolpack with cousin Chas, however let’s not overlook her chequered previous: married 3 times (the late Chris Tate, with whom she has a son Noah, Jai Sharma and the late Declan Macey), mum to her and Cain’s daughter Debbie and two different sons – Moses (with Ross Barton) and grown-up Ryan Shares, who she deserted at start after falling pregnant from being raped in her teenagers by corrupt cop Mark Bails. Enjoyable reality – Suranne Jones auditioned for the position shortly earlier than becoming a member of Coronation Avenue.
Belle Dingle (Eden Taylor-Draper)
First look: 1998
Born on Christmas Day, Tinkerbelle is Zak and Lisa’s daughter. She went from cute child to traumatised teen when she unintentionally killed greatest good friend Gemma which sparked long-term psychological well being points she nonetheless grapples with. Notoriously unfortunate in love she’s dated serial killers and married man, together with veterinary apply colleague Jamie Tate.
Chas Dingle (Lucy Pargeter)
First look: 2002
Former stripper, one-time soldier, now pub landlady, tough-talking Chastity is Cain’s half sister (they’ve the identical mom, Zak’s brother Shadrach is Chas’s dad), mum to grown-up son Aaron from her marriage to the late Gordon Livesy, and little woman Eve with present accomplice Paddy Kirk. She and Paddy had a child known as Grace who sadly lived for just some hours. Chas was briefly married to Dan Spencer and had a tumultuous romances with killers Tom King and Cameron Murray.
Aaron Dingle (Danny Miller)
First look: 2003
Chas’s delicate son appeared as a recurring visitor performed by Danny Webb till he was recast as Danny Miller in 2008 and have become the definitive Aaron we all know and love. Tormented for years by his sexuality, Aaron got here out of the closet and married lover Robert Sugden (now in jail). He additionally bravely confronted as much as the abuse he suffered as a baby from his evil dad Gordon, and has finished time for GBH. He’s authorized guardian to his half-sister Liv Flaherty, from their shared dad’s second marriage.
Noah Dingle (Jack Downham)
First look: 2004
Charity’s son with late first husband Chris Tate has actually seen lots of life, due to his mum’s wild previous and quite a few companions. However since Charity settled down with Vanessa he’s rising up into a fairly first rate lad, all issues thought-about.
Sarah Sugden (Katie Hill)
First look: 2005
Born in a barn to a then-teenage mum Debbie and farmhand Andy Sugden, younger Sarah’s troubled life has been dominated by ailing well being. Recognized with leukaemia when she was simply six, her dad and mom, who had by no means been a correct couple, needed to conceive a saviour sibling so they might use his bone marrow to deal with her. Years of chemo put strain on her physique and she or he had a coronary heart transplant in 2018.
Samson Dingle (Sam Corridor)
First look: 2006
Easy Sam’s son had a tragic begin in life as mum Alice died in 2006 when he was a new child child. The caring child is rising up right into a mini-me of his lovable dad, and was greatest at his wedding ceremony to step-mum Lydia in 2020.
Moira Dingle (Natalie J Robb)
First look: 2009
Flirtatious farmer Moira married into the Dingles in 2014 when she tied the knot with Cain, who she cheated on first hubby John Barton with. John died leaving the best way clear for Moira to embark on a tumultuous, on/off romance with the dashing Dingle. She had a fling with Cain’s long-lost son Nate, and obtained away with the homicide of Emma Barton in 2017.
April Windsor-Dingle (Amelia Flanagan)
First look: 2014
Marlon obtained a shock when ex-wife Donna returned to the village 4 years after their marriage with a daughter he didn’t know existed: Donna found she was pregnant when she left him however stored quiet, and solely revealed the reality as she was dying of most cancers and wished April to be raised by her household after her dying. Cheeky, irrepressible April is a Dingle diva within the making.
Liv Flaherty (Isobel Steele)
First look: 2016
Aaron’s feisty child sister Olivia discovered her world turned the wrong way up when it emerged her dad Gordon sexually abused half-brother Aaron. Mum Sandra fled to Eire leaving her daughter in her older sibling’s care, and {the teenager} was taken in as an honorary Dingle. Liv is a severe soul, clever past her years however missing in self-confidence. She’s additionally struggled with well being and sexual id points.
Lydia Dingle (Karen Blick)
First look: 2016
Kooky cleaner Lydia received Sam Dingle’s coronary heart and the pair obtained wed in 2020. Regardless of her eccentric exterior, Lydia has a tragic backstory: she grew up in care and had a stillborn child daughter when she was a youngster, who she buried within the woods. Determined to place the incident behind her she modified her title from Jenny Finn and began a brand new life underneath the title Lydia Hart. When she tracked down her start household she learnt she might have the gene for degenerative situation Huntington’s illness.
Ryan Shares (James Moore)
First look: 2018
Charity’s long-lost son, the results of a sexual assault when she was groomed into teenage prostitution by corrupt cop Mark Bails, Ryan was deserted by his terrified mum believing he had died shortly after the traumatic start. Seems he was adopted by the kindly midwife, and Ryan was reunited along with his organic start mum nearly 30 years later and now lives within the village.
Vinny Ashdale (Bradley Johnson)
First look: 2019
Raised by his dad Paul’s girlfriend Mandy Dingle from the age of 4, when his debt-ridden father did a runner, Vin is one other honorary Dingle who might not formally be blood associated to the brood however is taken into account considered one of their very own. The well-mannered lad is commonly at odds with Mandy over her moneymaking and law-breaking, however thinks of her as his mum – though his actual mom remains to be on the market someplace.
Nate Robinson (Jurell Carter)
First look: 2019
Mysterious stranger Nate rocked up at Butler’s Farm and seduced Moira, which turned out to be a part of his grand plan to break the lifetime of Cain Dingle – his long-lost dad. Cain’s romance with Nate’s mum Cara was lower brief due to stepdad Shadrach’s racist views about having a blended race grandchild. Cain by no means even knew Cara was pregnant, so it’s been an extended journey for father and son to construct any form of relationship.
ABSENT DINGLES
Nellie Dingle (Sandra Gough/Maggie Tagney)
Appeared: 1995, 2000
Zak’s first spouse and mom to Tina, Butch, Ben, Sam and Nathan (by no means seen on display screen). They divorced in 1997, and she or he final appeared in 2000. She lives with one other department of Dingles in Eire.
Tina Dingle (Jacqueline Pirie)
Appeared: 1994-1996
Zak and Nellie’s youngest, unhealthy woman Tina schemed and seduced her method across the village. She faked a being pregnant and pretended to fall for heart-throb Luke McAllister to humiliate him after believing he was answerable for her brother Ben’s dying. Tina left city after a fling with Frank Tate went bitter.
Butch Dingle (Paul Loughran)
Appeared: 1994-2000
Mild large Butch was probably the most misunderstood of Zak and Nellie’s 5 offspring. He lastly discovered love with mousy Emily Wylie however tragedy struck and he was injured in a van crash – him and Emily married whereas he was on his deathbed in hospital.
Ben Dingle (Steve Fury)
Appeared: 1994
The primary Dingle on display screen, Zak and Nellie’s son solely briefly appeared earlier than dying throughout a battle with native lad Luke McAllister. The clan blamed Luke for his dying, propelling their first large story and purpose for coming to the village, but it surely turned out to be a uncommon coronary heart defect that killed him.
Lisa Dingle (Jane Cox)
Appeared: 1998-2019
Zak almost didn’t marry his second spouse, and love of his life, as she nearly obtained hitched to his brother Albert. However the pair tied the knot and have become one of many cleaning soap’s most beloved partnerships for 20 years, having Belle (Lisa didn’t even know she was pregnant till she went into labour), splitting and getting again collectively. Lisa died of a terminal sickness in 2019 hours after remarrying her hubby.
Shadrach Dingle (Andy Devine)
Appeared: 2000-2010
Zak’s alcoholic, layabout brother was a waste of area and a horrible dad to Chas and Cain (who he raised as his personal, not figuring out Zak was his actual father). He had a secret love youngster, Gennie, with Brenda Walker. Shadrach died of liver failure after years of abusing his physique with booze.
Debbie Dingle (Charley Webb)
Appeared: 2002-2019 (briefly absent)
Cain and Charity’s long-lost daughter tracked down her start dad and mom when she was in her teenagers, coming to the village as a foster child for Paddy Kirk and ex-wife Emily (beforehand married to Butch Dingle) and the trio ended up forming a good, if tumultuous, bond. Drama-magnet Debbie has been by way of the mill, had two children with Andy Sugden (Sarah and Jack, conceived to a saviour sibling for his sick sister), romanced serial killer Cameron Murray, wealthy child Joe Tate and unhealthy boy Ross Barton, regardless of being married to his brother Pete. Deb is at present absent to accommodate Webb’s maternity depart.
Eli Dingle (Joseph Gilgun)
Appeared: 2006-2010
Marlon’s wayward brother led the well-behaved chef astray when he confirmed up recent from jail. After two years of mischief and legal exercise, and a doomed romance with cousin Debbie, Eli left Emmerdale a digital outcast after nearly letting Sam take the blame for a theft and assault.
Del Dingle (Hayley Tamaddon)
Appeared: 2005-2007
Showing, Rachel from Associates type, in a marriage gown having jilted her fiancée, dynamic Delilah got here to stick with uncle Zak (one other of his limitless nieces) and stayed for a couple of years. She was the 30th Dingle to be launched on display screen and had transient romances with killer Carl King, vet Paddy Kirk and heart-throb David Metcalfe, who incurred her wrath by dishonest on her which finally led to her departure.
Gennie Walker (Sian Reese-Williams)
Appeared: 2008-2013
Shadrach’s grown-up love youngster Genesis tracked her start household down, having been given up for adoption at start and raised by Brenda Walker. Half-sister to Chas, candy and barely dippy Gennie married Nikhil Sharma and had a child, Molly, however her life was lower tragically brief when she was murdered by serial killer Cameron Murray after she came upon he’d got rid of Carl King – and was bedding cousin Debbie behind Chas’s again.
Joanie Dingle (Denise Black)
Appeared: 2013-2017
The adoptive grandmother of Cain Dingle’s son Kyle throughout the time the little lad was introduced up by one other household, Joanie caught Zak Dingle’s eye and the pair had a fling that wrecked his marriage to Lisa. Joanie and Zak wed but it surely didn’t final as she knew he nonetheless liked his ex. She died of a coronary heart assault simply as Zak and Lisa discovered their method again to one another.
Religion Dingle (Gillian Jephcott, Sally Dexter)
Appeared: 2000, 2004, 2017-2019
Cain and Chas’s errant mom had briefly appeared a couple of occasions earlier than Dexter performed her as an everyday. Discovered sleeping tough in a barn, gin-soaked Religion had made herself skint after donating her stash of financial savings to great-granddaughter Sarah for life-saving medical therapy. Religion bravely revealed she had battled breast most cancers within the years she’d been away from the household, and left after her half in concealing Cain’s long-lost son Nate from him emerged in 2019.
Obadiah Dingle (Paul Copley)
Appeared: 2018
Charity Dingle sought out her estranged dad in 2018 when she revisited her painful previous. Evil Obadiah chucked his daughter out onto the streets when she was simply 13, and she or he ended up pressured into being an underage intercourse employee then falling pregnant with son Ryan Shares after being raped by corrupt cop Mark Bails.
Albert Dingle (Bobby Knutt)
Appeared: 1995-2004
The eldest of Zak’s seven siblings, conniving Albert can also be Marlon and Eli’s dad. He unsuccessfully fought his brother for Lisa Clegg’s coronary heart, and spent most of his life out and in of jail to the purpose of being just about disowned by the opposite Dingles.
Ezra Dingle (John Henshaw)
Appeared: 1999
One among Zak’s brothers who made a handful of appearances in 1999. Married to Gwen and a dad to 2 children, all unseen and unnamed.
Caleb Dingle (Mike Kelly)
Appeared: 2000
One other of Zak’s brothers, Mandy Dingle’s dad appeared as soon as to try to mend the fractured relationship along with his daughter.
Peg Dingle (Jeanne Hepple)
Appeared: 2002
Zak had a relationship along with his battle-axe of a mom that would greatest be described as ‘tough’. Mom and son clashed, and she or he solely had a brief spell residing with the remainder of the Dingles within the village again in 2002. She was final heard of residing in Africa.
Jedediah Dingle (Richard Mayes)
Appeared: 2002
Zak’s estranged father walked out when he was eight years previous. He was seen simply as soon as in 2002 when he got here to the village to see his son shortly earlier than his dying – previous to that, Zak had spent his entire life pondering his father had handed away years earlier than.
Lillith Dingle (Amanda Hennessy)
Appeared: 2004, 2006-2007
Delilah’s dodgy sister got here to a household get together in 2004 and left her 4 children with the clan whereas she swanned off, one thing she did greater than as soon as over the subsequent few years. Finally she was finished for armed theft, however took off to Eire together with her brood as soon as she was launched from jail.
Luke Dingle (Dean McGonagle)
Appeared: 2004, 2006-2007
Eldest of flighty Lillith’s 4 kids who briefly lived with cousin Marlon Dingle after which spouse Donna throughout considered one of his mom’s many disappearing acts. Like his siblings, Luke suffered as a consequence of his unstable background, spending their lives out and in of care, and infrequently lashed out.
Matthew Dingle (Cillian McCormack/Josh Chamberlain)
Appeared: 2004, 2006-2007
One other of Lillith’s kids, twin brother of Mark.
Mark Dingle (Cormac Golden/Joe Manuel)
Appeared: 2004, 2006-2007
One other of Lillith’s kids, twin brother of Matthew.
Jon Dingle (Lucy Webb)
Appeared: 2004, 2006-2007
Youngest of Lillith’s offspring and her solely daughter, named Jon as her mom wished to maintain up the custom of naming her quartet of youngsters after the apostles.
Solomon Dingle (Paul Shane)
Appeared: 2004
Zak’s cousin and best rival. Was in jail the identical time as Sam Dingle. One among his brothers is Charity’s dad Obadiah.
Elvis Dingle (Martin Walsh)
Appeared: 2002-2004
One more cousin of Zak’s, who made recurring visitor appearances for a couple of years within the early 2000s. Married to Marilyn, father to sons Brando and Daniel.
Marilyn Dingle (Morag Siller)
Appeared: 2002-2004
Elvis’s spouse, who made recurring visitor appearances for a couple of years within the early 2000s. Mum to sons Brando and Daniel.
Kim Tate (Claire King)
First look: 1989
Gold-digging Kim was launched because the second spouse of rich businessman Frank. Continuously clashing along with his grown-up children Zoe and Chris, conniving Kim spent years attempting to get her arms on the Tate household fortune and lied, schemed and swindled although her first eventful decade within the village. Famously fleeing in a helicopter with younger son Jamie, from her fling with toy boy Dave Glover, and a load of money she’d nicked, Kim was finally jailed off display screen and made a dramatic return to Residence Farm upon her launch in 2018. She was a suspect within the homicide of ex-husband Graham Foster in 2020.
Jamie Tate (Alexander Lincoln)
First look: 2019
The spawn of merciless Kim is a surprisingly mild-mannered younger vet, in all probability as a result of he spent a lot of his life estranged from his imply mom for her nasty nature to rub off on him. Having stated that, Jamie turned a love rat beginning an affair with colleague Belle Dingle behind spouse Andrea’s again. We first met Jamie when Kim orchestrated him to get a job within the village so they might reconnect, and he was joined by Ands and younger daughter Millie.
Andrea Tate (Anna Nightingale)
First look: 2019
Backstory tells us that glamorous Andrea was initially employed by Kim’s henchman, the late Graham Foster, to trick Jamie into marrying her as a method of preserving tabs on him for Kim. Andrea genuinely fell for Mr Tate, however later admitted to sleeping with Graham which briefly put the paternity of daughter Millie unsure (don’t fear, a DNA check proved she was Jamie’s). She claims to have cleaned up her act from her days as a con artist, however her revenge on her dishonest hubby confirmed she’s embracing the tyrannical Tate title.
Frank Tate (Norman Bowler)
Appeared: 1989-1997
The omnipotent Tate patriarch was blinded by love for trophy spouse Kim, his secretary who he’d had an affair with whereas first spouse Jean was dying of most cancers. That every one modified when Kim revealed her money-grabbing true colors and the couple have been at warfare for the very best a part of ten years. Kim faked her dying and framed Frank for her homicide, and when she miraculously returned her hubby had a coronary heart assault and she or he watched as he died. She memorably checked he’d stopped respiration by holding a compact mirror to his airways, earlier than checking her lippy and fleeing the scene.
Chris Tate (Peter Amory)
Appeared: 1989-2003
Posh unhealthy boy Chris was the inheritor to the Tate throne which sparked a rivalry with step-mum Kim and quite a few clashes with dad Frank. Paralysed after the 1993 airplane crash, Chris turned a bitter, twisted particular person with an more and more controlling nature that wrecked quite a few romances together with two marriages (Kathy Glover and Rachel Hughes, with whom he had a son, Joseph). He framed third spouse Charity Dingle for his ‘homicide’ after she cheated on him with Cain Dingle, by taking his personal life upon studying he had an inoperable mind tumour. Him and Charity had a son, Noah, born shortly after he died.
Zoe Tate (Leah Bracknell)
Appeared: 1989-2005
The delicate vet was much less unstable than her brother Chris, however a lifetime of trauma took its toll and she or he battled schizophrenia and alcoholism. Pioneering Zoe was Emmerdale’s first homosexual character and she or he and girlfriend Emma Nightingale shared the cleaning soap’s first lesbian kiss in 1995. The final of the unique Tates standing into the 21st century, Zoe moved to New Zealand with daughter Jean, conceived in a hook-up with hunky Scott Windsor within the haze of a breakdown, and nephew Joseph, fastidiously timing a fuel explosion at Residence Farm as new house owners the Kings moved in, fuelled by her rivalry with the clan.
Liam Hammond (Mark Powley)
Appeared: 1999
Frank’s secret illegitimate love youngster tracked down his half-siblings Chris and Zoe after their father’s dying, and took them each hostage in a crazed act of revenge for being deserted by the clan. Zoe shot Liam useless and she or he and Chris escaped.
Joe Tate (Ned Porteous)
Appeared: 1995-2005, 2017-2018
Son of Chris (who died in 2003) and Rachel (who died in 1999), orphaned Joseph was raised by Aunt Zoe and brought to New Zealand when he was 10. Believing that floozy Charity Dingle ruined his dad’s life, grown-up Joe posed underneath the false id of playboy tycoon Tom Waterhouse and seduced Charity’s daughter Debbie Dingle as a part of an extended recreation of revenge on Chris’s behalf in opposition to his former stepmum. Finally revealing who he actually was, Joe modified his thoughts having correctly fallen for Debbie and the pair deliberate to run off collectively. Step-granny Kim ordered a success on him for attempting to take management of the household enterprise and Cain Dingle thought he’d killed Joe when he collapsed after a fist battle. Turned out Graham Foster helped his step-grandson get away and the lad is now laying low in Monte Carlo.
Graham Foster (Andrew Scarborough)
Appeared: 2017-2020
Mysterious man in black Graham Foster was launched because the manservant/butler/surrogate dad for Joe (or Tom, as he was initially), and was appointed by Zoe Tate because the boy’s authorized guardian since childhood. His tragic, eventful previous advised us his pregnant first spouse Cheryl died in a drink-driving accident he triggered, and when Kim was reintroduced in 2018 it turned out he’d been working for her behind the scenes for years. Not solely that however they’d a wedding of comfort whereas she was banged up so he may defend her monetary belongings on the surface. Graham made quite a few enemies within the village and his homicide in 2020 sparked an enormous whodunnit, with the offender finally unmasked as Pierce Harris, former husband of Graham’s lover Rhona Goskirk.
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