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The
Stars of Crossroads Mark 2
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Jane Gurnett
A well
established actress, Jane has appeared in numerous film and
television drama's. Her first big role was back in 1987 in the
television mini-series Napoleon and Josephine made for a USA TV network.
In the UK she
found fame as Staff Nurse Rachel Longworth in drama series Casualty,
later moving on to Dangerfield, another BBC drama. Jane played Kate
Russell in Crossroads from March 2001 to May 2003. |
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Jane Rossington
Jane's first
television role was as nurse Kate Ford in ATV's 1950s hospital soap,
Emergency Ward Ten. In 1964 Jane checked into the Crossroads Motel as
Jill Richardson and stayed there 24 years.
More recently
she played 'Cousin Jill' in Channel 4 soap Brookside, which it was
indirectly suggested it was Jill Richardson, all be it her full name
was never revealed but she did make her money in hotels. In 2001 Jane
returned as the 'real' Jill in Crossroads. |
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Kathy Staff
Since 1962
Kathy has been gracing the television screens of the UK. With many
film and television credits to her name she really has become a
British institution. Although many will forever remember Kathy as
Nora Batty in the BBC sitcom Last Of The Summer Wine, she's also
appeared in practically every ITV soap there has ever been!
In 1973 just
as she started Summer Wine, she appeared in Coronation Street as Vera
Hopkins, then Emmerdale Farm beconned, followed by Crossroads Motel
from 1978 to 1985. After leaving Summer Wine in 2001, she returned to
the Crossroads Hotel as the popular Doris Luke. |
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Tony Adams
Played the
'nice guy' Neville Bywaters in ATV soap General Hospital before
joining the original Crossroads Motel in 1978. Other television roles
have varied from sitcom The Upper Hand to detective drama in Bergerac.
In the late
1990s he appeared in ITV's comedy, The Grimley's. Dr Who fan's will
remember Tony as Elgin from a 1973 edition. It was however as Adam
Chance in Crossroads from 2001 through to 2002 that we will rememebr him. |
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Sherrie Hewson
She first
found fame in the Carry On Laughing television comedy series in 1975,
where she first played the role of a character called Virginia in the
series. Many comedy roles followed from co-starring with Russ Abbot
on his television sketch shows to the sitcom Barbara. From 1993
Sherrie starred as the down trodden Maureen Naylor in Coronation
Street finally leaving the soap in 1997.
From March
2001 to May 2003 she was sharp-tongued receptionist Virgina Raven at
Crossroads.Sherrie also found time to co-present Granada TV's Loose
Women talk-show and has more recently become a member of the cast of
Yorkshire Television's soap, Emmerdale. |
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Roger Sloman
Another actor
with a long career in television drama. First appeared on our screens
in a episode of the classic Thames TV police series, The Sweeny and
has had many more appearances since.
From comedy
shows including Blackadder to children's drama Grange Hill and other
soaps such as Family Affairs, Roger has been appearing on screen
since 1975. He was recently listed in the top 100 greatest TV
characters for his role as Keith Pratt in a 1976 BBC Play For Today
programme called, Nuts in May. |
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