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The other characters - series 2

Series 1 | Series 2 | The Specials

Series two saw the Swindon branch merging with the Slough branch, and the introduction of this load of mentals:

Brenda: Julie Fernandez

Brenda, often offended by stuff David says, doesn’t do much else.

Julie Fernandez has a short TV history, playing Nessa Lockhead, a disabled teenager, in Eldorado in 1992. Also she played Marty Dangerfield’s girlfriend Carol in Dangerfield for three episodes in 1995. She was born on 30 April 1974, in Essex.

Oliver: Howard Saddler

Oliver, works in accounts, fancied by Sheila.

Like many of the smaller part’s actors Howard has had one-off cameo appearances in ‘Holby City’ and ‘The Bill’ in 2000 and 2001 respectively. He has also done a lot of work in theatre and on the stage on such classics as ‘Anthony and Cleopatra’, ‘Caesar’ and ‘Arm and the Man’.

Trudy: Rachel Isaac

Trudy is Welsh, a bit of a slapper, and it seems a shame that in such a fine series as The Office that this description is wholly sufficient for any of the characters. But it’s the way they edited it all together, they stitched her up, poor girl.
Trudy had lost a bit of weight in time for the special.

As for Rachel Isaac, she was in a show called I Saw You, which also starred Fay Ripley. They both played women going after men or something.

Patrick: Patrick Driver

Patrick came from Swindon, and really wasn’t seen doing much in the series, sadly meaning I have to leave a rather large blank area next to the photo of him here.

Tony: Tony MacMurray

It’s a similar story for Tony. He has a bit of a go at Brent on a couple of occasions. Not much though.

Tony MacMurray has also appeared in a few adverts for egg.com, as a guy who had a talking sock on his hand that told him how to spend money.

He’s also in Steve Merchant’s BBC training film “Seedy Boss” which was where the show kinda started, being shown around by Brent. Thanks to Jay for spotting this!

Rachel: Stacey Roca

The sexiest of the new colleagues from Swindon. Rachel caught the eyes of Tim and Gareth, unsurprisingly taking a shine to Tim and not Gareth. Rachel worked at Swindon for two years before the offices were merged.
What makes her character important in terms of the series is that her relationship with Tim leaves Dawn feeling painfully jealous of him, and it made uncertain the sense of inevitability that Dawn and Tim would one day end up together. In the last episode of series 2, Tim dumped Rachel and made an unheard (we saw but didn’t hear) confession to Dawn.

Like most of the cast of The Office. Stacey is a relative newcomer. She has previously appeared in the film Oh Marbella as a holiday rep, and on TV as Sue, in a program I know nothing else about called Burn It. She was in The Pet Shop Boy’s stage musical, Closer to Heaven, as Shell, the album of which you can buy from Amazon here, and hear her sing!
Stacey is also an intermediate fencer, so watch out for some of that in the future!

Simon: Matthew Holness

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Ahh. Simon the IT nerd. Do I have to bother writing about him?

He likes Bruce Lee. There you go.

Matthew Holness on the other hand has made his name, or rather made Garth Marenghi’s name an almost household name. Definitely with anyone who likes comedy-you know the sort. Always think they’re a bit ahead of the game because they saw some standup at Jongleurs do a routine about some celebrity who’s only just died.
Anyway, Darkplace was an excellent series, entering the fictional world as created by horror writer Garth Marenghi (are you keeping up?).

I think you’re best off having a look at this site.

Jude: Jennifer Hennesey

The female representative to meet Brent from Cooper and Webb.

Jennifer appears in both the Paul Calf special thingies.

Ray: Tom Goodman-Hill

The male representative to meet Brent from Cooper and Webb.

Tom Goodman-Hill was in BBC2s People Like Us, as a policeman I think.

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