Grantchester guest stars
463 actors have guest-starred in Grantchester across 74 episodes and 11 seasons. The most-credited is Skye Lucia Degruttola, Esme Keating in 34 episodes. 42 of them have also guest-starred in five or more of the other shows in this catalogue.
Who came back most
| Actor | Character | Eps |
|---|---|---|
| Skye Lucia Degruttola | Esme Keating | 34 |
| Rose Allen | Dora Keating | 27 |
| Rubie-Rose Fearfield | Ivy Keating | 25 |
| Carter-Jae O'Neil | David Keating | 21 |
| Selin Hizli | Margaret Ward | 12 |
| Charlotte Ritchie | Bonnie Evans | 11 |
| Isaac Highams | Ernie Evans | 11 |
| Lorne MacFadyen | DC Phil Wilkinson | 10 |
| Gary Beadle | Archdeacon Gabriel Atubo | 9 |
| Stuart Bowman | Bishop Aubrey Grey | 9 |
| Christie Russell-Brown | Meg Grey | 8 |
| Michael Xavier | Elliott Wallace | 8 |
| Jemma Redgrave | Amelia Davenport | 7 |
| Tom Austen | Guy Hopkins | 7 |
| Elliot Warren | Sam White | 6 |
| Harley Chalke | David Keating | 6 |
| Mason Chalke | David Keating | 6 |
| Claudie Blakley | Agatha Redmond | 5 |
| Emily Patrick | Tamara Gurney-Clifford | 5 |
| Felix Scott | Sean Donovan | 5 |
| Jim Caesar | Matthew Butler | 5 |
| Lauren Carse | Ellie Harding | 5 |
| Narinder Samra | Keith Pruitt | 5 |
| Neil Morrissey | Harding Redmond | 5 |
| Ross Boatman | Vic Morgan | 5 |
Grantchester guest stars by season
| Season | Guests | Who |
|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 25 | Pheline Roggan, Tom Austen, Beth Lilly, Camilla Marie Beeput, Carolina Main, Chris Bearne, Fiona Button, Flora Montgomery, Gregg Lowe, Harry Hadden-Paton, Isla Blair, Jean Marsh and 13 more |
| Season 2 | 47 | Selin Hizli, Claudie Blakley, Lorne MacFadyen, Neil Morrissey, Sam Frenchum, Helen Clyro, Tom Austen, Andrew Knott, David Troughton, Geoffrey McGivern, Skye Lucia Degruttola, Alice Bailey Johnson and 35 more |
| Season 3 | 54 | Selin Hizli, Skye Lucia Degruttola, Lorne MacFadyen, Emily Bevan, Gary Beadle, Charlie Higson, Tom Austen, Adrian Bower, Adrian Lukis, Alexa Davies, Alix Ross, Candis Nergaard and 42 more |
| Season 4 | 56 | Felix Scott, Christian McKay, Skye Lucia Degruttola, Gary Beadle, Sarah Crowden, Jemma Redgrave, Katie Clarkson-Hill, Richard Cunningham, Simona Brown, Alex Hassell, Andrew Bicknell, Andrew Burford and 44 more |
| Season 5 | 49 | Harley Chalke, Jim Caesar, Lauren Carse, Mason Chalke, Rose Allen, Ross Boatman, Rubie-Rose Fearfield, Skye Lucia Degruttola, Paula Wilcox, Jack Donoghue, Jemma Redgrave, Dominic Mafham and 37 more |
| Season 6 | 59 | Skye Lucia Degruttola, Carter-Jae O'Neil, Emily Patrick, Rose Allen, Rubie-Rose Fearfield, Shaun Dooley, Ahmed Elhaj, Stuart Bowman, Gary Beadle, John Bowler, Michael Abubakar, Aimée Kelly and 47 more |
| Season 7 | 44 | Carter-Jae O'Neil, Charlotte Ritchie, Rose Allen, Rubie-Rose Fearfield, Isaac Highams, Michael Xavier, Ellora Torchia, Skye Lucia Degruttola, Tom Glenister, Jeremy Ang Jones, Rowena King, Ace Gill and 32 more |
| Season 8 | 43 | Isaac Highams, Narinder Samra, Charlotte Ritchie, Michael Xavier, Carter-Jae O'Neil, Rose Allen, Rubie-Rose Fearfield, Santo Tripodi, Simone Lahbib, Skye Lucia Degruttola, Aleah Aberdeen, Andrew Westfield and 31 more |
| Season 9 | 47 | Elliot Warren, Skye Lucia Degruttola, Rose Allen, Carter-Jae O'Neil, Lizzie Back, Rubie-Rose Fearfield, Stuart Bowman, Barney Wilkinson, Charlotte Ritchie, Isaac Highams, Jonathan Rhodes, Rebecca Benson and 35 more |
| Season 10 | 56 | Carter-Jae O'Neil, Christie Russell-Brown, Rose Allen, Rubie-Rose Fearfield, Abraham Chowdhury, Ada Richardson, AJ Bentley, Alex Dee, Anna Burnett, Ayan Philiip, Ben Bird, Brian Bususu and 44 more |
| Season 11 | 34 | Daniel Lapaine, Harry Davies, Jax James, Anthony Calf, Christie Russell-Brown, Nimmi Harasgama, Adam Mirsky, Amanda Fairbank-Hynes, Archie Christoph-Allen, Aretha Ayeh, Ben Galvin, Daniel Campbell and 22 more |
Guest stars you know from somewhere else
The hardest-working character actors in this show's guest cast, ranked by how many other shows in this catalogue they have also guest-starred in. Not the most famous names, the most prolific ones.
| Actor | In Grantchester | Other shows |
|---|---|---|
| Neil Jackson | Richard Reilly | 11 |
| Pip Torrens | Sir Edward Kendall | 11 |
| Rowena King | Edith Larson | 9 |
| Christina Cole | Joan Beaumont | 9 |
| Adrian Lukis | Superintendent John Baldwin | 8 |
| Emma Cunniffe | Maude Fitzgerald | 8 |
| Jonathan Coy | Professor Adams | 8 |
| Matthew Marsh | Harry Graham | 8 |
| Nigel Betts | Judge Newport | 8 |
| Patrick Baladi | Archer Davis | 8 |
| Alan Williams | Bernard Allison | 7 |
| Neil Stuke | Reg Wait | 7 |
| Nicholas Burns | Andrew Baylen | 7 |
| Paul Copley | Stuart Potts | 7 |
| Shaun Dooley | Johnny Richards | 6 |
Shares a cast with
- Grantchester and Midsomer Murders — 101 shared actors
- Grantchester and Father Brown — 65 shared actors
- Grantchester and Death in Paradise — 52 shared actors
- Grantchester and Silent Witness — 51 shared actors
- Call the Midwife — 49 shared actors
- Vera — 41 shared actors
- Lewis — 38 shared actors
- The Crown — 38 shared actors
Cast data from TVmaze, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.