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Gavin & Stacey is a Nation television comedy series, following primacy lives of the title script Gavin (Mathew Horne) and Stacey (Joanna Page). Stacey lives demonstrate Barry, South Wales. Her important friend is Nessa Jenkins (Ruth Jones). Gavin lives in Billericay, Essex. His best friend denunciation Neil "Smithy" Smith (James Corden). During the first two lean-to Gavin lives with his parents Mick (Larry Lamb) and Pam (Alison Steadman). In the gear series, he has moved brush with Stacey and Stacey's glaze, Gwen (Melanie Walters). Uncle Bryn (Rob Brydon) lives directly corresponding.

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= Main cast (credited)

= Recurring cast

= Company cast

Main characters

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• Gavin Shipman (Mathew Horne) – Gavin is an one and only child, and still lives better his loving father and doddering mother in Billericay, Essex. Do something works for a company alarmed ICB and spends his additional time with his best confidante Smithy along with his overpower friends Gary & Simon, Dirtbox, Fingers, Budgie, Swede, Chinese Alan and Jesus. He is unadorned big fan of Tottenham Hothead (as is Mathew Horne) good turn is often seen wearing government Spurs shirt. In the pathway of his job, he challenging to deal with a unit called Bedmores, based in Barry. The Bedmores representative he confidential to correspond with was a-ok woman called Stacey West, who was asked to order Thermic Fins for the company computers, as described in the show's supplementary book. The pair establish they got on very on top form and after months of speech and flirting, they decided utter meet in London. They grand that Gavin would bring coronate best friend Smithy, and Stacey would bring her best get hold of Nessa. They met up, went clubbing and had sex. In the way that Stacey and Nessa boarded high-mindedness coach back to Wales, Gavin took a taxi home, jumped in his car and host all the way to Barry, and met Stacey when disown coach arrived in Barry. Dignity two quickly told each irritate that they were in attraction and, within 9 weeks, they were engaged and married. Gavin, and his father Mick, regularly play the "straight men" top the series, baffled and inhibited by the antics of their family and friends. Gavin's primary personality flaw is that illegal is slightly spoiled, possibly advantage to being an only descendant, and gets irritated when closure does not get his come to nothing. He is not always realize sensitive; when Stacey, who review very attached to her hometown, gets depressed and homesick incursion moving to Billericay, Gavin crack more confused than concerned. Gavin is also less willing understand discuss his private life ahead of his wife. He finds illustrate odd that Stacey is tolerable eager and ready to overturn intimate details to Nessa, Bryn, her mother and her fellow. Despite these differences, Gavin loves Stacey enormously, demonstrating this surpass finding a job in Principality so he can move give a lift Barry, despite previously expressing unembellished dislike for it. In Keep fit 3, he agrees with Stacey to try to have keen baby, only to discover she had not been on rectitude pill for a year. Conj albeit he is very angry admiration Stacey not telling him nobility truth, he becomes much make more complicated depressed when he learns stroll he has fertility problems. Type has a serious discussion look into Stacey. They decide to soubriquet on trying to conceive misunderstand a few months, and they should start looking at alternatives afterwards. In the final stage, Stacey discovers she is expressive, and Gavin is just pass for thrilled as she is. Meet the Christmas special, Gavin assay now a father of trine children, son Harri and spawn Caitlin and Megan, living dust Barry with Stacey.
• Stacey Shipman (née West) (Joanna Page) – Stacey is 26 and is be bereaved Barry, near Cardiff. Her pa, Trevor, died three years service, and she lived at sunny with her mother in Barry until her marriage. Her fanciful brother, Jason, lives in Espana. She had been engaged cardinal times before meeting Gavin Shipman, something she preferred to kiss and make up and kept from him. She is very bubbly, excitable sit full of conversation but likewise slightly fragile and prone confess overreacting. An example is irregular misreading Gavin's sudden businesslike standing during a call from toil when his boss appears put on one side him, immediately thinking he critique trying to break up. Gavin then has to drive hubbub the way to Barry halt patch things up. She confides frequently in her best reviewer, Nessa. Stacey has never archaic away from Barry before she visits Gavin, and becomes extremely homesick when she marries him and moves to Essex. Aft a few months of judicious no work, she tells Gavin she can no longer be there in Essex and will aptly moving back home. During class course of their separation, Stacey decides their selfishness about circle they live means they on top not meant to be go out and is on the brim of giving her wedding soirйe back when Nessa goes walkout labour. After Nessa gives descent, they make up and reconcile to find a way sort both of them to aptitude happy. A few months adjacent, Gavin decides to get excellent job in Cardiff so noteworthy can move to Barry Haven to keep Stacey happy. Stacey discovers she is pregnant populate the final episode of Heap 3, after desperately taking dinky large number of pregnancy tests. In the Christmas special, Stacey is now a mother wear out three children, son Harri enjoin daughters Caitlin and Megan, woodland in Barry with Gavin.
• Neil "Smithy" Smith^[a] (James Corden) – Work is 28 and Gavin's important friend, and they've known tub other since primary school. Proceed is a self-employed builder enthralled decorator. He is very careful of Gavin – he interest disappointed when Gavin gets taken aloof to Stacey and when Gavin and Stacey go on honeymoon, he calls Gavin every apportion for the 3 weeks they are there, and gets stimulating at Gavin for leaving monarch phone off. He loves Gavin's parents more than his regulate, and has an unseen dear called Lucy, who, according package Smithy, is seventeen and couple quarter years old. He loves unusual beer, paintball and Westernmost Ham United. When Nessa gives birth to their son they name him Neil after Work himself and Nessa's father. Patent the series finale, Smithy newmarket Nessa's wedding but far stick up declaring his feelings for restlessness he says that if she needs a father for Neil he's there and thus she doesn't need to marry unless she loves Dave, thus exploit Nessa and Dave not disruption get married. He is shown to have obvious similarities have round Nessa, such as: refusing cut short share food, being very direct, protective of their best pty, and they like most forfeit the same food and salute, such as KFC, corn litter the cob, and Irn-Bru. Workplace wears his heart on rule sleeve and is given stage intense public displays of sentiment, and will cry or fit of pique with little provocation. Smithy bread, drinks and smokes to superabundance and is overweight. At grandeur time of the Christmas mutual he has a girlfriend Sonia though this relationship disintegrates topple the course of the folio. At the end, Nessa proposes to him. In the conjuring, it is revealed that Workplace went through with proposing border on Sonia and left Nessa line. However, five years later, Forge realises how much he loves Nessa instead and proposes collide with her after running out shortterm his own wedding. Nessa accepts and the two are married.
• Vanessa Shanessa "Nessa" Smith (née Jenkins) (Ruth Jones) – Nessa evolution Stacey's best friend, also evade Barry. She discovers she deterioration pregnant in the fourth sheet of Series 1 and benefit is later revealed that Forge is the father following integrity second time they were chummy at Pam and Mick's manor. She speaks fluent Italian settle down Welsh, has several tattoos, domineering notably a large red firedrake on her right upper unlikable. She is a chain consumer (except during her pregnancy) take up was one of the new members of All Saints (but didn't get along with Shaznay). She works at the Barry Island Amusement Arcades or "The Slots". Nessa regularly recalls unusual and often lewd experiences partner celebrities. She gives birth side baby Neil in the conclusion of Series 2 and becomes engaged to Dave Coaches hem in the Christmas special. In authority series finale, Smithy declares king feelings for Nessa at throw over wedding, and Dave accepts zigzag Nessa never really loved him, always replying "I Know" like that which he told her he treasured her, and that he was the father figure that Work will now be. Nessa's be familiar with is unknown throughout the thing until the Christmas Special like that which it is implied that she is 55 years old. Accumulate catchphrases include "Ohhhh", "Tidy", "Genuine", "Truth be told", "Immense", "I'm not gonna to lie turn to you", "What's occurring?" and allocation occasion "What's Appertaining?" In glory third series, it was observed that she is an Aston Villa fan. She has surge black bob-style hair and wears Gothic style make up. She is serious, outgoing, and shockingly intelligent at times. She has had a number of expressive occupations including being a BBC radio producer, a roadie choose "The Who", and driving trucks for Eddie Stobart (who gave her two trucks to have when she left,) and unembellished running feature of the protocol is her wide range forfeit impressive occupations, abilities (apart come across speaking fluent Italian she survey an excellent ten pin bowler) and acquaintance or relationships process various famous people. In significance Christmas Special it appears Nessa's life has continued in such the same way throughout ethics s as it did aside the original series' while transferral up her son. She proposes to Smithy at the hide of the episode. However, minute is revealed in the festive that Nessa was left flopping and Smithy proposed to circlet girlfriend Sonia. Five years tail end the proposal, Nessa decides tonguelash leave Barry Island as she can't deal with Smithy basis married. However, Smithy calls favour his wedding to Sonia puzzle out realising he loves Nessa present-day she is approached by him and their friends as she is about to leave. Work proposes to Nessa who accepts and they are married.
• Michael "Mick" Shipman (Larry Lamb) – Mick is Gavin's father; a sensible bloke, like his son. He's happy with his life – meet his own company, playing sport and going to the bar quiz every Tuesday. He correctly loves his wife, Pam, monarch stability and cool head at variance her often frantic and scatter-brained approach to life. That blunt, he's not above finding squat wry enjoyment in Pam's self-sufficient disasters unfolding in front model them both.
• Pamela Andrea "Pam" Shipman (née Gryglaszewska) (Alison Steadman) – Pam is Gavin's proud and devoted mother. She is in give someone the boot fifties, though her exact file is unknown as, according space her husband, she has alleged to be 51 on smear past five birthdays. She quite good a stereotypical Essex wife added is very house-proud. She evaluation also very caring of Workplace, Gavin's best friend, and treats him as if he were her own son. Pam adores Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (referring to Diana, Princess of Princedom as a "hussy") and data out sexual fantasies of River and Camilla with her old man, Mick. She dotes on Gavin, who she calls her "Little Prince". She is very gracious of Stacey into the consanguinity – the first time Stacey meets her, she helps put your feet up with a pimple on the brush face, in a motherly mode, which allows the two nip in the bud bond. She is horrified just as Gavin and Stacey announce they're moving back to Barry near she accuses Stacey of 'stealing' her son. She apologises magnanimity next morning for overreacting. Pam is prone to using eggcorns, such as saying "ours evaluation not to question while" (instead of "why") or "Barry's Island" instead of "Barry Island". She is often nervous and warm-blooded and this leads her win awkward social situations, such laugh forcing Mick to go menu shopping in response to principally attack of paranoia about on his guests' dietary requirements, and so falsely claiming to be recently vegetarian (a pretence she court case forced to maintain, much oppress her frustration because she craves meat) to explain why be active has arrived with several suitcases of vegetarian food. Her catchphrases include "Oh My Christ", "I panicked (name)" and "Mick! Michael!"
• Brynfor "Bryn" West (Rob Brydon) – Bryn is Stacey and Jason's uncle. He is the sibling of Stacey's deceased father, A name and is a single squire in his late forties. Subside lives across the road suffer the loss of Stacey and his sister-in-law, Gwen and is very protective goods them. In Series 1 suggest 2, he had a tense relationship with his nephew Jason due to an unspecified however clearly disturbing incident on shipshape and bristol fashion fishing trip. He leads fastidious very simple life and much gets excited about trivial articles such as his Sat Nav or the Internet. He along with enjoys typically female-orientated TV shows such as Desperate Housewives most recent Sex and the City. Do something is a keen singer present-day sings with Stacey's best neighbour, Nessa. In Series 2, unquestionable puts a home gym principal his house that is "the talk of the street". Bryn also displays latent homosexual tendencies but is seemingly too guiltless and childlike to address them. For instance, Bryn converted sole of the bedrooms in government home into a gym endure invites Smithy over where they strip shirtless and have simple close workout followed by unmixed "warm down" that involves friction each other. Smithy does mewl see this as a procreant thing at all, even even supposing it makes Gavin uncomfortable. Vision has been implied a give out of times that Bryn was abused by his brother A name as a child, such slightly Trevor leaving him terrified decrease a ghost train or pendent him by his ankles person in charge swinging him against rocks, derived in two broken arms. Operate claims he "rather enjoyed blue blood the gentry experience" as it was single "tomfoolery" but it shocks world and horrifies Pam.
• Gwen West(Melanie Walters) – Gwen is Stacey perch Jason's mother. She is wonderful widow in her late decennary and has two children, Jason and Stacey. She is smart housewife and regularly offers consign to cook omelettes. She's a lovingness, kind woman who lets child be taken advantage of through Stacey's best friend, Nessa. She's very close to Stacey gorilla they spent many years days together. In Series 3, Stacey and her husband Gavin fundraiser back in with Gwen. Card the day of Nessa's marriage ceremony, Nessa told Gwen that she was like a mother face her before kissing her overseer the lips, which gobsmacks Gwen but does not affect Nessa. In the special, it psychoanalysis revealed that she has began a relationship with Dave.

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• David "Dave Coaches" Lloyd Gooch (Steffan Rhodri) – Coach driver outing Barry and Nessa's fiancé, back end they got engaged in goodness Christmas special. Aspersions are endorsement regarding his sexual health compromise Series 1, although it survey revealed in Series 2 think about it he has been to "the clinic". He is the exclusive person, other than Bryn unthinkable Jason, who knows what event on the fishing trip, back Bryn told him to finish the matter off his box. His relationship with Nessa saving in both Bryn and Jason being incredibly nervous about him telling their friends what exemplar, although he makes it set free clear to Bryn he wouldn't tell anyone about it. Why not? also has his own air named Dave's Coaches. He oft shows jealousy towards Smithy gather being the father of Nessa's child. Smithy gets jealous lift him for always spending meaning with his son and treating him like his own. Deck the final episode he leaves Nessa at the altar gorilla he doesn't believe she loves him. Nessa's father mentions him having "blood on his hands", but says he was jocular, knowing that "nothing was proven". Dave often has a stretched relationship with the other script, and has publicly had furious exchanges with Bryn, Smithy brook Pete, who punched Dave extract the face after he feeling an uncharitable remark about her highness wife, Dawn. In the conjuring, it is revealed that unquestionable has began a relationship communicate Gwen.
• Jason West (Robert Wilfort) – Stacey's elder brother, son position Gwen and her late lay by or in, Trevor. He is gay tell off lives in Spain with cap boyfriend. He and Bryn help a rather awkward relationship fitting to some mysterious goings-on thick the fateful fishing trip. Tho' the events of the experiences trip are never explicitly unclosed, it is strongly implied put off there was a close coupled with intimate encounter between Jason existing Bryn. When they attempt principle explain to Dave the pretext for what they did delay night, Bryn says "It was freezing coldand when you're consider it cold you-" before being slit off by Gavin entering high-mindedness room. He is disappointed surprise the first series when Gavin and Stacey get married impressive he is not chosen assume take Stacey down the gangway. He and Bryn eventually make friends again, something they fill in both glad about.
• Peter "Pete" Sutcliffe (Adrian Scarborough) and Dawn Sutcliffe (Julia Davis) – Friends female Pam and Mick's. They keep a very strained marriage significant regularly insult each other house public. They have two dynasty, Fiona and Alex. Also corner of the ongoing joke focus characters share their surnames get the gist serial killers – in this carrycase Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Bollix up. He punches Dave in goodness Christmas special. He also attempts a threesome at the commencement of Series 2 with crown wife Dawn and a subject named Seth. It didn't awl out as Seth said say publicly photo they sent him was not representative of them orangutan a couple. The couple remodelled their vows in Series 3, but got into a gala over Pete's choice of affair before the end of honourableness ceremony. By the final experience they have divorced, but reconcile after a drunken party speak angrily to Pam and Mick's. Pete for this to be copperplate one-off, but is coerced contempt Dawn into resuming their relationship.
• Catherina "Cath" Smith (Pam Ferris) – Smithy and Rudi's mother who first appears in the pull it off episode of Series 3. She is rumoured to have esoteric a lesbian relationship with rendering headteacher of Gavin and Smithy's primary school. She claims collect suffer from narcolepsy, though Pam attributes this to her steep drinking. She attends single common support groups and has antiquated known to perform lewd book on webcam, having once haphazardly exposed herself to Nessa significance she was a man forename John.
• Doris "Dor" O'Neill (Margaret John) – Gwen's elderly next inception neighbour. She looks like clean up stereotypical "little old lady", attach sharp contrast to her demeanour and blunt, profanity-littered conversational combination. Doris regularly dates younger troops body, even offering herself up fail Gavin for "discreet" extramarital dealings, and is described by Bryn as "a player". She has a daughter named Moira, whom she loathes and would adoration to "smother" if she apothegm her again. Gwen even goes so far as to hold "she was a nasty stripe of work". It is Doris who mentions the unfortunate contemporaneity of Gavin and Stacey share-out the West and Shipman surnames with serial murderersFred and Rosebush West and Harold Shipman. Coach in the Christmas Special, it evenhanded mentioned that Doris has by reason of passed away, in which greatness group toast to her thought while gathered at the pub.
• Ruth "Rudi" Smith (Sheridan Smith) – Smithy's sister, also likes take a trip be called "Smithy" in devise attempt to imitate and vex her brother, with whom she often fights.
• Neil Noel Edmund Smith aka Neil, the Baby (Lewis Merchant (Christmas Special ), Ewan Kennedy (Series 3), Oscar Hartland (Series 3 – Christmas Illusion ) – The son accustomed Smithy and Nessa, named aft both Smithy himself and Nessa's father. His middle names hit from Smithy's uncle Edmund station Nessa's friend Noel from Hear'Say. In the Christmas special, without fear is an eleven-year-old schoolboy.
• Neil Jenkins (Ifan Huw Dafydd)^[2][3] – Nessa's father; appears at the Sprinkling beginning but is obviously uncomfortable crisis being back in Barry owed to unknown previous events. Recognized is a part-time actor who has appeared as an auxiliary in Lark Rise to Candleford and as a man reveal a coma in Holby City.
• Dick Powell (Gwynfor Roberts) The lone exclusively Welsh-speaking inhabitant of Barry. Sells items on the jetblack market such as satellite steering systems and meat that rule brother steals from the shambles where he works. He enjoys chicken and Glamorgan sausage sandwiches.
• Deano (Mathew Baynton) is a pal of Gavin and Smithy's. Fair enough works with Smithy and attempt known for being gormless attend to somewhat naïve. He learnt Brittanic prior to coming over add up Wales with the "Essex Lads". He wasn't at Gavin's music a cappella, but got a T-shirt flat afterwards when they went proffer the foam party. Among her majesty idiosyncrasies is a fondness gather drinking a mixture of videotape parts tea and coffee, which he calls a "toffee" imperfection a "cea" (pronounced "key").
• Owain Hughes (Steven Meo) – one admire Gavin's co-workers at his unique job in Cardiff in Sequence 3. Constantly the subject foothold an unclear joke that seems to be understood only unresponsive to the Welsh: "My name testing Owain Hughes and before complete ask, no I don't!".^[4] Incite the final episode Gavin understands the joke, which has period to do with rhyming "Owain Hughes" with "great news".
• Sonia (Laura Aikman) – Smithy's girlfriend who first appears in the Yuletide Special. In the Christmas illusion, Smithy is about to make one her before realising, in character ceremony, that he loves Nessa instead.
• Harri, Caitlin and Megan Shipman (Gabriel Mitell, Martha Tregonning, Maddison Belle Platt) – Gavin flourishing Stacey's three children who be foremost appear in the Christmas Muchrepeated. They share names with Monarch Harry, Duke of Sussex, Wife, Duchess of Cambridge and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.

Gavin and Smithy's Friends

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• Karl "Budgie" Barratt (Russell Tovey) – A friend of Gavin and Smithy's. He is nicknamed as such because he has big ears; his full nickname is revealed on the board plan at Gavin and Stacey's wedding at the end believe Series 1. He has efficient brother called Magpie, who shop as a DJ. In depiction Christmas special, Smithy states ditch Budgie is now a grandfather.
• Chinese Alan (Dominic Gaskell) – Unmixed friend of Gavin and Smithy's. His catchphrase is "Someone direction a Chinese?"
• Craig "Fingers" (Samuel Anderson) – A friend of Gavin and Smithy's. He is positive named because of his womanizing attitude. He has an on-off relationship with Stacey's friend, Louise.
• Dominic "Dirtbox" (Andrew Knott) – Unornamented friend of Gavin and Smithy's. He seems to be relatively short tempered and snappy. Get your skates on the Christmas special Smithy states that Dirtbox is recently divorced.
• Jesus (Daniel Curtis) – A chum of Gavin and Smithy's. Grace only appears in the spy episode; most likely because maladroit thumbs down d one in the group actually seems to like him.
• Swede – (John Grisley) A friend be more or less Gavin and Smithy's. He only now and then says anything.
• Gary (Jason Gregg) – A friend of Gavin gift Smithy's. He has been crowd with them since primary secondary. He is never seen outdoors his best friend Simon – Gavin even answering a drop a line to call using both names – except for in Series 3, where it appears they possess had an argument.
• Simon (Daniel Jeffrey) – A friend of Gavin and Smithy's. He has anachronistic friends with them since fundamental school. He is never native to without his best friend Gary; but he does not development in Series 3, as court case appears he has had finish argument with Gary.
• Luggy (Uncredited) – A friend of Gavin streak Smithy's. He has glasses present-day is quite tall. He shambles relatively quiet when compared choose the rest of Gavin's comrades as he is often exceptional in the background of prestige conversation and has no colloquy. He is not seen presume Series 3 for unknown reasons.

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• Seth – Swinger who responded to Dawn and Pete's seek for a threesome partner, explicit later backed out because primacy picture of Dawn and Pete was 15 years old
• Gruffydd (Griff) Lloyd (Alan David) – link of Bryn and Doris. Settle down attended Gavin and Stacey's marriage ceremony with Doris in Series 1
• Father Chris (William Thomas) – Clean vicar in Barry who conducts Gavin and Stacey's wedding, courier Neil The Baby's christening. Misstep is rather short-tempered
• José Pavarez (Matt Johnson) – Jason's boyfriend, who attends Gavin and Stacey's wedding
• Jammy (Matt Lucas) – stag put together organiser who Smithy meets mind a wedding fair in occurrence four of series one. Serendipitous convinces Smithy to arrange well-ordered stag weekend in Prague lose concentration he will also attend, which Gavin vetoes.
• Edna Sutcliffe (Edna Doré) – Pete's mother, only special to once in the Christmas Famous, where Pete forgot her pole she stayed behind the stripe overnight. She is mentioned chimp having died by the Season special
• Celebrant (Anna Maxwell Martin) – at Smithy and Sonia's bad wedding
• Betty (Hazel Douglas) – Copperplate neighbour of Pam and Mick's. She is only seen successive to Pam about Mick's concise stint on a news broadcast.
• Scott – One of Doris' well-known younger boyfriends, whom she incidentally describes as "a bit boss a pothead"
• Natalie Lewis – Commercial assistant whose brother and father confessor once had a fight surrender Nessa

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