| Dinnerladies is a BBC sitcom written by and starring Victoria Wood that chronicles the antics of a group of workers in a canteen in the north of England. Bren tries to maintain a semblance of order in amongst the chaos, while dealing with the canteen supervisor, slightly sex-obsessed cancer sufferer Tony. Dolly and Jean are the bickering menopausal older women, always at odds but best friends beneath it all. Then there's thick-as-two-short-planks Anita, and the terminally uninterested Twinkle, more concerned with having a good time than anything else. Making up the motley crew are military man handyman Stan, all rules and regulations, and ditzy Philippa, who never seems to get anything right. |
| Name | Character | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| Celia Imrie | Philippa Moorcroft | 16 |
| Anne Reid | Jean | 16 |
| Maxine Peake | Twinkle | 16 |
| Duncan Preston | Stan Meadowcroft | 16 |
| Andrew Dunn | Tony Martin | 16 |
| Shobna Gulati | Anita | 16 |
| Thelma Barlow | Dolly Bellfield | 16 |
| Julie Walters | Petula | 9 |
| Sue Devaney | Jane | 7 |
| Sue Devaney | Secretary | 3 |
| Kate Robbins | Babs | 2 |
| Graham Turner | Pieman | 2 |
| Bernard Wrigley | Bob | 2 |
| Joanne Froggatt | Sigourney | 1 |
| Linda Bassett | Peggy | 1 |
| Simon Williams | Duke of Danby | 1 |
| Kenny Doughty | Clint | 1 |
| Angela Curran | Customer | 1 |
| Dolly Wells | Hannah | 1 |
| Eiji Kusuhara | Mr Tashimoto | 1 |
| Eric Sykes | Jim | 1 |
| Thora Hird | Enid | 1 |
| David Hatton | Man in Queue | 1 |
| David Hatton | Ken | 1 |
| Richenda Carey | Lady Pamela | 1 |
| Judy Flynn | Val | 1 |
| Judy Flynn | Secretary | 1 |
| Peter Martin | Peter | 1 |
| Helen Cotterill | Betty | 1 |
| Ozzie Yue | Malcolm | 1 |
| Shireen Shah | Reena | 1 |
| Bernard Wrigley | Man | 1 |
| Howard Crossley | Barry | 1 |
| Ashley Barker | Simon | 1 |
| Tina Malone | Bobbie | 1 |
| Elspet Gray | Hilary | 1 |
| Adam Leese | Hugo | 1 |
| Francis Lee | Brian | 1 |