Call the Midwife welcomes new cast member for Christmas Special

Virgin Radio

2 Aug 2024, 13:50

Call the Midwife will be welcoming a new cast member for the upcoming Christmas special this year. 

Nine-year-old Myla Park will make her onscreen debut in the festive episode and, while the exact details about her character have been kept quiet, we know she’ll play an important role. 

The news was announced via the show’s official social media pages in a post featuring Myla alongside her fellow child actors, April Rae Hoang, Alice Brown and Edward Shaw, who play Patrick and Shelagh Turner's children May, Angela and Ned.

"With each passing year, the Turner children grow up even faster than before! And with each season, they become better friends - and they have so much more fun while on set with us," the caption read.

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"It warms the heart to see how well they all get on - and their friendship group is always open to the young guest actors who come along to play important featured characters in our episodes."

The post also hinted at a bigger storyline for Myla’s character and concluded: “The next time you see Myla, it’ll be in a more dramatic context…but until then, our lips are sealed.”

Apart from some behind-the-scenes snaps, not much has been shared about the Call the Midwife Christmas Special or the upcoming 14th season of the show. 

However, we do know that Helen George will be returning as Trixie after her character seemingly left for good to follow her husband, Matthew Aylward and his son, Jonty, to New York. 

How big a role Trixie will have in this year’s Christmas special and the show’s 14th series is unclear, but fans can rest assured she will be making an appearance.

Helen has already spoken about the future of Call the Midwife and where she sees the series going. 

“We’re going into the 70s because I’ve just started wearing long collars and flared trousers,” she told the Graham Norton Show with Waitrose last year.

“The nuns left the East End in the early 70s. So, historically, there has always been that notion, and that’s the truth of the matter. 

“Whether it goes on to another life form, I don’t know.”

You can find out everything there is to know about series 14 of Call the Midwife here.