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Personal Info

Birth date

1975-06-03 (50 Years)

Gender

Female

Known for

Acting

Place of birth

Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England, UK

Also known as

Rebecca Sowden

Rebecca Callard

Biography

Rebecca Jayne Callard is an English actress and writer from Leeds and is the daughter of actress Beverley Callard. During her career as a child actor she was often credited by her real name of Rebecca Sowden.

Filmography

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Children's Ward

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Overview:

Children's Ward is a British children's television drama series produced by Granada Television and broadcast on the ITV network as part of its Children's ITV strand on weekday afternoons. The programme was set – as the title suggests – in Ward B1, the children's ward of the fictitious South Park Hospital, and told the stories of the young patients and the staff present there. Aimed at older children and teenagers, Children's Ward was a long-lived series for a children's drama, starting life in 1988 as a contribution to the Dramarama anthology strand, "Blackbird Singing In The Dead of Night", then first broadcast as a series 1989 and running from then until 2000. The series was conceived by Granada staff writers Paul Abbott and Kay Mellor, both of whom went on to enjoy successful careers as award-winning writers of adult television drama. At the time, they were both working on the soap opera Coronation Street, and had recently collaborated on a script for Dramarama. Abbott, who had been through a troubled childhood himself, had initially wanted to set the series in a children's care home rather than a hospital, but this was vetoed by Granada executives. During the course of its run, however, Children's Ward won many plaudits for covering difficult issues such as cancer, alcoholism, drug addiction and child abuse in a sensitive manner. The programme won many awards, including in 1996 a BAFTA Children's Award for Best Drama, won by an episode in which a serial killer lures children to him via the internet and is – highly unusually for children's television – not eventually caught.

Acting

2023Barbara Knox at 90 as Self - Narrator (voice)

2023The Puppet Asylum as Lucy

2023Otto Baxter: Not a F***ing Horror Story as Self

2022A Bit of Light as Waitress

2019Birthday Girl as Bridget

2019I Want To Make You Happy as Melanie

2017Fearless (6 Episodes) as Annie Peterson

2017With Love From Calais as Ruth

2017Promise as Sarah

2016To Walk Invisible as Miss Pratchett

2015Orthodox as Alice Levy

2014Inside No. 9 (1 Episode) as Controller (voice)

201132 Brinkburn Street (5 Episodes) as Gracie

2004Doc Martin (1 Episode) as Tricia Soames

2003Beverley Callard: Real Results as As Herself

2001Lorna Doone as Ruth Huckaback

2000Lorna Doone (2 Episodes) as Ruth Huckaback

2000The Miracle Maker as Tamar (voice)

1999Sunburn (14 Episodes) as Laura Hutchings

1997Plotlands (6 Episodes) as Harriet Marsh

1997The Grand (18 Episodes) as Kate Morris

1996Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1 Episode) as Hannah

1993The Return of the Borrowers (6 Episodes) as Arrietty

1993Peak Practice (1 Episode) as Jazz Elliott

1993Bonjour la Classe (6 Episodes) as Unknown

1992The Borrowers (12 Episodes) as Arrietty

1989The Wolves of Willoughby Chase as Emma

1989Birds of a Feather (1 Episode) as Kate

1989Children's Ward (14 Episodes) as Fiona Brett

1987Will You Love Me Tomorrow as Jackie as a Child (as Rebecca Sowden)

1987Scab as Unknown

1986Casualty (1, 1 Episode) as Suzie Brennan, Connie

1978All Creatures Great and Small (1 Episode) as Jane Westby

Writing

2022A Bit of Light ... Writer

2020Breeders (2 Episodes) ... Writer