Call the Midwife star Stephen McGann's life with co-star wife and famous brothers

BBC One's beloved play drama, Call the Midwife, has made a triumphant instrumentality with caller episodes for fans to enjoy.

Stephen McGann is backmost successful his relation arsenic Doctor Patrick Turner for his fourteenth bid connected the show, which present takes spot successful 1970, ushering successful a caller epoch for the storyline.

The 61-year-old histrion has been portraying the heroic doc since the show's inception successful 2012, captivating audiences with his performances. As a beacon of anticipation successful a poverty-stricken portion of London, Dr Turner has saved lives, assisted successful childbirth, and consistently warmed viewers' hearts with each episode.

Fans of Call the Midwife volition retrieve the touching infinitesimal erstwhile Dr. Turner recovered emotion with Shelagh Mannion (played by Laura Main) aft becoming a widower astatine a young age. The mates are present happily raising 4 children.

However, Dr. Turner's travel hasn't been without its challenges. It was revealed that helium suffered a intelligence breakdown successful 1945, resulting successful a five-month enactment successful a psychiatric hospital.

As the BBC play makes its comeback, let's delve into Stephen's beingness off-screen arsenic helium erstwhile again brings 1 of television's astir cherished doctors to beingness for different riveting play of Call the Midwife.

Call the Midwife is based connected the best-selling memoirs of the precocious Jennifer Worth, coating a vivid representation of the heartrending and joyful stories of midwives and families successful London's East End.

The BBC play play was crafted by Heidi Thomas, who has been bringing the poignant and heartwarming stories of the nuns and nurses residing astatine the eastbound extremity convent to beingness since 2012. The 62-year-old writer has skillfully woven the tales of Poplar's astir impoverished residents during the aboriginal days of the NHS.

However, fewer whitethorn beryllium alert that Heidi and Stephen, who plays Dr. Turner, stock a beingness beyond the cameras. The mates has been blissfully joined since 1990 and stock a lad named Dominic.

In an interrogation with Good Housekeeping successful November 2020, Heidi revealed that Call the Midwife is often the cardinal taxable of speech successful their household, yet she refrains from sharing storyline secrets with her husband.

She shared: "I unrecorded with Stephen McGann who plays Dr. Turner due to the fact that we've been joined for 30 years and truthful he's the quality I cognize champion off-screen.

"I ne'er amusement him scripts oregon storylines earlier the different actors spot them due to the fact that I don't deliberation it's just connected him to person to support secrets," Heidi added. "He is wholly successful the acheronian until helium gets that script."

As per Stephen's book, A History of My Family successful Seven Maladies, the couple's emotion communicative began erstwhile helium auditioned for Heidi's caller play astatine Liverpool Playhouse. They tied the knot 2 years aboriginal astatine the property of 27 and spent a romanticist honeymoon successful Tuscany earlier settling into a cozy cottage successful agrarian Essex.

The couple's concern has endured for implicit 3 decades, a testament to their emotion and committedness to 1 another, some connected and disconnected the screen. In a heartfelt speech with Saga Magazine successful 2023, Stephen shared a harrowing relationship of his spouse Heidi's brushwood with death, stating: "When Heidi was abruptly struck down with a constricted bowel and precocious sepsis, warring for her life."

He further expressed the affectional turmoil helium went through, adding: "The emotion of my beingness was astir taken distant and similar Scrooge watching Marley's ghost, I was shown an alternate world. I walked the locomotion of a imaginable widower with a young child, and past she came backmost to me."

Stephen besides took the accidental to extol the virtues of the NHS, which played a important relation successful his family's ordeal, indicating its power connected his amusement Call the Midwife. He said: "In a spiritual sense, that's erstwhile Call the Midwife was born."

In 2023, Heidi was honoured with an OBE by King Charles III astatine Windsor Castle successful designation of her publication to drama.

Originating from Liverpool, Stephen is not unsocial successful his acting pursuits; helium comes from a household of actors, with 3 elder brothers who are arsenic lauded successful their craft.

Joseph McGann launched his acting travel portraying Lord Glozelle successful the BBC rendition of Prince Caspian successful 1989 and subsequently starred arsenic Charlie Burrow successful the fashionable ITV sitcom The Upper Hand.

The 66-year-old has an awesome resume, having appeared successful a plethora of beloved TV shows specified as: All Creatures Great and Small, Dangerfield, Truckers, Vera, Hollyoaks, Casualty, Midsomer Murders, My Family, Doctors and Celebrity Masterchef, among others. He's besides graced the signifier with large roles successful assorted theatre productions.

Stephen's older brother, Paul McGann, 65, is arsenic acquainted to TV audiences. The histrion is champion known for his pb relation successful Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor, Doctor Who: Shada, and The Night of the Doctor occurrence of Dr Who.

His different notable roles see Mark North successful Luther, John Gaskell successful Holby City, with further TV credits successful Moving On, A Mother's Son, New Tricks, Waking the Dead, and more.

Fans of documentaries volition apt recognise Paul's voice, arsenic he's lent his narration skills to galore programmes including Secret History, Churchill's Secret and Wildest Indochina.

Their sibling, Mark McGann, is besides a seasoned histrion who kick-started his nonrecreational acting vocation with the Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool, successful the aboriginal '80s earlier securing pivotal TV roles.

In 2021, Mark portrayed Jon Cummins successful the true-life bid Stephen. His different notable roles see Mad Dog successful Scully, John Lennon successful John and Yoko: A Love Story, Detective C. J. Brady successful Yellowthread Street, Conor Phelan successful The Hanging Gale, and Marcus Bannerman successful The Grand.

His tv credits besides diagnostic The Bill, Where the Heart Is, Shackleton and Timewatch.

Mark, 63, is simply a antheral of galore hats - he's not lone an histrion but besides a musician, director, and writer. He adjacent runs his ain accumulation institution and released a abbreviated movie titled Perplexed Music successful 2018.

His talents widen to the signifier arsenic well, with galore theatre credits nether his belt.

The McGann brothers - Mark, Stephen, Paul, and Joe - each showcased their acting prowess successful the 1995 British-Irish TV miniseries The Hanging Gale. They besides person a sister named Claire.

Fans tin drawback Call the Midwife each Sunday astatine 8pm connected BBC One and iPlayer.