Stirling Gallacher has joined \'Casualty\' as Jan Jenning\'s wife.
The 49-year-old actress - perhaps best known for playing Georgia Woodson in BBC daytime series \'Doctors\' from 2003 to 2009 - is joining the cast of the medical drama as police officer Ffion Morgan, the partner of Di Botcher\'s paramedic alter ego.
She said in a statement: "I am entirely delighted to be joining the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world... what\'s not to be thrilled about!
"The added bonus is of course the folk that work on this fantastic show, I could not have felt more personally welcomed or professionally supported in what is often a bit of a nerve wracking build up to your first days filming.
"I look forward to many happy hours on Ffion Morgan\'s pretend beat."
As well as her \'Doctors\' role, Stirling - who has already started filming for her first appearances in late spring - previously played the Prime Minister\'s wife alongside Anthony Head in classic sketch show \'Little Britain\', while she recently stepped onto the cobbles as Paula Martin \'Coronation Street\'.
Simon Harper - executive producer of \'Casualty\' and \'Holby City\' - added: "The audience may recall a single, somewhat loaded reference last year from Jan\'s son Ross to her wife Ffion and the kids back home - so we\'ve had her off-screen marriage up our sleeve for some time now and are really excited to explore it - not least with an actor as distinguished as Stirling, whom we are thrilled to welcome to the \'Casualty\' company, playing alongside the brilliant Di Botcher.
"Jan has a huge and terrifying story coming up in the next series where Ross comes into her life again - and given that Ross is pretty dodgy and Ffion is a police officer, it\'s all going to get pretty turbulent!"
