Chummy Noakes

Camilla Noakes (née Cholomondely-Browne) otherwise known as Chummy, stands at 6ft 2 inches tall with size 11 feet, is the daughter of a prominent family who has found her way into nursing and midwifery by a circuitous route.

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Played by	Miranda Hart
First appeared	Series 1

Eternally good-humoured and monumentally kind, Chummy is crippled by lack of self-confidence. Her great height and physical clumsiness plays its part, but a loveless childhood spent in boarding schools has made the greater impact. An adept midwife, she is hampered by acute shyness and - perhaps more crucially – a complete inability to ride a bike. Chummy soon wins the hearts of her colleagues, but her struggle for self-belief will threaten to capsize her.

Miranda Hart who plays Chummy says about her character: “She comes from a very upper-class background and she has decided that her calling from God is to be a midwife so she comes to the East End to join Nonnatus House much to the horror of her viceroy father and her upper crust mother.”

BAFTA nominated actress, comedian and writer, Miranda Hart was born in Torquay, Devon and grew up in Petersfield, Hampshire and later trained at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts and began writing her first material for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2002.