Charlie Fairhead

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Charlie Fairhead is the only original character left in the long-running TV Series Casualty.

Over the last twenty years Charlie has served as the department's Nurse Manager. He has always demonstrated a passion for the patient's welfare and a strong sense of medical ethics.

Charlie has always shown tremendous nobility: in the opening scene of the first episode of Casualty, Charlie arrived in an ageing Volkswagen Beetle; it transpired he had sold his previous, more desirable car to pay for his mother's operation.

Charlie has had had various on-screen relationships over the years. The love of his life though was Barbara "Baz" Wilder - another original character. Baz left Casualty after the first season but returned nearly a decade later. Trapped in an unhappy marriage she pursued a relationship with Charlie, ultimately becoming pregnant with their child Louis. Baz divorced her husband and married Charlie. The marriage however was later dissolved after Baz went for a job in America.

Baz briefly returned to the series to be by the bedside of her ill father but ended up dying after being involved in a road accident.

Charlie himself has been brushed with death on several occasions including a shooting, a hit and run involving a stolen ambulance, a coronary embolism and most recently an attempted drowning. He recently returned to the series after a six month sabbatical.

Charlie is played by Derek Thompson.