List of guests on The Bill

This is a list of The Bill actors who are noted for early roles in their careers (before becoming more famous), or special appearances.

• Bruce Payne appeared in the season 1 episode "Clutching at Straws".
• Sean Bean appeared in the season 1 episode "Long Odds".
• Comedian Norman Lovett appeared in the season 2 episode "Lost".
• Elisabeth Sladen appeared in the season 5 episode "Life and Death".
• Nicholas Courtney appeared as a judge in the season 7 episode "Crown v Cooper" and as a doctor in the 2007 episode "Good Cop, Bad Cop".
• Meera Syal appeared as a solicitor in the season 7 episode "Machines". She later played DCI Anita Wishart in the Bill spinoff series Murder Investigation Team.
• Robert Carlyle appeared in the 1991 episode "The Better Part of Valour".
• Singer and actress Martine McCutcheon appeared in an episode of The Bill titled "Skeletons", on 2 July 1991 as a paper girl, and again on 16 July 1992 as Amanda Jones, in the episode "A Scandalous Act".
• Spice Girl Emma Bunton appeared in an episode of The Bill titled "Missionary Work", on 23 February 1993, as a troubled teenager named Janice.
• Singer Chesney Hawkes appeared in the 1991 episode "Photo Finish".
• Actress Keira Knightley appeared in an episode of The Bill titled "Swan Song", on 13 April 1995, as a ten-year old tearaway named Sheena Rose.
• Russell Brand appeared on The Bill in 1994 when he was 18.
• Jesse Birdsall, the actor who played Gillian Taylforth's (Sgt Nikki Wright) character's husband in Footballer's Wives once appeared as a criminal who blackmailed DS Phil Hunter.
• Veteran comic actor Leslie Phillips appeared in the 1996 episode "Cheating".
• Musician and actor Martin Kemp appeared in the 1998 episode "The Bus Driver's Prayer".
• Comedian Nigel Planer appeared in the 1999 episode "Look Again".
• Jaime Murray, daughter of Billy Murray (DS Don Beech) appeared in three episodes in 2002.
• Sarah Tansey, who played the recurring role of missing seven year old Amy Tennant's stepmother Ruth Barker, is married to Hywel Simons, who played Sergeant Craig Gilmore until 2003.
• In a storyline where Gina Gold had a romantic fling with councilor Peter Harris, who turned out to be married, Roberta Taylor played opposite her real-life husband Peter Guinness.
• In an episode on 15 February 2007, the actor playing a criminal involved in a car dealership scam was called Bob Cryer.
• Letitia Dean played suspected arsonist Amanda Ronson in "Playing with Fire" in 1997.
• Hugh Laurie played Defence Counsel Harrap in "Good Faith: Part 1" in 1998.
• Footballer Emmanuel Petit played himself in the 1998 Christmas episode.
• Comedian Omid Djalili appeared in the 1999 episode "Chasing Shadows".
• Linda Lusardi played Don Beech's girlfriend Maggie Lyons in four 2000 episodes, and return for two more in 2004.
• Tony Blackburn appeared as himself in the 2001 episode "Night Games".
• Craig Charles played Martin Bailey in the 1995 episode "Honey Pot".
• Ron Moody has appeared several times, including once as husband to Mollie Sugden, where the two of them were elderly con artists.
• Veteran comedian Eric Sykes appeared as a pensioner in 2003.
• Sylvester McCoy has made several appearances, both comic and dramatic.
• Tom Hollander appeared in a 1995 episode, "Getaway" as 'O'Leary'.
• Lorraine Kelly appeared as herself in 2003 when PC Cathy Bradford made an appearance on GMTV to be interviewed about PC Polly Page's conviction for murder.
• Jack O'Connell appeared in four episodes during 2005, as Ross Trescot.
• Kathy Burke appeared as a lady called Sherry Brooke in the 1989 episode "Leaving"
• Neil Reidman, who played Lt. Atillo in Dr. Who, appeared as Daryl Gilchrist in three episodes during 2000.
• Roger Daltrey was a special guest star in the season 15 episode "Cracked Up".
• Hywel Bennett appeared as the semi-recurring character of sex offender Peter Baxter in 2002-2005.
• David Tennant appeared as kidnapper, Steven Clemens in the episode, "Deadline" on 8 December, 1995.
• Burt Kwouk appeared as the semi-recurring character of DS Suzie Sim's father in 2003.
• Laurie Brett appeared as Emma Gilmore in the episode "Reminders" in 1996 and then again as Irene Murray in the episode "Forgive and Forget" in 1998.