Call the Midwife fans have fallen in love with charming medical secretary Miss Millicent Higgins since she arrived on the show in 2018, during series 13. Last year, Miss Higgins took centre stage when her heartbreaking backstory was revealed, and she had an estranged son who was born while living in India.
She had returned to the region when she was 21 following a period there as a young girl, boarding with a widowed friend of her parents in Shimla and working at a library.
That’s where she first met Krishnan Choudhary, but when their son was born, he was sent to live with another family. John became Victor, and Krishnan exited her life forever.
Victor and Miss Higgins reunited, but it was bittersweet as he was suffering due to kidney disease and died with his mum by his side.
Away from the period drama, Georgie, 68, has been starring in popular television shows since the 1990s, with appearances in London’s Burning, Soldier Soldier, Peak Practice, Harry Enfield and Friends and more.
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Actress Georgie Glen is famed for playing the medical receptionist in Call the Midwife (Image: BBC/Neal Street Productions )
But before launching an acting career, Georgie had a completely different job.
In an interview with her hometown publication Georgie revealed that she used to work in London as a book cover designer.
She explained that after she gained her degree in graphic design from Glasgow School of Art, she moved to London with her portfolio in search of a job.
She added: “Painting and drawing were always my passions, but I had no real idea what it was I was going to do with them.”
Call the Midwife Miss Higgins is played by actress Georgie Glen (Image: BBC/Neal Street Productions)
The star spent her 20s as an assistant book designer at Thames and Hudson, where she worked for several years. But after feeling that something was missing from her life, she decided to join an acting class.
Georgie added: “I signed myself up and took to the acting classes like a duck to water. There was a fantastic teacher there. He was inspirational, and from then on I realised the importance a great mentor can have.”
She attended the Bristol Old Vic drama school and after graduating once she began landing significant roles on the big screen.
The star has since also starred as Sergeant Nokes in Heartbeat along with roles in My Family, Little Britain, The Bill, Holby City, Silent Witness, Damned, The Crown, The Larkins and many more.
Call the Midwife’s Miss Higgins took centre stage when her heartbreaking backstory was revealed (Image: BBC/Neal Street Productions )
Waterloo Road fans will know Georgie as History teacher Audrey McFall on the One school-based drama series from 2012 to 2015.
Georgie is also a movie star having landed roles in popular movies including Jackie, My Week with Marilyn, The Hitman’s Bodyguard, and Les Misérables.
Georgie tends to keep her personal life away from the spotlight but often talks about how she is a proud mother to twin girls, Eleanor and Holly, who were born in 1989.
The star doesn’t post about her life on social media platforms, but it’s understood that she is happily married.
Call the Midwife airs Sunday at 8pm on One and iPlayer.