About the character
Maggie Bolton is the District Nurse. She was introduced to the series several episodes before Kate's death, and may have been a potential new love interest for Nick. They are now good friends. Maggie had an affair with a married man when in nursing school, fell pregnant, and had an illegal abortion.
Maggie drives a Land Rover, and seems virtually
unflappable.
Maggie is estranged from her husband Neil,
a doctor who has been working abroad for the Red Cross for 4 years. Neil
returns during Season 7 but (Sorry if this is a spoiler) leaves the show
during Season 8 (not telling how though!). Maggie is left a single mother
to raise her son Sam. Note also that despite fairly persistent rumours,
Maggie's son is not played by Kazia's own baby!
Tim writes that we meet Maggie's brother in one fairly early episode.
He is a music DJ on a Pirate Radio Ship which docks at Whitby (?), and
everybody thinks he's Maggie's husband or something. He tells Nick that
the Pirate ship is running drugs, which kills a local teenager, and Nick
goes undercover as another DJ to crack the case.
Tim goes on: "I immediately knew that the actor playing her brother
was related to her as he looked like her identical twin, and the show
credits confirmed his surname." (Valentine
Pelka is Kazia's brother)
About the actor
Born in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, in 1962, Kazia Pelka is an experienced actor whose credits include Brookside and Space Precinct. The daughter of an Irish mother and Polish father, Kazia married Brian Jordan on 24 September 1998.
Kazia gave birth to a baby girl called Theodora in March 2000. Kazia hasn't been in the last two or three episodes of series nine but is due to rejoin the cast for series ten.
