Ackley Bridge series 2

The second series of the British television drama series Ackley Bridge began broadcasting on 5 June 2018 June 2018 on Channel 4, and ended on 21 August 2018. The series follows the lives of the staff and pupils at the fictional multi-cultural academy school Ackley Bridge College, in the fictitious Yorkshire mill town of Ackley Bridge. It consists of twelve sixty-minute episodes.

Production and casting
Production and filming on the series began in January 2018 in Halifax, West Yorkshire. Filming also occurred in Bradford, West Yorkshire. In January 2018, the show's production company, The Forge, put out an open casting call for teenagers and adults to act as extras in the series.

Former Girls Aloud singer Kimberley Walsh was cast as Steve Bell's (Paul Nicholls) ex-girlfriend, Claire Butterworth, who is the mother to their child, Zac. Walsh said she enjoyed working with Jo Joyner and Nicholls, calling her role "fun" and the show "fantastic [...] with a brilliant cast." Walsh stated that her role in the series is "quite different" to other roles she has portrayed, describing Claire as "sassy and strong" as she is determined "to get her claws back into Steve." Vicky Entwistle, who played Janice Battersby on Coronation Street, appears as Iqbal Paracha's (Narinda Samra) secret wife Sandra Turner and mother of Iqbal's children. Entwistle commented that she was "thrilled to be joining the very talented cast of Ackley Bridge and look forward to watching how everything unfolds" and she "had a great time filming with a wonderful bunch of people." Lin Blakley and Ted Robbins join the show as Mandy's parents, "abusive" Ray, who is suffering from dementia, and Dianne, who "can't cope" with Ray.

Main
• Amy-Leigh Hickman as Nasreen Paracha

• Poppy Lee Friar as Missy Booth

• Jo Joyner as Mandy Carter

• Sunetra Sarker as Kaneez Paracha

• Nazmeen Kauser as Razia Paracha

• Cody Ryan as Hayley Booth

• Yaseen Khan as Saleem Paracha

• Sam Bottomley as Jordan Wilson

• Paul Nicholls as Steve Bell

• Adil Ray as Sadiq Nawaz

• Liz White as Emma Keane

• Tom Varey as Will Simpson

• Maariah Hussain as Alya Nawaz

• Arsher Ali as Samir Qureshi

• Lorraine Cheshire as Lorraine Bird

• Sam Retford as Cory Wilson

• Nohail Mohammed as Riz Nawaz

• Fern Deacon as Chloe Voyle

• Samantha Power as Simone Booth

• Emily Pyzer as Candice Murgatroyd

• Gurjeet Singh as Naveed Haider

• Tony Jayawardena as Rashid Hyatt

• Adam Fielding as Aaron Turner

• Jay Saighal as Javid Shah

• Megan Parkinson as Sam Murgatroyd

Recurring
• Zain Khan as Zain Younis

• Hassan Mahmood as Amin Abad

• India Parsan as Tahira Abad

• Alisha Zaman as Amira Gill

• Kainat Butt as Shireen Siddiqui

• Abdullah Shahid as Mo Akhtar

• Arbaz Rashid as Waqar Abdul-Rehman

• Chloe Lumb as Shannon Burns

• Amina Arslan as Amina Mir

• Nathan Green as Neil Sykes

• Matthew Priestley as Jake Earnshaw

• Harry Myers as Dan Fairfax

• Steve Jackson as Kevin Wilson

• Narinder Samra as Iqbal Paracha

• Razia Yousaf as Granny Paracha

• Kammy Darweish as Mujahid Haider

• Perveen Hussain as Sadia Haider

• Safiyah Mardiyah as Aneesa Sahota

• Anu Hasan as Farida Nawaz

• Meryl Fernandes as Maryam Qureshi

• James Foster as Craig Brimble

• Vicky Entwistle as Sandra Turner

• Halima Ali as Amy Turner

• Kimberley Walsh as Claire Butterworth

• James Senneck as Clint Northwood

Guest
• Amina Arslan as Amina Mir

• Jonas Khan as Khadim Afzal

• Kelli Hollis as Linda Loan Shark

• Alec Hewes, James Browne and Jonathan Enser as Jazz Band

• Kriss Dosanjh as Moeen Qureshi

• Beth Hunter as Megan Redhead

• Julia Nelson as Brenda Webster

• Alex Dobson as Mel Normal

• Keicha Greenidge as Shalika Phillips

• Amita Suman as Sameera

• Lloyd Lai as Martin Rose

• Christine Brennan as Dr Olivia Allen

• Tigga Goulding as Wendy Jefferson

• Steve Money as Grandpa Murgatroyd

• Ted Robbins as Ray Carter

• Lin Blakley as Dianne Carter

• Zoe Iqbal as Zahra Malik

• James Midgley as Darren Haddock

• Madison Brown as Ashley Currier

• Maya Saroya as Meesha Peerzada

• Anthony Lewis as Tony Potts

• Huni Jalaf as Imam Fazal Hameed

• Stuart Manning as Nik Voyle

• Tahreen Iqbal as Mrs Younis

• Andonis Anthony as Simon Zindillis

• Judy Flynn as Barbara Hammer

• Alexis Platt as Danny Critchall

• Melanie Ash as Sarah Mather

• Rick Carr as Ian Orem

• Dee Hamilton as Sonographer

• Menyee Lai as Irene Girvan