Ackley Bridge series 3

The third series of the British television drama series Ackley Bridge began broadcasting on 18 June 2019 on Channel 4, and ended on 6 August 2019. 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 eight sixty-minute episodes.

Production and casting
Production and filming on the series began in January 2019 in Halifax, West Yorkshire. In November 2018, Ackley Bridge put out an open casting for boys aged 15 to 18 of Polish ethnicity. In January 2019, the castings of Charlie Hardwick and Rob James-Collier were announced; Hardwick was cast as Sue Carp, director of pupil behaviour, whilst James-Collier was cast as the new deputy headteacher and Emma Keane's (Liz White) replacement as an English teacher, Martin Evershed. Hardwick said she is "absolutely over the moon to be joining" the show, complimenting the "fantastic characters and brilliantly-sharp storytelling." Hardwick describes Sue as "belligerent and unwilling" and who is "solely concerned with counting down the next ten years to her retirement" rather than the welfare of the students. James-Collier said he is "thrilled" of his casting and called the young actors "fearless and talented." Upon completion of filming, Mountview graduates Hareet Deol and Adrian Nik were revealed to have joined the cast; Deol portrays new PE teacher Hassan Hussein, whilst Nik was cast as Yusef Ibrahim. The additions of George Potts, as Mandy's new "nightmare" boss Ken Weaver, and Phoebe Tuffs-Berry, as Year 10 "bad girl" Rukhsana, were announced shortly before the trailer's release. Natalie Gavin was later revealed to be playing Sam's "formidable" mum, fresh out of prison, Nadine Murgatroyd. In the third episode of the series, Ty Glaser was introduced as the stand-in headteacher, Sian Oakes.

Main
• Amy-Leigh Hickman as Nasreen Paracha

• 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

• Adil Ray as Sadiq Nawaz

• Maariah Hussain as Alya Nawaz

• 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

• Megan Parkinson as Sam Murgatroyd

• Rob James-Collier as Martin Evershed

• Charlie Hardwick as Sue Carp

• Phoebe Tuffs-Berry as Rukhsana Ibrahim

• Zara Salim as Kacey 'Spud' Gartside

• Szymon Kantor as Pawel Nowicki

• Abdul Ahadbutt as Younis Iqbal

• Hareet Deol as Hassan Hussein

• Ty Glaser as Sian Oakes

Featured

 * Poppy Lee Friar as Missy Booth
 * Liz White as Emma Keane

Recurring
• Zain Khan as Zain Younis

• Hassan Mahmood as Amin Abad

• India Parsan as Tahira Abad

• 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

• Razia Yousaf as Granny Paracha

• Anu Hasan as Farida Nawaz

• Kammy Darweish as Mujahid Haider

• Perveen Hussain as Sadia Haider

• Safiyah Hardiyah as Aneesa Sahota

• James Senneck as Clint Northwood

• Steve Money as Grandpa Murgatroyd

• Antonio Aakeel as Anwar Wazir

• Vicky Myers as Debbie Gartside

• George Potts as Ken Weaver

• Natalie Gavin as Nadine Murgatroyd

• Shahid Ahmed as Zaffar Iqbal

• Jessica Kaliisa as Gaynor Evershed

• Freddie Bolt as Reece Murgatroyd

• Nish Nathwani as Zain Younis Senior

• James Atherton as Tim Collins

Guest
• Declan O'Connor as Pete Day

• Rita May as Julie "Nana" Booth

• James Schofield as Thomas Padgett

• Emily Coates as Lucy Pellow

• Sophie Young as Maris Cooper

• Annie Cowan as Dr Marielle Conway

• Martin Wenner as Dr Harry Brown

• Fahriya Ali as Farah Iqbal

• Parsa Ahmed as Sakina Iqbal

• Jake Hayward as Kyan Murgatroyd

• Sebastian Shaw as Adam Smith

• Ahmad Sakhi as Mani Busra

• Faraz Ayub as Umar Masood

• Jeff Mirza as Akram Hussein

• Moey Hassan as Karim Abad

• Alfie Wilson as Charlie Evershed

• Sukai Morton as Isla Evershed

• Christine Barton-Brown as Janet Crabbe

• Jordan Jessup as Police Officer

• Vanessa Pound as Gemma Hunt

• Bikram Gurmit as Bimilinder Singh

• Luke Bayer as Matthew Barnes

• Buckso Dhillon-Woolley as Tasnim Ibrahim

• Jumana Patel as Hanifa Ibrahim

• Anisha Azam as Safiyah Ibrahim

• Arian Nik as Yusef Ibrahim

• Wass Javed as Adeel Ibrahim

• Hayley Mason as Mrs. Wright

• Kelli Hollis as Loan Shark Linda

• Charlotte Sowerby as Dirty Donna

• Dean Colebourne as PC Sexy Bod

• Steve Garth as Gordon Carp

• Rory Gallagher as Custody Sergeant