Where are the cast of the Full Monty now?

The cast of The Full Monty have reunited for a new original series of the same name, set to air on Disney+.

The British comedy was released in 1997 to critical acclaim and became a surprise hit, becoming the highest grossing film in the UK at the time.

The film follows a group of unemployed men in Sheffield during the 1990s as they decide to form a male striptease act in an attempt to make some money.

Almost 25 years on from the release of the Bafta award-winning film, Robert Carlyle will return as Gaz, Mark Addy as Dave, Lesley Sharp as Jean, Hugo Speer as Guy, Paul Barber as Horse, Steve Huison as Lomper, Wim Snape as Nathan and Tom Wilkinson as Gerald.

The cast of The Full Monty have reunited for a new original series of the same name, set to air on Disney+. They are pictured in the original film in 1997

The cockle-warming film saw out-of-work Gaz (Robert Carlyle, centre) persuade his newly unemployed friends to disrobe in front of an audience of women

But where are the cheerful would-be Chippendales now?

The new series will follow the original group of friends over eight episodes, as they navigate post-industrial Sheffield and the struggles faced by crumbling healthcare, education and employment systems.

In the 25 years since the film was released, the stars have split paths with some rubbing shoulders with Hollywood A-listers picking up Baftas and Oscar nominations, while others have pursued roles outside of acting including counselling and painting.

While some stars – including Robert Carlyle were household names before the film – it was a launching pad for many others who have gone on to star in British dramas, Hollywood films and more.

Here FEMAIL reveals where the original cast of the Full Monty are now…

ROBERT CARLYLE: GAZ

Already a big name thanks to Danny Boyle’s television series Hamish Macbeth and another Boyle production, Trainspotting, Robert Carlyle, now 60, took the lead role in The Full Monty, persuading his very cynical mates to try their hand at some Chippendale-style thrusts.

The movie kicked off a purple patch for the Glaswegian; roles in The Beach (also Danny Boyle), hit television show 24, and 28 Weeks Later followed.

More recently he’s been a regular in US show Once Upon a Time as Rumpelstiltskin and in 2017 starred in the Trainspotting sequel, T2.

He’s set to reprise his role as psychotic hard man Francis Begbie again next year a six-part television spin-off series based on Irvine Welsh’s 2016 book, The Blade Artist.

Then: The cockle-warming film saw out-of-work Gaz (Robert Carlyle pictured) persuade his newly unemployed friends to disrobe in front of an audience of women

Currently he’s starring in hit Sky One series Cobra as Robert Sutherland, the Prime Minister and Leader of the Conservative Party

More recently he’s been a regular in US show Once Upon a Time as Rumpelstiltskin (pictured) and in 2017 starred in the Trainspotting sequel, T2.

Teasing details of the project, Robert revealed that his character starts off the movie having just left HMP Edinburgh, where he served a 25-year prison sentence for his multitude of crimes.

Currently he’s starring in hit Sky One series Cobra as Robert Sutherland, the Prime Minister and Leader of the Conservative Party.

In his 32-year career on the big and small screen he’s become known for his commitment to authenticity in roles, often losing or gaining weight and changing his lifestyle to fit a character including moving house to live where it is set.

He’s kept a relatively quiet private life. In 1997 he married make-up artist Anastasia Shirley, with whom he shares a daughter and two sons.

MARK ADDY: DAVE

Then: Mark Addy starred as body-conscious Dave in the film; he’s since enjoyed plenty of work across the pond in the US and in recent cult series Game of Thrones

The portly Dave is perhaps the least keen on disrobing in The Full Monty, but somehow managed to be the most charming of all the Sheffield strippers.

High profile television roles have followed for Mark Addy, now 58, who was already well known for his work on television comedy The Thin Blue Line.

He found worldwide fame once again starring as Tyrant King Robert Baratheon in the first season of global smash hit Game of Thrones in 2011 – with showrunners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss singing his praises saying he was ‘easiest actor to cast for the show’.

Addy has since become a stalwart of British TV, with roles in Doctor Who, White House Farm and The Salisbury Poisonings in recent years.

He’s been married to Kelly Biggs since 1996 and has three children.

STEVE HUISON: LOMPER

Flame-haired Lomper couldn’t have looked less like a Chippendale but was brought into the group after trying to take his own life, fearing decades on the dole following the closure of the steelworks. Left in the film, right in 2017

Born in Leeds, he still lives in Yorkshire, in the fishing village of Robin Hood’s Bay in the Moors with his wife Theresa. He added to Great British Life: ‘I moved here knowing absolutely nobody, and I’ve been fascinated at how easy it is to create new networks of friends in such a short space of time’. Pictured in 2011

Pictured: Robert Carlyle as Gaz, Tom Wilkinson as Gerald, Steve Huison as Lomper, Hugo Speer as Guy and Paul Barber as Horse

Actor Steve Huison, now 59, headed west from Sheffield to the cobbles of Manchester, starring as Eddie Windass in Coronation Street from 2008 to 2011.

More fleeting television roles have followed in recent years, including stints in UK television dramas Doctors and Scott and Bailey.

Despite impressive credentials, Huison admits he nearly gave up his acting career, after a bad interaction with a top casting director for a blockbuster film.

Speaking about the director to Great British Life magazine he said: ‘He was lying on a red leather chaise longue and didn’t make eye contact. I was in the waiting room beforehand and Billy Connolly came out and he was shouting at this bloke and I thought: ‘Wow – he’s even managed to p*** off Billy Connolly’.

He nearly packed it all in, but shortly after his hero British director Ken Loach, cast him in a film called The Navigators.

A talented artist in more ways that one Huison also creates portraits for a living and recently had an exhibition at the Pyramid Gallery in York,

Speaking in 2020, he explained how he looks for character in the faces of his subjects and invites them to sit for him in the shed at the bottom of his garden.

Born in Leeds, he still lives in Yorkshire, in the fishing village of Robin Hood’s Bay in the Moors with his wife Theresa.

He added to Great British Life: ‘I moved here knowing absolutely nobody, and I’ve been fascinated at how easy it is to create new networks of friends in such a short space of time’.

WILLIAM SNAPE: NATHAN

Then: Snape won hearts as Nathan, Gaz’s super-cute young son who is less than impressed by his father’s latest money-making idea.

Now: He now lives in Manchester with his wife Natasha James and their one-year-old daughter Marla

Going by the name of ‘Wim’ he’ trained at Royal Central School London and but after the pandemic hit and acting jobs halted, he trained to be counsellor at Manchester College.

Snape won hearts as Nathan, Gaz’s super-cute young son who is less than impressed by his father’s latest money-making idea.

Of all the actors appearing in The Full Monty, Snape looks the most different – because he grew up.

Now 36, he’s had a string of acting roles in the likes of Holby City, Emmerdale and Heartbeat.

Going by the name of ‘Wim’ he’ trained at Royal Central School London and but after the pandemic hit and acting jobs halted, he trained to be counsellor at Manchester College.

And despite a thriving acting career, he revealed in 2017 that he only auditioned for the role because it meant he would get time off school.

He told the Daily Star: ‘They said they wanted someone to play the boy in this film called The Full Monty,’

‘About 20 lads put their hands up but I didn’t bother. I wasn’t interested in drama. Then they dropped the bomb: you got six weeks off school. My hand was straight up.’

He now lives in Manchester with his wife Natasha James and their one-year-old daughter Marla.

TOM WILKINSON – GERALD

Remember grumbling factory foreman Gerald? Who ended up in the dole queue too and eventually won over film fans with his enthusiastic attempts at racy dance moves. Wilkinson, now 74, had Hollywood firmly in his sights and has starred in a slew of big name pictures including Shakespeare in Love, Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.

With a knack for playing historical figures he’s also starred as JFK’s Dad, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr opposite his real-life wife Diana Hardcastle (pictured left and right) playing Rose Kennedy in 2017 American sitcom The Kennedys: After Camelot starring Katie Holmes and Matthew Perry.

Remember grumbling factory foreman Gerald? Who ended up in the dole queue too and eventually won over film fans with his enthusiastic attempts at racy dance moves.

Wilkinson, now 74, had Hollywood firmly in his sights and has starred in a slew of big name pictures including Shakespeare in Love, Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.

Arguably the most successful of the Full Monty Set, he won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for his role as Benjamin Franklin in US mini-series John Adams, while his 2007 performance as Arthur Edens in Michael Clayton alongside George Clooney and Tilda Swinton earned him an Oscar and BAFTA nomination. He also scored a Best Actor nomination in 2001 for his role in In The Bedroom.

With a knack for playing historical figures he’s also starred as JFK’s Dad, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr opposite his real-life wife Diana Hardcastle playing Rose Kennedy in 2017 American sitcom The Kennedys: After Camelot starring Katie Holmes and Matthew Perry.

Most recently, he’s starred in 19th century ITV drama Belgravia as Peregrine Bellasis, Earl of Brockenhurst. In the show, Diana plays his sister-in-law.

The couple have collaborated many times, they both had roles in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, If Only, A Good Woman, Good People, and Jenny’s Wedding .

The pair, who live in north London and have daughters Alice, 34, and Molly, 31, In the 2005 New Year Honours, he was appointed an OBE for services to Drama

HUGO SPEER: GUY

Speer, now 54, has been ever present on screens since, starring in television dramas Bleak House, Midsomer Murders and The Musketeers. On film, he’s had roles in Vera and the controversial Nymphomaniac: Vol. 1. He is pictured in The Full Monty

You can still leave your hat on! The character of Guy can’t dance, but he’s very easy on the eye, and that’s enough for stripping leader Gaz to give him the green light to join

While most of the cast have kept their personal lives out of the press, Speer made headline in 2009 when he was banned from the roads today after he drove home from a friend’s wake while twice the legal drink-drive limit. – He is pictured in 2021

The character of Guy can’t dance, but he’s very easy on the eye, and that’s enough for stripping leader Gaz to give him the green light to join.

More recently he’s had roles in Netflix series Shadow and Bone, US series London Kills, and ITV smash hit Marcella.

The star drove his BMW into a traffic island after he decided to drive the short distance. He admitted drink-driving when he appeared before magistrates and was disqualified for 18 months and fined £350 with £45 costs and a £15 victim surcharge.

He is married to Glaswegian actress, writer and director Vivienne Harvey who is known for writing episodes of Harlot and Clink.

LESLEY SHARP: JEAN

The role of Jean scooped Sharp, now 61, a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress and has seen her become one of the UK’s most recognisable actresses. Right in 1997, left in 2014 at the Laurence Olivier

Roles in Bob and Rose, Vera Drake, the long-running hit Scott and Bailey and Netflix series Paranoid have kept Sharp’s career firmly on track. She is pictured in 2021

The role of Jean scooped Sharp, now 61, a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress and has seen her become one of the UK’s most recognisable actresses.

Roles in Bob and Rose, Vera Drake, the long-running hit Scott and Bailey and Netflix series Paranoid have kept Sharp’s career firmly on track.

In 2021, she’s been in an impressive four projects, including Netflix fantasy hit Fate: The Winx Saga, Channel 4’s Before We Die and as a narrator on BBC documentary Heaven Made.

In the same year she took the took the lead role in Kae Tempest’s Philoctetes at the National Theatre.

Other projects include her role as DC Margaret Oliver in BBC One’s Three Girls about Rochdale child sex abuse ring and After Life, which one her a Royal Television Society for Best Actress.

She’s married to fellow English actor Nicholas Gleaves and have two sons, the couple live in London.

PAUL BARBER: HORSE

For many, Paul Barber, now 71, will only ever be Denzil from Only Fools and Horses. But his role as Horse, so-called for rather X-rated reasons, has seen a steady string of roles come his way ever since.

Since his role in the Full Monty, he’s appeared in Death in Paradise and One Night in Istanbul. He’s also proven his chops in Hollywood, starring alongside Samuel L Jackson and Meat Loaf in The 51st State. He is pictured in 2014

For many, Paul Barber, now 71, will only ever be Denzil from Only Fools and Horses.

But his role as Horse, so-called for rather X-rated reasons, has seen a steady string of roles come his way ever since.

Since his role in the Full Monty, he’s appeared in Death in Paradise and One Night in Istanbul.

He’s also proven his chops in Hollywood, starring alongside Samuel L Jackson and Meat Loaf in The 51st State.

Other TV roles have also occurred, including a small part Coronation Street playing a club owner, Nelson, as well as the role of Captain in Sky 1’s Sinbad.

The actor also guest-starred in two episodes of the CBBC Tracy Beaker spin-off series The Dumping Ground as a homeless man, George. A poignant role for the veteran actor – who himself was placed in care after the death of his mother from tuberculous when he was just seven.

EMILY WOOF: MANDY

Author and actor Emily Woof played Mandy in the 1997 cult classic, in which she starred as the troublesome ex-wife of Gaz. Her last role appears to be in 2015 – where she starred in Inspector George Gently. Left in 1997, right in 2017

Author and actor Emily Woof played Mandy in the 1997 cult classic, in which she starred as the troublesome ex-wife of Gaz.

Her demands for child support were the catalyst for his decision to form the strip act.

Since the film finished, she has gone on to star as Nancy in the 1999 mini-series Oliver Twist and thief Paula in Daylight Robbery. Emily has also written two novels.

Her last role appears to be in 2015 – where she starred in Inspector George Gently.

She is married to screenwriter Hamish McColl – who is known for his work with Rowan Atkinson having written Mr. Bean’s Holiday and Johnny English Reborn. They have two children.

DEIRDRE COSTELLO: LINDA

Deirdre Costello played the wife of Gerald, who is fooled into thinking that he still has a job and goes to the office everyday.

Before that, she appeared in the 1980 film The Elephant Man and later went on to have small parts in Doctors and Coronation Street.

She’s starred in a few roles since including 12 episodes of Coronation Street in three different roles.

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