List of Tracy Beaker Returns characters
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This is a list of characters that were introduced in CBBC's Tracy Beaker Returns. The series is based on The Story of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson. It ran for three seasons from 2010 to 2012. The series follows The Story of Tracy Beaker that ran for five seasons from 2002 to 2005 and it is followed by The Dumping Ground that has aired since 2013. Connor Byrne has played the role of Mike Milligan for all three programmes although he left in the seventh series to live with his family in Ireland. Dani Harmer and Lisa Coleman reprised their roles as Tracy Beaker and Cam Lawson for Tracy Beaker Returns.
Cast
Main characters
Gina Conway
Gina Conway, played by Kay Purcell, is a careworker at Elm Tree House in Tracy Beaker Returns and the first series of The Dumping Ground. She first appeared on 8 January 2010, the start of Tracy Beaker Returns, and continued appearing until 15 March 2013, the final episode in series 1 of The Dumping Ground.
Gina is of Jamaican descent with black and highlighted hair. She is kind and a great house mother to the children.
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