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Extraordinary Portraits is a BBC Television series produced by Chatterbox Media,^[1] in which members of the public who have a notable achievement are paired with an artist to have their portrait painted, or in some cases drawn, photographed, or sculpted. It first aired on 14 February 2022.^[2]

The first two series were presented by Tinie Tempah; series three to five by Bill Bailey.^[3][4] All the sitters in series three were related to the NHS, to mark its 75th anniversary.^[3][5]

An exhibition of works from the first two series was held at Turner Contemporary in 2022.^[6] From 13 March to 6 April 2025, during Bradford‘s year as UK City of Culture, an exhibition of the portraits from series four was held at the city’s Loading Bay venue.^[3][7]

Series four and five were filmed at Kelmarsh Hall in Northampton.^[8]

• 1:1. Twin sisters Georgia and Melissa Laurie, who survived a crocodile attack, painted by Roxana Halls^[9]
• 1:2. Model Cee Cee, who has albinism, photographed underwater by Christy Lee Rogers^[10]
• 1:3. Patrick Hutchinson, painted by Dale Grimshaw^[11]
• 1:4. Burns survivor Catrin Pugh, drawn by Kelvin Okafor^[12]
• 1:5. Former Royal Marine Mark Ormrod, painted by Thomas Croft — the abstract background was painted by Ormrod’s children Mason and Evie^[13][14]
• 1:6. 88-year-old farmer Alec Burrough, painted by Caroline Pool^[15]
• 2:1. Fundraiser and cancer survivor Harriet Middleton, painted by Stuart Pearson Wright — who subsequently donated his painting to Shetland Museum^[16]
• 2:2. Charlotte Banfield, who has cerebral palsy, photographed by Bella Kotak^[17]
• 2:3. Footballer Jahmal Howlett-Mundle, painted by Lo Lo^[18]
• 2:4. Powerlifter Karenjeet Kaur Bains, painted by Amar Stewart^[19]
• 2:5. Jamie Dalgoutte, painted by Ross Muir^[20]
• 2:6. Teacher Christian Foley, painted by Laura Quinn Harris^[21]
• 3:1. Trauma surgeon Martin Griffiths, sculpted by Nick Elphick^[22][23]
• 3:2. Doctor Grace Spence Green, painted by Jemisha Maadhavji^[24][25]
• 3:3. Araf Saddiq, Scotland’s first Asian paramedic, photographed by Brock Elbank^[26]
• 3:4. Jules Lewis, an end-of-life care nurse, painted by Belinda Eaton^[27]
• 3:5. Six members of the Edwards family, painted by Adebanji Alade^[28]
• 3:6. Hospital porter Holly Crawshaw, with her daughter Renae, painted by Mark Draisey^[29][30]
• 4:1. Clare Sacco, who founded a charity after receiving a diagnosis of incurable cancer, painted by Oriane Pierrepoint^[31][32]
• 4:2. Rizwan Javed, painted by Jack Dickson^[33]
• 4:3. Gill Sayell, painted by David James^[34]
• 4:4. Former paratrooper Christian Lewis, sculpted by Hywel Pratley
• 4:5. Foster carers Marva and Lionel Warmington, painted by Chloe Cox^[35]
• 4:6. Down’s syndrome campaigner Millie Anna, painted by Karen Turner^[36]
• 5:1. Darryn Frost, a hero of the 2019 London Bridge stabbings, sculpted by Nick Elphick^[37]
• 5:2. Eddie Brocklesby, aka ‘Iron Gran’, an 82-year-old female Ironman triathlete, painted by Caroline Pool^[38]
• 5:3. Lindsay McKenna, who runs a rescue centre for exotic animals, painted by Ricky Wilson^[39]
• 5:4. Two brothers, Jordan and Cian Adams, who raise finds for Alzheimer’s Research UK after being given a prognosis of inherited early-onset frontotemporal dementia, painted by Unza Saleem^[40]
• 5:5. Seema Misra, a victim of the British Post Office scandal, who subsequently worked for justice for other victims, painted by Jack Dickson^[41]
• 5:6. Sisters Amy Purdie and Grace Davidson, donor and recipient respectively, in the UK’s first successful womb transplant, painted by Karen Turner^[42][43]

• Official website
• Extraordinary Portraits at IMDb