Rodney Blackstock is a fictional character on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. He is played by Patrick Mower. When Rodney Blackstock turned up in Emmerdale, no one was more surprised to see him than his ex-wife Diane. He left her and their daughter, Bernice, when she was just five years old, and didn't send so much as a postcard. He d been invited to meet Bernice by her fiancé Ashley Thomas - who had no idea of their troubled history. When Bernice realised he was her father, she was furious with Ashley and almost cancelled their wedding but on Christmas Day 2000, Rodney looked on proudly as Bernice and Ashley got married.