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Life Born of Fire
Season 2, Episode 3
A serial killer begins targeting members of a religious group that claims to provide guidance for lost souls. As the investigation proceeds, it becomes clear that Hathaway, who once trained for the priesthood, knows more about the case than he is willing to reveal - causing Lewis to consider him as a suspect. Guest starring Ian McNeice and Rachael Stirling alongside Kevin Whately and Laurence Fox
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Kevin Whately
(Actor)
.. DI Robert Lewis
Laurence Fox
(Actor)
.. DS Hathaway
Philip Battley
(Actor)
.. Will McEwan
Matthew Marsh
(Actor)
.. Henry McEwan
Ian McNeice
(Actor)
.. Rev King
Rachael Stirling
(Actor)
.. Zoe Kenneth
Chike Okonkwo
(Actor)
.. Jonjo Read
Kate Miles
(Actor)
.. Nova Rose
Bruce Mackinnon
(Actor)
.. Conan Jones
Clare Holman
(Actor)
.. Dr Laura Hobson
Michael Pennington
(Actor)
.. Dr Melville
Deborah Findlay
(Actor)
.. Lady Hugh
Gillian Bevan
(Actor)
.. Sadie McEwan
David Ryall
(Actor)
.. Mr Cooper
Oliver Milburn
(Actor)
.. Charlie Newton
Rebecca Front
(Actor)
.. Ch Supt Innocent
Tom MacRae
(Writer)
Rebecca Eaton
(Executive producer)
Michele Buck
(Executive producer)
Ted Childs
(Executive producer)
Damien Timmer
(Executive producer)
Chris Burt
(Producer)
Richard Spence
(Director)
More Information
Did You Know..
Kevin Whately
(Actor)
.. DI Robert Lewis
Born:
February 06, 1951
in
Newcastle upon Tyne
Best Known For:
Playing John Thaw's right-hand man Lewis in Inspector Morse.
Early-life:
Kevin George Edward Whately was born on February 6, 1951, in Hexham, and grew up in the remote Northumberland countryside. His father was in the Navy, and Whately only saw him two or three times a year. He began acting at the age of four and it remained a passion throughout school, alongside a short-lived desire to be a doctor. When his careers teacher advised against acting, he went into accountancy for three years. He later trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. His brother, Frank, is a drama lecturer.
Career:
Whately's TV debut came in a 1979 episode of Shoestring. Two years later he had a six-week stint on Coronation Street. His big break came in 1983, when he landed the role of Neville in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. In 1987, he made his first appearance as Sgt Lewis in Morse, and has since appeared in Peak Practice, the TV dramas Trip Trap, Gobble, and The Broker's Man, as well as Oscar-winning drama The English Patient. Other projects include Paranoid, Silent Cry, Murder in Mind, Purely Belter, Promoted to Glory and The Children. He's now the star of hit Morse spin-off Lewis.
Quote:
On John Thaw: 'John had a wonderful sense of humour which is belied sometimes by journalists' impression of him as irascible. He was a wonderful mimic, particularly of people on the set rather than famous people.'
Trivia:
Married to actress Madeleine Newton, who appeared alongside him in both Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and Inspector Morse. They have two children, Kieran and Kitty. His daughter is an acclaimed opera singer.
Laurence Fox
(Actor)
.. DS Hathaway
Born:
May 26, 1978
in
Yorkshire
Best Known For:
Lewis.
Early-life:
Laurence Paul Fox was born in Yorkshire on May 26, 1978. Born into a theatrical family, he is the son of actor James Fox and the nephew of actor Edward Fox and theatre and film producer Robert Fox. Acting relatives also include his brother Jack and sister Lydia, and cousins Emilia Fox and Freddie Fox. Two years after leaving Harrow, Laurence developed a love of acting and enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (Rada). During his time there, he appeared in a number of stage productions.
Career:
Fox was still studying at Rada when he landed a role in his first feature film, 2001 horror-thriller The Hole. He went on to star in Gosford Park (2001), TV miniseries Island at War and TV movie Colditz. His big break came in 2006 when he was cast alongside Kevin Whately in Inspector Morse spin-off Lewis. Other credits include Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), Becoming Jane (2007), W.E. (2011) and TV movie Fast Freddie, the Widow and Me. Fox has also featured in a number of stage productions, including Strangers on a Train at London's Gielgud Theatre.
Quote:
'Acting can be a great job, but you do have to make up things to do when you're not working.'
Trivia:
Wed fellow actress Billie Piper in 2007.
Philip Battley
(Actor)
.. Will McEwan
Matthew Marsh
(Actor)
.. Henry McEwan
Ian McNeice
(Actor)
.. Rev King
Born:
October 02, 1950
in
Basingstoke
Best Known For:
Doc Martin.
Early-life:
McNeice was born in Basingstoke in Hampshire in 1950. His acting training started at the Taunton School in Somerset, followed by two years at the Salisbury Playhouse. His childhood was hard, as the shy youngster struggled with a stammer, and he lost his older brother in a car accident. Determined to overcome his shyness, he stuck at acting and spent years in theatre, including a four-year career with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and a production of Nicholas Nickleby on Broadway.
Career:
McNeice's TV breakthrough was in the drama series Edge of Darkness. He has also appeared in a number of films, including 84 Charing Cross Road, Day of the Dead, No Escape, From Hell and The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain. His breakthrough into American films occurred when he played opposite Jim Carrey as Fulton Greenwall in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995). Other notable credits include Conspiracy (2001), Valkyrie (2009) and the HBO hit series Rome. Since 2004, he has played Bert Large in Doc Martin.
Quote:
"In a funny kind of way, the problems that my weight and stammer created were also the foundations of my career as an entertainer."
Trivia:
McNeice has played Winston Churchill in a number of projects, including Doctor Who and the stage version of The King's Speech.
Rachael Stirling
(Actor)
.. Zoe Kenneth
Best Known For:
Tipping the Velvet.
Early-life:
Rachael Atlanta Stirling was born on May 30, 1977, in London. She's the daughter of actress Diana Rigg and her second husband, Archibald Stirling, a theatre producer and Laird of the Keir estate in Stirling, Scotland. She has two older half-brothers from her father's first marriage, and a younger half-brother from his third. Rachael studied art history at Edinburgh University, where she also appeared on stage with its theatre company. She can also speak Russian and is a skilled equestrian.
Career:
Stirling's first major stage role was a 1996 National Youth Theatre production of Othello, in which she played Desdemona opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor. Two years later she made her film debut in the British comedy Still Crazy, opposite Bill Nighy and Jimmy Nail. In 2000, she featured as the young Rebeccah in the miniseries In the Beginning; her mother played the character at an older age. But it was the BBC's 2002 adaptation of Sarah Waters' novel Tipping the Velvet that made her a star. Since then Stirling has appeared on stage in Theatre of Blood (playing the same character her mother portrayed in the 1971 film version), Look Back in Anger, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Priory and An Ideal Husband. Films include Maybe Baby, Complicity, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and Snow White and the Huntsman.
Quote:
"I was only vaguely aware when I was little that Ma was famous. I can remember people pointing at her in Marks & Spencer. But she kept work and home very separate."
Trivia:
In 2012, Stirling appeared alongside Mark Gatiss at the Donmar Warehouse in The Recruiting Officer. He'd already starred with her mother in a stage version of All About My Mother. He then wrote an episode of Doctor Who entitled The Crimson Horror, with parts especially written for them both - it aired in May 2013 and was the first time the two actresses had appeared on screen together.
Chike Okonkwo
(Actor)
.. Jonjo Read
Kate Miles
(Actor)
.. Nova Rose
Bruce Mackinnon
(Actor)
.. Conan Jones
Clare Holman
(Actor)
.. Dr Laura Hobson
Michael Pennington
(Actor)
.. Dr Melville
Deborah Findlay
(Actor)
.. Lady Hugh
Gillian Bevan
(Actor)
.. Sadie McEwan
David Ryall
(Actor)
.. Mr Cooper
Oliver Milburn
(Actor)
.. Charlie Newton
Rebecca Front
(Actor)
.. Ch Supt Innocent
Born:
May 16, 1964
in
Stoke Newington
Best Known For:
The Thick of It.
Early-life:
Rebecca Louise Front was born in Stoke Newington on May 16, 1964. She comes from an artistic family - her father is an artist, her mother writes children's stories and her brother Jeremy writes (he and Rebecca often write together, most notably Radio 4's Incredible Women). Rebecca knew she wanted to act from the age of six or seven. After leaving school, she studied at St Hugh's College, Oxford, where she began performing with the Oxford Theatre Group.
Career:
Front's comedy career took off with the Radio 4 show The Bobo Girls, the second series of which was produced by Armando Iannucci, with whom she's worked with numerous times since, most notably on The Thick of It. Other comedy projects include On the Hour, The Day Today, Absolute Power, The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer, The Spa and various Alan Partridge projects. Front has also dabbled in drama, with roles in The Rotters' Club, Kavanagh QC, Lewis, Jonathan Creek, and Humans.
Quote:
'I'd love a role in Sherlock. Or maybe I could play a Doctor Who monster or something. That'd be brilliant.'
Trivia:
Front's father, Charles Front, designed the title logo for The Beatles album Rubber Soul.
Tom MacRae
(Writer)
Rebecca Eaton
(Executive producer)
Michele Buck
(Executive producer)
Ted Childs
(Executive producer)
Damien Timmer
(Executive producer)
Chris Burt
(Producer)
Richard Spence
(Director)
