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Shadows in the Sky
Season 5, Episode 4
When dock worker Owen Thorne plunges from the roof of a multi-storey car park while picking up his daughter from her school prom, Vera immediately detects foul play. The team soon discovers a work dispute over the death of a young man, with everyone believing Owen was to blame, and the victim's father admits he wanted revenge - but his alibi holds. The mystery then continues when Vera spots an inconsistency in the statement Owen's wife gave to the police, suggesting she's not certain of her husband's fidelity
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Cast & Crew
Brenda Blethyn
(Actor)
.. DCI Vera Stanhope
Kenny Doughty
(Actor)
.. DS Aiden Healy
Jon Morrison
(Actor)
.. DC Kenny Lockhart
Cush Jumbo
(Actor)
.. DC Bethany Whelan
Kingsley Ben-Adir
(Actor)
.. Dr Marcus Summer
Raquel Cassidy
(Actor)
.. Gloria Edwards
Nadine Marshall
(Actor)
.. Ellie Thorne
Daniel Ezra
(Actor)
.. Cameron Thorne
Levi Heaton
(Actor)
.. Hannah Ferris
Rob Jarvis
(Actor)
.. Mick McKittrick
Bill Fellows
(Actor)
.. Alec
Niall Greig Fulton
(Actor)
.. Logan Tilley
Carla Melaco
(Actor)
.. Lila Tilley
Lisa Hammond
(Actor)
.. Helen Milton
Riley Jones
(Actor)
.. DC Mark Edwards
Ursula Holden-Gill
(Actor)
.. Jayne-Anne
Keith Newby
(Actor)
.. Owen Thorne
Ken Richardson
(Actor)
.. Stuart
Victoria Connett
(Actor)
.. Restaurant manager
Jane Relph
(Actor)
.. B&B owner
Ewen Cummins
(Actor)
.. Head groundskeeper
Martha Hillier
(Writer)
Margaret Mitchell
(Producer)
Will Sinclair
(Director)
Kate Bartlett
(Executive producer)
Myar Craig-Brown
(Executive producer)
More Information
Did You Know..
Brenda Blethyn
(Actor)
.. DCI Vera Stanhope
Born:
February 20, 1946
in
Kent
Best Known For:
Secrets & Lies.
Early-life:
Born Brenda Anne Bottle on February 20, 1946, in Ramsgate, Kent. She's the youngest of nine children of a parlour maid and a chauffeur. Money was tight when she was growing up. After excelling at maths at school, she worked as a secretary and bookkeeper in a bank. But she was always obsessed with films and acting and, at the age of 27, after divorcing her first husband, she gave up her day job and used her savings to fund a drama course at Guildford. She didn't tell her parents, and thought she would go back to her old career if things didn't work out.
Career:
Blethyn gained early experience with two small theatre groups before joining the National Theatre in 1975. Her TV debut was in a 1979 episode of Tales of the Unexpected, and a year later she had a lead role in Mike Leigh's small-screen project Gloria. In 1990 she made her first film, The Witches, following that up with A River Runs Through It. Despite roles in Outside Edge and The Buddha of Suburbia, she didn't become a household name until her Oscar-nominated role in Leigh's Secrets & Lies. Since then she's starred in Girls' Night, Saving Grace, Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, London River, and gained another Oscar nomination for Little Voice. She returned to the small screen in 2011 playing the title role in ITV's detective series Vera.
Quote:
'I don't have ambition. My expectations are low.'
Trivia:
Blethyn was awarded an OBE for services to drama in the 2003 New Year Honours List.
Kenny Doughty
(Actor)
.. DS Aiden Healy
Jon Morrison
(Actor)
.. DC Kenny Lockhart
Cush Jumbo
(Actor)
.. DC Bethany Whelan
Kingsley Ben-Adir
(Actor)
.. Dr Marcus Summer
Raquel Cassidy
(Actor)
.. Gloria Edwards
Nadine Marshall
(Actor)
.. Ellie Thorne
Daniel Ezra
(Actor)
.. Cameron Thorne
Levi Heaton
(Actor)
.. Hannah Ferris
Rob Jarvis
(Actor)
.. Mick McKittrick
Bill Fellows
(Actor)
.. Alec
Niall Greig Fulton
(Actor)
.. Logan Tilley
Carla Melaco
(Actor)
.. Lila Tilley
Lisa Hammond
(Actor)
.. Helen Milton
Best Known For:
Playing Donna Yates in EastEnders.
Early-life:
Lisa was born with dwarfism in London in 1983. When she was 13, Grange Hill held auditions at her school and she ended up landing the role of Denny, a character she played in the children's drama for three years. It was during her time on the show that she decided acting was the career for her.
Career:
In 2002, Hammond made her film debut in Quills. In 2004, she starred in the TV movie Every Time You Look at Me and the Channel 4 sitcom Max & Paddy's Road to Nowhere. Since then, she has made appearances in Holby City, Where the Heart Is, Bleak House, Mrs In-Betweeny, Casualty, Psychoville, Roald Dahl's Esio Trot and Vera. In 2014, she made her first appearance in EastEnders as Donna Yates.
Quote:
'Accept whatever state you're in at the time, and remember that things will change.'
Trivia:
In 2010, she toured the UK in No Idea, a theatre piece she devised with co-star Rachael Spence and director Lee Simpson.
Riley Jones
(Actor)
.. DC Mark Edwards
Ursula Holden-Gill
(Actor)
.. Jayne-Anne
Keith Newby
(Actor)
.. Owen Thorne
Ken Richardson
(Actor)
.. Stuart
Victoria Connett
(Actor)
.. Restaurant manager
Jane Relph
(Actor)
.. B&B owner
Ewen Cummins
(Actor)
.. Head groundskeeper
Martha Hillier
(Writer)
Margaret Mitchell
(Producer)
Will Sinclair
(Director)
Kate Bartlett
(Executive producer)
Myar Craig-Brown
(Executive producer)
