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Dark Road
Season 6, Episode 1
A body is discovered on the Northumberland moors, and identified as a woman who made a distressed 999 call on the night of her death - suggesting she may have been abducted by someone she knew. Vera takes on the case, and discovers the victim was a controversial figure in her home town, who had a complicated relationship with her family and a number of well-hidden secrets
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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
Kelly Gough
(Actor)
.. Nicole
Daniel Ings
(Actor)
.. Simon
Faye Marsay
(Actor)
.. Christine
Paul Courtenay Hyu
(Actor)
.. Huang
Leemore Marrett Jr
(Actor)
.. Dash
Ronald Pickup
(Actor)
.. Mr Kipford
Riley Jones
(Actor)
.. DC Mark Edwards
Lisa Hammond
(Actor)
.. Helen Milton
Eloise Knowles
(Actor)
.. Ciara
Sharon Duce
(Actor)
.. Marcia
Clare Wille
(Actor)
.. Rona
Linda Hargreaves
(Actor)
.. Pamela
Robert Blythe
(Actor)
.. Bob Tate
Jackie Lye
(Actor)
.. Janet
Samantha Morris
(Actor)
.. Gemma
Martha Hillier
(Writer)
Marek Losey
(Director)
Letitia Knight
(Producer)
Kate Bartlett
(Executive producer)
Michael Dawson
(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
Kelly Gough
(Actor)
.. Nicole
Daniel Ings
(Actor)
.. Simon
Faye Marsay
(Actor)
.. Christine
Paul Courtenay Hyu
(Actor)
.. Huang
Leemore Marrett Jr
(Actor)
.. Dash
Ronald Pickup
(Actor)
.. Mr Kipford
Born:
June 07, 1940
in
Chester
Best Known For:
A string of film and TV roles.
Early-life:
Ronald Alfred Pickup was born in Chester on June 7, 1940 to Daisy and Eric. Ronald went on to train to become an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He made his TV debut in a 1964 edition of Doctor Who. Since then, Ronald has been a regular fixture on the stage, in the cinema and on TV screens.
Career:
During his long and prolific career, Pickup has made guest appearances in the likes of Crown Court, Matlock, Bergerac, Boon, Lovejoy, Silent Witness, Casualty, The Bill, Hustle, and New Tricks. He had recurring roles in Wagner, Moving, Fortunes of War, The Rector's Wife, Ivanhoe, and Holby City. His film credits include The Day of the Jackal (1973), The Thirty-Nine Steps (1978), Nijinsky (1980), Never Say Never Again (1983), The Mission (1986), The Fourth Protocol (1987), Lolita (1997), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) and its 2015 sequel. Pickup is also an established stage actor with roles in a number of productions, including Three Sisters, Amy's View, and Waiting for Godot.
Quote:
'Working with Laurence Olivier was like the culmination of an ambition from when I was about nine-years-old.'
Trivia:
Pickup was nominated for an Olivier award for his role in Amy's View.
Riley Jones
(Actor)
.. DC Mark Edwards
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.
Eloise Knowles
(Actor)
.. Ciara
Sharon Duce
(Actor)
.. Marcia
Clare Wille
(Actor)
.. Rona
Linda Hargreaves
(Actor)
.. Pamela
Robert Blythe
(Actor)
.. Bob Tate
Jackie Lye
(Actor)
.. Janet
Samantha Morris
(Actor)
.. Gemma
Martha Hillier
(Writer)
Marek Losey
(Director)
Letitia Knight
(Producer)
Kate Bartlett
(Executive producer)
Michael Dawson
(Executive producer)
