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Natural Selection
Season 7, Episode 1
The detective investigates when the body of a wildlife ranger is found on a remote island off the coast of Northumberland. Her death is at first assumed to be an accident, since she was alone on the island when she died, but marks on the body seem to point to murder. As Vera delves into the dead woman's personal life, she uncovers dark secrets and old resentments
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Cast & Crew
Brenda Blethyn
(Actor)
.. DCI Vera Stanhope
Kenny Doughty
(Actor)
.. DS Aiden Healy
Jon Morrison
(Actor)
.. DC Kenny Lockhart
Christopher Colquhoun
(Actor)
.. Dr Anthony Carmichael
Noof McEwan
(Actor)
.. DC Hicham Cherradi
Riley Jones
(Actor)
.. DC Mark Edwards
Lisa Hammond
(Actor)
.. Helen Milton
Ewan Stewart
(Actor)
.. Michael Hogarth
Andrew Havill
(Actor)
.. Gareth Andersen
Suzanne Packer
(Actor)
.. Sophia Ashbrook
Kerrie Hayes
(Actor)
.. Alice Wyatt
Matthew Wilson
(Actor)
.. Ryan Campbell
Georgia Maguire
(Actor)
.. Vicki Hogarth
Emily Joyce
(Actor)
.. Caroline Andersen
Mawaan Rizwan
(Actor)
.. Jamil
Joe Blakemore
(Actor)
.. Peter Haden
Jamie Childs
(Director)
Letitia Knight
(Producer)
Kate Bartlett
(Executive producer)
Phil Hunter
(Executive producer)
Helen Jenkins
(Writer)
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
Christopher Colquhoun
(Actor)
.. Dr Anthony Carmichael
Noof McEwan
(Actor)
.. DC Hicham Cherradi
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.
Ewan Stewart
(Actor)
.. Michael Hogarth
Andrew Havill
(Actor)
.. Gareth Andersen
Suzanne Packer
(Actor)
.. Sophia Ashbrook
Born:
June 20, 1958
in
Abergavenny, Wales
Best Known For:
Playing Tess Bateman in Casualty.
Early-life:
Born Suzanne Jackson in Abergavenny, Wales, on June 20, 1958, she is the older sister of former Olympic hurdler Colin Jackson. She showed an interest in acting from an early age and played lead roles in a number of school plays.
Career:
Packer's first break as an actor came in 1990 when she began playing Mick Johnson's wife Josie in Channel 4 soap Brookside. She took a break from acting to complete a degree in teaching at Goldsmiths College and after graduating in 1996, she taught drama in London. After marrying American actor Jesse Newman, she moved to New York, where she taught drama. When their marriage ended, Packer relocated to Cardiff and quickly landed an audition for Casualty. She made her first appearance as Tess Bateman in the medical drama in 2003 and has remained on the show ever since.
Quote:
"Being nearly five years older, I was responsible for Colin — something I took on quite naturally."
Trivia:
She appeared with her brother in a celebrity edition of Pointless in 2011. They were eliminated in the first round.
Kerrie Hayes
(Actor)
.. Alice Wyatt
Born:
March 13, 1987
in
Anfield, Liverpool
Best Known For:
Playing Esther in The Mill.
Early-life:
Born on March 13, 1987 in Anfield, Liverpool. Kerrie developed an interest in acting after she joined a drama class with her sister while studying at Holly Lodge Girls' College in West Derby. She later studied at Liverpool Community College.
Career:
Hayes got her TV acting debut when she landed the lead role of Ruby Moss in the drama Lilies. Since then, she has made guest appearances in Casualty, Holby City, Inspector George Gently, The Commander and Doctors. As well as TV, she has had acting roles in the films Sparkle (2007), Nowhere Boy (2009), Kicks (2009) and Brighton Rock (2009). She has also appeared in such TV dramas as The Mill, The Living and the Dead and Little Boy Blue.
Quote:
On asking her parents for drama classes: "I asked if I could go to drama classes when I was about 13. They agreed as long as my school grades didn't suffer. Unfortunately, my grades did go down until they were virtually non-existent!"
Trivia:
She was nominated for Best Leading Actress at the BAFTA Awards 2013 for her performance in The Mill.
Matthew Wilson
(Actor)
.. Ryan Campbell
Georgia Maguire
(Actor)
.. Vicki Hogarth
Emily Joyce
(Actor)
.. Caroline Andersen
Mawaan Rizwan
(Actor)
.. Jamil
Joe Blakemore
(Actor)
.. Peter Haden
Jamie Childs
(Director)
Letitia Knight
(Producer)
Kate Bartlett
(Executive producer)
Phil Hunter
(Executive producer)
Helen Jenkins
(Writer)
