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Broken Promise
Season 7, Episode 3
The detective is called to the University of Northumberland when Jamie Marshall, a promising young journalism student, falls to his death from the top of a disused faculty building. With no eyewitnesses and no immediate leads, Vera turns to friends and family to glean all she can about Jamie, and to discover who might have wanted him dead. The student's innocent facade is revealed to have concealed simmering resentment and anger which he expressed on the internet - and which may have made him some deadly enemies
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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
Stuart Graham
(Actor)
.. Alan Marston
Michael Shaeffer
(Actor)
.. Ian Holland
Philip Arditti
(Actor)
.. John Greenhill
Steven Elder
(Actor)
.. Steve Devonshire
Steven Hillman
(Actor)
.. Derek Stoddart
Nathalie Armin
(Actor)
.. Eva Motian
Ayoola Smart
(Actor)
.. Lucy Curran
Michelle Tate
(Actor)
.. Shona Adams
Chris Gordon
(Actor)
.. Rory Marston
Fraser Wall
(Actor)
.. Jamie Marshall
Hebe Beardsall
(Actor)
.. Jennifer Marston
Cole Howard
(Actor)
.. Baby Max
Paida Mutonono
(Actor)
.. Consultant
Tony Neilson
(Actor)
.. Barman
Glenn Boateng
(Actor)
.. Lock forward
Letitia Knight
(Producer)
Phil Hunter
(Executive producer)
Robert Murphy
(Writer)
Lee Haven Jones
(Director)
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
Stuart Graham
(Actor)
.. Alan Marston
Michael Shaeffer
(Actor)
.. Ian Holland
Philip Arditti
(Actor)
.. John Greenhill
Steven Elder
(Actor)
.. Steve Devonshire
Steven Hillman
(Actor)
.. Derek Stoddart
Nathalie Armin
(Actor)
.. Eva Motian
Ayoola Smart
(Actor)
.. Lucy Curran
Michelle Tate
(Actor)
.. Shona Adams
Chris Gordon
(Actor)
.. Rory Marston
Fraser Wall
(Actor)
.. Jamie Marshall
Hebe Beardsall
(Actor)
.. Jennifer Marston
Cole Howard
(Actor)
.. Baby Max
Paida Mutonono
(Actor)
.. Consultant
Tony Neilson
(Actor)
.. Barman
Glenn Boateng
(Actor)
.. Lock forward
Letitia Knight
(Producer)
Phil Hunter
(Executive producer)
Robert Murphy
(Writer)
Lee Haven Jones
(Director)
