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The Blanket Mire
Season 7, Episode 4
A body is found buried on the Northumberland moors which could be a missing teenager from the nearby rural community of Brindale. The girl had disappeared six weeks previously, and Vera has to break the news to her devastated family. However, the realisation that she died so close to home rather than at a music festival as originally thought creates tension among her neighbours, who are soon suspecting each other of murder. The detective delves into the vulnerable young woman's isolated existence to identify her killer
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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
Kate Dickie
(Actor)
.. Nell Hinkin
Steve Evets
(Actor)
.. PC George Wooten
David Wilmot
(Actor)
.. Mal Hinkin
Kemi-Bo Jacobs
(Actor)
.. Claire Tovey
Martin McCann
(Actor)
.. Jack Madden
Jonjo O'Neill
(Actor)
.. Gary Tovey
Florian Ghimpu
(Actor)
.. Janusz Hiszpanski
Shannon Hayes
(Actor)
.. Erin Michaels
Cosmo Jarvis
(Actor)
.. Woody
Kieron Bimpson
(Actor)
.. Owen Travers
Robert Luckay
(Actor)
.. Blazej Bobienski
Lu Corfield
(Actor)
.. Jo Travers
Natalie Klamar
(Actor)
.. Meryl Fairchild
Clara Indrani
(Actor)
.. Zoe Merrin
Louis Dobson
(Actor)
.. Jason Hinkin
Paul Matthew Thompson
(Writer)
Martha Hillier
(Writer)
Letitia Knight
(Producer)
Phil Hunter
(Executive producer)
John Hayes
(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
Kate Dickie
(Actor)
.. Nell Hinkin
Steve Evets
(Actor)
.. PC George Wooten
David Wilmot
(Actor)
.. Mal Hinkin
Kemi-Bo Jacobs
(Actor)
.. Claire Tovey
Martin McCann
(Actor)
.. Jack Madden
Jonjo O'Neill
(Actor)
.. Gary Tovey
Florian Ghimpu
(Actor)
.. Janusz Hiszpanski
Shannon Hayes
(Actor)
.. Erin Michaels
Cosmo Jarvis
(Actor)
.. Woody
Kieron Bimpson
(Actor)
.. Owen Travers
Robert Luckay
(Actor)
.. Blazej Bobienski
Lu Corfield
(Actor)
.. Jo Travers
Natalie Klamar
(Actor)
.. Meryl Fairchild
Clara Indrani
(Actor)
.. Zoe Merrin
Louis Dobson
(Actor)
.. Jason Hinkin
Paul Matthew Thompson
(Writer)
Martha Hillier
(Writer)
Letitia Knight
(Producer)
Phil Hunter
(Executive producer)
John Hayes
(Director)
