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Blood and Bone
Season 8, Episode 1
The unorthodox but brilliant North East detective investigates when charred human remains are found in an abattoir furnace, and attempts to deduce how and why they got there in the first place. The bones are identified as belonging to a fellow cop, leading Vera to uncover a web of dark secrets as she looks into her dead colleague's fraud squad. Brenda Blethyn dons her familiar hat and mac to play Vera in this mystery, based on the characters created by Ann Cleeves
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Cast & Crew
Brenda Blethyn
(Actor)
.. DCI Vera Stanhope
Kenny Doughty
(Actor)
.. DS Aiden Healy
Jon Morrison
(Actor)
.. DC Kenny Lockhart
Kingsley Ben-Adir
(Actor)
.. Dr Marcus Summer
Riley Jones
(Actor)
.. DC Mark Edwards
Ron Donachie
(Actor)
.. Jesse Hennings
Tamla Kari
(Actor)
.. Hayley Fenton
Carolyn Pickles
(Actor)
.. Rita Fenton
Ian Burfield
(Actor)
.. Iain Hobswain
Paul Jesson
(Actor)
.. Dale Acreman
Elizabeth Rider
(Actor)
.. Eileen Hennings
Shereen Martin
(Actor)
.. DI Sunetra Chandra
Philip McGinley
(Actor)
.. Gareth Hennings
Joplin Sibtain
(Actor)
.. Naz Ahmed
Ibinabo Jack
(Actor)
.. DC Jacqueline Williams
Sharon Percy
(Actor)
.. Gill Crowley
Allyson Ava-Brown
(Actor)
.. Gaynor Wyer
Roger Barclay
(Actor)
.. William Brackley
John Sumner
(Actor)
.. Harry Fenton
Paul Matthew Thompson
(Writer)
Paul Gay
(Director)
Letitia Knight
(Producer)
Phil Hunter
(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
Kingsley Ben-Adir
(Actor)
.. Dr Marcus Summer
Riley Jones
(Actor)
.. DC Mark Edwards
Ron Donachie
(Actor)
.. Jesse Hennings
Tamla Kari
(Actor)
.. Hayley Fenton
Born:
July 27, 1988
in
Coventry
Best Known For:
Playing Lucy in The Inbetweeners Movie and The Inbetweeners 2.
Early-life:
Born Tamla Cummins in Coventry on July 27, 1988. From the age of four, she took lessons in tap, modern dance and gymnastics. Tamla started acting in local drama group St Finbarr's Youth Arts and she went on to attend Drama Centre London.
Career:
Kari was in her final year at drama school when she won the role of Lucy in The Inbetweeners Movie (2011). Since then, she has starred on the small screen in Being Human, Silk, Cuckoo, The Job Lot and The Musketeers. She reprised the role of Lucy in The Inbetweeners 2 (2014).
Quote:
On The Musketeers: "It's a drama that everyone can enjoy and it's something very different to what is being shown on other channels."
Trivia:
Kari loves dogs, Christmas and chocolate.
Carolyn Pickles
(Actor)
.. Rita Fenton
Ian Burfield
(Actor)
.. Iain Hobswain
Paul Jesson
(Actor)
.. Dale Acreman
Elizabeth Rider
(Actor)
.. Eileen Hennings
Shereen Martin
(Actor)
.. DI Sunetra Chandra
Philip McGinley
(Actor)
.. Gareth Hennings
Joplin Sibtain
(Actor)
.. Naz Ahmed
Ibinabo Jack
(Actor)
.. DC Jacqueline Williams
Sharon Percy
(Actor)
.. Gill Crowley
Allyson Ava-Brown
(Actor)
.. Gaynor Wyer
Roger Barclay
(Actor)
.. William Brackley
John Sumner
(Actor)
.. Harry Fenton
Paul Matthew Thompson
(Writer)
Paul Gay
(Director)
Letitia Knight
(Producer)
Phil Hunter
(Executive producer)
