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The Darkest Evening
Season 12, Episode 4
On the night of a storm, DCI Vera Stanhope comes across an abandoned car with a baby inside. With no mobile signal and blocked roads at every turn, Vera is forced to seek refuge somewhere she'd rather not be, Brockburn House, the Stanhope family's ancestral pile. Things take a sinister turn when a body is found on the track leading to the residence. Drama, starring Brenda Blethyn
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Detective/Thriller
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Movie/Drama
Cast & Crew
Brenda Blethyn
(Actor)
.. DCI Vera Stanhope
Kenny Doughty
(Actor)
.. DS Aiden Healy
Jon Morrison
(Actor)
.. DC Kenny Lockhart
Ibinabo Jack
(Actor)
.. DC Jacqueline Williams
Riley Jones
(Actor)
.. DC Mark Edwards
Sarah Kameela Impey
(Actor)
.. Dr Paula Bennett
Kevin Doyle
(Actor)
.. Ronnie Browne
Zoe Telford
(Actor)
.. Juliet Branagh
Stephen Walters
(Actor)
.. Nial Heslop
Jack Deam
(Actor)
.. Robert Falstone
Simon Harrison
(Actor)
.. Marcus Branagh
Karen Henthorn
(Actor)
.. Jill Falstone
Rosalind March
(Actor)
.. Harriet Stanhope
Sky Frances
(Actor)
.. Nettie Heslop
Joshua J Parker
(Actor)
.. Joshua Heslop
Mo Sesay
(Actor)
.. Paul Blackstock
Kaye Brown
(Actor)
.. Dorothy Elmsworth
Aimee Cassettari
(Actor)
.. Lorna Falstone
Reynah Rita
(Actor)
.. Joanne Simmons-Wright
Shelley Williams
(Actor)
.. Sophie Blackstock
Ross Hutchison
(Actor)
.. Weatherman
Colette Kane
(Writer)
Paul Gay
(Director)
Debbie Shewell
(Producer)
Kate Bartlett
(Executive producer)
Will Nicholson
(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
Ibinabo Jack
(Actor)
.. DC Jacqueline Williams
Riley Jones
(Actor)
.. DC Mark Edwards
Sarah Kameela Impey
(Actor)
.. Dr Paula Bennett
Kevin Doyle
(Actor)
.. Ronnie Browne
Zoe Telford
(Actor)
.. Juliet Branagh
Stephen Walters
(Actor)
.. Nial Heslop
Jack Deam
(Actor)
.. Robert Falstone
Simon Harrison
(Actor)
.. Marcus Branagh
Karen Henthorn
(Actor)
.. Jill Falstone
Rosalind March
(Actor)
.. Harriet Stanhope
Sky Frances
(Actor)
.. Nettie Heslop
Joshua J Parker
(Actor)
.. Joshua Heslop
Mo Sesay
(Actor)
.. Paul Blackstock
Kaye Brown
(Actor)
.. Dorothy Elmsworth
Aimee Cassettari
(Actor)
.. Lorna Falstone
Reynah Rita
(Actor)
.. Joanne Simmons-Wright
Shelley Williams
(Actor)
.. Sophie Blackstock
Ross Hutchison
(Actor)
.. Weatherman
Colette Kane
(Writer)
Paul Gay
(Director)
Debbie Shewell
(Producer)
Kate Bartlett
(Executive producer)
Will Nicholson
(Executive producer)
