The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: Playing for the Ashes
11:00 pm - 01:00 am, Saturday, January 17 on U&Drama (20)
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Playing for the Ashes
Season 2, Episode 1
Feature-length episode. The murder of famous cricketer Kenneth Waring presents Lynley with a fresh challenge to his deductive powers _ and as the case unfolds, he is forced to break the rules in a desperate bid to lure the killer into the open. Nathaniel Parker, Sharon Small and Lesley Vickerage star
subtitles
16x9
Detective/Thriller
Movie/Drama
Cast & Crew
Nathaniel Parker
(Actor)
.. Det Insp Thomas Lynley
Sharon Small
(Actor)
.. Det Sgt Barbara Havers
Lesley Vickerage
(Actor)
.. Lady Helen Clyde
James Hazeldine
(Actor)
.. Dennis Luxford
Clare Swinburne
(Actor)
.. Gabriella Patten
Andrew Havill
(Actor)
.. Insp Ardery
Ruth Gemmell
(Actor)
.. Jeannie Waring
Richard Spence
(Director)
More Information
Did You Know..
Nathaniel Parker
(Actor)
.. Det Insp Thomas Lynley
Born:
May 18, 1962
in
London
Best Known For:
His dashing TV roles.
Early-life:
Born in London on May 18, 1962. He's the son of former British Rail Chairman Sir Peter Parker and his wife Jill. One of his brothers, Oliver, is also an actor and director. He was educated at Leighton Park School, where he developed a passion for horse racing. After starring with the National Youth Theatre he went to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (Lamda). On graduating, he already had his Equity card and landed a theatre job immediately.
Career:
Following a spell with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Parker made his TV debut in 1988's Piece of Cake. He has worked constantly ever since, including a four-year stint abroad during which he appeared in Hollywood films Hamlet and The Bodyguard, although he didn't become a well-known face until ITV's 1998 adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd. Since then he's starred in the BBC's Vanity Fair, and took over from John Hannah in McCallum. Other notable projects include Othello (directed by his brother), Wide Sargasso Sea, The Haunted Mansion, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries and Stardust. More recently, he has starred in Merlin.
Quote:
"I have always thought women were the superior sex. Witnessing childbirth confirmed it for me."
Trivia:
His theatre work includes Quartermaine's Terms, The Audience, and Wolf Hall.
Sharon Small
(Actor)
.. Det Sgt Barbara Havers
Born:
January 01, 1967
in
Drumchapel, Glasgow
Best Known For:
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries and Mistresses.
Early-life:
Sharon was born in Drumchapel, Glasgow on January 1, 1967. She studied drama at the Adam Smith College in Kirkcaldy and the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London. Her first TV credit was a guest role in an episode of Taggart in 1994.
Career:
Guest parts followed in a number of TV shows until Small landed a lead role in BBC comedy drama Sunburn. This lasted for two series and she followed it up with the six-part drama Glasgow Kiss. She went on to star in About a Boy (2002) and Dear Frankie (2004) and had guest parts in Cutting It and Rebus before landing a lead role as DS Barbara Havers in BBC crime drama The Inspector Lynley Mysteries alongside Nathaniel Parker. The series ran from 2001 until 2008. More recently, the in-demand actress has starred in Murderland, Mistresses, Downton Abbey, Kidnap and Ransom, New Tricks, Silent Witness, Call the Midwife, Death in Paradise and Midsomer Murders.
Quote:
"One of the fantastic things and joys of acting is looking for flaws in characters - if you are perfect or too likeable, you are not going to be believable, so hopefully, you bring in flaws as well."
Trivia:
Small is a classically trained lyric soprano.
Lesley Vickerage
(Actor)
.. Lady Helen Clyde
James Hazeldine
(Actor)
.. Dennis Luxford
Clare Swinburne
(Actor)
.. Gabriella Patten
Andrew Havill
(Actor)
.. Insp Ardery
Ruth Gemmell
(Actor)
.. Jeannie Waring
Richard Spence
(Director)
