The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: In the Presence of the Enemy
11:00 pm - 01:00 am, Saturday, January 24 on U&Drama (20)
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In the Presence of the Enemy
Season 2, Episode 2
Feature-length episode. Havers is sent to Buckinghamshire to investigate the death of a radical left-wing politician's illegitimate daughter, whose body has been found in a river. Teaming up with a friendly and helpful local police constable, she makes good headway with the case - until the disappearance of a second child complicates matters. 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
Robert Whitelock
(Actor)
.. Robin Payne
James Hazeldine
(Actor)
.. Dennis Luxford
Sophie Okonedo
(Actor)
.. Eve Bowen
Kika Markham
(Actor)
.. Corrine Payne
Clint Dyer
(Actor)
.. Alex Stone
Ken Bones
(Actor)
.. Rodney Aronson
Simon Chandler
(Actor)
.. Alistair Harvie
Simone Bendix
(Actor)
.. Fiona Luxford
Simon Pearsall
(Actor)
.. DS Stanley
Caroline Martin
(Actor)
.. Celia Matheson
Marcia Warren
(Actor)
.. Miss Portly
Stuart Bunce
(Actor)
.. Damien Chambers
Ken Anderson
(Actor)
.. Howard Short
Bennet Thorpe
(Actor)
.. Personal secretary
Gerard Monaco
(Actor)
.. Officer
Lynne Verrall
(Actor)
.. Pathologist
Joseph Friend
(Actor)
.. Leo Luxford
Natalie Freegard
(Actor)
.. Charlotte Bowen
Anjalee Patel
(Actor)
.. Hadiyyah
Jane McKenna
(Actor)
.. Newsreader
Oliver Chopping
(Actor)
.. Local officer
Francesca Brill
(Writer)
Brian Stirner
(Director)
Ruth Baumgarten
(Producer)
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
Robert Whitelock
(Actor)
.. Robin Payne
James Hazeldine
(Actor)
.. Dennis Luxford
Sophie Okonedo
(Actor)
.. Eve Bowen
Born:
January 01, 1969
in
London
Best Known For:
Her role in Hotel Rwanda.
Early-life:
Born on January 1, 1969, in London, to a Jewish mother and Nigerian father. He was a government worker who returned to his native country when Sophie was five, leaving her mother to raise her. She left school at 16 and worked on a clothing stall at Portobello Market. She later attended a writing workshop run by Hanif Kureishi, but discovered she was better at acting in plays than writing them, prompting her to study at Rada. Upon graduating, she embarked on a series of theatrical roles.
Career:
Throughout the 1990s, Okonedo steadily built up a body of TV credits, including appearances in Casualty, The Bill and The Governor. She got her break in films with a small role in 1995 Jim Carrey vehicle Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. She also featured in The Jackal and Mad Cows, but it was Stephen Frears' thriller Dirty Pretty Things that people really began to take notice. More TV work followed in Clocking Off, Never Never and Spooks, before an Oscar-nominated performance in Hotel Rwanda. Other projects include Doctor Who, Tsumani: The Aftermath, The Secret Life of Bees, Skin, Criminal Justice, and Mrs Mandela.
Quote:
"I'm pretty secure about who I am. Anything that's truthful I'm not ashamed of."
Kika Markham
(Actor)
.. Corrine Payne
Clint Dyer
(Actor)
.. Alex Stone
Ken Bones
(Actor)
.. Rodney Aronson
Simon Chandler
(Actor)
.. Alistair Harvie
Simone Bendix
(Actor)
.. Fiona Luxford
Simon Pearsall
(Actor)
.. DS Stanley
Caroline Martin
(Actor)
.. Celia Matheson
Marcia Warren
(Actor)
.. Miss Portly
Career:
She spent many years in the theatre, but believes that people really began taking notice of her when she appeared in the West End play Stepping Out, for which she won a prestigious Olivier Award. TV work soon followed as she landed roles in Keeping Up Appearances, Dangerfield and Coronation Street, before starring alongside Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen in the sitcom Vicious, which began in 2013. She's continued to appear on stage, winning a second Olivier in 2002 for Humble Boy at the National Theatre. She's also cropped up in films including Run for Your Wife and Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie.
Quote:
On the differences between acting on stage and on camera: "You know more what you are doing in theatre, and your bit isn't ever going to be cut out and left on the floor."
Trivia:
Marcia says that if she hadn't succeeded in becoming an actress, she would have been a gardener.
Best Known For:
Her role in the sitcom Vicious.
Early-life:
Marcia was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, in 1943 and says she first realised she wanted to be an actress at the age of three _ she isn't sure what inspired her, but thinks it may have been the radio. She trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, graduating in 1963, and initially worked in repertory theatre. Her first professional job was as an assistant stage manager in David Copperfield in Salisbury.
Stuart Bunce
(Actor)
.. Damien Chambers
Ken Anderson
(Actor)
.. Howard Short
Bennet Thorpe
(Actor)
.. Personal secretary
Gerard Monaco
(Actor)
.. Officer
Lynne Verrall
(Actor)
.. Pathologist
Joseph Friend
(Actor)
.. Leo Luxford
Natalie Freegard
(Actor)
.. Charlotte Bowen
Anjalee Patel
(Actor)
.. Hadiyyah
Jane McKenna
(Actor)
.. Newsreader
Oliver Chopping
(Actor)
.. Local officer
Francesca Brill
(Writer)
Brian Stirner
(Director)
Ruth Baumgarten
(Producer)
