Daddy Issues: Happy Tears
11:55 pm - 12:20 am, Saturday, February 7 on BBC Three HD (107)
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Happy Tears
Season 1, Episode 1
When hedonistic 24-year-old Gemma discovers she is pregnant after a one-night stand, she has no choice but to turn to her hapless father, Malcolm, for support. A sweet-but-lost man in a domestic crisis, he must learn to rebuild his relationship with his daughter, though they soon find living together will prove difficult. Sitcom, starring Aimee Lou Wood and David Morrissey
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Cast & Crew
Aimee Lou Wood
(Actor)
.. Gemma
David Morrissey
(Actor)
.. Malcolm
David Fynn
(Actor)
.. Derek
Sarah Hadland
(Actor)
.. Rita
Susan Lynch
(Actor)
.. Davina
Arian Nik
(Actor)
.. Xander
Sharon Rooney
(Actor)
.. Catherine
Tom Stourton
(Actor)
.. Ben
Matthew Durkan
(Actor)
.. Russell
William Fox
(Actor)
.. Andy
Danielle Ward
(Writer)
Lynn Roberts
(Producer)
Catherine Morshead
(Director)
Damon Beesley
(Executive producer)
Phil Gilbert
(Executive producer)
More Information
Did You Know..
Aimee Lou Wood
(Actor)
.. Gemma
David Morrissey
(Actor)
.. Malcolm
Born:
June 21, 1964
in
Liverpool
Best Known For:
Playing The Governor in AMC TV series The Walking Dead.
Early-life:
David Mark Morrissey is the youngest of four children and was born in Liverpool on June 21, 1964. When Morrissey was 15, his father, a shoe repairman and key cutter, died after suffering from a blood disorder. David was inspired to become an actor after seeing Ken Loach's film Kes. Aged 16 he joined the Everyman Youth Theatre during the golden age of dramatists Alan Bleasdale and Willy Russell. His contemporaries included Cathy Tyson and Ian Hart. He also spent time working on sets and costumes for a Wolverhampton theatre company.
Career:
Morrissey's big break came at the age of 18 when he landed the lead role of Billy Rizley in Channel 4's first drama series, One Summer. After that he trained at Rada. A steady stream of small-screen and theatre roles followed. At the 2004 Bafta awards, Morrissey was nominated for Best TV Actor for his performance in the drama serial, State of Play. In the same year, The Deal, in which he co-starred as Gordon Brown to Michael Sheen's Tony Blair, won the award for Best Single Drama. Projects since include Blackpool, Cape Wrath, Red Riding, Basic Instinct 2, Nowhere Boy, Mrs Mandela, Doctor Who and a starring role in adaptations of Mark Billingham's Tom Thorne books for Sky1. In 2012, he joined the cast of The Walking Dead, and continues to work on stage whenever his busy schedule allows.
Quote:
"You never have any control over what people write or what they think, but there is a sense of me as a working-class lad done very well. I don't know where that comes from."
Trivia:
Morrissey is a lifelong Liverpool FC fan.
David Fynn
(Actor)
.. Derek
Sarah Hadland
(Actor)
.. Rita
Born:
May 15, 1971
in
London
Best Known For:
Playing Stevie in Miranda.
Early-life:
Sarah was born in London on May 15, 1971. She trained in dance from an early age and became involved with the Scamps youth group in Wilmslow. She went on to train at the Laine Theatre Arts College in Epsom and it wasn't long before she began starring in West End musicals such as Cats and Grease.
Career:
Hadland began making her mark on TV in episodes of Bad Girls, Casualty, The Bill, Peep Show and Doctors. She landed bigger roles in Green Wing and Broken News. Since then, she has starred in Moving Wallpaper, That Mitchell and Webb Look, Horrible Histories, Waterloo Road, The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff and The Job Lot. On the big screen, she has starred in Confetti (2006), Magicians (2007) and Leap Year (2010). She reached a wider audience in 2009 when she began playing Stevie in BBC sitcom Miranda.
Quote:
"You start to realise that everyone's got an inner Miranda or Stevie that they're struggling with; who feels that they don't fit in, or can't get it right with men."
Trivia:
Hadland has been the voiceover artist for a number of commercials and voiced characters in a number of video games.
Susan Lynch
(Actor)
.. Davina
Born:
June 05, 1971
in
Co Armagh, Northern Ireland
Best Known For:
A string of quality roles.
Early-life:
Susan Lynch was born on June 5, 1971, in Co Armagh, Northern Ireland, to an Italian mother and Irish father. She grew up with four siblings in isolation (one of them is actor John Lynch). With no TV, and a limited electricity supply, the family made their own entertainment. She trained at Central School of Speech and Drama, and made her TV debut in a 1991 episode of The Bill. Following a bit-part in the BBC One play Running Late, she made a memorable appearance in one of the first Cracker episodes, To Say I Love You in 1993. A year later she was cast in critically acclaimed blockbuster Interview with the Vampire, and also starred in The Secret of Roan Inish.
Career:
After a standout turn in small-screen epic Ivanhoe, her 1998 movie Waking Ned became a surprise hit in the United States, and in 2001 she starred with Johnny Depp in Jack the Ripper thriller From Hell. She has since starred in The Mapmaker, Enduring Love, Soundproof, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, and The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister. On stage she has appeared in The Night Season at London's Royal National Theatre, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at the Almeida, and Dancing at Lughnasa at the Old Vic Theatre, London.
Quote:
"I would always find it much more interesting to play the Al Pacino-type role than the weepy woman victim."
Arian Nik
(Actor)
.. Xander
Sharon Rooney
(Actor)
.. Catherine
Born:
October 22, 1988
in
Glasgow
Tom Stourton
(Actor)
.. Ben
Matthew Durkan
(Actor)
.. Russell
William Fox
(Actor)
.. Andy
Danielle Ward
(Writer)
Lynn Roberts
(Producer)
Catherine Morshead
(Director)
Damon Beesley
(Executive producer)
Phil Gilbert
(Executive producer)
