Holby City - Understanding - 10:40 am Thursday, February 12 on U&Drama +1

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Understanding
Episode 8

The hospital board come under pressure to suspend Kath once the post-mortem results are known, Jess offers Ric the use of her spare room when Diane refuses to let him move in and Mubbs demonstrates his love for Rosie. Nic feels suffocated by Kelly and chooses to go on a date instead of spending time with his sister

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General Movie/Drama Soap/Melodrama/Folkloric

Cast & Crew

Jan Pearson (Actor) .. Kath Fox

Verona Joseph (Actor) .. Jess Griffin

Hugh Quarshie (Actor) .. Ric Griffin

Patricia Potter (Actor) .. Diane Lloyd

Ian Aspinall (Actor) .. Mubbs Hussein

Kim Vithana (Actor) .. Rosie Sattar

Liam Garrigan (Actor) .. Nic Yorke

Rachel Leskovac (Actor) .. Kelly Yorke

Paul Goodman (Producer)

Rob Evans (Director)

Martin Jameson (Writer)

More Information

Did You Know..

Jan Pearson (Actor) .. Kath Fox

Verona Joseph (Actor) .. Jess Griffin

Hugh Quarshie (Actor) .. Ric Griffin

Born: December 25, 1954 in Accra, Ghana

Best Known For: Playing Ric Griffin in Holby City.

Early-life: Hugh Antony Kobna Quarshie was born on December 22, 1954, in Accra, Ghana, where he spent the first few years of his life. He moved to England and grew up in Golders Green, north London. Hugh went to school in Cheltenham and later studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford, where he was president of the African Society, and co-director of the Oxford and Cambridge Shakespeare Company. After graduating, he worked as a journalist, becoming a sub-editor at West Africa Magazine.

Career: Made his small-screen debut in 1979 TV movie The Knowledge, and later featured in TV series Angels, Surgical Spirit and Medics. Appeared as Julius Caesar and Macbeth for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Starred in a string of movies including Highlander and Nightbreed. While filming Star Wars: Episode One _ The Phantom Menace in Italy, he drew more autograph hunters than co-star Liam Neeson because of his role as a priest in Italian horror film La Chiesa. He was asked to reprise his role of Captain Panaka in Attack of the Clones but turned it down. Over the past few years he has appeared in Conspiracy of Silence, The Afternoon Play, Doctor Who and Holby City.

Quote: "My attitude to acting is if you take it too seriously then you're not taking your life seriously enough."

Trivia: In 2010, he traced his Ghanaian and Dutch origins in an episode of Who Do You Think You Are?