The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: In Divine Proportion
11:00 pm - 01:00 am, Saturday, March 14 on U&Drama +1 (60)
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In Divine Proportion
Season 4, Episode 1
Feature-length episode. Havers returns to work and is forced to confront demons from her past as the team investigates the case of a woman murdered with a shotgun. A cryptic word painted at the crime scene and the discovery of a mysterious photo lead the police to think the killer is sending them clues, and further investigations uncover a secret the local community has been trying to hide
subtitles
16x9
Detective/Thriller
Movie/Drama
Cast & Crew
Nathaniel Parker
(Actor)
.. Det Insp Thomas Lynley
Sharon Small
(Actor)
.. Det Sgt Barbara Havers
Jimmy Yuill
(Actor)
.. PC Garratt
Richard Armitage
(Actor)
.. Philip Turner
Eve Best
(Actor)
.. Amanda Gibson
Sylvestra Le Touzel
(Actor)
.. Paula Marshall
Simon Wilson
(Actor)
.. James Walthew
Burn Gorman
(Actor)
.. Billy Verger
Roderick Smith
(Actor)
.. Bob Harris
James Buller
(Actor)
.. David Hughes
Craig Parkinson
(Actor)
.. Simon Dawkins
Adie Allen
(Actor)
.. Liz Hughes
Jamie Martin
(Actor)
.. PC Blackmore
Louise Hickson
(Actor)
.. Samantha Walthew
Christopher Aird
(Producer)
Brian Stirner
(Director)
Julian Simpson
(Writer)
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.
Jimmy Yuill
(Actor)
.. PC Garratt
Richard Armitage
(Actor)
.. Philip Turner
Born:
August 22, 1971
in
Leicester
Best Known For:
BBC period drama Robin Hood, and Spooks.
Early-life:
Richard Crispin Armitage was born on August 22, 1971, to parents John and Margaret, an engineer and secretary respectively. He was raised in Leicester and attended Pattison College in Coventry, before heading off to Budapest, Hungary, when he was 17 to join the circus. He eventually went to the London Academy for Music and Dramatic Arts to train as an actor. He also plays cello, guitar and flute.
Career:
Armitage's first appearance on screen was in Brit-flick This Year's Love, with several small roles in Doctors, Casualty and Spooks following shortly afterwards. He landed the part of Capt Iain Macalwain in ITV1's Ultimate Force in 2003, and his star rose even higher thanks to Cold Feet, where he played Lee, and a major role in costume drama North & South, based on the Elizabeth Gaskell novel. He's since starred in a TV version of Macbeth, The Golden Hour, George Gently and Robin Hood. Armitage also took over from Rupert Penry-Jones as the male lead in Spooks.
Quote:
On being asked what he knew of the Impressionist movement before starring as Claude Monet: 'I've eaten my dinner off placemats and sent Mother's Day cards with Monet's Water Lilies on them, but that was about it.'
Trivia:
He has provided the voiceovers for a number of TV and radio advertisements.
Eve Best
(Actor)
.. Amanda Gibson
Sylvestra Le Touzel
(Actor)
.. Paula Marshall
Simon Wilson
(Actor)
.. James Walthew
Burn Gorman
(Actor)
.. Billy Verger
Roderick Smith
(Actor)
.. Bob Harris
James Buller
(Actor)
.. David Hughes
Craig Parkinson
(Actor)
.. Simon Dawkins
Adie Allen
(Actor)
.. Liz Hughes
Jamie Martin
(Actor)
.. PC Blackmore
Louise Hickson
(Actor)
.. Samantha Walthew
Christopher Aird
(Producer)
Brian Stirner
(Director)
Julian Simpson
(Writer)
