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Season 1, Episode 3
Gossip spreads throughout London as Irene and her lover fail to contain their passion, prompting Old Jolyon to take drastic steps. A humiliated Soames vows to render his rival penniless by dragging him through the courts on trumped-up charges and gives further vent to his jealous rage by raping his wife. Bosinney sets out to avenge her, but instead meets with a tragic accident, leaving Irene alone and distraught - and with no option but to return to her cold-hearted husband. Gina McKee and Damian Lewis star
General
Movie/Drama
Cast & Crew
Damian Lewis
(Actor)
.. Soames Forsyte
Rupert Graves
(Actor)
.. Young Jolyon Forsyte
Gina McKee
(Actor)
.. Irene Forsyte
Ioan Gruffudd
(Actor)
.. Philip Bosinney
Corin Redgrave
(Actor)
.. Old Jolyon Forsyte
Amanda Root
(Actor)
.. Winifred
Ben Miles
(Actor)
.. Montague Dartie
Gillian Kearney
(Actor)
.. June Forsyte
Christopher Menaul
(Director)
John Galsworthy
(Writer)
Jan McVerry
(Writer)
More Information
Did You Know..
Damian Lewis
(Actor)
.. Soames Forsyte
Born:
February 11, 1971
in
St John's Wood, London
Best Known For:
Homeland and Band of Brothers.
Early-life:
Born Damian Watcyn Lewis on February 11, 1971, in St John's Wood, London. His father's family were Welsh, while his mother's grandfather was the Lord Mayor of London. During his youth, his family would summer in the US while visiting relatives who lived there. After studying at Eton he decided to become an actor, and eventually enrolled at the Guidhall School of Music and Drama. To make ends meet he sold car alarms over the telephone, a job he claims he hated.
Career:
Lewis joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. He made his TV debut in 1993's Micky Love; his first film was a 1997 take on Robinson Crusoe. He gained more fame playing Mark in Hearts and Bones, but it was the wartime series Band of Brothers that made his name - he also got a chance to prove he could do an American accent, which has come in handy ever since. The Forsyte Saga was another success. Hollywood work has dominated his CV since 2003, with the likes of Dreamcatcher and TV series Life and Homeland. He returned to Blighty to film the big-screen revamp of The Sweeney.
Quote:
"I think I have an ear for outright vulgarity as far as scripts are concerned and I try to avoid that."
Trivia:
He married actress Helen McCrory in 2007.
Rupert Graves
(Actor)
.. Young Jolyon Forsyte
Born:
June 30, 1963
in
Weston-super-Mare
Best Known For:
Appearing in period dramas.
Early-life:
Rupert Graves was born June 30, 1963, in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. The acting bug bit while performing in Victorian musical nights at the town's Birbeck Pier. Unhappy at school, he left at 15 to become a circus clown. He made his TV debut in 1978 in The Return Of The Saint and had small roles in various other productions. He later entertained children at holiday camps as part of Silly Billy Pickles And The Peanut Street Gang before his big break in Merchant Ivory's 1985 movie A Room With A View.
Career:
Rejoined Merchant Ivory in 1987 to play a homosexual in Maurice, alongside James Wilby and Hugh Grant. The controversial role gained him fans of both sexes. He has tackled numerous challenging parts since, including a transvestite villain in Open Fire and the lover of a sex-change male in Different For Girls. He won the Best Actor award at the Montreal Film Festival for his part as a naive young man seduced by an older woman in Intimate Relations. Other notable productions include The Madness of King George, Mrs Dalloway, The Blonde Bombshell, Take A Girl Like You and Fortunes Of War. Graves has appeared on Broadway in Closer, and The Elephant Man. Has become a regular in a raft of top-notch detective shows, including Wallander, Lewis, and Sherlock and is very much in-demand.
Quote:
"I'm really pleased with myself. I've not had any training. I knew nothing about acting except that early on I knew I wanted to do it, and I've managed for years to do things without doing them just for the money."
Trivia:
He enjoys playing football.
Gina McKee
(Actor)
.. Irene Forsyte
Born:
April 14, 1964
in
Sunderland
Best Known For:
Our Friends in the North.
Early-life:
Born in Sunderland in 1964, she was raised in Easington, County Durham, by non-theatrical parents. Notoriously reticent at talking about her family, but she does admit to being a highly creative and imaginative child who loved to draw, write stories and act out plays. She became hooked on acting and, while not encouraged by her parents, they didn't stand in her way when she won a role on TV show Quest of Eagles before joining the National Youth Theatre.
Career:
At 17, McKee auditioned but was turned down by drama school. At first, she thought she wouldn't make it in showbusiness, but continued auditioning anyway. She appeared on TV in such programmes as An Actor's Life for Me, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Inspector Morse, and The Lenny Henry Show. McKee also made a handful of movies, most notably Mike Leigh's Naked, before hitting the big time with miniseries Our Friends in the North in 1996, for which she won a Bafta. Since then, she's appeared in such acclaimed projects as Notting Hill, Croupier, The Forsyte Saga, The Lost Prince and The Borgias.
Quote:
"Some people can talk about their private lives to the media, and good luck to them. But I just don't feel comfortable. And I wouldn't be any good at it - showing people around my kitchen or whatever. I'd be pathetic in fact."
Trivia:
In 2002, McKee received an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of Sunderland.
Ioan Gruffudd
(Actor)
.. Philip Bosinney
Born:
October 06, 1973
in
Cardiff
Best Known For:
Playing dashing seafarer Horatio Hornblower.
Early-life:
Born October 6, 1973 in Cardiff, to teachers Peter and Gillian, and raised in nearby Aberdare. The eldest of three, Ioan loved rugby and dreamed of representing his country. He also played oboe in the local orchestra and was a gifted singer, but found his true calling was acting. He won his first role at 11 when the BBC visited his school looking for a Welsh speaker for a new drama. Two years later he joined the cast of Welsh soap opera Pobol Y Cwm - People of the Valley - before studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Career:
Early projects included A Relative Stranger, Poldark and Wilde, but it was his small part as Fifth Officer Lowe in James Cameron's blockbuster Titanic that got him noticed. The title role in miniseries Hornblower followed, making Gruffudd a star on both sides of the Atlantic. He impressed in the BBC's adaptation of Great Expectations, drama Solomon and Gaenor (for which he learned Yiddish) and children's hit 102 Dalmatians, before reprising Hornblower. He's also appeared in The Forsyte Saga, Man and Boy, Warriors and Ringer, and his healthy film career has included the movies Fantastic Four (and its sequel), Black Hawk Down, and historical drama Amazing Grace. In 2014, he began playing Dr Henry Morgan in American crime drama Forever.
Quote:
"I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it."
Trivia:
His name is pronounced `Yo-wahn Griffith".
Corin Redgrave
(Actor)
.. Old Jolyon Forsyte
Amanda Root
(Actor)
.. Winifred
Ben Miles
(Actor)
.. Montague Dartie
Best Known For:
Coupling.
Early-life:
Born Benjamin Miles in Wimbledon in 1967, Ben began acting in school productions to get out of maths and English lessons. Later, he went on to train at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Career:
During the 1990s, Miles played a steady stream of supporting roles in a number of TV series such as Soldier Soldier, Is It Legal?, Wonderful You, The Bill, Peak Practice, Cold Feed and Holby City. His big break came in 2000 when he landed the role of Patrick in BBC sitcom Coupling. Other TV credits include The Forsyte Saga, Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness, Freezing, Lark Rise to Candleford, The Promise, and The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: The Murder at Road Hill House. More recently, he has been starring in horror drama Dracula.
Quote:
"I've sort of enjoyed every job I've done, it's a very jammy thing to say."
Trivia:
Away from acting, Miles enjoys playing the guitar and drums.
Gillian Kearney
(Actor)
.. June Forsyte
Born:
May 09, 1972
in
Liverpool
Best Known For:
Playing Debbie McGrath in Brookside.
Early-life:
Born in 1972 in Liverpool. Her mum was a school secretary and her dad was a civil engineer. At the age of 12, she joined the Liverpool Playhouse Youth Theatre, where she was spotted two years later by the makers of Brookside. The actress was only supposed to appear in three episodes, but her character Debbie proved so popular that she stayed for a year and also appeared in the spin-off miniseries Damon and Debbie.
Career:
In 1989, the 16-year-old Kearney starred in Shirley Valentine, but decided to put her career on the backburner so she could concentrate on her education. After taking her A-levels, she studied for a degree at the Rose Bruford drama school in north London. She was still in demand as an actress and her tutors marked her performance in the TV drama The Tides of Life as part of her final assessment. She has regularly acted on stage and in TV series including Liverpool One, Sex, Chips and Rock 'n' Roll, Hope and Glory and The Forsyte Saga. More recently, she has starred in Shameless, Casualty, Silent Witness and Suspects. In December 2014, it was announced that she was joining the cast of Emmerdale.
Quote:
"I must have a darkness about me which makes me look really tragic. I'd love to do a comedy."
Trivia:
She has appeared in the Radio 4 dramas Brief Lives and Bring Her Back.
Christopher Menaul
(Director)
John Galsworthy
(Writer)
Jan McVerry
(Writer)
