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Dalgliesh (TV Series)
''Dalgliesh'' is a British crime drama television series, based on the Adam Dalgliesh novels by PD James. Bertie Carvel stars as the title character, an enigmatic detective–poet. The six-part series premiered on Acorn TV on 1 November 2021 in the United States followed by a Channel 5 premiere on 4 November in the United Kingdom. ''Dalgliesh'' was officially renewed for a second series in March 2022, followed by a third confirmed that July. Premise A published poet and recent widower, Detective Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh employs his empathy and insight to plumb the darker depths of the human psyche while investigating complex crimes in mid-1970s England. Cast * Bertie Carvel as DCI, later Commander Adam Dalgliesh * Jeremy Irvine as DS Charles Masterson (series 1) * Carlyss Peer as DS, later DCI Kate Miskin * Alistair Brammer as DS Daniel Tarrant (series 2–3) * Claire Goose as Dr. Emma Lavenham (series 3) * David Pearse as Pathologist Miles Kynaston Episodes Series o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Dalgliesh
Adam Dalgliesh ( ) is a fictional character who is the protagonist of fourteen mystery novels by P. D. James; the first being James's 1962 novel '' Cover Her Face''. He also appears in the two novels featuring James's other detective, Cordelia Gray. Character In the first novel, Dalgliesh is a Detective Chief Inspector. He eventually reaches the rank of Commander in the Metropolitan Police at New Scotland Yard, London. He is an intensely cerebral and private person. He writes poetry, a fact of which his colleagues are fond of reminding him. Several volumes of his poetry have been published. Dalgliesh lives in a flat above the Thames at Queenhithe in the City of London. In the earlier novels he drives a Cooper Bristol, later a Jaguar. He was described as being " tall, dark and handsome" by some women, alluding to Mr. Darcy from Jane Austen's ''Pride and Prejudice''. His father was the rector of a Norfolk country parish. His sole family relation was his aunt, Jane Dalgliesh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonjo O'Neill (actor)
Jonjo O'Neill (born 11 July 1978) is an actor from Northern Ireland known for his stage and television work. O'Neill was born in Belfast, grew up in the Whiterock Road area and was educated at St Mary's Grammar School and the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. Growing up he was passionate about musical theatre and was a member of the Ulster Youth Theatre and performed with the Ulster Theatre Company. In 1996 at the age of 18, he won a place and a full scholarship to the Guildford School of Acting, and moved to England. His first television role was the year he graduated from drama school, in ''Extremely Dangerous'' (1999). A member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) 2009–2011 ensemble, his roles included Mercutio in ''Romeo and Juliet'', Orlando in ''As You Like It'', and Launcelot in '' Morte D'Arthur''. His performances during the RSC's six-week residency at Park Avenue Armory in New York were hailed as "forceful" and "irresistible". At the 2012 World Shakespeare Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Findlay
Deborah Findlay (born 31 December 1947) is an English actress. She has worked primarily on stage and is an Olivier Award Winner, but has also appeared in several TV series. She is known for playing the Defoe family matriarch Ruth in three series of the BBC TV legal drama ''The Split'' (2018–2022). Early life and education Findlay joined a theatre company while studying English at the University of Leeds. Career Theatre Findlay has worked primarily on stage, appearing in numerous productions, including the original '' Top Girls''. In the 1980s she worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company where she appeared in ''Twelfth Night'' and '' The Merchant Of Venice''. In 1997 she won an Olivier Award, as well as Outer Critics' Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, for her performance as Hilda, the wife of the painter Stanley Spencer in Pam Gems' play '' Stanley.'' In 2008, she starred in the US premiere of '' Vincent River'' by Philip Ridley. In 2009 she appear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Clunie
Margaret Jayne Clunie (born 3 October 1987) is an English actress and former model. She is known for her role as Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland, Harriet, Duchess of Sutherland in the ITV series ''Victoria (British TV series), Victoria'' (2016–2017). Early life Clunie grew up in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, the daughter of a business consultant and a medical secretary. She has an older sister. Clunie initially wanted to be a fashion journalist. She studied English at Newcastle University, where she participated in theatre. She went on to graduate from the Oxford School of Drama in 2010. Career Clunie was 14 when she was scouted to be a model on the London Underground, Tube. She spent her weekends on shoots and later walked at London Fashion Week, but said she found much of it "soul destroying", a "confidence-crushing conveyor belt" with "gorgeous young girls being told they’re not good enough, that they’re fat and look awful". Clunie made her telev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Hoare (actor)
Simon Patrick Douro Hoare (born 27 June 1981), known by the stage-name Sam Hoare, is a British actor and director known for his role as rower Dickie Burnell, alongside Matt Smith, in the BBC One Olympic drama '' Bert and Dickie'' (2012). Hoare wrote and directed his début feature film, '' Having You'', which premièred in May 2013 on Sky Movies. Early life and education Born Simon Patrick Douro Hoare, he is the son of the late Timothy James Douro Hoare and his former wife "Linda" Kinvara Cayzer, the granddaughter of Herbert Cayzer, 1st Baron Rotherwick. Hoare was educated at Eton College, and then read Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, where he performed in a number of plays at the student theatre. Acting career Hoare went on to perform on stage, including productions at the Chichester Theatre, Shakespeare's Globe and The Theatre Royal Haymarket, for a 6-month run of ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' directed by Sean Mathias. Alongside his theatrical and TV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Harrington (actor)
Richard Harrington (born 12 March 1975) is a Welsh stage and TV actor. He has had starring roles in the shows ''Hinterland (TV series), Hinterland'', ''Bleak House (2005 TV serial), Bleak House'', ''Gunpowder, Treason & Plot'', and the film ''The All Together''. He won a BAFTA Cymru Award for his role in the film ''Dafydd'' and another BAFTA Cymru Award for his role in ''Hinterland''. Early and personal life Harrington was born in Gurnos, Wales and brought up in Heolgerrig, Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, Merthyr Tydfil. Harrington studied at a Welsh medium education, Welsh Medium school in Merthyr and as a result, speaks Welsh language, Welsh as a second language. He has said that filming ''Y Gwyll'' improved his fluency significantly. Career Harrington has had starring roles in the Welsh show ''Hinterland'' (known as ''Y Gwyll'' in Welsh), ''Bleak House (2005 TV serial), Bleak House'', Jimmy McGovern's ''Gunpowder, Treason & Plot'', and Gavin Claxton's comedy feature film ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death Of An Expert Witness
''Death of an Expert Witness'' is a detective novel by English writer P. D. James, the sixth of her Adam Dalgliesh series. It was published in 1977 in the UK by Faber and Faber, and in the US by Charles Scribner's Sons. Set in the Fens, it follows the investigation of the murder of a senior scientist at a police laboratory where his colleagues are too experienced to have left clues. Plot At the same time that local police are called to the murder of a girl found strangled in an East Anglian clunch field, Scotland Yard's Adam Dalgliesh has been given a higher profile case involving the death of forensic biologist Dr. Edwin Lorrimer, chief of section at the neighbouring police laboratory of Hoggatt's and the expert witness of the title. The laboratory is situated in a former mansion near the village of Chevisham, on the edge of the fens between Ely and Cambridge. It is quickly established that only people associated with the laboratory would have had the opportunity to commit th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Lapotaire
Jane Elizabeth Marie Lapotaire (née Burgess; 26 December 1944) is an English actress from Suffolk. Lapotaire won the Laurence Olivier Award for Actress of the Year in a New Play for ''Piaf'' in 1979 and was nominated for the Actress of the Year Award in 1990 for ''Shadowlands''. Additionally, Lapotaire was twice nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for ''Marie Curie'' and ''Sea Tales: The Return'' (1977) and ''Blind Justice'' (1988). Biography Lapotaire was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, the daughter of Louise Elise (Burgess). Her stepfather, Yves Lapotaire, worked in the oil industry and was originally from Quebec, Canada. From the age of two months, she was raised as a foster child by an old-age pensioner, Grace Chisnell (Granny Grace), who was also the foster mother of Lapotaire's own biological mother, a French orphan, who was abandoned in England. When Lapotaire was about 12, her biological mother made a bid to get her back. The child welfare d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lily Sacofsky
Lily Sacofsky (born 1994) is an English actress. She is known for her roles in the BBC Two miniseries '' Summer of Rockets'' (2019), the ITV period drama '' Sanditon'' (2019–), and the crime drama '' McDonald & Dodds'' (2020–2021), also on ITV. Early life Sacofsky was born in Manchester to parents Ruth, from a Midlands coal-mining family, and Julian, from a Northern England Jewish family. Lily attended Levenshulme high school for girls She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Acting from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama The Guildhall School of Music and Drama is a music school, music and drama school located in the City of London, England. Established in 1880, the school offers undergraduate and postgraduate training in all aspects of classical music and jazz al ... in 2015. Filmography Stage References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sacofsky, Lily Living people 1994 births Actresses from Manchester Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fra Fee
Fra Fee (born 20 May 1987) is a Northern Irish actor and singer. He is best known for playing Courfeyrac in Tom Hooper's 2012 film adaptation of ''Les Misérables'', and for his role as Kazi in the Disney+ series ''Hawkeye'', which is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Fee also played the role of Michael Carney in Jez Butterworth's ''The Ferryman'' at the Royal Court Theatre, West End, and Broadway, directed by Sam Mendes. For his performance, he won the 2018 WhatsOnStage Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Play. Background Fee, who was born in Dungannon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, and raised in rural Killyman, attended St Patrick's Academy in Dungannon for his schooling. He began performing regularly with Bardic Theatre in his early days before pursuing music at the University of Manchester. Fee later went on to study at the Royal Academy of Music, where he graduated in 2009. In 2014, he was honoured as an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music. Care ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Taste For Death (James Novel)
''A Taste for Death'' is a 1986 crime novel by the British writer P. D. James, the seventh in the popular Commander Adam Dalgliesh series. The novel won the Silver Dagger in 1986, losing out on the Gold to Ruth Rendell's '' Live Flesh''. It was nominated for the Booker Prize in 1987. The book has been adapted for television and radio. Plot summary In the vestry of St Matthew's Church, Paddington, two bodies are discovered with their throats slashed. One is a tramp; the other is Sir Paul Berowne, a baronet and recently resigned government minister. Poet and detective Adam Dalgliesh investigates. Dalgliesh knew Berowne slightly. Berowne had consulted him about a poison pen letter and an article in the ''Paternoster Review'' about two employees of the Berowne family who had died: Theresa Nolan, his mother's nurse who had killed herself after an abortion; and Diana Travers, his domestic servant, who had drowned. Berowne had recently spent the night in the vestry of St Matthew's, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Robinson (actor)
George Ross Robinson (born 12 September 1997) is a British actor. He is known for his role as Isaac Goodwin in the Netflix series ''Sex Education''. Life and career Robinson was born in Nottingham to parents Simon and Gill and grew up in Maxey, a village near Peterborough. He has a younger brother Edward "Eddie". They both attended Stamford School, and the family moved closer to Stamford in 2015. Robinson became interested in acting at 13. When he was 17, Robinson went on a school rugby tour to South Africa. On 27 July 2015, he had a severe spinal neck injury attempting a tackle whilst playing against D.F. Malan High School in Bellville near Cape Town. He was taken to the intensive care unit at Melomed Bellville Private Hospital, where he was operated on and stayed for 37 days. He was visited by Huw Jones. After being weaned off the ventilator, Robinson was transported back to England via air ambulance. He spent an additional 5 weeks at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |