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Nightsleeper
''Nightsleeper'' is a six-part British television series made for BBC One, starring Joe Cole and Alexandra Roach and written by Nick Leather for Euston Films. It was released in September 2024. Synopsis A real time drama, the series is set on the fictional Heart of Britain sleeper train travelling to London from Glasgow. Two people who have not met before must work together to try to save the lives of the passengers. Cast Passengers & Train Crew *Joe Cole as Joseph Roag (Joe), a former Metropolitan Police Detective Inspector on the run after being accused of theft * Ruth Madeley as Chrissy Doolan, a disabled human rights solicitor *James Cosmo as Fraser Warren, an elderly retired train driver for Heart of Britain and Sophie's father-in-law *Katie Leung as Rachel Li, a lifestyle trends reporter * Sharon Small as Liz Draycott MP, the Secretary of State for Transport *Alex Ferns as Arran Moy, a belligerent accountant in first class *Daniel Cahill as Danny Geoghan, an oil rig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Ferns
Alexander Ferns (born 13 October 1968) is a Scottish actor and television personality. His role in ''EastEnders'' as Trevor Morgan from 2000 to 2002 was described as "Britain's most-hated soap villain". He also played the role of Rick Harper in the BBC Scotland soap opera '' River City'' between 2017 and 2018. For his performance as coal miner Andrei Glukhov in the 2019 miniseries '' Chernobyl'' he received a BAFTA Scotland Award. Early life and education Alex Ferns is the oldest of three children of his family, who left Scotland for South Africa, when Ferns was eleven years old.Susan Swarbrick: EastEnders' Alex Ferns on leaving River City and his Lennoxtown thriller'. In: heraldscotland.com, 13 January 2018. The family took up residence in Secunda, where Ferns' father worked as an electrician during the construction of a power plant. After he finished school, he joined the South African Defence Force and fought in Angola between 1987 and 1989. Afterward he studied drama at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katie Leung
Katie Leung (born 8 August 1987; ) is a Scottish actress. She first gained fame for playing Cho Chang, Harry Potter's first love interest in the ''Harry Potter'' film series, and subsequently for her roles as Caitlyn Kiramman in the Netflix animated series '' Arcane'' and Ash in the Amazon Prime Video sci-fi series '' The Peripheral''. Among British television audiences, Leung is known for her lead roles in the miniseries dramas '' One Child'' and ''Strangers'' and her supporting role in the police dramedy '' Annika''. Early life Leung was born in Dundee to Peter Leung, a Hong-Kong-born businessman and restauranteur who opened a company in Glasgow, and Kar Wai Li, a banker. Her parents divorced when she was three, and she continued living in Scotland with her father, stepmother, and siblings after her mother moved back to Hong Kong. Her father's occupation led to Leung growing up in multiple towns, including Ayr, Hamilton, and Motherwell. She attended secondary school at H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Real Time (media)
Real time within the media is a method in which events are portrayed at the same rate at which they occur in the plot. For example, if a film told in real time is two hours long, then the plot of that movie covers two hours of fictional time. If a daily real time comic strip runs for six years, then the characters will be six years older at the end of the strip than they were at the beginning. This technique can be enforced with varying levels of precision. In some stories, every minute of screen time is a minute of fictional time. In other stories, such as the daily comic strip '' For Better or For Worse'', each day's strip does not necessarily correspond to a new day of fictional time, but each year of the strip does correspond to one year of fictional time. Real time fiction dates back to the climactic structure of classical Greek drama. Film, television and radio Often, use of split screens or picture-in-pictures are used to show events occurring at the same time, or the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Roach
Alexandra Elizabeth Roach (born 20 August 1987) is a Welsh actress best known for her roles as Becky in ''Utopia'' and DS Joy Freers in '' No Offence''. She has also made appearances in series including '' Being Human'', ''Inside No. 9'', '' Black Mirror'' and '' Killing Eve''. Life and career Roach was born in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, Wales. A number of her relatives, including her father Jeff (who went on to work for the Welsh Rugby Union), her brother and her sister, have been part of the police force at one point. A fluent Welsh speaker, Roach appeared in long-running television soap '' Pobol y Cwm'' in her early teens and won Best Juvenile Actor in a Soap at the Children in Entertainment Awards. After leaving the series in 2005, she spent time with the National Youth Theatre of Wales before going on to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She has described how her Welsh accent counted against her in an early audition for a television role. "This old guy was the directo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Cole (actor)
Joseph Michael Cole (born 28 November 1988) is an English actor. Some of his most notable roles include Luke in '' Skins'', John Shelby in ''Peaky Blinders'', Marzin and Beckwith in '' Secret in Their Eyes'', Billy Moore in '' A Prayer Before Dawn'', Frank in the ''Black Mirror'' episode " Hang the DJ", Sean Wallace in '' Gangs of London'', and Iver Iversen in '' Against the Ice''. Early life and education The oldest of five boys, Joe Cole was born 28 November 1988 and grew up in Kingston upon Thames in London. His younger brother is actor Finn Cole, who starred alongside him in ''Peaky Blinders''. He attended Hollyfield Secondary School in Surbiton. Career Cole's acting career began when he was accepted into the National Youth Theatre. He obtained his first roles in a one-night show in the West End, on ''The Bill'' and ''Holby City'', and then in roles on stage at the Bush Theatre's sell-out ''School Season''. In the 2010s, he wrote a comedy series with Matt Lucas. Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Leather
Nick Leather is a British playwright and screenwriter. He is known as the creator of the drama series '' The Control Room'' for BBC One, as well as the CBBC children's series '' Rocket's Island''. Early life Leather grew up in Newton-le-Willows. He worked for a time at local newspaper ''The Newton Guardian'', the experience inspiring him to write. Career Leather began in theatre, with his first play ''All The Ordinary Angels'' produced by Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre, and later winning the Pearson Award for Best New Play. He would become the Royal Exchange's Playwright-in-Residence. He subsequently moved into radio and then television, writing for series, including ''Justice'', '' Secrets and Words'' and Jimmy McGovern's '' Moving On'', as well as multiple episode of ''Hollyoaks''. In 2012, he won the Writers' Guild of Great Britain award for Best Episode of a Continuing Drama for his work on ''Hollyoaks''. In 2012, he created the children's series ''Rocket's Island'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Madeley
Ruth Madeley (born 4 August 1987) is a British actress known for her roles in '' Years and Years'', '' The Rook'' and ''Doctor Who''. She was born with spina bifida and has worked with the charity Whizz-Kidz for much of her life. She was nominated for a television BAFTA in 2016 for her work in ''Don't Take My Baby''. Early life Madeley was born in Westhoughton, and was diagnosed with spina bifida six weeks before she was born. She has an older sister named Liz. Her father worked in customer services and her mother was a nurse. When Madeley was 5 years old, the charity Whizz-Kidz provided funding for a custom wheelchair for her. Madeley actively volunteered for Whizz-Kidz throughout her childhood and was part of the Kidz Board youth panel. As part of her work with Whizz-Kidz, at age 13, she visited Cherie Blair at 10 Downing Street to discuss fundraising and awareness. At age 14, she received another wheelchair from the charity. At age 13, while a student at Mount St. Joseph, Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Threlfall
David John Threlfall (born 12 October 1953) is an English stage, film and television actor and director. He is best known for playing Frank Gallagher in Channel 4's series '' Shameless''. He has also directed several episodes of the show. In April 2014, he portrayed comedian Tommy Cooper in a television film entitled '' Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This''. In 2014, he starred alongside Jude Law in the thriller ''Black Sea''. In 2024 he played Paul Peveril in the six-part BBC drama '' Nightsleeper''. For his role in ''Nicholas Nickleby'', he won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 1980, which was followed by a second nomination in the Best Actor category in 2006 for ''Someone Who'll Watch Over Me''. His role in ''Paradise Postponed'' (1986) earned Threlfall a nomination for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor. In 2022, he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play for his performance in the Martin M ... [...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] |
Euston Films
Euston Films is a British film and television production company. It was originally a subsidiary of Thames Television, and operated from 1971 to 1994, producing various series for Thames, which were screened nationally on the ITV network. Euston Films productions include '' Van der Valk'' (1977), '' The Sweeney'' (1975–1978), '' Minder'' (1979–1994), '' Quatermass'' (1979), '' Danger UXB'' (1979), and ''Reilly, Ace of Spies'' (1983). ''The Sweeney'' had two feature film spin-offs, ''Sweeney!'' and ''Sweeney 2'', which were also produced by Euston. In 2014, Euston Films was revived as a production company by the owner of Thames, Fremantle. History The idea for Euston Films dated back to 1965, when writer Trevor Preston and directors Jim Goddard and Terry Green were working at ABC Television. They produced a detailed proposal for a specialist production unit that shot dramas on 16mm film, rather than standard videotape. The company was founded in 1971 when three Thames ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Cosmo
James Ronald Gordon Copeland (born 1947), known professionally as James Cosmo, is a Scottish actor. Known for his character work, he has played supporting roles in films such as '' Highlander'' (1986), ''Braveheart'' (1995), '' Trainspotting'' (1996), ''Troy'' (2004), '' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'' (2005), '' Ben-Hur'' (2016), and ''Wonder Woman'' (2017). On television, he appeared as Father Kellan Ashby on the third season of '' Sons of Anarchy'' (2010), Jeor Mormont on HBO's ''Game of Thrones'' (2011–2013), Farder Coram in the BBC series '' His Dark Materials'' (2019), and Luka Gocharov on the third season of Amazon Prime's '' Jack Ryan'' (2022). Cosmo appeared as a contestant on the nineteenth series of '' Celebrity Big Brother'' in 2017, finishing in fourth place. Early life Cosmo is the son of actor James Copeland and Helen Goodlet Findlay. He attended Hartfield Primary School in Dumbarton. Through his father, young James pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharon Small
Sharon Small is a Scottish actress known for her work in film, radio, theatre, and television. Perhaps best known for her portrayal of Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers in the BBC television adaptation of ''The Inspector Lynley Mysteries'' by Elizabeth George, she is also recognised for her lead roles in '' Law & Order: UK'' (as Inspector Elisabeth Flynn) and '' Trust Me'' (as Dr Brigitte Rayne). She was nominated for an Olivier Award for her performance in a 2022 revival of Good. Early life Small is the eldest of five children. She was educated at Kinghorn Primary School, where she was the Kinghorn Gala Queen in her final year, and at Balwearie High School in Kirkcaldy. Small then studied drama at Kirkcaldy College of Technology (now Fife College), and continued her study at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London. Personal life Small lives in London. She has two sons with her husband, photographer Dan Bridge. Two of her brothers, Mike Small and Thierry Small ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
