HOLLY GRAINGER (Charlie)
Television: Waterloo Road II; New Street Law; Doctors; Johnny And The Bomb; Magnificent 7; Where The Heart Is; No Angels; The Illustrated Mum; Sparkhouse; The Royal; Dalziel and Pascoe; The Rottentrolls; Preston Front.
Stage: Macbeth.
Film: Daddy Fox.
Radio: Fighting For Words; Glorious John; Mr Lowry's Loves; The Growing Summer.
ANNE REID (Nan/ Nancy Hesketh)
Television: Crime Monologues; Jane Eyre; Bleak House; Booze Cruise ; Life; The Young Visiters; Midsomer Murders; Dalziel & Pascoe; Hearts And Bones; Linda Green; Sweet Charity; Victoria Wood - With All The Trimmings; Dinnerladies; Peak Practice; Lost For Words; Pat And Margaret; Coronation Street; Dr Who; Firm Friends; Heartbeat; Hetty Wainthrop Investigates; Inappropriate Behaviour; Next Of Kin; Paul Merton In...Visiting Day; Playing The Field; Victoria Wood - As Seen On TV; Victoria Wood - Comedy Playhouse.
Stage: Epitaph For George Dillon; York Realist; A Family Affair; Blithe Spirit; Enjoy; Pride and Prejudice; Breezeblock Park; A Passionate Woman; A Taste Of Honey; Noises Off; Wild Oats.
Film: Hot Fuzz; The Mother; Liam; Love And Death On Long Island.
Radio: Matilda And 7 Dancing Princesses.
STEVE JOHN SHEPHERD (Steve)
Television: Bonkers; Lilies; Dalziel and Pascoe; New Tricks; Last Chancers; Real Men; Spine Chillers; The Knock; Forgive & Forget; An Unsuitable Job For A Woman; Maisie; This Life); The One That Got Away; Christmas.
Stage: Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads; Original Sin; Twelfth Night; Dangerous Corner.
Film: Romance; The Best Man; Too Much Too Young; Boudicca; Spy Hole; Star Wars Episode II; Now You See Her; Me Without You; From Hell; Greenwich Mean Time; Virtual Sexuality; RPM; I Want You.
STEVE PEMBERTON (Leo Fairbrother)
Television: Benidorm; Hotel Babylon; Riot At The Rite; Under The Greenwood Tree; Free Jimmy; Blackpool; Death On The Nile; Shameless; The League of Gentlemen; Gormenghast; Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased).
Stage: Art; A Local Show For Local People; The League Of Gentlemen.
Film: I Could Never Be Your Woman; Lassie; The League Of Gentlemen's Apocalypse; Match Point; Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy; The Life and Death of Peter Sellers; Churchill - The Hollywood Years.
Radio: On The Town With The League Of Gentlemen.
ROBERT PATTINSON (Daniel Gale)
Television: The Haunting of Toby Jugg.
Stage: Macbeth; Anything Goes; Tess of the d'Urbervilles; Our Town.
Film: Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire; Kingdom in Twilight.
OLIVER LEE (Paul Benthem)
Television: Hollyoaks In The City; Emmerdale; Legless; I Love the 70's.
Stage: Beautiful Thing; Blue; Christie In Love; Dynamo / Garden of Delights; Fairy Dust; Machinal; Animal Farm; Silly Cow; The Rocky Horror Show; Ubu Rex; Bugsy Malone; Sparkleshark; The Bartered Bride.
Film: Exhibit A.
CAROLINE HARDING (Sandra Gale)
Television: The Royal; Strictly Confidential; Life On Mars; Emmerdale; Casualty; Eastenders; Doctors; Fish; Dangerfield; Degrees Of Error; Touch Of Frost; The Buddha Of Suburbia; Waiting For God; Van Der Valk.
Stage: The Real Thing; Frankie And Johnny; Postcards From Maupassant; Max Klapper; Murderer; All My Sons; The Great Highway; Betrayal; The Clandestine Marriage; The Secret Rapture; Two Sisters.
PIP TORRENS (Doctor Gale)
Television: Dr Who; Lewis; Waking The Dead; Rebus; The Rise and Fall of Rome; Spooks; The Chatterley Affair; Pinochet's Progress; The Path To 9/11; Poirot; Broken News; Dresden; Green Wing; Class of '76; Ian Fleming - A Life In Film; Rome; The Last Detective; No Angels; Missing; David Kelly; Miss Marple "4.50 from Paddington"; The Rotters Club; The Commander II & III; Rosemary and Thyme; My Dad's The Prime Minister; Messiah III; Charles II; Gifted; Red Cap; Trial & Retribution VII; Where The Heart Is; Wire In The Blood; Annie's Box; Second Nature; At Home With The Braithwaites; Dead Gorgeous; The Medici Project; The Project; TLC; Shackleton;
Stage: Pwa-The Diaries Of Oscar Moore; Stanley; Absolute Hell.
Film: The Mark of Cain; The Flood; Lofty; Pride and Prejudice; All The Queen's Men; To End All Wars; Rogue Trader; Tomorrow Never Dies; The Remains of the Day; Eminent Domain; Object of Beauty; How To Get Ahead in Advertising; A Handful of Dust; Little Dorrit; Lady Jane; Oxford Blues.
ANGELA MURRAY (Annie)
Television: Mobile; Gold Plated; Lenor; New Street Law I & II; Drop Dead Gorgeous; Shiny Shiny; No Angels III; Bodies II; Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps;
Stage: Flip the Script; The Baby; The Flies; Macbeth; Me And My Girl; 0161.
CLARE MCGLINN (Jo-Beth)
Television: Strictly Confidential; The Royal; The Bill; Holby City; Coronation Street; The Cops.
Stage: Dead of Night; Robin Hood & Babes in the Wood; The Edge of Darkness.
Film: No Ordinary Joes.
KIRSTY L. PORTER (Anya)
Television: Too Much Too Young; Real Story - Saving Becky; Coronation Street; The Street.
Stage: Bugsy Malone; Godspell; Fame; Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs; Summer Pops; Annie.
MAGGIE OLLERENSHAW (Jessie Pilkington)
Television: Wire In The Blood; Cherished; Midsomer Murders; Coronation Street; He Knew He Was Right; Barbara; Paradise Heights; Teachers; This Is Personal: The Hunt For The Yorkshire Ripper; Dr Willoughby; Heartbeat; Last Of The Summer Wine; Lovejoy; House Of Eliott.
Stage: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf; Yours Sincerely.
Film: Pierrepoint; Britannia Hospital.
PENNY LAYDEN (Female Rambler)
Television: Waterloo Road II; No Angels; The Bill; Murphy’s Law; Doctors; Fat Friends; Outlaws; MIT.
Stage: Comfort Me With Apples; Mary Barton; Assassins; Season’s Greetings; The Laramie Project; Electra; Mayhem; Romeo and Juliet; A Passage To India; Popcorn; The Magic Toyshop; The Dice House; Hamlet and The Antipodes; Jane Eyre; The Tempest/Roberto Zucco/ Measure for Measure; Ghosts & The Winter’s Tale; The Art of Random Whistling; What I Did In The Holidays.
Film: The Libertine.
Radio: Crime and Punishment; Uganda.
STEVE BRODY (Bearded Rambler)
Television: Coupling; My Family; The Office Christmas Specials; Black Books 3; I'm Alan Partridge; Alien Vacation; School Uniforms; Spine Chillers by Alexei Sayle; The Armando Iannucci Shows; 11 O' Clock Show; The Bill; Bob and Margaret; The Tube Dwellers; Barking; Comedy Nation; How Do You Want Me?; Fluke; It's Ulrika!; Tim Vine's Xmas Present.
Stage: Avalon National Comedy Network; The Tim Vine Fiasco-Edinburgh Best Newcomer; 'Arry The Sparrer; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Bikini Fable; Look Back in Anger; Once a Catholic; Ruffian on the Stair; Sails for Victory; The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui; What Are You Afraid Of?; Women Without Men.
Film: Tube Dwellers; Alien Vacation; Animated / Animal Farm; Animated / Madeline; Carnivale; Black Beauty; The Secret Garden.
Radio: Zentulli and Son; Bussman & Quantilk Kingsize; Something for The Weekend; The Treatment.
OLGA GRAHAME (Ivy)
Television: Heartbeat; No Angels; Emmerdale; Fat Friends; League of Gentlemen; My Wonderful Life; The Bare Necessities.
Film: Mischief Nights; Goodnight; Parole Officer; Brassed Off; The Cops.
MARY WRAY (Ivy 2)
Television: Shameless; No Angels; Fat Friends; Reckless; Emmerdale; Heartbeat; Ain't Misbehaving; Coronation Street; Body & Soul; Last of the Summer Wine; Stay Lucky; Missing Persons; All Creatures Great and Small.
Stage: The Enemies Within.
Film: Spark; Brothers and Sisters; Black Jack; Yanks.
DARYL FISHWICK (Mrs Carlisle)
Television: Strictly Confidential; Emmerdale; The Chase; Together; Hollyoaks; Shameless II; Clocking Off; Prescription For Murder; Holby City; Dangerfield; Cold Feet; The Life And Crimes Of William Palmer; Whizziwig.
Film: The Full Monty.
ALISON BURROWS (Nurse)
Television: Brief Lives; Bodies; The Royal; The Illustrated Mum; Shameless; Coronation Street; Between The Sheets; Nurses; Bloody Foreigners; Real Men; Emmerdale; Nice Guy Eddie; Flesh, Blood & Magic; Prescription For Murder; Phoenix Nights; Queer As Folk I & II.
Stage: Beyond Belief; Babes In The Wood; The Hypochondriac; Second From Last In The Sack Race; The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice; Kiss Me Kate & Jumpers; A Word From Our Sponsor; Gypsy.
Film: Groove On A Stanley Knife; Deadly Advice; My Son The Fanatic.
MARTIN REEVE (Consultant)
Television: Anatomy of a Crime; Coronation Street; Sorted; Eleventh Hour; Heartbeat; Perfect Day; Shameless 3; Shiny Shiny Bright New Hole in my Heart; Hollyoaks; Murphy's Law; Outlaws; Spinechillers: Charlie's Angel; Ben's Patient; The Royal; Emmerdale; 24/Seven; A Good Thief; Blood Strangers; Phoenix Nights; At Home With The Braithwaites II; Fat Friends; Judge John Deed; Little Bird; Coronation Street; The Cops; Dalziel and Pascoe.
Stage: The Wind in the Willows; Absurd Person Singular; Neville's Island; Present Laughter; Abigail's Party.
Radio: The Return of the Native; War and Fish; Black Five Foot Nothing; Radio Fun.
CREW
Kate Long – Writer
Kate Long was brought up in Lancashire in a small village half-way between Wigan and Bolton. At 18 she left home to study English at Bristol University, where she gained a First, and then trained as a teacher in Exmouth for a year. Her first job was in Guildford, where she met her husband.
Her next move was to Whitchurch in Shropshire, where she has been ever since. For over a decade she taught in a secondary school just outside Chester, but when her first novel was accepted, in 2003, she gave up teaching and became a full-time writer. She writes every day while her two young sons are at school.
The Bad Mother's Handbook was published by Picador in 2004 and became a number one bestseller, serialised on Radio Four's Book at Bedtime and nominated for a British Book Award. It is also available as an audio cassette or CD.
Her two other novels so far are Swallowing Grandma and Queen Mum both published by Picador. A fourth, The Daughter Game, will be released in 2007.
As well as novels, Kate has had short stories published in Woman's Own, Woman and Home, The Sunday Express magazine and the Sunday Night Book Club anthology.
Further information on Kate Long's books and events schedule can be found at
www.katelong.co.uk
ALISON OWEN - Producer
Alison Owen established Ruby Films with Neris Thomas in 1999. Prior to founding Ruby, Alison worked in various capacities in production, distribution and development before becoming a Producer, initially of pop videos and commercials, then documentaries and television, before moving into film.
Her television successes included the Channel 4 series Diary of a Teenage Health Freak which won the RTS Award for Best Youth Programme, and the BAFTA nominated End of an Era which won the Silver Rose at Montreux.
In 1991 Alison produced Peter Chelsom’s Hear My Song (1991), written by Chelsom and Adrian Dunbar. Nominated for a Golden Globe and several BAFTAs, Hear My Song won Best Comedy Film at the Comedy Awards and earned Alison a nomination for Most Promising New Producer by the Producers Guild of America. Following this, she went on to produce The Young Americans (1993), directed by Danny Cannon and starring Harvey Keitel and Viggo Mortensen. In 1995 Alison completed Moonlight and Valentino, her first collaboration with actress Gwyneth Paltrow, written by Ellen Simon and directed by David Anspagh. The film also starred Kathleen Turner, Whoopi Goldberg and Elizabeth Perkins.
In 1998 Alison produced Elizabeth directed by Shekhar Kapur and written by Michael Hirst, for Working Title Films. Elizabeth proved to be one of the success stories of the year, and having spent many weeks in both the US and UK Top Ten, went on to earn 7 Academy Award and 12 BAFTA nominations, garnering 1 and 5 respectively. In 2003 Alison produced Sylvia, directed by Christine Jeffs, a film exploring the passionate, yet often turbulent, relationship between the poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Daniel Craig. Sylvia has received critical acclaim in the US and closed last year’s London Film Festival. Owen again worked with Gwyneth Paltrow on the production Proof, the film adaptation of the play by David Auburn directed by John Madden, also starring Anthony Hopkins, Jake Gyllenhaal and Hope Davis.
Alison has recently just completed shooting Love & Other Disasters written and directed by Alek Keshishian starring Brittany Murphy which was released during the summer of 2006. Alison has also completed Love & Hate directed by Dominic Savage for BBC Films and the UK Film Council. In addition Alison executive produced the box office success Shaun of the Dead, ‘a rom-com-zom’ (a romantic-comedy with zombies) directed by Edgar Wright from a story by Simon Pegg, starring Pegg, Jessica Stevenson and Dylan Moran.
Alison has also developed the amazing story Brick Lane by Booker-nominated Monica Ali, written by Abi Morgan, to be directed by Sarah Gavron and produced with Film Four and UK Film Council. She has developed The Other Boleyn Girl written by Pete Morgan based on the best-selling historical novel by Philippa Gregory and the adaptation of On Beauty by award winning Zadie Smith with Scott Rudin and Film Four.
HARRY OULTON - Producer
Harry joined the BBC in 1996 and worked in the Single Drama and Series departments before working on Casualty for two years ending up as Assistant Producer on Casualty 250 (themed evening of programmes on BBC1). He left the BBC to work on the National Theatre of Brent’s Massive landmarks of the 20th Century and Playing the Field before joining Granada in 2002. While he was there he script edited At Home with the Braithwaites IV, Blue Murder, Cold Blood and also co-devised and script edited both series of Distant Shores.
ROBIN SHEPPARD - Director
Robin’s directing career began with her graduation film The Thin Red Line which went on to win the John Symmonds/ Unicorn Pictures Best Comedy Award and the Cork Film Festival Audience Award. Since then, she has gone on to work on numerous programmes including the BAFTA nominated Wing and A Prayer. Robin has also been a lead director on
At Home with The Braithwaite’s as well as directing Sparkhouse; Lucky Jim; Between The Sheets; Perfect Strangers; Cherished and the ITV drama starring Stephen Fry, Kingdom, which is also due for screening on ITV1 in 2007. In 2005, Robin won the Grierson Award for Best Drama Documentary for the 90 minute film Cherished.
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