I’m a sick woman,” says Pansy Deacon, the newest in a long line of demanding heroines on offer from filmmaker Mike Leigh. By the time we hear this in Leigh’s Hard Truths, none of us, neither on-screen ...

Heart Radio's Amanda Holden urged fans not to worry as she shared the unique way her husband Chris Hughes had been helping to ...

British acting icon Brenda Blethyn is already reconnecting with her long-running role as DCI Vera Stanhope just weeks after ...

Brenda Blethyn is best known for playing Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope in the ITV crime drama Vera, but she has had ...

Brenda Blethyn will be making a Vera 'comeback' after quitting the ITV show earlier this year to focus on family.

Brenda Blethyn is now 78-years-old and wants to spend more time with her family and dog. When she made her debut as Vera ...

Chelsea Halfpenny, best known for playing Amy Wyatt in Emmerdale from 2010 to 2013, made an appearance as Kimberly Martin in ...

INTERVIEW: ‘Secrets & Lies’ made her the first Black British woman to be nominated for an Oscar. Now, nearly 30 years and 160 ...

Kenny Doughty left Vera after eight years as DS Aiden Healy, and he will soon return to our screens in a brand new drama ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste could earn her second Oscar nomination for Mike Leigh's "Hard Truths." It's a long time coming for the veteran actress.

Of all the moody, broody British police dramas that ever forced a dogged detective to tramp through windswept moors, old-growth forests and muddy farmyards only to confront a desperate killer on ...

BRENDA Blethyn has broken her silence following Vera's emotional finale - after revealing why she didn't want the TV detective die. Oscar nominee Brenda, 78, starred in the ITV crime drama from ...