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.

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.

Brenda Blethyn captured the nation as DCI Vera Stanhope ... It aired on the BBC and Derek Benfield plays Hetty's patient husband, Robert, while Dominic Monaghan portrays her assistant and lodger ...

Author Ann Cleeves has become great friends with Brenda Blethyn who played Vera in the ... woman who doesn't depend on a family or a husband for company, who's authoritative, competent, in charge ...

Vera's Brenda Blethyn has shared her secret to marital bliss with her polar opposite husband. Actress Brenda, who has now said goodbye to Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope after 14 years ...