Who played the title role in the 2012 ITV drama series 'Mrs Biggs'?
"tries to keep the family together. Charmian Biggs is played by Sheridan Smith; Ronnie Biggs is played by Daniel Mays. The series was written by Jeff Pope, in co-operation with the real Charmian Biggs. Smith's performance as Charmian received widespread critical acclaim, and she ultimately won the 2013 BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress. The series was filmed in London, Surrey, Buckinghamshire, Manchester, Adelaide and Melbourne. Scenes of the Great Train Robbery were recreated on the East Lancashire Railway using a locomotive from the same batch of engines involved in the 1963 raid. Charmian Biggs acted as a consultant on"
"Mrs Biggs Mrs Biggs is a 2012 British television series based on the true story of the wife of the Great Train Robber, Ronnie Biggs. The series covers Mrs Charmian Biggs' journey from naïve young woman to Biggs' wife and the mother of three young sons. Money worries force her husband to ask for a loan from Bruce Reynolds, planner of the most famous crime in British history, the Great Train Robbery of August 1963. The aftermath of the train robbery and Biggs subsequent escape from prison leads to a life of flight for Charmian and her children as she"
"the Australian court when the lawyer is arguing for her to be released. A region 2, two disc set of the series was released on 15 October 2012. Mrs Biggs Mrs Biggs is a 2012 British television series based on the true story of the wife of the Great Train Robber, Ronnie Biggs. The series covers Mrs Charmian Biggs' journey from naïve young woman to Biggs' wife and the mother of three young sons. Money worries force her husband to ask for a loan from Bruce Reynolds, planner of the most famous crime in British history, the Great Train Robbery"
"the BBC show ""Over the Rainbow"". Sky Arts' Chekhov Comedy Shorts also featured Smith in 2010 when she starred as Natasha in ""The Proposal"". She appeared in the 2011 film ""Hysteria"", about the invention of the vibrator. For the factual hospital series ""Bizarre ER"", she took over narration duties from Freema Agyeman. She appeared in the 2012 ITV film adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel ""The Scapegoat"". In September 2012 Smith played the title role in ""Mrs Biggs"", a five-part series on ITV. In 2013, she appeared in the Channel 4 series ""Dates"". In January 2014, she starred in the"
"and travelled to Britain from Australia to visit Biggs in February 2012, just before filming for ""Mrs Biggs"". In March 2013, Biggs attended the funeral of fellow train robber, Bruce Reynolds. In July 2013, ""The Great Train Robbery 50th Anniversary:1963–2013"" was published, with input from Biggs and Reynolds. On 18 December 2013, aged 84, Biggs died at the Carlton Court Care Home in Barnet, north London, where he was being cared for. His death coincidentally occurred hours before the first broadcast of a two-part BBC television series ""The Great Train Robbery"", in which Biggs was portrayed by actor Jack Gordon."
"Mrs Biggs. From 2013 to 2015 he filmed the Australian television drama Wonderland for Network Ten, in which he played ""Carlos dos Santos"" while also undertaking his degree in Master of Laws majoring in Commercial Litigation. In 2016, he married Julia Alonso, a Brazilian doctor from his birth town in Brazil. Glenn McMillan Glenn Aguiar McMillan (born October 5, 1984) is a Brazilian-Australian actor. McMillan was born in São João da Boa Vista, Brazil. His father, Peter McMillan, is an Australian of Irish descent. And his mother, Heloísa Aguiar, is a Brazilian of Portuguese and German descent. He is the"
"has appeared in movies such as ""The Pelican Brief"", ""Broken Arrow"", ""Dragonfly"" and the ""Star Trek"" documentary ""Trekkies 2"". Biggs has made many guest appearances on TV shows, some of those appearances range from ""Father Dowling Mysteries"", ""Matlock"", ""The Young Riders"", ""ER"", ""Snoops"", """", """", ""Person of Interest"" and ""Crossing Jordan"". Biggs currently teaches directing and acting at The New School for Drama. Biggs appeared in the HBO docudrama ""Too Big To Fail"" on the 2008 financial crisis as Wells Fargo chairman Richard Kovacevich. In 2018, he will return to ""General Hospital"" as Dr. Lasaris. Biggs was married to Roxann"
"first seven series of popular ITV sitcom ""Benidorm"" (2007–2015). Later television roles include portraying a lawyer in the mini-series ""Unforgiven"" (2009), an embittered servant in the first three series of the costume drama ""Downton Abbey"" (2010–2012) and a recovering addict in ""Happy Valley"" (2014–present), for which she was nominated for the 2017 British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress. Later film credits include Mrs Swift in the 2013 film release, ""The Selfish Giant"", which earned her a British Independent Film Award nomination. Finneran was born in Oldham, Lancashire on 27 April 1966 to Irish immigrant parents. As a child"
"Margaret Biggs Margaret Biggs (born 9 July 1929, Orpington, Kent) is a popular and collectible exponent of the girls' School story. She is best known for her Melling School series of books, first published by Blackie in the 1950s. The series is set at a weekly boarding school and is unusual in that it shows boarding school life and home life side by side. The interaction between girls and boys is also atypical of the genre at that time. The Melling series was republished by Girls Gone By Publishers in the 2000s and the reprints, whilst retaining the original text"
"""Wolverhampton's Aladdin Pantomime"" at the Grand Theatre. In 2011, Biggins played the part of Mrs Crusoe in Cardiff's Robinson Crusoe Pantomime, in the New Theatre. In December 2012, he returned to the Theatre Royal, Plymouth in Dick Whittington. In December 2013, he filled the role of Dame Trot alongside Bob Carolgees in a production of Jack and the Beanstalk at New Theatre, Hull. In 2014, he filled the role of Mrs Smee in his Southend, Essex. In 2017, he received the Lifetime Achievement award at the Great British Pantomime Awards. His film roles include ""The Sex Thief"" (1973), ""Eskimo Nell"""
"Coincidentally, the first part was shown on the same day that train robber Ronnie Biggs died. Chibnall's most recent drama, a detective series for ITV called ""Broadchurch"", starring David Tennant and Olivia Colman, was received with overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics and audiences alike. It followed the story of the fictional seaside town of Broadchurch, struggling to come to terms with the possible murder of a young boy. The first episode went to air in March 2013, starring Jodie Whittaker, Andrew Buchan, Arthur Darvill, Pauline Quirke and David Bradley. Viewing figures peaked at nearly 9 million viewers in the finale."
"Jaye Griffiths Jaye Griffiths (born 24 September 1963) is a British stage, television and voiceover actress. Griffiths trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and has appeared in many television dramas, including a starring role as Ros Henderson in the BBC hit series ""Bugs"", which ran for four series. She can often be found in police or hospital dramas - she has appeared in ""The Bill"", ""Doctors"", ""Always and Everyone"", ""Instinct"" and ""Silent Witness"". Other credits include ""Casualty"", ""Between the Lines"", ""Drop the Dead Donkey"", ""Kingdom"" and ""Skins"". She has also presented two BBC Schools Television series, ""Watch"""
"Lisa Geoghan Lisa Maria Geoghan (born 1 June 1966 in Southwark, London) is an English actress best known for playing PC/CAD Officer Polly Page in the long-running police drama ""The Bill"" from 1992 to 2004 a role she played for 12 years.Geoghan also had a guest appearance in the series in late 1991. She also appeared in ""Tucker's Luck"" as Sarah Gill, ""Big Deal"" (with Ray Brooks) and ""Desmond's"". She guest-starred in Casualty in 2015, in her first return to acting in ten years. Geoghan was trained at the Anna Scher Theatre School and acted at the Old Vic Youth"
"enacted by Dominic West and Monica Dolan of Rosemary West are hauntingly accurate"". In response to Bennett's statement, ITV's Janice Troup issued the following response: Appropriate Adult Appropriate Adult is a British crime drama television film shown in two parts on ITV, on 4 and 11 September 2011. It is based on the true story of Gloucester serial killer Fred West and his wife Rosemary West. It dealt with the events between the Wests' arrests in 1994 and Fred's suicide in Birmingham's Winson Green Prison on New Year's Day 1995. The series stars Dominic West, Monica Dolan and Emily Watson"
"Theatre between 1978 and 1980. Lisa Geoghan Lisa Maria Geoghan (born 1 June 1966 in Southwark, London) is an English actress best known for playing PC/CAD Officer Polly Page in the long-running police drama ""The Bill"" from 1992 to 2004 a role she played for 12 years.Geoghan also had a guest appearance in the series in late 1991. She also appeared in ""Tucker's Luck"" as Sarah Gill, ""Big Deal"" (with Ray Brooks) and ""Desmond's"". She guest-starred in Casualty in 2015, in her first return to acting in ten years. Geoghan was trained at the Anna Scher Theatre School and acted"
"in horror after stumbling across the body in the hotel office. In that episode it is revealed that Tibbs is 79. Miss Tibbs and Miss Gatsby Miss Abitha Tibbs and Miss Ursula Gatsby are fictional characters, played by Gilly Flower and Renee Roberts respectively, in the BBC television sitcom ""Fawlty Towers"". Miss Tibbs and Miss Gatsby are two mostly inseparable and slightly scatty elderly spinsters who are permanent residents of Fawlty Towers (the only other long-term guest being Major Gowen). Basil Fawlty switches from being overly kind to being utterly rude during his various conversations with them, although they rarely"
"appeared on Irish screens early in 2011 on TG4's ""Corp & Anam"" in her first Irish-language acting role. Also in 2011, she joined the cast of ITV's period drama ""Downton Abbey"", appearing as Vera Bates, estranged wife of the Earl of Grantham's valet, one of her most recognizable roles within the UK. In the same year, she also played a small role as a maid in the film ""Albert Nobbs"", alongside American actress Glenn Close. In 2012, Doyle Kennedy played a leading role in the ITV miniseries ""Titanic"" and also appeared beside fellow Irish actress Saoirse Ronan in Neil Jordan's"
"tried to go straight and trained as a carpenter. In February 1960, he married 21-year-old Charmian (Brent) Powell in Swanage, the daughter of a primary school headmaster. They had three sons together. Biggs, who needed money to fund a deposit on the purchase of a house for his family, happened to be working on the house of a train driver who was about to retire. The driver has been variously identified as ""Stan Agate"", or because of his age, ""Old Pete"" or ""Pop"". His real name is unknown, since he was never caught. He was the one who introduced Biggs"
"final appearance in the series. Francis Bigger (Howerd) is a charlatan faith healer, convinced that ""mind over matter"" is more effective than medical treatment. During a lecture, he stumbles offstage and is admitted to the local hospital. In hospital, he incessantly groans and whines about being ""maltreated"", demanding better treatment than the other, eccentric patients. These include: bedridden layabout Charlie Roper (James) who shams illnesses to stay in hospital; Ken Biddle (Bresslaw) who makes frequent trips to the ladies' ward to flirt with his love interest, Mavis Winkle (Dilys Laye); and Mr Barron (Hawtrey) who seems to be suffering sympathy"
"described as ""intelligent, intimidating, cool under pressure and a very good liar"" according to TV Line. During November 2011 Griffiths also appeared on stage at the Finborough Theatre, London, in the play ""Atman"" by Iain Finlay Macleod. She voiced Mabel Dobbs in the Big Finish Productions ""Doctor Who"" audio drama ""The Auntie Matter"", which was released in January 2013. She has a diploma in mime from a world-famous school in Paris and claims that Marcel Marceau was her greatest influence into the artistry of emotions and actions without words. She also admires performances of Judi Dench, Kate Winslet, and Jennifer"
"Series in 1995. Biggs was born in the Pompton Plains section of Pequannock Township, New Jersey. His mother, Angela (née Zocco), is a nurse, and his father, Gary Louis Biggs, is a shipping company manager. Biggs' father is of English and Italian descent and Biggs' mother is of Sicilian descent. His last name is derived from his English ancestry. He was raised Roman Catholic. He grew up in Hasbrouck Heights and attended Hasbrouck Heights High School, where he achieved success in tennis. Biggs originally attended New York University before attending Montclair State University, eventually dropping out. Biggs began acting at"
"Georgina Cates Georgina Cates (born 14 January 1975) is an English film and television actress. Born Clare Woodgate in Colchester, Essex, she attended Colchester County High School for Girls and broke into television acting when she was only sixteen years old, playing the role of the original Jenny Porter on the BBC's ""2point4 Children"". After two series she left the show to concentrate on acting in television drama such as ""Casualty and The Bill "" and in low-budget films. In 1995, Cates (then still known as Clare Woodgate) auditioned for the role of Stella in the film ""An Awfully Big"
"Inspector Fowler (Rowan Atkinson) is an avid reader of Biggles. Fowler is shocked, when constable Habib (Mina Anwar) suggests that Biggles and Ginger are lovers, something she argues is also the case for Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Upset, Fowler argues that sex has no part in these stories, hetero or otherwise; ""the point of Biggles and of Sherlock Holmes is to solve crimes and kill Germans. And by heaven, that should be enough for any man"". The lyrics of the Jethro Tull song, ""Thick As a Brick"", has a line that mentions Biggles (""So, where the hell was Biggles"
"Laura Rogers Laura Rogers (born 10 March 1979) is a British actress from Carmarthen, Wales. Born in Carmarthen, Rogers grew up in nearby Swansea. As a youngster Rogers was a member of the West Glamorgan Youth Theatre Company and Upland Arts, the Swansea Gilbert and Sullivan society. She studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, where she was in the same year as Claudia Harrison, graduating in 2000. Rogers's highest-profile roles to date have been single mother and former drug addict Sheena Williams in Series 7 of the ITV drama """"Bad Girls"""" (2005) and Chastity Green"
"the series' lead roles. On November 1, 2016, it was reported that Sean Bridgers, Lidia Porto, Megan Stevenson, Goya Robles, Lucy Walters, and Carolyn Dodd had joined the main cast. It was also reported that Sarah Stiles had been cast in a recurring role. On February 28, 2017, it was reported that Antwon Tanner had been cast in a recurring role. In February 2018, it was announced that Felicity Huffman, Steven Weber, and Andrew Leeds had been cast in recurring roles and that Sarah Stiles had been upgraded from recurring role to a starring one. In March 2018, it was"
"founded. Jenny Seagrove Jennifer Ann Seagrove (born 4 July 1957) is an English actress. She trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and first came to attention playing the lead in a television dramatisation of Barbara Taylor Bradford's ""A Woman of Substance"" (1984) and the film ""Local Hero"" (1983). She starred in the thriller ""Appointment with Death"" (1988) and William Friedkin's horror film ""The Guardian"" (1990). She later played Louisa Gould in ""Another Mother's Son"" (2017). She is known for her role as the character of Jo Mills in the long-running BBC drama series ""Judge John Deed"" (2001–07). Her"
"Ruta Gedmintas Ruta Gedmintas (; )(born 23 August 1983) is an English actress known for her work on television, primarily in ""The Strain"", """", ""The Borgias"", ""The Tudors"", and ""Lip Service"". Gedmintas was born in Canterbury, Kent, the daughter of a Lithuanian father and an English mother. She grew up in Buckinghamshire and trained at the Drama Centre London under Reuven Adiv. Gedmintas appeared in """" as Rachel Harris, a former police officer. She has also had guest roles in the BBC's ""Waking the Dead"" and ITV1's ""The Bill"". She also appeared as Elizabeth Blount in Showtime's ""The Tudors."" In"
"She has also starred in ""Casualty"", ""Heartbeat"" and ""Midsomer Murders"". Her most recent role is in the BBC drama ""All the Small Things"". Melanie also starred as Marie Foggarty in the BBC Birmingham drama ""Doctors"" on Tuesday, 22 September 2009. In 2016 she appeared in ""Line of Duty"". Since April 2017, Kilburn has been appearing as the Reverend Irene Mills, in the soap opera ""EastEnders"". Melanie Kilburn Melanie Kilburn (born Sarah Melanie Jean Kilburn on 16 March 1956) is an English actress, well known for playing PC Laura Bryant in ITV's, ""The Bill"". She was born and brought up in"
"Sally Rogers Sally Rogers (born 12 October 1964 in Marple, Cheshire) is an English actress, best known for her role as Sgt. Jo Masters in ITV's ""The Bill"". Rogers trained as a children's nanny, before taking up acting at the age of 20. She studied at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London before working at the Royal National Theatre. From 1989 to 1990, Rogers starred in several plays at London's Royal Court Theatre. Her television work includes the BBC's ""Out of Hours"" in the late 90s and ""Murphy's Law"" with James Nesbitt. She has also appeared in ""Casualty"""
"and by Quentin Letts in the ""Daily Mail"". Onscreen, in 2012 he appeared in the ITV drama ""Mrs Biggs"" as Alan Wright, who has an affair with Charmian Biggs and gets her pregnant. In 2013, he played the pivotal role of the lead character's son, Adam, in the television series ""The Tunnel"". The series is a British/French crime-drama co-production, and aired in the UK and in France; in the summer of 2016 it aired on PBS in the U.S. He also had a sizable role as a young British soldier in the award-winning 2014 film ""'71"", which takes place in"
"Holliday Grainger Holliday Clark Grainger (born 27 March 1988), also credited as Holly Grainger, is an English screen and stage actress. Some of her prominent roles are Kate Beckett in the BAFTA award-winning children's series ""Roger and the Rottentrolls"", Lucrezia Borgia in the Showtime series ""The Borgias"", Robin Ellacott in ""Strike"", and Estella in Mike Newell's adaptation of ""Great Expectations"". Grainger was born in Didsbury, Manchester. One of her grandfathers is Italian. Her first experience of acting was at age five when she was scouted for a BBC TV series. She appeared in many TV shows and independent films as"
"teleplay would be transmitted as a three-part ""mini-serial"", but ITV then decided to show it as a three-hour special with maximum publicity, especially for Francesca Annis in the role of Frankie (Annis was a major name in UK television at the time, having played the title role in ""Lillie"", the story of Lillie Langtry, two years before). The production was faithful to the plot and dialogue of the book. Two notable changes were made. The first is the recognition in the isolated cottage that Dr Nicholson is Roger Bassington-ffrench in disguise. In the novel, it is Bobby who recognises the"
"Appropriate Adult Appropriate Adult is a British crime drama television film shown in two parts on ITV, on 4 and 11 September 2011. It is based on the true story of Gloucester serial killer Fred West and his wife Rosemary West. It dealt with the events between the Wests' arrests in 1994 and Fred's suicide in Birmingham's Winson Green Prison on New Year's Day 1995. The series stars Dominic West, Monica Dolan and Emily Watson as the protagonists of the story, Fred and Rose West, and Janet Leach, respectively. The series was named after the role of Janet Leach as"