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Vera is a British crime drama television series based on the Vera Stanhope novels by Ann Cleeves. It ran on ITV for 14 years from 1 May 2011 to 2 January 2025 and starred Brenda Blethyn as the principal character, Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope.
Vera is a British crime drama series based on the Vera Stanhope series of novels written by crime writer Ann Cleeves. It was first broadcast on ITV on 1 May 2011. As of 2 January 2025, 56 original episodes of Vera have aired over fourteen series. [1]
Clare Michelle Calbraith (born 1 January 1974) is an English actress, born in Winsford, [1] Cheshire, and raised in Liverpool and Cheshire, whose appearances include roles in Vera, the ITV period drama series Home Fires and Downton Abbey, together with the BBC2 drama The Shadow Line.
As Vera Stanhope, Brenda Blethyn helped create both a revolutionary television character and one of ITV's longest-running series. Our columnist says goodbye to 'Vera.'
Born in Ramsgate, Kent, Blethyn was the youngest of nine children in a Roman Catholic, working-class family.Her mother, Louisa Kathleen (née Supple; 10 May 1904 – 21 June 1992), was a housewife and former maid who had met Blethyn's father, William Charles Bottle (5 March 1894 – 9 January 1985) in approximately 1922 while working for the same household in Broadstairs, Kent.
Ann Cleeves OBE (born 24 October 1954) is a British mystery crime writer. She wrote the Vera Stanhope, Jimmy Perez, and Matthew Venn series, all three of which have been adapted into TV shows.
Jon Morrison is a Scottish actor who has appeared in many plays, films and television series since the early 1970s, including The Bill, Bergerac, Taggart and Vera. [1] [2]His best-known parts have been in the Peter McDougall plays Just Another Saturday (1975), about sectarianism in Glasgow, and The Elephants' Graveyard (1976), both with Billy Connolly and both part of BBC's Play for Today series.
[2] [3] She is known for her roles as Joy in the BBC Two miniseries Moses Jones and Holly Lawson in the ITV series Vera (2011–2012). She won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Gloria Taylor in the TV film Damilola, Our Loved Boy (2016). In 2019, she starred in the fifth series of Luther. [4]