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Spooks (series 6)
The sixth series of the BBC espionage television series '' Spooks'' began broadcasting on 16 October 2007 before ending on 18 December 2007. The series, consisting of ten episodes, was serialised - a first for the programme. Appearing as recurring characters are CIA Agent, Bob Hogan, and Iranian Special Consul, Dariush Bakhshi, and his wife, Ana. Production In June 2007 production visited Cliffe in Rochester in Kent to film various rural scenes, including a scene on a railway bridge for Episode 8 “Infiltration”. Cast ''Main'' * Rupert Penry-Jones as Adam Carter * Hermione Norris as Ros Myers (episodes 1–8) * Miranda Raison as Jo Portman * Alex Lanipekun as Ben Kaplan (episodes 5–10) * Raza Jaffrey as Zafar Younis (episode 1) * Hugh Simon as Malcolm Wynn-Jones * Gemma Jones as Connie James (episodes 2–10) * Peter Firth as Harry Pearce ''Guests'' * Matthew Marsh as Bob Hogan * Simon Abkarian as Dariush Bakhshi *Agni Scott as Ana Bakhshi * Claire Cox as Anne Beuche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC One
BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It is the corporation's flagship network and is known for broadcasting mainstream programming, which includes BBC News television bulletins, primetime drama and entertainment, and live BBC Sport events. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution. It was renamed BBC TV in 1960 and used this name until the launch of the second BBC channel, BBC2, in 1964. The main channel then became known as BBC1. The channel adopted the current spelling of BBC One in 1997. The channel's annual budget for 2012–2013 was £1.14 billion. It is funded by the television licence fee together with the BBC's other domestic television stations and shows uninterrupted programming without commercial advertising. The television channel had the highest reach share of any broadcaster in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm Wynn-Jones
Malcolm Wynn-Jones (born 29 December 1958 in Dunvant, Wales; full name Malcolm Peregrine Geoffrey St. John Wynn Jones) was the first MI5 analyst, featured in the British television series '' Spooks'', also known as ''MI5'' in the United States. Malcolm was played by Hugh Simon from start of ''Spooks'' in 2002 until the character retired at the start of Series 8 in 2009. The character however, made a return in the later stage of Series 9 in 2010. Malcolm returned in '' Spooks: The Greater Good''. Spooks profile Malcolm served as a technician and data analyst for the team. In the script for one of his first episodes, he is described as being "an odd-looking man in a bow-tie. He sounds almost autistic--a walking intelligence encyclopaedia." Although not much is known about his personal life, he does pose as Ruth's brother "Giles" when she falls for someone the team are watching, and Series 5 Episode 6 revealed that he is a collector of 1970's bugs. His mother is still alive, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Chancellor
Anna Theodora Chancellor (born 27 April 1965) is a British actress who has received nominations for BAFTA and Olivier Awards. Background and early life Chancellor was born in Richmond, England to barrister John Paget Chancellor, eldest son of Sir Christopher Chancellor, and Mary Jolliffe, a daughter of Lord Hylton. The Chancellor family were Scottish gentry who had owned land at Quothquan since 1432. Chancellor was brought up in Somerset and educated at St Mary's School, Shaftesbury, which was a Roman Catholic boarding school for girls in Dorset, but left at sixteen to live in London, later describing her early years there as "quite wild".Tim LewisAnna Chancellor: 'My life was chaotic. But it's turned out OK'dated 21 August 2011 at theguardian.com. Retrieved 23 October 2016 In her early twenties she married the poet Jock Scot (1952–2016), with whom she had a daughter in 1988 while still studying at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She separated from Scot a fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ofo Uhiara
Ofo Uhiara (born 13 December 1975) is a British actor of Nigerian descent. He is most noted for his role as Police Constable Lance Powell in the ITV soap opera ''The Bill''. He grew up in east London and is the brother of actress Ony Uhiara Ony Uhiara (born 1978/79), is an actress, best known for playing Adele in the BBC sitcom, ''The Crouches'', which was broadcast from 2003 until 2004. She was born in the UK of Nigerian descent and grew up in east London. Ony is the sister of Ofo .... External links * English male soap opera actors Living people 1975 births English people of Nigerian descent Male actors from London 21st-century English male actors {{UK-tv-actor-1970s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Blake (Spooks)
Nicholas Blake MP is a fictional character in the British TV series '' Spooks'', portrayed by British actor Robert Glenister. Blake was Home Secretary in the British government. He was regularly in contact with Harry Pearce, regarding National Security. History He was introduced as part of the security council siding with then National Security Coordinator Juliet Shaw. He was opposed to the plans of a senior MI6 agent Michael Collingwood, Collingwood was leading a coup attempt and had a bomb planted in Blake's car. Blake survived the assassination attempt. Blake was seen again at the beginning of Series 6 when he covertly ordered the Tehran train bomb, however, he was acting on false intelligence provided by Bob Hogan. Soon after a biological virus released from the train infected a man named Mehan Asnik. The virus was brought back to the UK. MI5 stopped this and meanwhile Blake was in negotiation with the Russians over a solution. He was then seen again later in the series whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Glenister
Robert Lewis Glenister (born 11 March 1960 in Watford, Hertfordshire) is an English actor. The son of the television director John Glenister and the older brother of actor Philip Glenister, his roles include con man Ash "Three Socks" Morgan in the BBC television series '' Hustle'' (2004–2012) and Nicholas Blake in the spy drama '' Spooks'' (2006–2010). Career Glenister had a regular role in the BBC sitcom '' Sink or Swim'', which ran from 1980 until 1982. He has also appeared in shows such as ''Soldier Soldier'', ''Only Fools and Horses'' (as Myles the millionaire garden centre owner and chairman of the SWANS committee), ''A Touch of Frost'' and ''Inspector George Gently'', as well as several films. He had a starring role in the BBC drama '' Hustle'' as Ash Morgan, a high-level con-man who has to convincingly play various roles or characters to pull off a con and lure a 'mark'. He is the only actor who has appeared in every episode of the series. He has also had regular s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Laurenson
James Laurenson (born 17 February 1940) is a New Zealand stage and screen actor. Early life Laurenson was born in Marton, North Island, New Zealand. He was a student at Canterbury University College in Christchurch (now University of Canterbury) where he was directed by Dame Ngaio Marsh, notably in the title role in ''Macbeth'' at the Civic Theatre Christchurch in 1962. He moved to the UK in the mid-1960s and made his film debut in 1969 with a small part in ''Women in Love'', although he also had an uncredited part (as an Oxford rower, playing alongside Graham Chapman) in '' The Magic Christian''. Career He has appeared in numerous British Shakespearean productions, notably ''Richard II'', as Rosencrantz in ''Hamlet'', and on radio in the marathon series, ''Vivat Rex''. He also appeared as Piers Gaveston in the 1970 production of Christopher Marlowe's ''Edward II'', opposite Ian McKellen who later recalled that kissing Laurenson "was a bonus throughout the run". Other cos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Cox
Claire Cox is a British actress. Her television appearances include acclaimed series ''The Last Salute'', '' Fresh Meat'', '' Spooks'', '' Wallander'' and '' Jamestown'' for Sky. Career Cox graduated from Central School of Speech and Drama with a B.A. in acting. One of her first jobs after graduating from drama school was playing Fredrika Armfeldt in Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music at The National Theatre with Judi Dench. She then joined the Royal Shakespeare Company for the first of her three seasons with the company. She played Portia in Edward Hall's production of Julius Caesar in which she was awarded an Ian Charleson commendation. She returned to the company in the critically acclaimed Spanish Golden age season. Other theatre work includes A Servant To Two Masters (RSC), The Voysey inheritance (The National Theatre), Henry v ( Manchester Royal Exchange), The White Devil (The Chocolate Factory), The Winslow Boy (The Rose Theatre Kingston), Macbeth (The Globe), Acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Abkarian
Simon Abkarian (Armenian language, Armenian: Սիմոն Աբկարյան, born March 5, 1962) is a French-Armenian actor. Life and career Born in Gonesse, Val d'Oise, of Armenians, Armenian descent, Abkarian spent his childhood in Lebanon. He moved to Los Angeles, where he joined an Armenian theater company managed by Gerald Papazian. He returned to France in 1985, settling in Paris. He took classes at the Acting International school, then he joined Ariane Mnouchkine's Théâtre du Soleil and played, among others, in ''L'Histoire terrible mais inachevée de Norodom Sihanouk, roi du Cambodge'' ("The Terrible but Unfinished Story of Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia") by Hélène Cixous, and in the ''Atreus, House of Atreus'' four-play cycle by Aeschylus. Abkarian left the Théâtre du Soleil in 1993. In 2001 he starred in ''Beast on the Moon'' by Richard Kalinoski, directed by Irina Brook, a play about the life of a survivor of the Armenian genocide, a role which won him cri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Hogan
The main recurring characters in the TV series '' Spooks'' include (principals shown in bold): Final Series Leads Main characters for Series 10: * Sir Harry Pearce KBE (Peter Firth) (2002-2011) - Head of Counter-Terrorism Department, MI5. * Dimitri Levendis ( Max Brown) (2010-2011) Piracy and Terrorism Case Officer Section D * Erin Watts (Lara Pulver) (2011) - Chief of Section & Senior Case Officer, Section D * Calum Reed (Geoffrey Streatfeild) (2011) - Junior Case Officer, Section D * William Towers (Simon Russell Beale; 2010-2011) Home Secretary. * Ruth Evershed (Nicola Walker) (2003–2006, 2009-2011) - Section D Intelligence Analyst, Home Secretary's Assistant (episodes 10.5/.6), originally seconded to MI5 from GCHQ). Former characters MI5 staff *Tariq Masood (Shazad Latif) (2009-2011) - Technician and Data Analyst, Section D * Beth Bailey (Sophia Myles) (2010) Formerly Junior Case Officer Section D *Lucas North ( Richard Armitage) (2008–2010) Chief of Section & Senior Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Marsh (actor)
Matthew Marsh (born 8 July 1954) is an English actor. He is the older brother of The Beloved (band), Jon Marsh of the English dance band "The Beloved". He has appeared in the films ''The Fourth Protocol (film), The Fourth Protocol'' (1987), ''Diamond Skulls'' (1989), ''Mountains of the Moon (film), Mountains of the Moon'' (1990), ''Alambrado'' (1991), ''Dirty Weekend (1993 film), Dirty Weekend'' (1993), ''Spy Game'' (2001), ''Miranda (2002 film), Miranda'' (2002), ''Bad Company (2002 film), Bad Company'' (2002), ''Quicksand (2003 film), Quicksand'' (2003) and ''An American Haunting'' (2005). In 2011 Marsh starred in the biopic film ''The Iron Lady (film), The Iron Lady'' as the United States Secretary of State Alexander Haig. In 2005, Marsh starred as Simon Hewitt in the first series of ''The Thick of It''. In May 1998, Marsh portrayed the character Alex Duncan in the British TV program As Time Goes By (TV series), As Time Goes By, series 7, episode 3 entitled "The New Neighbour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Pearce
Sir Henry James "Harry" Pearce, KBE (born 1 November 1953) is a fictional character, head of the counter-terrorism department ("Section D") of MI5 as featured in the British television series '' Spooks''. He was played by Peter Firth during the whole run of the series from 2002 to 2011, and reprised for the 2015 film, '' Spooks: The Greater Good''. Career Prior career After attending the University of Oxford,''Harry's Diary'', p. 5 Pearce went to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst''Harry's Diary'', p. 3 before joining the Light Blue Dragoons.''Harry's Diary'', p. 8 Upon leaving the army, he joined MI5, where he completed his training in June 1977.''Harry's Diary'', p. 1 His first assignment at the service was to A Section, in Northern Ireland, where he was an agent handler during the Provisional IRA's campaign against the British state,''Harry's Diary'', p. 7 until his close colleague Bill Crombie was kidnapped and killed in August 1978.''Harry's Diary'', p. 25 Pearce was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
