Monday, April 27, 2015

Gridlock

Brannigan (Ardal O'Hanlon)
feline a little catty
One episode (Gridlock)
First broadcast Apr 14 2007
Average audience for story: 8.41m

REGULAR CAST

David Tennant (The Doctor) Born Apr 18 1971 Click here for David Tennant's entry on The Parting of the Ways

Freema Agyeman (Martha Jones) Born Mar 20 1979 Click here for Freema Agyeman's entry on Army of Ghosts

GUEST CAST

Georgine Anderson (May Cassini) Feb 8 1928 to Feb 15 2024
Career highlights
Georgine's earliest role was in 1958's Private Investigator, followed by roles in No Hiding Place (1961), The Queen and the Rebels (1963), Undermind (1965), Dixon of Dock Green (1967), Fraud Squad (1970), Persuasion (1971), A Family at War (1971-72), A Pin to See the Peepshow (1973), Upstairs, Downstairs (1975), Love for Lydia (1977), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1978), Matilda's England (1979), Enemy at the Door (1980), The Woman in White (1982), The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Blott on the Landscape (1985), Never the Twain (1988), Taggart (1990), Century Falls (1993), Wycliffe (1994), Murder Most Horrid (1996), Jonathan Creek (1998), Heartbeat (2001), The Cazalets (2001), Holby City (2004), All About George (2005), George Gently (2009), Whitechapel (2013) and New Tricks (2014).

Nicholas Boulton (Businessman) Born Nov 22 1968
Career highlights
Born in Gibraltar, Nicholas debuted as a schoolboy in In the Secret State (1985), after which he secured acting roles in Two Golden Balls (1994), Kavanagh QC (1997), Shakespeare in Love (1998), Wonderful You (1999), Topsy-Turvy (1999), Heartbeat (2004), Life Begins (2004-05), Broken News (2005), Jonathan Creek (2009), Doc Martin (2009), Doctors (2009), Arn (2010), Midsomer Murders (2012), Game of Thrones (2015), Benidorm (2017), 6 Days (2017), Casualty (2017-18), Queen Marie of Romania (2019) and Cursed (2020). He has also worked prolifically as a voice actor in the video game industry since 2007.
Facts
Here he is on Twitter.

Lenora Crichlow (Cheen) Born Jan 4 1985
Career highlights
Lenora debuted in Bella and the Boys in 2004, followed by The Bill (2004), Kiss of Death (2008), Collision (2009), Material Girl (2010), Fast Girls (2012), Black Mirror (2013), Electricity (2014), Mr Robinson (2015), Suspects (2016), Flaked (2017), Deception (2018), Avenue 5 (2020) and The Big Ugly (2020). Regular roles include Maria Sweet in Sugar Rush (2005-06), Gigi Fernandez-Lovette in Back in the Game (2013-14) and Stephie Bennett in A to Z (2014-15), but her most memorable role will be as ghost Annie Sawyer in Being Human (2009-12).
Facts
Lenora's sister is production coordinator Amandla Crichlow, while her father was Trinidadian civil rights activist Frank Crichlow, a central figure in making the annual Notting Hill Carnival a success and known as the "godfather of black radicalism".

Lucy Davenport (Pale woman)
Career highlights
Debuted in Soho Square (2000), then Dickens (2002), Gangs of New York (2002), Sylvia (2003), Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster (2003), Alice in Wonderland (2010), Gangster Squad (2013), NCIS (2013) and Roe vs Wade (2021).

Tom Edden (Pharmacist) Born Aug 21 1978
Career highlights
Other work includes Mr Turner (2014), Cinderella (2015), The Scandalous Lady W (2015), Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), Upstart Crow (2016) and The Singapore Grip (2020).
Facts
In 2012, Tom was nominated for a Tony Award for his part in One Man, Two Guvnors on Broadway.

Jennifer Hennessy (Valerie) Born 1970
Doctor Who credits
Played: Valerie in Gridlock (2007)
Played: Moira in The Pilot (2017), Extremis (2017)
Career highlights
Prolific character actress Jennifer made her debut in Pauline Calf's Wedding Video (1994), then took roles in Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1996), Undercover Heart (1998), Clocking Off (2000), Swallow (2001), Flesh and Blood (2002), The Office (2002), The Second Coming (2003), Emmerdale (2003), Conviction (2004), Green Wing (2006), Lilies (2007), Drop Dead Gorgeous (2006-07), The Cup (2008), Paradox (2009), Coronation Street (2009), Hollyoaks (2011), South Riding (2011), Marchlands (2011), Psychoville (2011), Shameless (2012), Foyle's War (2013), Wizards vs Aliens (2012-13), Utopia (2014), The Passing Bells (2014), Vera (2015), Rough and Ready (2015), Dickensian (2015-16), No Offence (2017), The A Word (2017), Roadkill (2020) and Rules of the Game (2022).
Facts
Jennifer was a member of the St Winifred's School Choir which scored a UK Christmas number one single in 1980 with There's No One Quite Like Grandma (warning: this link may make you ill).

Anna Hope (Novice Hame) Born 1974
Doctor Who credits
Played: Novice Hame in New Earth TARDISode (2006), New Earth (2006), Gridlock (2007)
Career highlights
Anna debuted in Crime and Punishment (2002), then The Long Firm (2004), Love Me Still (2008), Waking the Dead (2011), Coronation Street (2011-12) and Zero Tolerance (2012).
Facts
Anna is now a writer, having written the novels Wake, The Ballroom and Expectation. She was shortlisted for New Writer of the Year in the National Book Awards in 2014. In the Doctor Who world, Anna has also had success with another recurring character: Inspector Patricia Menzies in three Big Finish audio adventures (2008/11). Here's Anna on Twitter.

Daisy Lewis (Javit) Born Dec 31 1984
Career highlights
Daisy debuted in After You've Gone (2007), then took roles in Lewis (2009), Pusher (2012), The Lady Vanishes (2013), Borgia (2013), Sons of Liberty (2015), Pypo (2015) and Churchill's Secret (2016). She also played Sarah Bunting in Downton Abbey (2013-14). Daisy is also a producer, on the shorts Maria (2010), The Door (2011) and Actress (2020, which she also wrote and directed).
Facts
Read an article from The Modern House about how Daisy renovated an 1830s terraced house.

Erika Macleod (Sally Calypso) Born 1976
This is Erika's only screen credit, but she is a stage director based in New York, having performed as Fantine in Les Miserables in the 1990s, and later directing youth theatre productions such as Godspell.
Facts
Her full name is Erika MacLeod Mandell, and in September 2002 she sang God Bless America at the opening of the American Stock Exchange in New York. Her husband Daniel worked for Goldman Sachs in 2001 when the planes hit the Twin Towers; he survived the attack.

Judy Norman (Ma) Sep 5 1949 to Apr 1 2021
Career highlights
Other work included Funny Man (1981), Moving on the Edge (1984), Casualty (1987), No Child of Mine (1997), Holby City (2001), Criminal Justice (2008), Doc Martin (2011), Doctors (2014), Dead Fred (2019) and Skullz (2020).
Facts
Judy worked for five years as a drama writer and director at Guys Marsh Prison in Dorset, and also taught French. Her partner was playwright and screenwriter Sam Snape.

Ardal O'Hanlon (Thomas Kincade Brannigan) Born Oct 8 1965
Career highlights
Ardal's earliest screen appearance was in Moll Flanders in 1996, followed by The Butcher Boy (1997), Greyfriars Bobby (2005), Blessed (2005), Skins (2009), London Irish (2013), Lily's Driftwood Bay (2014), Cucumber (2015), After Hours (2015) and Derry Girls (2019). His breakthrough role was playing Father Dougal McGuire in 25 episodes of the sitcom Father Ted (1995-98), and later George Sunday (aka Thermoman) in 45 episodes of the sitcom My Hero (2000-06) and DI Jack Mooney in Death in Paradise (2017-20). Other prominent roles include voicing Robbie the Reindeer in the animations Hooves of Fire (1999), The Legend of the Lost Tribe (2002) and Close Encounters of the Herd Kind (2007), and playing Eamon Donaghy in Big Bad World (1999-2001) and Dad in Nelly and Nora (2015). In 2006, he wrote and presented the football series Leagues Apart, and has performed stand-up since the 1990s, including on The Stand-Up Show (1995-98), Live at the Apollo (2004) and his 2007 Live in Dublin DVD.
Awards
1995: British Comedy Award for Top TV Comedy Newcomer (Father Ted)
Facts
Ardal's father Rory was a prominent politician in Ireland for over 30 years, being TD (aka MP) for the Cavan-Monaghan constituency between 1977-2011, and holding the posts of parliamentary chairman, minister for the environment, and minister for health at various times. Ardal's paternal grandfather was a member of Michael Collins's Squad, and a member of the IRA. He is also related to Irish-American publisher Peter Fenelon Collier. In 2016, Ardal was a contestant on Celebrity Mastermind, answering questions on his specialist subject of the Velvet Underground (he won). Here's Ardal on Twitter.

Travis Oliver (Milo) Born Mar 19 19??
Career highlights
Belgium-born Travis debuted in the short film Unbelievably British in 2003, then secured the regular role of Jake McQueen in daytime soap Doctors (2003-04) before appearing in North and South (2004), Holby City (2004), The Last Enemy (2008), Hotel Babylon (2008), Me and Orson Welles (2008), Lesbian Vampire Killers (2009), Casualty (2010), Threesome (2011), Cardinal Burns (2012), For the Love of George (2018) and Pennyworth (2019). He also played Oliver Ryan in 22 episodes of Footballers' Wives: Extra Time (2005-06).
Facts
Travis is the face and voice of Doctor Who book companion Chris Cwej in Big Finish's audio adaptations.

Graham Padden (Pa) Born 1962
Career highlights
Debuted in The Professionals (1978), then Target (1978), The History Man (1981), The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady (1984), I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle (1990), EastEnders (1996), Kiss Me Kate (1998), Adventure Inc (2003), Born and Bred (2004), Casanova (2005), Derailed (2005), Casualty (2006), Downton Abbey (2011), Peep Show (2012), The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (2014) and Hurricane (2018).
Facts
His son is actor Thomas Padden.

Simon Pearsall (Whitey) Born 1964
Career highlights
Debuted in The Bill (1994), then Bugs (1996), ChuckleVision (2001), Bernard's Watch (2001), The Basil Brush Show (2003), Footballers' Wives: Extra Time (2005), The Reckoning (2011) and Woodhouse (2013). Regular roles include Jim Lucas in 19 episodes of Out of Sight (1996-98) and Don West in 26 episodes of Grange Hill (2000-02).
Facts
Simon also works as a regular cartoonist with Private Eye (First Drafts), The Spectator and The New Statesman.

Struan Rodger (Voice of the Face of Boe) Born Sep 18 1946
Doctor Who credits
Played: Voice of the Face of Boe in New Earth (2006), Gridlock (2007)
Played: Clayton in The Woman Who Lived (2015)
Played: Voice of the Kasaavin in Spyfall (2020)
Career highlights
Struan's CV stretches right back to Hobson's Choice in 1967, after which he appeared in The Regiment (1972), Look and Read: Joe and the Sheep Rustlers (1973), Warship (1974), Les Miserables (1978), Return of the Saint (1979), Chariots of Fire (1981), Boys from the Blackstuff (1984), Cover Her face (1985), The Detective (1985), Edge of Darkness (1985), Yesterday's Dreams (1987), Imaginary Friends (1987), Game, Set and Match (1988), Who Bombed Birmingham? (1990), Afraid of the Dark (1991), Spender (1993), Prime Suspect 3 (1993), Chandler and Co (1994), Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), The Madness of King George (1994), Richard II (1997), Young Adam (2003), Sea of Souls (2004), Stardust (2007), Moses Jones (2009), The Thick of It (2009), Kill List (2011), Endeavour (2014), Prey (2014), Grantchester (2014), Game of Thrones (2014-15, as the voice of the Three-Eyed Raven), The Enfield Haunting (2015), Shetland (2016), Vera (2017), Save Me (2018), Age Before Beauty (2018), The World We Knew (2020) and A Discovery of Witches (2021).

Gayle Telfer Stevens (Pharmacist) Born 1982
Career highlights
Gayle debuted in Jerry Springer: The Opera (2005), then Casualty (2009), Gary Tank Commander (2012), Waterloo Road (2013), The Crash (2013), Sunshine on Leith (2013), Lovesick (2014), Sketchland (2015) and Scot Squad (2014/18). Since 2018 she has played the part of Caitlin McLean in soap River City.
Facts
Gayle's CV claims her character in Gridlock was actually called Wendy Boatcumin (great name!).

Bridget Turner (Alice Cassini) Feb 22 1939 to Dec 27 2014
Career highlights
Debuted in Thark (1961), then Lorna Doone (1963), The Villains (1964), The Newcomers (1965), The Forsyte Saga (1967), Resurrection (1968), The Walking Stick (1970), Under Milk Wood (1972), Sutherland's Law (1975), Target (1977), Two People (1979), Get Lost! (1981), Love and Marriage (1984), CATS Eyes (1985), Season's Greetings (1986), Boon (1991), Pride and Prejudice (1995), The Thin Blue Line (1995), Peak Practice (2001), Armadillo (2001), The Gathering (2003), Hogfather (2006), The Colour of Magic (2008) and Monroe (2011).
Facts
Bridget was married to Frank Cox, who directed episodes of the Doctor Who stories The Edge of Destruction and The Sensorites in 1964. Bridget was originally offered the role of Sybil Fawlty in the sitcom Fawlty Towers, but turned it down (Prunella Scales got the part). Bridget was godmother to actor Tom Burke.

Natasha Williams (Pharmacist) Born Jul 18 1971
Career highlights
Jamaican born Natasha debuted in Fighting Back (1986), followed by Out of Order (1987), London's Burning (1988), All Good Things (1991), Sister, Sister (1995), Esther (1999), The Fourth Angel (2001), Nighty Night (2004), The Last Detective (2004), Pinochet's Last Stand (2006), Silent Witness (2008), EastEnders (2004-16), Silk (2012), Whitechapel (2013) and It's a Sin (2021). She also regularly played WPC Delia French in 39 episodes of The Bill (1989-92).

CREW

Russell T Davies (writer) Born Apr 27 1963 Click here for Russell T Davies' entry on Rose

Richard Clark (director) Born Aug 21 1947
Doctor Who credits
Directed: Gridlock (2007), The Lazarus Experiment (2007), The Doctor's Wife (2011), Night Terrors (2011)
Career highlights
Richard's earliest directing work was on My Dead Buddy in 1997, after which he found work on Shockers: The Dance (1999), Life on Mars (2007), The Whistleblowers (2007), Whitechapel (2012), Silent Witness (2013), The Musketeers (2014), The Crimson Field (2014), Outlander (2015), Midwinter of the Spirit (2015), Versailles (2018) and War of the Worlds (2019-21).
Awards
2012: Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) (Doctor Who) - shared with Neil Gaiman
Facts
Here he is on Twitter.

Phil Collinson (producer) Born Aug 26 1970 Click here for Phil Collinson's entry on Rose

Simon Winstone (script editor) Born 1973 Click here for Simon Winstone's entry on Attack of the Graske

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