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Bradford
Coordinates: 53°48′00″N 1°45′07″W / 53.8000°N 1.75206°W / 53.8000; -1.75206
Bradford (ⁱ/ˈbrædfəd/) lies at the heart of the City of Bradford, a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, in Northern England. It is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, 8.6 miles (13.8 km) west of Leeds, and 16 miles (25.7 km) northwest of Wakefield. Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897. Following local government reform in 1974, city status was bestowed upon the wider metropolitan borough.
Bradford has a population of 293,717, making it the fourteenth-most populous settlement in the United Kingdom. Bradford forms part of the West Yorkshire Urban Area conurbation which in 2001 had a population of 1.5 million and is part of the Leeds-Bradford Larger Urban Zone (LUZ), the third largest in the UK after London and Manchester, with an estimated population in the 2004 Urban Audit of 2.4 million.
Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Bradford rose to prominence during the 19th century as an international centre of textile manufacture, particularly wool. It was a boomtown of the Industrial Revolution, and amongst the earliest industrialised settlements, rapidly becoming the "wool capital of the world". The area's access to a supply of coal, iron ore and soft water facilitated the growth of Bradford's manufacturing base, which, as textile manufacture grew, led to an explosion in population and was a stimulus to civic investment; Bradford has fine Victorian architecture including the grand Italianate City Hall.

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England
England ⁱ/ˈɪŋɡlənd/ is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, while the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separate it from continental Europe. Most of England comprises the central and southern part of the island of Great Britain in the North Atlantic. The country also includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.
The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Palaeolithic period, but it takes its name from the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in AD 927, and since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century, has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world. The English language, the Anglican Church, and English law—the basis for the common law legal systems of many other countries around the world—developed in England, and the country's parliamentary system of government has been widely adopted by other nations. The Industrial Revolution began in 18th-century England, transforming its society into the world's first industrialised nation. England's Royal Society laid the foundations of modern experimental science.

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MI5
The Security Service, commonly known as MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5), is the United Kingdom's internal counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its core intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6) focused on foreign threats, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and Defence Intelligence (DI). All come under the direction of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC). The service has a statutory basis in the Security Service Act 1989 and the Intelligence Services Act 1994. Its remit includes the protection of British parliamentary democracy and economic interests, counter-terrorism and counter-espionage within the UK. Although mainly concerned with internal security, it does have an overseas role in support of its mission. Conversely, to ensure that the Home Secretary is responsible for intelligence operations within the UK, the Service may act on behalf of SIS and GCHQ^{[citation needed]} even if the operation is outside its own functions (SIS and GCHQ report to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs).

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Yorkshire
Yorkshire (/ˈjɔːkʃə/) is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Due to its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform. Throughout these changes, Yorkshire has continued to be recognised as a geographical territory and cultural region. The name is familiar and well understood across the United Kingdom and is in common use in the media and the military, and also features in the titles of current areas of civil administration, such as North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire. The county's name is commonly abbreviated as Yorks.
Within the borders of the historic county of Yorkshire are areas which are widely considered to be among the greenest in England, due to the vast stretches of unspoiled countryside in the Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors and to the open aspect of some of the major cities. Yorkshire has sometimes been nicknamed God's Own County. The emblem of Yorkshire is the white rose of the English royal House of York, and the most commonly used flag representative of Yorkshire is the White Rose on a dark blue background, which after years of use, was recognised by the Flag Institute on 29 July 2008.Yorkshire Day, held on 1 August, is a celebration of the general culture of Yorkshire, ranging from its history to its own dialect.

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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, film stories and scripts. Huxley spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death.
Aldous Huxley was a humanist, pacifist, and satirist, and he was latterly interested in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism. He is also well known for advocating and taking psychedelics.
By the end of his life Huxley was widely recognized to be one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time and respected as an important researcher into visual communication and sight-related theories as well.
Aldous Huxley was born in Godalming, Surrey, UK, in 1894. He was the third son of the writer and schoolmaster Leonard Huxley and his first wife, Julia Arnold, who founded Prior's Field School. Julia was the niece of poet and critic Matthew Arnold and the sister of Mrs. Humphrey Ward. Aldous was the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, the zoologist, agnostic and controversialist ("Darwin's Bulldog"). His brother Julian Huxley and half-brother Andrew Huxley also became outstanding biologists. Aldous had another brother, Noel Trevelyan (1891–1914), who committed suicide after a period of clinical depression.

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Ben Johnson (actor)
Ben "Son" Johnson, Jr. (June 13, 1918 – April 8, 1996) was an American motion picture actor who was mainly cast in Westerns. He was also a rodeo cowboy, stuntman, and rancher.
Johnson was born in Foraker, Oklahoma, on the Osage Indian Reservation, of Irish and Cherokee ancestry, the son of Ollie Susan (née Workmon) and Ben Johnson, Sr. His father was a rancher in Osage County and also a rodeo champion. As a young man, Johnson was a ranch hand and travelled with his father on the rodeo circuit. He was a star in rodeo before becoming involved in the movies. He was the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association's Team Roping World Champion in 1953. After winning the title, he discovered that, after travel and expenses, he broke even for the year. Johnson was inducted into the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association's ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 1973.
Johnson married Carol Elaine Jones in 1941, and they were married for 53 years until her death on March 27, 1994. The couple had no children. Carol Jones was the daughter of noted Hollywood horse wrangler Clarence "Fat" Jones.

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E. M. Forster
Edward Morgan Forster OM, CH (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect."
Forster was born into an Anglo-Irish and Welsh middle-class family at 6 Melcombe Place, Dorset Square, London NW1, in a building that no longer exists. He was the only child of Alice Clara "Lily" (née Whichelo) and Edward Morgan Llewellyn Forster, an architect. His name was officially registered as Henry Morgan Forster, but at his baptism he was accidentally named Edward Morgan Forster. To distinguish him from his father, he was always called Morgan. His father died of tuberculosis on 30 October 1880, before Morgan's second birthday. Among Forster's ancestors were members of the religious Clapham Sect.

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Edmond O'Brien
Edmond O'Brien (September 10, 1915 – May 9, 1985) was an American actor who is perhaps best remembered for his role in D.O.A. (1950) and his Oscar winning role in The Barefoot Contessa (1954). His many memorable films included The Killers, White Heat, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Wild Bunch.
Born in New York, New York of English and Irish stock, O'Brien made his film debut in 1938, and gradually built a career as a highly regarded supporting actor. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army Air Forces and appeared in the Air Forces' Broadway play and film Winged Victory.
He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a harried publicity agent in The Barefoot Contessa (1954) and was also nominated for his role as an alcoholic U.S. senator in Seven Days in May (1964). Prior to that, O'Brien had an acclaimed role in 1950's D.O.A. as a poisoned man who sets out to find his own murderer before he dies.
His other notable films include The Killers (1946), White Heat (1949), The Girl Can't Help It (1956), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), The Longest Day (1962), Fantastic Voyage (1966), and The Wild Bunch (1969).

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Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz; May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute. He is particularly associated with Ginger Rogers, with whom he made ten films.
Gene Kelly, another major innovator in filmed dance, said that "the history of dance on film begins with Astaire". Beyond film and television, many classical dancers and choreographers, Rudolf Nureyev, Sammy Davis, Jr., Michael Jackson, Gregory Hines, Mikhail Baryshnikov, George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins among them, also acknowledged his importance and influence.
Astaire was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of Johanna "Ann" (née Geilus) and Frederic "Fritz" Austerlitz (born September 8, 1868, as Friedrich Emanuel Austerlitz). Astaire's mother was born in the United States to Lutheran German immigrants from East Prussia and Alsace, while Astaire's father was born in Linz, Austria, to Jewish parents who had converted to Catholicism.

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Fred Hoyle
Sir Fred Hoyle FRS (24 June 1915 – 20 August 2001) was an English astronomer and mathematician noted primarily for his contribution to the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis and his often controversial stance on other cosmological and scientific matters—in particular his rejection of the "Big Bang" theory, a term originally coined by him out of ridicule for the main rival of his own theory. In addition to his work as an astronomer, Hoyle was a writer of science fiction, including a number of books co-written with his son Geoffrey Hoyle. Hoyle spent most of his working life at the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge and served as its director for a number of years. He died in Bournemouth, England, after a series of strokes.
Hoyle was born near Bingley in Gilstead, West Yorkshire, England. His father, Ben Hoyle, worked in the wool trade in Bradford. His mother, Mabel Pickard, had studied music at the Royal College of Music in London. Hoyle was educated at Bingley Grammar School and read mathematics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. In the autumn of 1940, Hoyle left Cambridge to go to Portsmouth to work for the Admiralty on radar research, for example devising a method to get the altitude of the incoming airplanes. Two key colleagues in this war work were Hermann Bondi and Thomas Gold, and the three had many and deep discussions on cosmology.

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George Chakiris
George Chakiris (born September 16, 1934) is a Greek-American dancer, singer and actor.
Chakiris was born in Norwood, Ohio, to Steven and Zoe (née Anastasiadou) Chakiris, immigrants from Greece. Chakiris studied at the American School of Dance.
Chakiris made his film debut in 1947, in the chorus of Song of Love. For several years he appeared in small roles, usually as a dancer or a member of the chorus in various musical films. He was one of the dancers in Marilyn Monroe's "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" number in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), and appeared as a dancer alongside Vera-Ellen and Rosemary Clooney in White Christmas (in the "Mandy" and "Love, You Didn't Do Right by Me" numbers). He can also be seen in the "Chop Suey" number in the musical film Flower Drum Song and the funeral dance in the MGM musical film Brigadoon.
His biggest success came with the film West Side Story (1961), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Bernardo, leader of the "Sharks". Prior to the film, he'd appeared as "Riff," leader of the "Jets," in the West End (London) production of the same musical. He starred as a doctor in the film Diamond Head (1963) opposite Charlton Heston and Yvette Mimieux, and appeared alongside Gene Kelly in Jacques Demy's French musical Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967).

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Gig Young
Gig Young (November 4, 1913 – October 19, 1978) was an American film, stage, and television actor. Known mainly for second leads and supporting roles, Young won an Academy Award for his performance as a dance-marathon emcee in the 1969 film They Shoot Horses, Don't They?.
Born Byron Elsworth Barr in St. Cloud, Minnesota, his parents John and Emma Barr raised him and his older siblings in Washington D.C. He developed a passion for the theatre while appearing in high school plays, and after some amateur experience he applied for and received a scholarship to the acclaimed Pasadena Community Playhouse. While acting in Pancho, a south-of-the-border play by Lowell Barrington, he and the leading actor in the play, George Reeves, were spotted by a Warner Brothers talent scout. Both actors were signed to supporting player contracts with the studio. His early work was uncredited or as Byron Barr (not to be confused with another actor with the same name, Byron Barr), but after appearing in the 1942 film The Gay Sisters as a character named "Gig Young", the studio decided he should adopt this name professionally.

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Harry Pearce
Sir Henry James "Harry" Pearce KBE (born 1 November 1953) is the fictional head of the Counter-Terrorism department ("Section D") of MI5, featured in the British television series, Spooks. Pearce has been played by Peter Firth since the series began in 2002.
After attending the University of Oxford, Pearce went to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst before joining the Light Blue Dragoons. Upon leaving the army, he joined MI5, where he completed his training in June 1977. 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, until his close colleague Bill Crombie was kidnapped and killed in August 1978. Pearce was then seconded to the Secret Intelligence Service (aka MI6), where he was stationed in Paris, under Juliet Shaw. During this time he worked in Iran, where he had an affair with Shaw. His wife Jane's discomfort in Paris led the couple to move to Cologne before the end of February 1979. In Cologne, he worked against the left-wing terrorists the Red Army Faction, and undertook a black op with only C's knowledge, before his secondment ended in November 1979.

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Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding (Sharpham, 22 April 1707 – near Lisbon, 8 October 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the novel Tom Jones.
Aside from his literary achievements, he has a significant place in the history of law-enforcement, having founded (with his half-brother John) what some have called London's first police force, the Bow Street Runners, using his authority as a magistrate. His younger sister, Sarah, also became a successful writer.
Fielding married his first wife, Charlotte Craddock, in 1734. She died in 1744. In 1747 he married his wife's former maid, Mary Daniel. She was pregnant at the time of their marriage. Mary bore five children, three of whom died young.
Fielding was educated at Eton College, where he established a lifelong friendship with William Pitt the Elder. After a romantic episode with a young woman that ended in his getting into trouble with the law, he went to London where his literary career began. In 1728, he travelled to Leiden to study classics and law at the University. However, due to lack of money, he was obliged to return to London and he began writing for the theatre, some of his work being savagely critical of the contemporary government under Sir Robert Walpole.

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Irish people
The Irish people (Irish: Muintir na hÉireann or na hÉireannaigh; Ulster-Scots: Airisch or Airish fowk) are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years (according to archaeological studies, see Prehistoric Ireland). The Irish people's earliest ancestors are recorded in legends – they are claimed to be descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha Dé Danann and the Milesians.Lebor Gabála Érenn, a book of Irish mythology tells that Tuatha Dé Dananns were Scythian descendants.
The main groups that interacted with the Irish in the Middle Ages include the Picts, Scots, and the Vikings. Due to this contact, Icelanders are noted for having some Irish descent. The Anglo-Norman invasion of the High Middle Ages, the English plantations and the subsequent English rule of the country introduced the Normans and Flemish into Ireland. Welsh, Picts, Bretons, and small parties of Gauls and even Anglo-Saxons are known in Ireland from much earlier times.

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John Houseman
John Houseman (born Jacques Haussmann; September 22, 1902 – October 31, 1988) was a Romanian-born British-American actor and film producer who became known for his highly publicized collaboration with director Orson Welles from their days in the Federal Theatre Project through to the production of Citizen Kane. He is perhaps best known for his role as Professor Charles Kingsfield in the 1973 film The Paper Chase, for which he won a best supporting actor Oscar. He reprised his role as Kingsfield in the subsequent TV series adaptation of The Paper Chase. Houseman was also known for his commercials for the brokerage firm Smith Barney. He had a distinctive Mid-Atlantic English accent, in common with many actors of his generation.
Houseman was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1902, the son of May (née Davies) and Georges Haussmann, who ran a grain business. His mother was British, from a Christian family of Welsh and Irish descent. His father was an Alsatian-born Jew. He was educated in England at Clifton College, became a British citizen and worked in the grain trade in London before emigrating to the United States in 1925, where he took the stage name of John Houseman. He became a U.S. citizen in 1943. Houseman died of spinal cancer in 1988 at his home in Malibu, California, at age 86.

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John Huston
John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote the screenplay for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Key Largo (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen (1951), Moulin Rouge (1952), The Misfits (1961), and The Man Who Would Be King (1975). During his 46-year career, Huston received 15 Oscar nominations, winning twice, and directed both his father, Walter Huston, and daughter, Anjelica Huston, to Oscar wins in different films.
Huston was known to direct with the vision of an artist, having studied and worked as a fine art painter in Paris in his early years. He continued to explore the visual aspects of his films throughout his career: sketching each scene on paper beforehand, then carefully framing his characters during the shooting. In addition, while most directors rely on post-production editing to shape their final work, Huston instead created his films while they were being shot, making his films both more economical and more cerebral, with little editing needed.

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John Mills
Sir John Mills CBE (22 February 1908 – 23 April 2005), born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills, was an English actor who made more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades.
Mills was born at the Watts Naval School in North Elmham, Norfolk, England, and grew up in Belton, where his father was the headmaster of the village school and in Felixstowe, Suffolk, where he lived in a modest house in Ham's Road. He was educated at Norwich High School for Boys, where it is said that his initials can still be seen carved into the brickwork on the side of the building in Upper St. Giles Street. He made his acting debut on the stage of the Sir John Leman School in Beccles in a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream when he played the part of Puck.^{[citation needed]} Upon leaving school he worked as a clerk at a corn merchants in Ipswich.
Mills took an early interest in acting, making his professional debut at the London Hippodrome in The Five O'Clock Girl in 1929. He also starred in the Noël Coward revue Words and Music. He made his film debut in The Midshipmaid (1932), and appeared as Colley in the 1939 film version of Goodbye, Mr Chips, opposite Robert Donat.

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Laurence Olivier
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM ( /ˈlɒrəns ɵˈlɪvi.eɪ/; 22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor, director, and producer. One of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century, he was the youngest actor to be knighted and the first to be elevated to the peerage. He married three times, to actresses Jill Esmond, Vivien Leigh, and Joan Plowright. Actor Spencer Tracy said that Olivier was 'the greatest actor in the English-speaking world'.
Olivier played a wide variety of roles on stage and screen from Greek tragedy, Shakespeare and Restoration comedy to modern American and British drama. He was the first artistic director of the National Theatre of Great Britain and its main stage is named in his honour. He is regarded by some to be the greatest actor of the 20th century, in the same category as David Garrick, Richard Burbage, Edmund Kean and Henry Irving in their own centuries. Olivier's AMPAS acknowledgments are considerable: twelve Oscar nominations, with two awards (for Best Actor and Best Picture for the 1948 film Hamlet), plus two honorary awards including a statuette and certificate. He was also awarded five Emmy awards from the nine nominations he received. Additionally, he was a three-time Golden Globe and BAFTA winner.

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Miranda Raison
Miranda Caroline Raison (born November 18, 1980) is an English actress.
Born in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, her father Nick Raison is a jazz pianist and artist, while her mother Caroline Raison read the news for Anglia Television. She has two brothers and two sisters: Ed (who is a member of the Lost Levels), Rosie, Sam and May. Her parents divorced when she was five years old, and her father remarried and lives in Suffolk. She attended several boarding schools including Gresham's School and Stowe School.
Raison trained at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.
She is best known for her role as Jo Portman in the BBC One television drama series Spooks in which she appeared between 2005 and 2010.
In April 2007, she appeared in Doctor Who, Daleks in Manhattan and Evolution of the Daleks. Her character Tallulah was a show girl, whose opening scene was on stage dancing and singing to a musical number—her father, Nick Raison, played the piano background as part of the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra. She was a guest on the second series of Totally Doctor Who in episode 4.

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Niamh Cusack
Niamh Cusack ( /ˈniːv/ NEEV; born 20 October 1959, Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish actress. The daughter of late Irish actor Cyril Cusack, she is the sister of Sinéad Cusack and Sorcha Cusack, and half sister of Catherine Cusack. She has two brothers, Paul Cusack, a television producer and Pádraig Cusack, Producer for the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain. Cusack came to the wider public's attention when she starred as Dr Kate Rowan in the popular television drama series Heartbeat (1992–1995). Cusack's husband is actor Finbar Lynch; they have a son, Calam.
Other television acting credits include Always and Everyone (1999–2002), a British accident and emergency medical series; the miniseries State of Mind; and the small but important role of Beatrix Potter in the TV series The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends (1992–1995). She played Wodehouse's Bobbie Wickham in the ITV series Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993). She played a character in an Agatha Christie's Marple series ("Agatha Christie Marple: 4.50 from Paddington"; 2004), and has starred in episodes of Midsomer Murders (2008) and A Touch of Frost (2009), and the film The Closer You Get (2000) alongside Sean McGinley.

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Omar Sharif
Omar Sharif (Arabic: عمر الشريف‎, Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [ˈʕomɑɾˤ eʃʃɪˈɾiːf]; born Michel Demitri Shalhoub, [ˈmɑjkel dɪˈmitɾi ʃælˈhuːb]; April 10, 1932) is an Egyptian actor who has starred in Hollywood films including Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and Funny Girl. He has been nominated for an Academy Award and has won two Golden Globe Awards.
Omar Sharif was born Michel Dimitri Shalhoub in Alexandria into a Catholic Lebanese family. Sharif graduated from Victoria College, where he was classmates with Edward W. Said. Sharif later graduated from Cairo University with degrees in both mathematics and physics.
In 1953, Sharif began his acting career with a role in Sira` Fi al-Wadi. He quickly rose to stardom, appearing in over 20 Egyptian productions including Ayyamna el helwa with singer Abdel Halim Hafez, La anam in 1958, Sayedat el kasr in 1959 and the Anna Karenina adaptation Nahr el hub in 1961. He also starred with his wife, Egyptian actress Faten Hamama, in several movies as romantic leads.

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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment, followed by his early death.
Wilde's parents were successful Dublin intellectuals. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford. He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States of America and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art", and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress, and glittering conversation, Wilde had become one of the most well-known personalities of his day.

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Peter Firth
Peter Firth (born 27 October 1953) is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Sir Harry Pearce in the BBC show Spooks, of which he is the only actor to have starred in every episode of the show's 10 series lifespan. He is also known for playing a variety of starring roles in film and on television from the 1970s to the 2000s.
Firth was a leading child actor by mid-1970, starring in The Flaxton Boys as Archie Weekes and the Here Come the Double Deckers series, which featured child actors in the leading roles. Firth played Scooper, the leader of the gang.
In July 1973, he appeared at Laurence Olivier's National Theatre, starring in the stage version of Peter Shaffer's play Equus, playing a teenager being treated by a psychiatrist, and in October 1974 repeated the role in the Broadway production, receiving a Tony Award nomination for his performance as Alan Strang.
His first major role as an adult was in the title role in a 1976 BBC Television Play of the Month adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. The adaptation was based on a stage adaptation by John Osborne and also starred Jeremy Brett and John Gielgud. That same year saw the release of the World War I film Aces High which featured Firth as the inexperienced RFC pilot Lt. Stephen Croft.

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Richard Attenborough
Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough ( /ˈætənbərə/), CBE (born 29 August 1923) is an English actor, director, producer and entrepreneur. He is the current President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).
As a film director and producer, he won two Academy Awards for Gandhi in 1982. He has also won four BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. As an actor he is perhaps best known for his roles in Brighton Rock, The Great Escape, 10 Rillington Place, Miracle on 34th Street and Jurassic Park.
He is the elder brother of naturalist and broadcaster David Attenborough.
Attenborough was born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, the eldest of three sons of Mary Attenborough (née Clegg) a founding member of the Marriage Guidance Council, and Frederick Levi Attenborough, a scholar and academic administrator who was a don at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and wrote a standard text on Anglo-Saxon law. Attenborough was educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys in Leicester and at RADA. During the Second World War Attenborough served in the Royal Air Force.

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Richard Benjamin
Richard Benjamin (born May 22, 1938) is an American actor and film director. He has starred in a number of productions, including Goodbye, Columbus (1969), based on the novella by Philip Roth, and Westworld (1973), and directed, among other films, the 1982 film My Favorite Year.
Benjamin was born in New York City, New York, the son of a garment industry worker. He attended the High School of Performing Arts and graduated from Northwestern University, where he was involved in many plays and studied in the Northwestern theater school.
He married actress Paula Prentiss on October 26, 1961; and they have two children. They appeared together in the short-lived television series He & She (1967–68) and the film Catch-22 (1970). In 1978, he starred in the ambitious, but short-lived, television series Quark.
Benjamin starred in Goodbye, Columbus (1969), based on the novella by Philip Roth. After appearing with a star-studded cast in the Mike Nichols film (1970) version of another best-seller, Catch-22, he starred in Diary of a Mad Housewife, The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker, and yet another film based on a famous Roth novel, Portnoy's Complaint (1972), in the title role.

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Richard Burton
Richard Burton, CBE (10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor. He was nominated seven times for an Academy Award, six of which were for Best Actor in a Leading Role (without ever winning), and was a recipient of BAFTA, Golden Globe and Tony Awards for Best Actor. Although never trained as an actor, Burton was, at one time, the highest-paid actor in Hollywood. He remains closely associated in the public consciousness with his second wife, actress Elizabeth Taylor; the couple's turbulent relationship was rarely out of the news.
Richard Burton was born Richard Walter Jenkins in the village of Pontrhydyfen, Neath Port Talbot, Wales. He grew up in a working class, Welsh-speaking household, the twelfth of thirteen children. His father, Richard Walter Jenkins, was a short, robust coal miner, a "twelve-pints-a-day man" who sometimes went off on drinking and gambling sprees for weeks. Burton later claimed, by family telling, that "He looked very much like me...That is, he was pockmarked, devious, and smiled a great deal when he was in trouble. He was, also, a man of extraordinary eloquence, tremendous passion, great violence."

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Robert McCrum
John Robert McCrum (born 7 July 1953), is an English writer and editor. He served as literary editor of The Observer for more than ten years. In May 2008 he was appointed Associate Editor of the Observer and was succeeded as literary editor by William Skidelsky. He was formerly editor-in-chief at Faber & Faber from 1990 to 1996.
McCrum was educated at Sherborne School, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (MA) and the University of Pennsylvania as a Thouron Scholar and he was then editorial director at Faber & Faber from 1979 to 1989. He writes regular reviews and is also co-author of The Story of English (McCrum, Robert, William Cran, and Robert MacNeil. New York: Elisabeth Sifton, 1986) and P. G. Wodehouse: A Life (McCrum, Robert, W. W. Norton & Company, 2004).
In 1995 McCrum suffered a massive stroke. The devastating experience and his recovery is chronicled in My Year Off. He had only been married for two months and the book includes diary entries made by his wife, the journalist Sarah Lyall.

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Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski (born 18 August 1933) is a French-Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few "truly international filmmakers." Polanski's films have inspired diverse directors, including the Coen brothers,Atom Egoyan,Darren Aronofsky,Park Chan-wook,Abel Ferrara, and Wes Craven.
Born in Paris to Polish parents, he moved with his family back to Poland in 1937, shortly before the outbreak of World War II. He survived the Holocaust and was educated in Poland and became a director of both art house and commercial films. Polanski's first feature-length film, Knife in the Water (1962), made in Poland, was nominated for a United States Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film but was beaten by Federico Fellini's 8½. He has since received five more Oscar nominations, along with two Baftas, four Césars, a Golden Globe Award and the Palme d'Or of the Cannes Film Festival in France. In the United Kingdom he directed three films, beginning with Repulsion (1965). In 1968 he moved to the United States, and cemented his status by directing the Oscar-winning horror film Rosemary's Baby (1968).

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Sebastian Faulks
Sebastian Charles Faulks CBE (born 20 April 1953) is a British novelist, journalist and broadcaster. He is best known for his historical novels set in France, The Girl at the Lion d'Or, Birdsong, and Charlotte Gray. He has also published novels with a contemporary setting (most recently A Week In December (2009)), and a James Bond sequel, Devil May Care. He is a team captain on BBC Radio 4 literary quiz The Write Stuff.
Faulks was born on 20 April 1953 in Donnington, Berkshire to Peter Faulks and Pamela (née Lawless). His father was a decorated soldier (he won the Military Cross), who later became a solicitor and judge. His brother Edward Faulks, Baron Faulks is a QC. He was educated at Elstree School, Reading and went on to Wellington College, Berkshire. He studied English at Emmanuel College, Cambridge where he was made an Honorary Fellow in 2007.
After graduating, Faulks lived in France for a year. When he returned to England he worked as a teacher at a private school in Camden Town, and then as a journalist. Faulks' first novel, A Trick of the Light, was published in 1984. He continued to work as a journalist, becoming the first literary editor of The Independent in 1986. He became deputy editor of the Independent on Sunday in 1989; in the same year he published The Girl at the Lion D'or, the first of his historical novels set in France. In 1991 he left The Independent, and wrote for various other papers.

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Stephen Hawking
Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (born 8 January 1942) is a British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author. His key scientific works to date have included providing, with Roger Penrose, theorems regarding gravitational singularities in the framework of general relativity, and the theoretical prediction that black holes should emit radiation, which is today known as Hawking radiation (or sometimes as Bekenstein–Hawking radiation).
He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a lifetime member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and in 2009 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States. Hawking was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge between 1979 and 2009. Subsequently, he became research director at the university's Centre for Theoretical Cosmology.
Hawking has a motor neurone disease related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a condition that has progressed over the years. He is now almost completely paralysed and communicates through a speech generating device. He has been married twice and has three children. Hawking has achieved success with works of popular science in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in general; these include A Brief History of Time, which stayed on the British Sunday Times best-sellers list for a record-breaking 237 weeks.

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Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. While his works typically belong to the Naturalism movement, several poems display elements of the previous Romantic and Enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural. While he regarded himself primarily as a poet who composed novels mainly for financial gain, he became and continues to be widely regarded for his novels, such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd. The bulk of his fictional works, initially published as serials in magazines, were set in the semi-fictional county of Wessex (based on the Dorchester region where he grew up) and explored tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances.
Hardy's poetry, first published in his fifties, has come to be as well regarded as his novels and has had a significant influence over modern English poetry, especially after The Movement poets of the 1950s and 1960s cited Hardy as a major figure.

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Tim Curry
Timothy James "Tim" Curry (born 19 April 1946) is a British actor, singer, composer and voice actor, known for his work in a diverse range of theatre, film and television productions. Curry first became known to film audiences with his breakthrough role as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the 1975 cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show, reprising the role he played in the 1973 London and 1974 Los Angeles stage productions of The Rocky Horror Show, then later for his supporting roles as Rooster in the film adaption of Annie (1982), Lord of Darkness in the film Legend (1985), Wadsworth in the film Clue (1985), as well as a starring role portraying Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the horror film It (1990).
He voiced Nigel Thornberry, the father in the Nickelodeon children's TV show The Wild Thornberrys. He originated the role of King Arthur in the Broadway hit Monty Python's Spamalot. He is notable for often playing or voicing villainous characters in film. Curry resides in Beverly Hills, California and London.

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Walter Matthau
Walter Matthau (October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000) was an American actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple and his frequent collaborations with Odd Couple star Jack Lemmon, as well as his role as Coach Buttermaker in the 1976 comedy The Bad News Bears. He won an Academy Award for his performance in the 1966 Billy Wilder film The Fortune Cookie.
Matthau was born Walter John Matthow in New York City's Lower East Side on October 1, 1920, the son of Rose (née Berolsky; from Lithuania), who worked in a sweatshop, and Milton Matthow, an electrician and peddler (from Russia), both Jewish immigrants. His surname has often incorrectly been listed as Matuschanskayasky (see below for a detailed discussion). As a young boy, Walter attended a Jewish non-profit sleepaway camp, Tranquillity Camp, where he first began acting in the shows the camp would stage on Saturday nights. He also attended Surprise Lake Camp. His high school was Seward Park High School.
During World War II, Matthau served in the U.S. Army Air Forces with the Eighth Air Force in England as a B-24 Liberator radioman-gunner, in the same 453rd Bombardment Group as James Stewart. He reached the rank of staff sergeant and became interested in acting. He took classes in acting at the Dramatic Workshop of The New School in New York with the influential German director Erwin Piscator. He often joked that his best early review came in a play where he posed as a derelict. One reviewer said, "The others just looked like actors in make-up, Walter Matthau really looks like a skid row bum!" Matthau was a respected stage actor for years in such fare as Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? and A Shot in the Dark. He won the 1962 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a play.

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Clinton accepts Benghazi findings

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For the bishop of Malmesbury, see Peter Firth (bishop).

Peter Firth
Firth at the 2009 BAFTA Awards ceremony, with fellow Spooks cast member, Miranda Raison.
Born	(1953-10-27) 27 October 1953 (age 58) Bradford, Yorkshire, England.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1969–present

Peter Firth (born 27 October 1953) is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Sir Harry Pearce in the BBC show Spooks, of which he is the only actor to have starred in every episode of the show's 10 series lifespan. He is also known for playing a variety of starring roles in film and on television from the 1970s to the 2000s.^[1]

1 Early career
2 Film
3 Television
4 Audiobooks
5 Personal life
6 Selected filmography
7 References
8 External links

Early career [link]

Firth was a leading child actor by mid-1970, starring in The Flaxton Boys as Archie Weekes and the Here Come the Double Deckers series, which featured child actors in the leading roles. Firth played Scooper, the leader of the gang.

In July 1973, he appeared at Laurence Olivier's National Theatre,^[2] starring in the stage version of Peter Shaffer's play Equus, playing a teenager being treated by a psychiatrist, and in October 1974 repeated the role in the Broadway production, receiving a Tony Award nomination for his performance as Alan Strang.

His first major role as an adult was in the title role in a 1976 BBC Television Play of the Month adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. The adaptation was based on a stage adaptation by John Osborne and also starred Jeremy Brett and John Gielgud. That same year saw the release of the World War I film Aces High which featured Firth as the inexperienced RFC pilot Lt. Stephen Croft.

Firth played the lead role in the unsuccessful film adaptation of Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews (1977). That same year, he starred in the film adaptation of Equus, with Richard Burton. The film was only a moderate box office success, but earned Firth a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and a Golden Globe award in the same category. Further film work quickly followed, most notably Roman Polanski's Tess (1979).

In May 1981, he appeared on Broadway again in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart replacing Tim Curry. Shaffer had offered him the role in the original London production, but he was unavailable due to film commitments.

Film [link]

Other film work has included roles in Diamonds on Wheels (1973); When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? (1979); Lifeforce (1985); Letter to Brezhnev (1985); Northanger Abbey (1986), playing Henry Tilney; The Hunt for Red October (1990); White Angel (1993), playing mild mannered dentist Leslie Steckler; Amistad (1997); Pearl Harbor (2001); and The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005), playing Lord Northcliffe).^[1]

Television [link]

In parallel to his film career, Firth has continued to appear in various television productions, with several notable credits in various high-profile dramas. He starred in two science-fiction episodes of the BBC's Play for Today anthology series as the eponymous time traveller in the romantic The Flipside of Dominick Hide (1980), and its sequel, Another Flip for Dominick (1982). In 1994, in the First Season of Heartbeat, he played Dr. Radcliffe who partnered with Dr. Rowan (Niamh Cusack) in Whitby. He also portrayed the Emperor Vespasian in "The Jewish Revolt" episode of the BBC series Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire.

For several years he had played senior MI5 officer Harry Pearce in the BBC's popular spy drama series Spooks (2002–2011), and played Fred Hoyle in Hawking, a BBC dramatisation of the early career of Stephen Hawking. He was also Snaith in the 3 part series South Riding in 2011. Firth has also appeared on American and Canadian television, on programmes such as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Total Recall 2070, as well as in television films such as The Incident starring Walter Matthau.

Audiobooks [link]

Firth is also a narrator of audio books. He has been responsible for performances reading Pat Barker's Regeneration, The Ghost Road and The Eye in the Door, Suspicion by Robert McCrum, Maurice by E. M. Forster, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Sebastian Faulks' Birdsong and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

Personal life [link]

Firth was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, the son of publicans Mavis (née Hudson) and Eric Macintosh Firth, who also had a daughter.^[3]

He has been married twice: to the Irish dancer Maya, who later had an affair and resultant son born with Jason Dawes, the son of Diana Dors;^[4] and actress Lindsey Readman (1990 - ?) with whom he has four children.

On 17 July 2009, he was awarded an Honorary degree by the University of Bradford as a Doctor of Letters for his services to acting, having been nominated by the School of Computing, Informatics & Media; he received his award during the school's degree ceremony.^[5]

Selected filmography [link]

Diamonds on Wheels (1973)
King Arthur, the Young Warlord (1975)
Aces High (1976)
Joseph Andrews (1977)
Equus (1977)
When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? (1979)
Tess (1979)
Fire and Sword (1982)
Born of Fire (1983)
Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1984)
White Elephant (1984)
Lifeforce (1985)
Letter to Brezhnev (1985)
A State of Emergency (1986)
Prisoner of Rio (1988)
Tree of Hands (1989)
The Rescuers Down Under (1990)
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
The Pleasure Principle (1992)
El marido perfecto (1993)
Shadowlands (1993)
White Angel (1994)
An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
Merisairas (1996)
Marco Polo: The Missing Chapter (1996)
Gaston's War (1997)
Amistad (1997)
Mighty Joe Young (1998)
Chill Factor (1999)
Pearl Harbor (2001)
The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)

References [link]

^ ^a ^b Peter Firth at the Internet Movie Database
^ "National Theatre: 1970s". Rob Wilton Theatricalia. http://www.phyllis.demon.co.uk/theatricalia/05nt/nt70s.htm. Retrieved 2012-01-27.
^ "Peter Firth Biography (1953–)". Film Reference Library. http://www.filmreference.com/film/41/Peter-Firth.html. Retrieved 2012-01-27.
^ "Diana's Demons". Daily Mail (London: Mail Online). 5 May 2004. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-298859/Dianas-demons.html. Retrieved 2012-01-27.
^ "Honorary graduations at the University of Bradford". University of Bradford. http://www.brad.ac.uk/mediacentre/press-releases/Title-3614-en.php. Retrieved 17 July 2009.

External links [link]

Peter Firth at the Internet Movie Database
Peter Firth at the Internet Broadway Database
Peter Firth at AllRovi
Peter Firth at Yahoo! Movies

v t e Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture (1961–1980)

George Chakiris (1961) Omar Sharif (1962) John Huston (1963) Edmond O'Brien (1964) Oskar Werner (1965) Richard Attenborough (1966) Richard Attenborough (1967) Daniel Massey (1968) Gig Young (1969) John Mills (1970) Ben Johnson (1971) Joel Grey (1972) John Houseman (1973) Fred Astaire (1974) Richard Benjamin (1975) Laurence Olivier (1976) Peter Firth (1977) John Hurt (1978) Melvyn Douglas/Robert Duvall (1979) Timothy Hutton (1980)

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Matthew Macfadyen
Macfadyen in London, 2007
Born	(1974-10-17) 17 October 1974 (age 37) Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Occupation	Actor
Spouse	Keeley Hawes (2004–present)

David Matthew Macfadyen (born 17 October 1974) is an English actor, known for his role as MI5 intelligence officer Tom Quinn in the BBC television drama series Spooks (also known as MI-5) and for starring as Fitzwilliam Darcy in Pride and Prejudice.

1 Early life
2 Career
3 Personal life
4 Theatre
5 Filmography
6 References
7 External links

Early life [link]

Macfadyen was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, the son of Meinir (née Owen), a drama teacher and former actress, and Martin Macfadyen, an oil worker.^[1]^[2] His paternal grandparents were Scottish and his maternal grandparents were natives of Wales.^[1]^[3] Macfadyen was brought up in several locations, including Jakarta, Indonesia, because of his father's profession.^[1] He attended schools in England (including in Louth, Lincolnshire), Scotland and Indonesia, and went to Oakham School in Rutland, before being accepted to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art at age 17.

Career [link]

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After having studied at the RADA from 1992 to 1995, Macfadyen quickly became a well-known actor in British theatre due primarily to his work with the stage company Cheek by Jowl, for whom he played Antonio in The Duchess of Malfi, Charles Surface in The School for Scandal, and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. His Benedick was particularly memorable, played as an officer-class buffoon with a moustache and a braying laugh. In 2005, he played to further great acclaim the part of Prince Hal in Henry IV, Parts One and Two at the Royal National Theatre, with Michael Gambon in the role of Falstaff. In 2007, he returned to the stage, portraying an American, Clay, a stay at home father with a liberal attitude in the play The Pain and the Itch.

Macfadyen's major TV breakthrough came when he appeared as Hareton Earnshaw in a television adaptation of the Emily Brontë novel Wuthering Heights, screened on the ITV network in 1998. Further television drama work followed, including starring roles in the dramas Warriors (1999) and The Way We Live Now (2001), both for the BBC. Also in 2001, he earned much critical acclaim for his starring role in the BBC Two drama serial Perfect Strangers, which was written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff. In 2002, he starred in The Project, a BBC drama charting New Labour's rise to power, and he took his highest-profile role to date, when he was picked to star in Spooks, which went on to become a huge popular and critical success when screened on BBC One. A longer second season was screened in 2003, and a third season was broadcast in the autumn of 2004, with him leaving the series in the second episode. The series also found a following on cable television in the United States, where it aired as MI-5 on the A&E Network. In 2007 he appeared in the one-off Channel 4 drama Secret Life, which dealt with the controversial subject of paedophilia.^[4] Matthew was nominated and subsequently won the 'Best Actor' award at the Royal Television Society 2007 Awards for this part, and has been nominated for a BAFTA. He also appeared in a short sketch for Comic Relief as the groom in Mr Bean's Wedding, alongside Rowan Atkinson and Michelle Ryan.

Macfadyen has appeared in several films including Enigma (released in 2001), in which he was cast as a battle-scarred submarine commander, and In My Father's Den, for which he received the New Zealand Screen Award for Best Actor. Most notably, he stars as the romantic lead Fitzwilliam Darcy in a highly acclaimed adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, released in the UK in September 2005. He starred in Frank Oz's Death at a Funeral with Rupert Graves, Alan Tudyk, Daisy Donovan and Keeley Hawes.

Matthew also starred in Incendiary, based on Chris Cleave's novel about a woman whose life is torn apart when her husband and infant son are killed in a suicide bombing at a football match whilst she was committing adultery. He played a senior anti-terrorist police officer alongside Michelle Williams and Ewan McGregor. He has also appeared in Ron Howard's film Frost/Nixon, in which he played John Birt.

In 2008, he acted as the male lead Arthur Clennam in the BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit. In 2009 Macfadyen appeared alongside Academy Award nominated actress Helena Bonham Carter in the BBC Four movie Enid, based on the life of Enid Blyton, as Hugh Pollock, Blyton's publisher and first husband.

In 2010, he played The Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood. He also starred as Prior Philip in the TV miniseries The Pillars of the Earth, and was the middle-aged Logan Mountstuart in Any Human Heart.

In 2011 Macfadyen made a returning appearance in the BBC show Spooks, but did not quote his name as Tom Quinn.

In June, 2010 Macfadyen won a British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in Criminal Justice.

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In 2002, he began a relationship with his married Spooks co-star Keeley Hawes. They were married on 8 October 2004. Their first child, daughter Maggie, was born in December 2004. The couple announced the birth of a baby boy, Ralph, in September 2006. Macfadyen is stepfather to Keeley Hawes's son, Myles.

Theatre [link]

1994 : The Crimson Island, by Mikhail Bulgakov [ R.A.D.A. ] (Dymogatsky)^[5]
1994 : Lorca's Death, by Ben Benison [ R.A.D.A. ] (Rafael/Intellect)^[6]
1994 : The Feigned Inconstancy, by Marivaux [ R.A.D.A. ] (Chevalier)^[7]
1994 : The Beggar's Opera, by John Gay [ R.A.D.A. ] (Macheath)^[8]
1995 : One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Dale Wasserman [ R.A.D.A. ] (Chief Bromden)^[9]
1995 : The Libertine, by Stephen Jeffreys [ R.A.D.A. ] (John Wilmot), with My Funny Valentine
1995 : The Duchess of Malfi, by John Webster [ Cheek by Jowl ] (Antonio Bologna)^[10]
1996 : A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Shakespeare [ Royal Shakespeare Company ] (Demetrius)^[11]
1998 : Much Ado About Nothing, by Shakespeare [ Cheek by Jowl ] (Benedick)^[12]
1998 : The School for Scandal, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan [ Royal Shakespeare Company ] (Charles Surface)^[13]
1999 : Battle Royal, by Nick Stafford [ Royal National Theatre ] (Mr. Brougham)^[14]
2005 : Henry IV, by Shakespeare [ Royal National Theatre ] (Prince Hal)^[15]
2006 : Total Eclipse, by Christopher Hampton [ rehearsed reading at the Royal Court Theatre ] (Paul Verlaine)^[16]
2007 : The Pain and the Itch, by Bruce Norris [ Royal Court Theatre ] (Clay)^[17]
2010 : Private Lives, by Noël Coward [ Vaudeville Theatre ] (opposite Kim Cattrall)^[18]

Filmography [link]

Television [link]

1997 : Holding the Baby, by Paul Jackson (Marcus) [ TV series on ITV ]^[19]
1998 : Wuthering Heights, by David Skynner (Hareton Earnshaw) [ ITV ] – based on the novel by Emily Brontë^[20]
1999 : Warriors, by Peter Kosminsky (Alan James) [ BBC ]^[21]
2000 : Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes, by Paul Seed (Brian Waller) [ BBC ]^[22]
2001 : Perfect Strangers, by Stephen Poliakoff (Daniel Symon) [ BBC Two ]^[23]
2001 : The Way We Live Now, by David Yates (Sir Felix Carbury) [ BBC ] – based on the novel by Anthony Trollope^[24]
2002 : The Project, by Peter Kosminsky (Paul Tibbenham) [ BBC ]^[25]^[26]
2002–2004,: Spooks (Tom Quinn) [ BBC ]^[27]
2007 : Mr Bean's Wedding (Daniel, the groom) [ sketch for the show The Big One for Comic Relief's Red Nose Day on 16 March 2007, BBC One ]^[28]
2007 : Secret Life, by Rowan Joffe (Charlie Webb) [ Channel 4 ]^[29]
2008 : Ashes to Ashes, by Bille Eltringham (Gil Hollis) [ BBC One ]^[30]
2008 : Little Dorrit, by Adam Smith & Dearbhla Walsh (Arthur Clennam) [ BBC One ]^[31]
2008 : A Pocket Full of Rye, by Charles Palmer (Inspector Neele) [ ITV ]^[32]
2009 : Enid Blyton, by James Hawes (Hugh Pollock) [ BBC Four ]^[33]
2009 : Criminal Justice II, by Yann Demange (Joe Miller) [ BBC One ]^[34]
2010 : The Pillars of the Earth, by Sergio Mimica-Gezzan (Prior Philip) [ CBC ]^[35]
2010 : Any Human Heart, by William Boyd (Logan Mountstuart) [ Channel Four ]^[36]
2011 : Spooks, a one off appearance in the series finale.

Film [link]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Maybe Baby	Nigel
2001	Enigma	Lt. Cave
2003	The Reckoning	King's Justice
2004	In My Father's Den	Paul Prior
2005	Pride & Prejudice	Mr. Darcy	Nominated – London Film Critics Circle Award for Best British Newcomer of the Year
2006	Middletown	Gabriel Hunter
2007	Grindhouse	Eye Gouging Victim	Segment: Don't
2007	Death at a Funeral	Daniel Howells
2008	Incendiary	Terence Butcher
2008	Frost/Nixon	John Birt	Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2010	Robin Hood	Sheriff of Nottingham
2011	The Three Musketeers	Athos
2012	Anna Karenina	Oblonsky

Voice work [link]

2000 : The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin [ Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4 ] (reader)^[37]
2001 : Trampoline, by Meredith Oakes [ Afternoon Play on BBC Radio 4 ] (Skeggs)^[38]
2003 : Essential Poems (To Fall In Love With) [ TV programme on BBC Two ] (actor/reader)^[39]
2004 : The Coma, by Alex Garland [ audio book ] (reader)^[40]
2004 : Getting Away From It: The Island, by Tim Pears [ Afternoon Reading on BBC Radio 4 ] (reader)^[41]
2004 : The Hungerford Massacre [ TV documentary on BBC One ] (narrator)^[42]
2005 : Stories We Could Tell, by Tony Parsons [ audio book ] (reader)^[43]
2006 : The 9/11 Liars [ TV documentary on Channel 4 ] (narrator)^[44]
2006 : Nuremberg: Nazis On Trial [ 3-part TV documentary on BBC Two ] (narrator)^[45]
2007 : Robin Hood's Quest & The Quest for Aladdin's Treasure [ video games by Oxygen Games ] (narrator)^[46]
2007 : The Making of Music [ BBC Radio 4 ] (reader)^[47]
2007 : The Blair Years [ 3-part TV documentary on BBC One ] (narrator)^[48]
2007 : Last Party at the Palace [ TV documentary on Channel 4 ] (narrator)^[49]
2008 : Dangerous Jobs for Girls [ 4-part TV documentary on Channel 4 ] (narrator)^[50]
2008 : Words of War [ TV documentary on ITV1 ] (narrator)^[51]
2009 : Wine [ 3-part TV documentary on BBC Four ] (narrator)^[52]
2009 : Inside MI5 [ TV documentary on ITV1 ] (narrator)
2011: M&S food adverts
2011: Bupa healthcare adverts

References [link]

^ ^a ^b ^c Cavendish, Dominic (2 February 2010). "Matthew Macfadyen interview". The Daily Telegraph (UK). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-features/7139221/Matthew-Macfadyen-interview.html. Retrieved 26 March 2011.
^ Macdonald, Marianne (12 September 2005). "Leading question". The Daily Telegraph (UK). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3646503/Leading-question.html. Retrieved 26 March 2011.
^ "A man of mystery; Graham Keal talks to Spooks star Matthew Macfadyen about the new series, his Welsh roots and being hounded by the paparazzi.(Features) – Daily Post (Liverpool)". Highbeam.com. 7 June 2003. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-102942369.html. Retrieved 26 March 2011.
^ Evening Times: News
^ Playbill
^ Playbill
^ Playbill
^ Playbill
^ Playbill
^ Cheek by Jowl
^ RSC’s official archives
^ Cheek by Jowl
^ RSC’s official archives
^ National Theatre
^ National Theatre
^ What's on Stage Gossip
^ Royal Court Theatre
^ Vaudeville Theatre
^ TV.com
^ PBS Masterpiece
^ Warriors, l'impossible mission sur Arte
^ PBS Mystery
^ Fan site
^ PBS Masterpiece
^ The Project on the BBC
^ A collection of article/review excerpts
^ Spooks on the BBC
^ Official video
^ Secret Life on Channel 4
^ BBC Press Office
^ BBC Press Office
^ Miss Marple on ITV
^ Telegraph
^ BBC Press Office
^ Tandem Communications Press release
^ "Channel 4 Sales News , Star studded cast start filming epic TV adaptation Any Human Heart". Channel4.com. 15 April 2010. http://www.channel4sales.com/news/15/04/2010/star+studded+cast+start+filming+epic+tv+adaptation+any+human+heart. Retrieved 26 March 2011.
^ RadioListings Database
^ RadioListings Database
^ BBC Press Office
^ Review on Times online
^ RadioListings Database
^ BBC News
^ Excerpt on audible.com
^ 9/11 The Five Year Anniversary on Channel 4
^ BBC History
^ High Score Productions
^ The Making of Music on BBC Radio 4
^ BBC Press Office
^ Last Party at the Palace on Channel 4
^ Dangerous Jobs for Girls on Channel 4
^ The Words of War on ITV
^ Decanter Magazine

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Keeley Hawes
Keeley Hawes, April 2008
Born	Clare Julia Hawes (1976-02-10) 10 February 1976 (age 36) Marylebone, London, UK
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1989–present
Spouse	Spencer McCallum (2001-02) Matthew Macfadyen (2004-present)

Keeley Hawes (born Clare Julia Hawes; 10 February 1976) is an English actress and model, known for many television roles since 1989.

She is best known for her roles as Zoe Reynolds in Spooks (2002–04) and Alex Drake in Ashes to Ashes (2008–10) and Lady Agnes in the remake of Upstairs, Downstairs (2010–2012).^[1] Hawes is also known for voicing various roles in video games, such as the iconic Lara Croft from the long-running Tomb Raider series. She is also well known for the charity work she does for CHASE hospice care for children in Surrey.

Hawes first came into the public eye in the early 1990s, in Troublemakers and the 1997 BBC costume drama, The Moonstone. She has since appeared in many other television dramas, including Dennis Potter's Karaoke (BBC One/Channel 4, 1995), Heartbeat (ITV1, 1995), The Beggar Bride (BBC, 1997), as the young Diana Dors in the biopic, The Blonde Bombshell (ITV, 1999), Othello (ITV, 2001), A Murder is Announced (ITV, 2005), ITV drama After Thomas (2006) and BBC drama Spooks. She is the former face of Boots No 7 cosmetics and has appeared alongside David Mitchell and Robert Webb in the BAFTA award winning That Mitchell and Webb Look.^[2] In 2010 she appeared in a 6-part drama for ITV called Identity as Detective Superintendent Martha Lawson; and as the leading role 'Lady Agnes Holland' in the re-launch of Upstairs, Downstairs for the BBC.

1 Early life
2 Acting career
3 Personal life
4 Filmography
5 Awards
6 References
7 External links

Early life [link]

Hawes was born in Marylebone, London. The daughter of a London cab driver, she was trained at the Sylvia Young Theatre School, which included ten years of elocution lessons.^[3] Prior to leaving school, Hawes worked in a casino until she was spotted by a modelling scout on Oxford Street.^[4]^{[not in citation given]}

Acting career [link]

Music videos [link]

Early on in her career, she starred in at least four music videos, for the singles "Saturday Night" by Suede, "Marvellous" by the "Lightning Seeds", "Come Around" by "The Mutton Birds" and "She's a Star" by James.

Television [link]

Hawes has appeared in several adaptations of classic and modern novels: Tipping the Velvet (BBC Two, 2002), Wives and Daughters (1999), Our Mutual Friend (1998), and Under the Greenwood Tree (2005), to mention a few.

From 2002-04 she appeared as Zoe Reynolds in the spy series Spooks. Among her co-stars was future husband Matthew Macfadyen.

In 2003, she appeared in the BBC's re-telling of The Canterbury Tales alongside John Simm, Billie Piper and Julie Walters.

In 2006, she appeared in the long-running British comedy, Vicar of Dibley, (2 episodes 2006-07). She played Rosie, the sister of Harry (Richard Armitage), Geraldine's (Dawn French) love interest who she eventually marries. She was also cast as Jane in the 2007 comedy Death at a Funeral, where she plays the supportive wife of her off-screen husband Matthew Macfadyen, whose father's funeral turns into a disaster.

In 2007, she was cast as Alex Drake in the Ashes to Ashes, the spin-off to hit BBC series Life on Mars. It told the story of a female police officer in service with London's Metropolitan Police, who, after being shot in 2008, inexplicably regains consciousness in 1981, having assimilated Sam Tyler's fantasies after being imprisoned in a coma. The series, broadcast in February 2008, follows her fighting to wake up from the world of 1981 so she can get back to the present day and save her daughter, Molly. She starred along with Philip Glenister who played the TV's iconic Gene Hunt. Hawes was awarded the "Best UK Television Actress Award" in 2008 by the Glamour Awards for her role.^{[citation needed]} In September 2008, she began filming the second series of Ashes to Ashes, later broadcast in early 2009. In September 2009, Hawes filmed the final series of Ashes to Ashes along with Philip Glenister. The last ever episode was aired in May and gained more than seven million viewers.

In April 2008, Hawes began filming the BBC TV drama, Mutual Friends, which was then aired later in 2008.

She has also appeared in the BAFTA award winning That Mitchell and Webb Look and in 2010, was a guest on the comedy panel show Would I Lie to You? hosted by comedian Rob Brydon.^{[citation needed]}

Hawes signed up to play DSI Martha Lawson in a new six-part ITV series, Identity.

In December 2010, Keeley Hawes starred in the 3-episode re-launch of Upstairs, Downstairs, in which she played the leading role of Lady Agnes Holland.

On 25 April 2011, Keeley Hawes narrated the documentary "Kate and William: A Royal Love Story." on BBC One, in honour of the April 29th 2011 wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.^{[citation needed]}

On 20 June 2011, Hawes narrated the ITV1 documentary "Four Of A Kind" as part of ITV's Extraordinary Families season.^{[citation needed]} 2012 Upstairs, Downstairs Lady Agnes Holland Lead Role

Video games [link]

On 23 February 2006, it was revealed that Hawes had replaced Jonell Elliott as the voice of Lara Croft. She voiced the role of Eidos Interactive's globe-trotting adventurer in Tomb Raider: Legend, now under the reins of Crystal Dynamics. She reprised her role in the 2007 remake of the original Tomb Raider game, Tomb Raider: Anniversary, and again in 2008's Tomb Raider: Underworld. She has also recorded her lines for the arcade-style Tomb Raider game, titled Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, released in August 2010.

Personal life [link]

Hawes has three children. She had her first son, Myles, with cartoonist Spencer McCallum, whom she started dating in 1995 and married in December 2001 in Westminster when Myles was 20 months old. They separated eight weeks later, when Hawes started a relationship with Spooks co-star Matthew Macfadyen. She married Macfadyen on 8 October 2004 in the Richmond-upon-Thames Register Office, and their first child, Maggie, was born two months later. Their second child, Ralph, was born in September 2006.^{[citation needed]}

In 2002, after working on the television adaptation of Tipping the Velvet, Hawes was quoted in interviews with Diva magazine and Radio Times as saying she is bisexual.^[5]^[6] Later, in a Daily Mail article, she explained the comments, saying "[w]hat I actually said was that everybody is probably perfectly capable of finding somebody of the same sex attractive, but I certainly haven't had any lesbian relationships"^[7] and in the Radio Times, "Maybe what I meant is that everyone is a little bit bisexual. I've been married twice, both times to men."^[8]

Hawes is a keen supporter of CHASE hospice care for children. She filmed a video introduction and recorded voiceovers for a Virtual Tour of Christopher's, the CHASE Children's Hospice in Surrey.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography [link]

Television [link]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1989	Forever Green	Carol	(Season 1, Episode 3)
1990	Troublemakers	Mandy	(Season 1, Episode 1 - Episode 6)
1992	Ruth Rendell Mysteries	Sarah Mabledene	(Season 6, Episode 12) Talking to Strange Men
1996	Pie in the Sky	Stella Jackson	(Season 4, Episode 1 and Episode 2)
	Karaoke	Linda Langer	(Season 1, Episode 1 - Episode 4) Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
	Heartbeat	Michelle	(Season 6, Episode 7) Snapped
1997	The Beggar Bride	Angela Harper
1998	Our Mutual Friend	Lizzie Hexam	(Season 1, Episode 1 - Episode 4 )
1998	The Cater Street Hangman	Charlotte Ellison
1999	The Blonde Bombshell	Younger Diana Dors
1999	Wives and Daughters	Cynthia Kirkpatrick	(Season 1, Episode 1 - Episode 4 )
2001	Hotel!	Tricia
	Murder in Mind	Deborah	(Season 1, Episode 7) Sleeper
	Othello	Dessie Brabant
2002	A Is for Acid	Gillian Rogers
	Me and Mrs Jones	Jane
	Tipping the Velvet	Kitty Butler
	Spooks	Zoe Reynolds	(Season 1, Episode 1 - Season 3, Episode 6)
2003	Lucky Jim	Christine Callaghan
2003	The Canterbury Tales	Emily
2004	Sex & Lies	Kate
2004	The Murdoch Mysteries	Dr. Julia Ogden	(Season 1, Episode 1 and Episode 2)
2005	ShakespeaRe-Told	Ella Macbeth	(Season 1, Episode 2)
	Marple: A Murder Is Announced	Philippa Haymes
	Under the Greenwood Tree	Fancy Day
	The Best Man	Kate Sheldrake
2006	After Thomas	Nicola Graham
2006	The Vicar of Dibley	Rosie Kennedy	(Season 5, Episode 1)
2007	The Vicar of Dibley	Rosie Kennedy	(Season 5, Episode 2)
2008	Ashes to Ashes	DI Alex Drake	Series 1
2008	Mutual Friends	Jen	Series 1
2009	Ashes to Ashes	DI Alex Drake	Series 2
2010	Identity	DSI Martha Lawson
	Ashes to Ashes	DI Alex Drake	Series 3
	That Mitchell and Webb Look	Herself	Episode 1
	Would I Lie To You?	Herself	(Series 4, Episode 3)
	Upstairs, Downstairs	Lady Agnes Holland^[9]	Series 6
2011	Kate & William: A Royal Love Story	Narrator	Documentary on the Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton
2011	Four Of A Kind	Narrator
2012	Upstairs, Downstairs	Lady Agnes Holland	Series 7

Film [link]

Year	Title	Role
1998	The Avengers	Tamara
1999	The Last September	Lois Farquar
2000	Complicity	Yvonne
2003	Chaos and Cadavers	Samantha Taggert
2005	A Cock and Bull Story	Elizabeth
2007	Death at a Funeral	Jane
2008	The Bank Job	Wendy Leather
2008	Flashbacks of a Fool	Adult Jessie

Video games [link]

Year	Title	Voice
2006	Tomb Raider: Legend	Lara Croft
2007	Tomb Raider: Anniversary
2008	Tomb Raider: Underworld
2009	Tomb Raider: Underworld - Beneath the Ashes
2009	Tomb Raider: Underworld - Lara's Shadow	Lara Croft and Doppelgänger
2010	Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light	Lara Croft

Awards [link]

Hawes was awarded the "Best UK Television Actress Award" in 2008 by the Glamour Awards for her role in Ashes to Ashes. She was also nominated for a TV Choice Award for the same role, and for the Best Actress award at the 2009 Crime Thriller Awards.^[10]

References [link]

^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17811617
^ Keeley In Ads/Voiceovers 8 March 2008
^ "Mullen, Lost Voices". Phon.ucl.ac.uk. 1999-06-18. http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/estuary/mullan.htm. Retrieved 2009-04-19.
^ "Ashes to Ashes star Keeley Hawes on surviving a showbiz marriage" 1 April 2010, London Evening Standard
^ Czyzselska, Jana (1 October 2002). "Dyke Drama". Diva. http://www.rachael-stirling.com/press/interviews/2002/10/01/dyke-drama/. Retrieved 2007-12-13
^ Radio Times, Tipping the Velvet, 5–11 October 2002
^ Paton, Maureen (5 April 2009). "Keeley Hawes: 'There's a birth and a snog and lots of deaths'". Daily Mail (London: Associated Newspapers Ltd.). http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-1166402/Back-Ashes-actress-Keeley-Hawes--8216-There-8217-s-birth-snog-lots-deaths-8217.html#. Retrieved 30 April 2010
^ browne (3 March 2008). "Keeley Hawes: still delectable, but bisexual". AfterEllen.com. http://www.afterellen.com/blog/browne/keeley-hawes-no-longer-bi. Retrieved 29 April 2010
^ Hastings, Chris (25 July 2010). "What WOULD Mrs Bridges think? Upstairs, Downstairs is back... with Keeley Hawes". Daily Mail (London). http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1297362/Upstairs-Downstairs-new-cast.html.
^ Allen, Kate (7 September 2009). "Coben, Cole, Atkinson vie for crime awards". The Bookseller. http://www.thebookseller.com/news/96297-coben-cole-atkinson-vie-for-crime-awards.html. Retrieved 7 September 2009.

External links [link]

Keeley Hawes at the Internet Movie Database
Keeley Hawes page on the official BBC Spooks site, including an interview.
Ashes to Ashes Interview

v t e Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes

Life on Mars	Episode list • List of characters • Original Soundtrack • US series • US episode list • Spanish series

Ashes to Ashes	Episode list • List of characters • Original Soundtrack (Series 1) • Original Soundtrack (Series 2) • Original Soundtrack (Series 3)

Characters	Sam Tyler • Gene Hunt • Alex Drake • Annie Cartwright • Ray Carling • Chris Skelton • Shaz Granger • Phyllis Dobbs • Jim Keats

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Spooks
300px Spooks title sequence
Also known as	MI-5
Genre	Spy
Created by	David Wolstencroft
Starring	Peter Firth Matthew Macfadyen Keeley Hawes David Oyelowo Hugh Simon Rory MacGregor Nicola Walker Rupert Penry Jones Olga Sosnovska Raza Jaffrey Miranda Raison Hermione Norris Gemma Jones Richard Armitage Shazad Latif Sophia Myles Max Brown Lara Pulver Geoffrey Streatfeild
Theme music composer	Jennie Muskett
Composer(s)	Jennie Muskett (Series 1-4) Paul Leonard-Morgan (Series 5-10)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of series	10
No. of episodes	86 (List of episodes)
Production
Running time	58 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	BBC One BBC Three
Original run	13 May 2002 (2002-05-13) – 23 October 2011 (2011-10-23)
Chronology
Related shows	Spooks: Code 9
External links
Website

Spooks is a British television drama series that originally aired on BBC One from 13 May 2002 – 23 October 2011, consisting of 10 series. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, as the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid. In the United States and France, the show is broadcast under the title MI-5. In Canada, the programme originally aired as MI5 but now airs on BBC Canada as Spooks.

The programme was created by writer David Wolstencroft and has attracted popular guest actors including Hugh Laurie, Robert Hardy, Tim McInnerny, Bruce Payne, Reece Dinsdale, Ian McDiarmid, Ewen Bremner, Jimi Mistry, Andy Serkis, Andrew Tiernan, Anton Lesser, Anupam Kher, Alexander Siddig, Martine McCutcheon and Anthony Head.

Series synopses [link]

Main article: List of Spooks episodes

Series 1 [link]

Main article: Spooks (series 1)

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Matthew Macfadyen as Tom Quinn and David Oyelowo as Danny Hunter in Series One.

Starring Matthew Macfadyen, Keeley Hawes, David Oyelowo, Jenny Agutter, and Peter Firth, the initial series of six one-hour episodes premiered in the spring of 2002.

Due to its combination of glossy high production values with fast-paced action/adventure and spy intrigue storylines^[1] the series was a critical and popular success, averaging 7.5 million viewers over its six episodes.^[2]

The second episode gained notoriety for the violent killing of character Helen Flynn (Lisa Faulkner), which drew the largest number of complaints to the Broadcasting Standards Commission in 2002.^[3] During an undercover operation Helen and Tom were captured by race riot instigator Robert Osborne, played by Kevin McNally, who tortured Helen with a deep fryer in an attempt to make Tom reveal classified information. He refused and she was killed. This provoked an angry reaction from many viewers who jammed BBC phone switchboards with complaints, despite the show airing after the 9 pm watershed.^[4]

Series 2 [link]

Main article: Spooks (series 2)

With the success of the first series, a second, longer series of ten episodes was commissioned and subsequently aired in 2003. New regular characters Sam Buxton (Shauna Macdonald) and Ruth Evershed (Nicola Walker), were introduced in the first and second episodes respectively, while the series finale ended with a dramatic cliffhanger.^[5] The series averaged 7.1 million viewers.^[6]

Series 3 [link]

Main article: Spooks (series 3)

A third series of ten episodes was transmitted on BBC One in the spring of 2004 and concluded on 13 December. The first episode features Rupert Penry-Jones as Adam Carter, who was drafted in from MI6 to help investigate Tom's disappearance. He later takes over Tom's position as Section Chief after the latter jeopardised an important operation.^[7]

In episode six, Zoe is taken to court for misconduct during an operation and is forced to leave MI5 and assume a new identity in Chile. She is replaced by Adam's wife, Fiona (Olga Sosnovska). In the series finale, Danny is killed while he and Fiona are being held hostage. Audience figures dropped to a series average of 5.8 million viewers.^[8]

Series 4 [link]

Main article: Spooks (series 4)

The fourth series of Spooks began transmission on Monday 12 September 2005 on BBC One at 9 pm with the first of a two-part story. The next day (13 September) the second episode was shown. The following week Spooks assumed a 9 pm Thursday slot, a break from the Monday 9 pm slot the previous series had traditionally occupied. Once again, the series ran for ten episodes and averaged 6.05 million viewers, a notable increase on the previous series.^[9]

The opening two-part episode introduces two new characters to the series, Zafar Younis (Raza Jaffrey, whose character made his debut in the final episode of series three), and Juliet Shaw (Anna Chancellor). The storyline involves a terrorist bombing central London, something that, in reality, took place on 7 July, two months prior to the airing but already after the filming was complete.

According to The Guardian newspaper, the day the first episode aired, "The similarities were sufficient to cause head of drama Jane Tranter and new BBC One controller Peter Fincham to agonise over whether to drop the episodes."^[10] The episodes eventually aired unedited, although before both instalments of the two-parter the BBC One continuity announcer warned viewers that they featured scenes of terrorist bombing in London which some viewers might find disturbing.

In episode seven, Fiona Carter leaves the show because the actress portraying her, Olga Sosnovska, was pregnant during filming and chose to leave the programme. In that story arc, Adam attempts to kill Fiona's deranged ex-husband, who she thought was hanged several years prior. However, her ex-husband ultimately abducts her and later shoots her dead in Adam's presence during her attempted escape. Her character is replaced by Jo Portman (played by Miranda Raison), a new arrival at MI5 who was recruited by Adam in a previous episode.

Series 5 [link]

Main article: Spooks (series 5)

The fifth (10-part) series of Spooks aired its first episode in two parts, the first appearing on 17 September 2006. In it, elements within the British Government, MI6 and the UK press conspire in an attempt to overthrow the Parliament and the Prime Minister. These elements agree that for Britain to survive the threats posed by modern day terrorism, democracy had to be replaced with rule by committee. The second part followed the next day (18 September), marking Spooks' return to BBC One's Monday night schedule.^[11] These episodes introduced Ros Myers (Hermione Norris).

This series' storylines include a fake home-grown Al-Qaeda cell that plans an attack on London; the British government selling nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia; and the US administration selling arms to African dictators.

The ratings for this series remained consistent with those of the previous series, averaging 6 million viewers.^[12]

Series 6 [link]

Main article: Spooks (series 6)

The sixth series was commissioned by Jane Tranter, Head of Drama Commissioning at the BBC, by the time series 5 was announced. The series returned on 16 October 2007 at 9 pm on BBC One, and concluded on 18 December.^[13]^[14] The series averaged 5.68 million viewers (the lowest to date)^[15] The sixth series was different in certain respects from the previous five because it had one storyline running right the way through it, and for the first time, the show contained end credits. There was also a less frequent use of the soundtrack composed by Jennie Muskett.^[16]

The primary storyline of Series 6 follows Iran seeking the ability to manufacture its own nuclear weapons and searching for sellers of nuclear armaments components. The governments of several nations (principally the United States and its CIA, Russia's FSB, and a shadowy third organisation composed of disenfranchised members of other agencies, including MI5) are woven throughout the plot. Simon Abkarian plays the Iranian Special Counsel liaising with the various governments, Agni Scott as his wife, Matthew Marsh as the CIA station chief, and Robert Glenister as the British Home Secretary, all have recurring roles throughout the series.

A new website called "Spooks Interactive" was created to coincide with the launch of the series.^[13] In April 2008, the Spooks production team won the BAFTA Award for Interactivity for their work on Spooks Interactive.^[17]

Series 7 [link]

Main article: Spooks (series 7)

Series 7 of Spooks began airing on 27 October 2008 for an eight episode run.^[18] Peter Firth returns as Harry Pearce, along with Alex Lanipekun as Ben Kaplan, Hugh Simon as Malcolm Wynn-Jones, Miranda Raison as Jo Portman and Gemma Jones as Connie James.

In the first episode, central character Adam Carter (portrayed by Rupert Penry Jones) dies in a car explosion set by terrorists, and the character Ros Myers (played by Hermione Norris) returns to the show as a deep-cover agent in Moscow. Richard Armitage joins the cast as Lucas North, an agent who has been held in a Russian prison for the past eight years and released as part of a spy exchange. Following Adam's death, Ros is made the section leader and Lucas replaces her as a Senior Case officer.

The series 8 recommission press release stated there would be a twist in the final episode of series 7.^[19] In this episode, a nuclear bomb is set to explode, triggered by a Russian sleeper agent who is part of Operation Tiresias. As Parliament and the Royal Family are evacuated, the nuclear threat to London is eliminated when Ros and Lucas are able to turn Connie James and elude an FSB kill squad. While defusing the bomb, Connie is killed by its conventional explosives. Seconds before the bomb exploded, Connie revealed that it had not been Harry who sold Lucas North out to the Russians as Lucas had always believed but, rather, herself. The episode concludes with Harry, conscious but with his mouth taped shut, in the boot of a car being zipped up in a body bag by Viktor Sarkisian, head of the FSB's London station.

Series 8 [link]

Main article: Spooks (series 8)

In December 2008, the BBC announced that series 8 would start filming in March 2009 and air late 2009,^[19] with both Hermione Norris (Ros) and Richard Armitage (Lucas) returning for series 8. Series 8 started on Wednesday 4 November 2009, at 9 pm on BBC One,^[20] with episode 2 broadcast on Friday 6 November at 9 pm on BBC Three.^[21] The opening episode of series 8 drew in 6 million viewers a 25% share of audience numbers between 9 pm and 10 pm.^{[citation needed]}

The first episode of the series continues from the cliffhanger at the end of series 7, with Harry Pearce being held captive by the Russians. During this episode, Ruth Evershed is reintroduced, having spent her time since series 5 in Cyprus. The only character other than Harry who has been in the programme since its inception, Malcolm Wynn-Jones departs stating simply that he is "too old". His replacement comes in the form of much younger technician Tariq Masood (Shazad Latif).

The series again revolves around one major plot-arc which is a mysterious organisation known only as "Nightingale". During the course of the series, Lucas North's loyalty is continually called into question, for the most part because of his ongoing relationship with CIA agent Sarah Caulfield who is connected to Nightingale. At the end of the series, Section D does not appear to have made much progress in tackling Nightingale, and Ros Myers is killed in an explosion with the new Home Secretary Andrew Lawrence.

Series 9 [link]

Main article: Spooks (series 9)

Spooks returned for a ninth series on Monday 20 September 2010 for an eight-episode run.^[22]

New cast members in this series include Sophia Myles and Max Brown as MI5 officers and Simon Russell Beale as the Home Secretary. Iain Glen and Laila Rouass also joined the series, playing Vaughn Edwards and Maya Lahan – figures from Lucas's mysterious past.^[23]

The season ends with the deaths of Lucas' lover Maya Lahan, following the death of Lucas' blackmailer, Vaughn, in the climactic end of the penultimate episode. Lucas had kidnapped Ruth, binding and gagging her, and was attempting to get a top-secret computer file for the Chinese. The climactic scene was a showdown between Harry and Lucas on top of a tower block in London. After Harry reveals that the file never actually worked, and that Lucas had apparently betrayed his MI5 colleagues and stolen another man's identity, "Lucas" (apparently "real" name John Bateman) orders Harry to turn around. Harry anticipates execution, but no shots come. Hearing a car alarm and screams from the ground many seconds later, Harry turns around to find Lucas no longer on the roof. Forty-eight hours later, the Home Secretary calls Harry to inform him that a full investigation will be made into his actions at MI5 and to "prepare for life after MI5." The series ends with Harry looking out over the London skyline at night. A caption reveals that a 10th series would be shown in 2011.

Series 10 [link]

Main article: Spooks (series 10)

Production on the six-episode^[24] series reportedly began during March 2011,^[25] with Lara Pulver joining the series as an "ambitious, hungry" new spook "determined to make her mark." Also joining the series were Geoffrey Streatfeild, Alice Krige and Jonathan Hyde, while Peter Firth, Nicola Walker, Max Brown, Shazad Latif and Simon Russell Beale reprised their roles, as well as Matthew Macfadyen in a cameo role in the final episode. Sophia Myles did not return as Beth Bailey.^[26]

The season concludes with the revelation of a plot to force Britain and Russia into war. Harry managed to thwart the plot and decides to leave the service to live a normal life with Ruth Evershed. A vengeful Sasha Gavrik attempts to take revenge on him, but Ruth takes the blow for Harry before dying in his arms. Harry then decides to return to MI5, the prospect of a normal life no longer being accessible to him.

Kudos and the BBC announced in a joint statement in August 2011 that Series 10 would be the last series.^[27] It began airing on BBC One on Sunday September 18, 2011 at 9:00 pm, moving from its traditional weekday evening slot,^[28] with the final episode airing on October 23, 2011.

Cast [link]

Main article: List of Spooks characters

Current main characters [link]

Grid-based [link]

Sir Harry Pearce KBE^[29] (Peter Firth; 2002—2011) Head of Counter-Terrorism Department ("Section D") MI5^[30]
Erin Watts (Lara Pulver; 2011) Section Chief, Section D; former acting Head of Counter-Terrorism Department, MI5^[31]
Dimitri Levendis (Max Brown; 2010—2011) Piracy and Terrorism Case Officer, Section D. Also ex-Special Boat Service^[32]
Calum Reed (Geoffrey Streatfeild; 2011) Junior Case Officer, Section D^[33]

Other [link]

William Towers MP (Simon Russell Beale; 2010—2011) British Home Secretary. Serves as part of the Conservative/Liberal Democrat Coalition
Ilya Gavrik (Jonathan Hyde; 2011) Russian Minister for International Development former KGB Operative and old adversary of Harry during the cold war.
Sasha Gavrik (Tom Weston-Jones, 2011) FSB officer and son of Elena Gavrik and Ilya Gavrik.

Former major characters [link]

Grid-based (Deceased)[link]

Helen Flynn (Lisa Faulkner; 2002) Administrative Officer, Section D. Tortured and shot by a right-wing terrorist.
Danny Hunter (David Oyelowo; 2002–2004) Junior Case Officer, Section D. Executed during a terrorist hostage situation.
Fiona Carter (Olga Sosnovska; 2004–2005) MI6 Officer, Section D. Shot by ex-husband during an operation.
Colin Wells (Rory MacGregor; 2002–2006) Technician and Data Analyst, Section D. Hanged by corrupt MI6 officers during their attempted coup d'état.
Zafar Younis (Raza Jaffrey; 2004–2007) Junior Case Officer, Section D. Killed by an Al-Qaeda group in Afghanistan after being sold by "The Redbacks".
Adam Carter (Rupert Penry-Jones; 2004–2008) Chief of Section and Senior Case Officer, Section D. Killed by a car bomb.
Ben Kaplan DSO (Alex Lanipekun; 2007–2008) Junior Case Officer,^[34] Section D. Throat cut by FSB mole Connie James.
Connie James (Gemma Jones; 2007–2008) Former Senior Analyst^[35] Section D. Arrested as an FSB mole. Killed while defusing a nuclear bomb.
Jo Portman (Miranda Raison; 2005–2009) Junior Case Officer^[36] Section D. Shot by Ros Myers while restraining a terrorist during a hostage situation
Ros Myers (Hermione Norris; 2006–2009) Chief of Section^[37] and Senior Case Officer, Section D.^[38] Killed in an explosion while attempting to rescue the Home Secretary.^[39]^[40]
Lucas North/John Bateman (Richard Armitage; 2008–2010) Chief of Section and Senior Case Officer, Section D. Jumped from a rooftop to his death after a showdown with Harry Pearce.
Tariq Masood (Shazad Latif; 2009–2011) Technician and Data Analyst, Section D^[41] Assassinated with Hydrogen Cyanide during the second episode of Series 10 after discovering vital intel at his bugged home.
Ruth Evershed (Nicola Walker; 2003–2006, 2009—2011) Former Senior Intelligence Analyst, Section D, now Security Advisor to Home Secretary William Towers^[42] Accidentally stabbed by Sasha Gavrik when he tried to kill Harry Pearce.

Grid-based (Alive)[link]

Jed Kelley (Graeme Mearns; 2002) Administrative Officer, Section D. Status unknown.^[43]
Tessa Phillips (Jenny Agutter; 2002–2003) Senior Case Officer, Section K. Left the Grid after being discovered by Harry running "ghost" agents. Fled the country after sabotaging an operation
Tom Quinn (Matthew Macfadyen; 2002–2004; 2011) Chief of Section and Senior Case Officer, Section D. Decommissioned after jeopardising a key mission and took early retirement. Became a private contractor after leaving MI5. Quinn appears in the last-ever episode of the series, hired by Harry as an 'outside-source' (assassin) to travel to Russia to kill Leverov, the Russian ultra-nationalist, who Elena Gavrik worked for as a double agent for both MI5 and the FSB (formerly, KGB).
Zoe Reynolds (Keeley Hawes; 2002–2004) Junior Case Officer, Section D. Hidden "off-the-books" in Chile after she was caught making a mistake on an undercover mission.
Sam Buxton (Shauna Macdonald; 2003–2005) Administrative Officer, Section D. Reassigned to GCHQ following Danny's demise
Malcolm Wynn-Jones (Hugh Simon; 2002–2009; 2010) Technician and Data Analyst, Section D. Retired
Beth Bailey (Sophia Myles; 2010) Junior Case Officer, Section D^[44] Decommissioned by Erin Watts in the time between Series 9 and 10.

Other (Dead)[link]

Viktor Sarkisian (Peter Sullivan; (2008–2009) – Former head of the FSB's London station. Murdered early in series 8 episode 1 by the man to whom he had intended to sell a kidnapped Harry Pearce. Viktor's killer was himself killed at the end of the 1st episode by Lucas when he and Ros rescued Harry and Ruth, who had returned from Cyprus.
Sam Walker (Brian Protheroe; 2009) – Director of the CIA's London station. Murdered by Nightingale operative Sarah Caulfield for investigating Nightingale.
Sarah Caulfield (Genevieve O'Reilly; 2009) – CIA agent and MI5 liaison officer. Lucas North's lover. Assassinated by a hitman for Nightingale after being captured by MI5 and exposed as a traitor.
Andrew Lawrence MP (Tobias Menzies; 2009) – Former British Home Secretary. Killed in an explosion alongside Ros Myers, though his body was never seen.
Nicholas Blake MP (Robert Glenister; 2006–2010) – Former British Home Secretary. Forced to resign after allegations of corruption. Later exposed by Ruth as a senior member of Nightingale who ordered the hotel bombing that killed Home Secretary Andrew Lawrence and Ros Myers. Poisoned by Harry, who had learned from Ruth that Blake was a traitor.
Vaughn Edwards (Iain Glen; 2010) – Lucas North/John Bateman's blackmailer and his apparent employer in relation to the Dakar Bombings. Died from blood loss received from a knife wound after a confrontation with Lucas/John.
Maya Lahan (Laila Rouass; 2010) – Lucas' ex-girlfriend. Died from gunshot wounds during a shoot out with Alec, Beth and Dimitri whilst attempting to flee the country with Lucas/John.^[45]
James 'Jim' Coaver (William Hope, 2011) CIA Deputy Director and an old friend of Harry Pearce; helped turn Elena Gavrik in the 1980s. Suspected of being behind the attacks on MI5 and Gavrik as well as the death of Tariq Masood, but apparently set-up for Harry to believe this. Beaten and fatally injured by mercenaries posing as CIA agents, died minutes later.
Elena Gavrik (Alice Krige, 2011) Wife of Ilya Gavrik and former asset and lover of Harry Pearce during the cold war. Killed by Ilya Gavrik after being revealed to be a Russian ultra-nationalist double-agent.

Other (Alive)[link]

Jools Siviter (Hugh Laurie; 2002) MI6 Section Chief. Reassigned out of the country
Christine Dale (Megan Dodds; 2002–2004) CIA agent and MI5 liaison officer. Resigned following her involvement in Tom's investigation and apprehension
Oliver Mace (Tim McInnerny; 2004–2006) Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee. Forced to resign after being exposed as the mastermind behind illegal torture of terror suspects
Wes Carter (James Dicker; 2004–2008) Son of Adam and Fiona. Sent to live with his grandmother after being orphaned following his father's death
Juliet Shaw (Anna Chancellor; 2005–2007) Former National Security Coordinator, exposed as Head of Yalta. Fate Unknown
Dariush Bakhshi (Simon Abkarian; 2007) Iranian Special Consul
Bob Hogan (Matthew Marsh; 2007) Director of the CIA's London branch. Dismissed from CIA for working with mercenaries against MI5
Sir Richard Dolby (Robert East; 2008) Director General of MI5
Elisavieta Starkova (Paloma Baeza; 2009) Lucas North's ex wife and a double agent. Dropped as an asset on Lucas's request
Bernard Qualtrough (Richard Johnson; 2008) Harry's former mentor and retired SIS officer. Exposed as an FSB mole after the Sugarhorse incident. Status unknown.
Alton Beecher (Colin Salmon; 2010) The head CIA liaison officer stationed in London. Status unknown

Episodes [link]

Main article: List of Spooks episodes

Including the final (tenth) series, the show consists of 86 episodes. Spooks series 10 started transmission on 18 September 2011.

Each episode begins with a "previously" sequence, recapping recent events. Following a teaser, setting up the episode's narrative, a title sequence runs, featuring the main characters but no actor credits, and ends with the name of the series. Each episode ends with the final scene freezing and changing to a black-and-white negative image that then compresses with a distinctive sound effect into a flat white line against a black screen. With the exception of each season finale, a trailer for the next episode is shown, followed by the Kudos and BBC logos. The series airs with no credits on BBC One to maintain an atmosphere of the anonymity of real-life spies and the drama of each episode. Full credits are available online.

Prior to Series 9, the subsequent episode was aired on BBC Three one week ahead of its BBC One showing (the first and last episode were only shown on BBC One). BBC Three airings included a brief credit sequence following the trailer and before the Kudos and BBC logos.

Music [link]

The music for series 1 to 4 and theme tune was composed by Jennie Muskett. Music for series 5 to 10 was composed by Paul Leonard-Morgan. Four soundtracks have been released for the show, the first includes music from series 1 & 2, the second (currently and perhaps only ever available on iTunes) featuring music from series 5 & 6 (Two additional tracks are available on the composer's website). The third and fourth soundtracks (containing tracks from series 7 & 8, and 9 & 10 respectively) were released on iTunes in November 2011.^[46]^[47] The track listings contain spoilers to the episode content.

Broadcast editions of the episodes have been known to feature alternate music to that found on the commercially available DVD releases. In the final episode of Series 2, music from the film score Spy Game was used—composed by Harry Gregson-Williams. The tracks used are "Beirut, a War Zone" and "Operation Dinner Out". Both are available on the official soundtrack release for the film.

Locations [link]

Regular [link]

Thames House (headquarters of MI5)^[48]
Freemasons' Hall, London (headquarters of the United Grand Lodge of England), playing entrance to Thames House and some internal filming locations
SIS Building (headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service or MI6)
Victoria Embankment from Lambeth to Westminster bridges
The London Underground and rail system
Millennium Bridge (London)

Many scenes are filmed in and around the Docklands, especially Canary Wharf, Rotherhithe, London Bridge and Greenwich (including The Old Royal Naval College) area as well as the new More London development.

Single episodes [link]

University College London
The University of Birmingham
Royal Horseguards Hotel
Somerset House
National Liberal Club
Royal Opera House
Thames Barrier
Lord's Cricket Ground
King's Cross Station
Paternoster Square
The Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich
Brunel University (Exterior shots of the library and Student Union bar can be seen in series 6)
Finsbury Square^[49]
Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood
Hedsor House (Opening of Season 8 – where Harry was taken to and tortured)

[edit] Spooks: Code 9

Main article: Spooks: Code 9

Following the success of Torchwood (the BBC Three Doctor Who spin-off series) the controller of BBC Three, Julian Bellamy, announced in December 2006 a Spooks spin-off entitled Spooks: Code 9 (working titles: Rogue Spooks and Spooks: Liberty).^[50]^[51] The show started filming in Bradford in 2008 and the first^[52] and second episodes were broadcast on 10 August 2008. It was not well-received by critics, who said "the script is poor and the acting little better" (The Sunday Times)^[53] and the production "utterly uninspired and stale" (Digital Spy),^[54] "daft and unconvincing" (The Telegraph),^[55] "an utterly cynical venture" that "given its patronising awfulness ... actually damages the Spooks brand" (The Guardian).^[56]

DVD releases [link]

	Region 1	Region 2	Region 4	Extras
Series One	13 January 2004	16 June 2003	18 August 2003	Deleted scenes, a guide to Spooks terminology, character biographies, image galleries, interviews and commentaries with the cast and crew.
Series Two	11 January 2005	20 September 2004	21 March 2004	Outtakes, cast interviews and commentaries, and featurettes.
Series Three	31 January 2006	5 September 2005	23 May 2005	Audio commentaries, "behind the scenes" featurettes, deleted scenes and DVDROM content, including scripts, wallpapers and image gallery.
Series Four	9 January 2007	4 September 2006	19 May 2007	Audio commentaries, a "behind the scenes" documentary and interviews with the series producer and the director of episodes 9 and 10.
Series Five	8 January 2008	10 September 2007	19 May 2008	2 audio commentaries, cast interviews and Miranda Raison's video diary for series 6.
Series Six	20 January 2009^[57]	6 October 2008	2 August 2008	2 audio commentaries from the location managers, 2 audio commentaries with the producer and writer, a "behind the scenes" documentary on episode 6.8, series 6 trailers, 4 cast interviews and Miranda's video diary.
Series Seven	26 January 2010^[58]	12 October 2009^[59]	18 March 2009	2 audio commentaries, a "behind the scenes" in Russia with Richard Armitage and Hermione Norris, cast interviews.
Series Eight	25 January 2011^[60]	20 September 2010^[61]	3 November 2010	2 audio commentaries with the producer and director, two brief featurettes of the Colleville explosion and Walker's murder. This DVD set does not include a Dolby Digital 5.1 which all other sets have. Only a 2.0 soundtrack was included.
Series Nine	12 July 2011	28 February 2011^[62]	1 June 2011	2 audio commentaries, and two mini-featurettes, "The Cost of Being a Spy" and "The Downfall of Lucas North".
Series Ten	06 March 2012	28 November 2011	04 April 2012^[63]	Harry's Game - Feature, Top Ten Spooks Moments

All Series of Spooks are available on iTunes, with series 7, 8 & 9 becoming available to download one week after original broadcast. Series 1–8 have been released on DVD by Contender Home Entertainment with its successor Entertainment One then taking over; series 9 was released by Universal Playback.

Now available on Region 1 DVD, Series 9 is also available for streaming on Netflix.

Books [link]

Sangster, Jim: Spooks Confidential: The Official Handbook (2003), Contender Books (London) ISBN 1-84357-069-6
- Episode guide of the first two seasons, and background information on MI5 and the making of the series
Spooks: The Personnel Files (2007), Headling Publishing Group (London) ISBN 978-0-7553-3397-4
- Detailed MI5 personnel files of eight of the show's main characters: Adam Carter, Danny Hunter, Zoe Reynolds, Tom Quinn, Ruth Evershed, Harry Pearce, Zafar Younis and Malcolm Wynn-Jones, presented through a compilation of transcripts, reports and forms.
Spooks: Behind the Scenes (2006), Orion Books (London) ISBN 0-7528-7610-4
- Background information on British intelligence and episode guides for the first four series
Spooks: Harry's Diary: Top Secret (2007), Headling Publishing Group (London) ISBN 978-0-7553-3398-1
- The untold stories of Spooks, and MI5, as seen from the perspective of Harry Pearce, the Spooks team leader
Adam Carter: Revealed (2008), Headling Publishing Group (London) ISBN 978-0-7553-3401-8
- Revealing the truth about Adam Carter after his death, explaining the true details of his childhood, the extraordinary responsibilities he took on as a teenager, and how he nearly betrayed his country but never betrayed the people he loved.

Video games [link]

Video games based on the show were created by Preloaded for promotional purposes. In 2005, the video game The Grid (a promotion for Spooks series 3) was nominated for a Webby Award under the category of Best Game.^[64]

International broadcasts and DVD sales [link]

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All of the programmes were filmed on Super 16 and are not available in HD/Blu-ray.^[65]

In the United States, the commercial-free and viewer-supported Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) began airing the show under the title MI-5 in January 2009, beginning with Series 1. For the first time, the episodes are being broadcast full-length and in widescreen (1.78:1) format. This is the third network to attempt a successful airing of the show. Series 1 – 4 were broadcast on cable channel A&E from 2003 to 2006, however ratings were poor, and after a marathon showing of Series 4, the show was removed from the schedule. In 2007 and 2008, BBC America aired MI-5, withdrawing the show from its schedule mid-Series 4, again a victim of ratings. Due to the need to insert commercial breaks, the episodes broadcast on commercial stations (A&E and BBC America) in the U.S. were edited for time, with each 59-minute installment edited down to roughly 45 minutes, and were presented in full screen (1.33:1) format. The full-length episodes were broadcast on some cable "On Demand" services and are available on DVD.

In Canada the series was also screened uncut and unedited on BBC Canada, a speciality digital cable channel, under its original BBC title Spooks. However, this was stopped after Series 3 because the U.S. A&E channel had exclusive rights to future viewings in Canada and was showing the episodes as well. Since then, BBC Canada has resumed showing the series and began showing Series 5 to Canadian viewers on 26 August 2007.

BBC shows Spooks on its entertainment channel BBC Prime in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. The programme is also aired as Spooks in Australia and New Zealand on ABC and TVNZ respectively. It is syndicated on the Foxtel Pay-TV channel UKTV. In New Zealand Spooks has since 2008^[update] being broadcast on Sky Network Television at 9:30 pm Tuesday, and is presently up to Series 9 as of Tuesday 26 April 2011.^[66] Season 9 begins on the ABC on Saturday 2 April.

In Sweden it airs as Spooks on Kanal 9. As of winter 2010 both series 1 and 7 are broadcast. (Though the first two series were broadcast by SVT1 or SVT2, the Swedish commercial-free public service channels.)

In France the programme is called MI-5 and broadcast on Canal Plus, France 2 and France 4.

In Denmark several series have been aired on the DR2 public channel, under its original name, Spooks.

In Finland the show is called Erikoisjoukkue and it was first aired on YLE TV1 (Series 1 and 2) and then MTV3 started airing the programme from Series 1.

In Belgium Spooks was broadcast on the Flemish public channel Canvas (Series 1-4)^[67] and on the French Belgian channel RTBF.^[68] The Flemish channel Acht (only for Digital TV subscribers) broadcasted series 5 till 8, series 9 is to be broadcasted from November 2011.^[69]

In the Netherlands Spooks is aired on the channel Nederland 3.

In the Czech Republic it is called MI5 and is aired on ČT1.

In Israel the first two series were aired under the name spooks in Hebrew ("HAMERAGLIM") on Channel 2 (Arutz 2); later on, a few more series were aired on the cable TV ("HOT 3" channel) under the name MI-5. The educational national TV ("HINUCHIT 23", 23 channel) aired the show from the first series to the 9th. The 10th series hasn't yet been shown in Israel.

In Slovenia it was aired on Kanal A as Tajni agenti, with Slovene subtitles.

In Croatia on HRT 2 as Obavještajci, (Intelligence Agents). It is broadcast in English with Croatian subtitles as opposed to being dubbed.

In Southeast Asia Spooks is aired through the Hallmark Channel.

In India Spooks is aired on the channel BBC Entertainment.

In Brazil the series is screened on People + Arts, cable channel, under the title Dupla Identidade (Double Identity). In Argentina the same channel screens it as Doble Identidad (also Double Identity).

In Iceland the series is shown on RUV (The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service) on Tuesdays at 22:25 as Spooks.

Spooks is shown in Hungary under Titkosszolgálat – MI5 (Secret Service – MI5) on Hungarian Television (channel: M1).

In Germany the series began airing under the title Spooks – Im Visier des MI5 on pay television on the German Fox Channel on 3 September 2008 with new episodes Thursdays and repeats through the following days. On 2 September 2009 the new digital free-to-air channel ZDFneo began airing the series on Monday night with a repeat on Tuesday night on the parent channel ZDF.

In Mexico the series is shown on BBC Entertainment on the SKY México satellite network under the title MI-5.

In Bulgaria the series is shown on Bulgarian National Television Channel 1 (Bulgarian: БНТ Канал 1) as Phantoms (Bulgarian: Фантоми). As of January 2010 series 7 is being aired.

Awards [link]

Year	Award	Category	Nominee(s)	Result
2003	BAFTA Television Awards	Best Drama Series^[70]		Won
		Original Television Music^[71]	Jennie Muskett	Nominated
		Editing in Entertainment^[71]	Colin Green	Nominated
	Royal Television Society Awards	Best Drama Series^[72]		Won
	Broadcast Awards	Best Drama Series^[73]		Won
	BBC Drama Awards	Best Drama^[74]		Won
	BBC Drama Awards	Best Drama Website^[74]		Won
2005	BAFTA Television Awards	Best Drama Series^[75]		Nominated
2006	BAFTA Television Awards	Best Drama Series^[76]		Nominated
2008	BAFTA Television Awards	Interactivity^[17]^{[not in citation given]}		Won
	Crime Thriller Awards	Best Actor^{[citation needed]}	Rupert Penry Jones	Won
		Best Actress^{[citation needed]}	Hermione Norris	Won
		Crime Drama^[77]		Nominated
2009	BAFTA Television Awards	Best Drama Series^[78]		Nominated
	BAFTA Television Awards	Original Television Music^[79]	Paul Leonard-Morgan	Nominated
	Crime Thriller Awards	The TV Dagger^[80]		Nominated
	Crime Thriller Awards	Best Actress^[80]	Hermione Norris	Nominated
2012	BAFTA Television Awards	Best Drama Series^[81]		Nominated

References [link]

^ Spooks – Series 1 Episode Guide BBC Drama
^ Exact figure: 7.491666667, calculated from BARB figures for week ending 19 May 2002 and all subsequent weeks until 23 June 2002 Weekly Top 30 Programmes BARB
^ The Broadcasting Standards Commission receives 154 complaints after Helen Flynn's killing, Spy show draws record complaints BBC News, 17 July 2003
^ Peachey, Paul (22 May 2002). "Dozens protest to BBC over horrific death scene in 'Spooks'". The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/dozens-protest-to-bbc-over-horrific-death-scene-in-spooks-651933.html.
^ Spooks – Series 2 Episode Guide BBC Drama
^ Exact figure: 7.097, calculated from BARB figures for week ending 8 June 2003 and all subsequent weeks until 17 August 2003 Weekly Top 30 Programmes BARB
^ Spooks – Series 3 – Episode Guide BBC Drama, November 2009
^ Exact figure: 5.771, calculated from BARB figures for week ending 17 October 2004 and all subsequent weeks until 19 December 2004 Weekly Top 30 Programmes BARB
^ Exact figure: 6.045, calculated from BARB figures for week ending 18 September 2005 and all subsequent weeks until 13 November 2005 Weekly Top 30 Programmes BARB
^ Gibson, Owen Spooky coincidences "The Guardian", 12 September 2005
^ Spooks – Episode Guide BBC Drama, November 2009
^ Exact figure: 5.968, calculated from BARB figures for week ending 17 September 2006 and all subsequent weeks until 19 November 2006 Weekly Top 30 Programmes BARB
^ ^a ^b Spooks BBC One
^ Spooks – Series 6 Episode Guide BBC Drama
^ Calculated from BARB figures for week ending 21 October 2007 and all subsequent weeks until 23 December 2007 Weekly Top 30 Programmes BARB
^ "JennieMuskett.com". JennieMuskett.com. http://www.jenniemuskett.com/. Retrieved 2 March 2011.
^ ^a ^b "TV Winners in 2008". BAFTA. 26 April 2008. http://www.bafta.org/awards/television/latest-winners-and-nominees,91,BA.html. Retrieved 12 November 2008.
^ "Programme Information – Network TV Week 44 – Unplaced". BBC Press Office. http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/tv/wk44/unplaced.shtml#unplaced_spooks. Retrieved 8 October 2008.
^ ^a ^b "BBC One announces return of hit drama Spooks as current series continues to garner critical acclaim" (Press release). 4 December 2008. http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/12_december/04/spooks.shtml. Retrieved 4 December 2008.
^ Network TV BBC Week 44: Wednesday 4 November 2009 BBC Press Office, November 2009
^ Spooks – Series 8, Episode 2 BBC One
^ "Network TV Programme Information BBC Week 38". BBC Press Office. http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/tv/2010/wk38/. Retrieved 2 August 2010.
^ Full cast and crew for "Spooks" (2010) Internet Movie Database
^ "Spooks: Is This The End For Harry?" – Life of Wylie blog
^ "'Spooks' tenth series begins production" – Digital Spy
^ "Pulver lands boss role on Spooks" – Press Association
^ "Spooks Axed
^ "BBC sets up Spooks v Downton Abbey battle"
^ Sir Harry Pearce KBE - BBC One Spooks Personnel File
^ ; currently in the custody of the Central Intelligence Agency Spooks Personnel – Harry Pearce BBC One
^ Spooks Personnel – Erin Watts BBC One
^ Spooks Personnel – Dimitri Levendis BBC One
^ Spooks Personnel – Calum Reed BBC One
^ Spooks Personnel – Ben Kaplan BBC One
^ Spooks Personnel – Connie James BBC One
^ Spooks Personnel – Jo Portman BBC One
^ Series 7, Episode 2
^ Spooks Personnel – Ros Myers BBC One
^ Lockyer, Daphne (22 August 2010). "Hermione Norris interview: there's nothing spooky about having therapy". Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/7957946/Hermione-Norris-interview-theres-nothing-spooky-about-having-therapy.html.
^ Network TV BBC Week 38: Unplaced BBC Press Office, September 2010
^ Spooks Personnel – Tariq Masood BBC One
^ Spooks Personnel – Ruth Evershed BBC One
^ Spooks Expert – Week 5 BBC Drama, September 2004 (on Jed's departure)
^ Spooks Personnel – Beth Bailey BBC One
^ Spooks – Series 9 – Episode 2 BBC One
^ Leonard-Morgan, Paul (24 November 2011). "Spooks: Series 7 & 8". Kudos Film and Television Ltd. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/spooks-series-7-8/id482925275. Retrieved 26 November 2011.
^ Leonard-Morgan, Paul (24 November 2011). "Spooks: Series 9 & 10". Kudos Film and Television Ltd. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/spooks-series-9-10/id482937181. Retrieved 26 November 2011.
^ "Thames House". MI5. https://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/thames-house.html. Retrieved 2 March 2011.
^ YouTube (2 March 2008). "Car explodes London, Finsbury Square 2 March 2008". http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pinyNpWVDgU.
^ BBC News (14 December 2006). "Spooks spin-off set for BBC Three". http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6179781.stm. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
^ Tryhorn, Chris (14 December 2006). "BBC3 creates Spooks spin-off". The Guardian (UK). http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/dec/14/broadcasting.bbc. Retrieved 25 March 2008.
^ "Airdate announced". BBC Press Office. 2008. http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/tv/wk33/sun.shtml#sun_spooks. Retrieved 25 July 2008.
^ White, Roland (17 August 2008). "Unlikely maestros face the music". The Sunday Times (UK – Culture). http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article4524852.ece. Retrieved 17 August 2008.
^ Rawson-Jones, Ben. "'Spooks: Code 9': Episode One". Digital Spy. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/cult/a121258/spooks-code-9-episode-one.html. Retrieved 12 August 2008.
^ Evans, Mary (11 August 2008). "The weekend's television choices". Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/08/09/nosplit/bvtv09.xml#2. Retrieved 15 August 2008.
^ McLean, Gareth (8 August 2008). "Spooks: Code 9 is a spin-off too far". The Guardian (UK). http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/tv/2008/08/as_spinoffs_go_spooks_code.html. Retrieved 15 August 2008.
^ MI-5, Vol. 6 (2009) Amazon.com
^ MI-5, Vol. 7 Amazon.com
^ "Spooks: Complete Series 7". Amazon.co.uk. http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001HN6PPI. Retrieved 3 February 2009.
^ "Mi-5: Volume 8: Peter Firth, Richard Armitage, Hermione Norris, Nicola Walker, Robert Glenister: Movies & TV". Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004AUCDLU. Retrieved 2 March 2011.
^ Amazon.co.uk^{[dead link]}
^ Amazon.co.uk^{[dead link]}
^ http://www.ezydvd.com.au/DVD/spooks-series-10/dp/6110923
^ http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?season=9
^ episode 1 series 8 DVD director/producer commentary
^ "Sky Tv Nz". Skytv.co.nz. http://www.skytv.co.nz. Retrieved 2 March 2011.
^ "CANVAS - Spooks". 19 October 2009. http://programmas.canvas.be/spooks/spooks-programma. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
^ RTBF - La Une. "MI-5". http://www.rtbf.be/laune/emission/detail_mi-5?id=111. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
^ "Acht // Spooks". November 2011. http://www.acht.tv/nl/programmas/fictie/spooks/. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
^ BAFTA award list 2000 to 2005 BAFTA
^ ^a ^b BAFTA Awards 2003 IMDB; Retrieved 29 June 2008
^ Award page^{[dead link]} Royal Television Society
^ Spooks information page Kudos Productions
^ ^a ^b Best of 2003 BBC Drama
^ "BAFTA 2005 Nominees". BAFTA. http://www.bafta.org/awards/television/nominations/?year=2005. Retrieved 3 April 2009.
^ "BAFTA 2006 Nominees". Metro. 3 May 2007. http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=47779&in_page_id=7&in_a_source=. Retrieved 3 April 2009.
^ "ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards – About the awards". ITV. http://www.itv.com/Drama/copsandcrime/ITV3CrimeThrillerSeason/Abouttheawards/default.html. Retrieved 3 April 2009.
^ "Television Awards Nominations in 2009". BAFTA. 24 March 2009. http://www.bafta.org/awards/television/tv-noms-2009,709,BA.html. Retrieved 3 April 2009.
^ "Television Craft Awards Nominations in 2009". BAFTA. 24 March 2009. http://www.bafta.org/awards/television-craft/original-television-music,736,BA.html. Retrieved 3 April 2009.
^ ^a ^b Allen, Kate (7 September 2009). "Coben, Cole, Atkinson vie for crime awards". The Bookseller. http://www.thebookseller.com/news/96297-coben-cole-atkinson-vie-for-crime-awards.html. Retrieved 7 September 2009.
^ "BAFTA 2012 Nominees". BAFTA. http://www.bafta.org/television/awards/nominees-winner-2012,3256,BA.html. Retrieved 24 May 2012.

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Series	Series 1 · Series 2 · Series 3 · Series 4 · Series 5 · Series 6 · Series 7 · Series 8 · Series 9 · Series 10

Episodes	"Thou Shalt Not Kill" · "Looking After Our Own" · "One Last Dance" · "Traitor's Gate" · "Smoke and Mirrors" · "New Allegiances" · "Split Loyalties" · "The Tip-Off" · "On the Brink" · "Nuclear Strike" · "Series 8, Episode 1" · "Series 8, Episode 4" · "Series 8, Episode 8" · "Series 10, Episode 6"

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Spooks (known as MI-5 in certain countries) is a BAFTA-winning British spy drama television series, created by David Wolstencroft. It debuted on BBC One on 13 May 2002. The series follows the activities of the intelligence officers of Section D in MI5.

From its debut until its finale on 23 October 2011, 86 episodes were aired across ten complete series. The first series has six episodes, and series two through six have 10 episodes each. Series seven through nine have eight episodes each. The ninth series aired between September and November 2010. The tenth and final series, which began airing on 18 September 2011, consists of six episodes. The individual episodes have no official titles, though there are internal working titles. The USA versions air with titles, which sometimes, but not always, match the working titles.

1 Series overview
2 Episodes
3 Notes
4 References

Series overview [link]

Series		Episodes	Originally aired		DVD release date
Series		Episodes	Series premiere	Series finale	Region 1	Region 2	Region 4
	1	6	13 May 2002 (2002-05-13)	17 June 2002 (2002-06-17)	13 January 2004 (2004-01-13)^[1]	16 June 2003 (2003-06-16)^[2]	18 August 2003 (2003-08-18)^[3]
	2	10	2 June 2003 (2003-06-02)	11 August 2003 (2003-08-11)	11 January 2005 (2005-01-11)^[4]	20 September 2004 (2004-09-20)^[5]	21 March 2004 (2004-03-21)^[6]
	3	10	11 October 2004 (2004-10-11)	13 December 2004 (2004-12-13)	31 January 2006 (2006-01-31)^[7]	5 September 2005 (2005-09-05)^[8]	23 May 2005 (2005-05-23)^[9]
	4	10	12 September 2005 (2005-09-12)	10 November 2005 (2005-11-10)	9 January 2007 (2007-01-09)^[10]	4 September 2006 (2006-09-04)^[11]	21 May 2007 (2007-05-21)^[12]
	5	10	17 September 2006 (2006-09-17)	13 November 2006 (2006-11-13)	8 January 2008 (2008-01-08)^[13]	10 September 2007 (2007-09-10)^[14]	19 May 2008 (2008-05-19)^[15]
	6	10	16 October 2007 (2007-10-16)	18 December 2007 (2007-12-18)	20 January 2009 (2009-01-20)^[16]	6 October 2008 (2008-10-06)^[17]	4 August 2008 (2008-08-04)^[18]
	7	8	27 October 2008 (2008-10-27)	8 December 2008 (2008-12-08)	26 January 2010 (2010-01-26)^[19]	12 October 2008 (2008-10-12)^[20]	1 April 2009 (2009-04-01)^[21]
	8	8	4 November 2009 (2009-11-04)	23 December 2009 (2009-12-23)	25 January 2011 (2011-01-25)^[22]	20 September 2010 (2010-09-20)^[23]	3 November 2010 (2010-11-03)^[24]
	9	8	20 September 2010 (2010-09-20)	8 November 2010 (2010-11-08)	12 July 2011 (2011-07-12)^[25]	28 February 2011 (2011-02-28)^[26]	31 May 2011 (2011-05-31)^[27]
	10	6	18 September 2011 (2011-09-18)	23 October 2011 (2011-10-23)	6 March 2012 (2012-03-06)^[28]	28 November 2011 (2011-11-28)^[29]	4 April 2012 (2012-04-04)^[30]

Episodes [link]

Series 1 (2002)[link]

Main article: Spooks (series 1)

No.	#	Title^[31]	Directed by^[31]	Written by^[31]	Original air date	UK viewers (million)^[32]
1	1	"Thou Shalt Not Kill"	Bharat Nalluri	David Wolstencroft	13 May 2002 (2002-05-13)	9.60
2	2	"Looking After Our Own"	Bharat Nalluri	David Wolstencroft	20 May 2002 (2002-05-20)	8.10
3	3	"One Last Dance"	Rob Bailey	Simon Mirren	27 May 2002 (2002-05-27)	7.30
4	4	"Traitor's Gate"	Rob Bailey	Howard Brenton	4 June 2002 (2002-06-04)	5.99
5	5	"The Rose Bed Memoirs"	Andy Wilson	Howard Brenton	10 June 2002 (2002-06-10)	6.75
6	6	"Lesser of Two Evils" (Part 1) "Mean, Dirty, Nasty"^[33]	Andy Wilson	David Wolstencroft & Howard Brenton	17 June 2002 (2002-06-17)	7.21

Series 2 (2003)[link]

Main article: Spooks (series 2)

No.	#	Title^[34]	Directed by^[34]	Written by^[34]	Original air date	UK viewers (million)^[35]
7	1	"Legitimate Targets" (Part 2)	Bharat Nalluri	David Wolstencroft	2 June 2003 (2003-06-02)	8.16
8	2	"Nest of Angels"	Bharat Nalluri	Howard Brenton	9 June 2003 (2003-06-09)	7.87
9	3	"Spiders" "Hackers^[36]"	Rob Bailey	Matthew Graham	16 June 2003 (2003-06-16)	7.18
10	4	"Blood and Money"	Rob Bailey	Howard Brenton	23 June 2003 (2003-06-23)	7.38
11	5	"I Spy Apocalypse"	Justin Chadwick	Howard Brenton	7 July 2003 (2003-07-07)	6.30
12	6	"Without Incident" "President's Visit^[36]"	Justin Chadwick	David Wolstencroft	14 July 2003 (2003-07-14)	N/A^{[n 1]}
13	7	"Clean Skin"	Ciaran Donnelly	Simon Mirren	21 July 2003 (2003-07-21)	6.90
14	8	"Strike Force" "Military Strikes^[36]"	Ciaran Donnelly	Steve Bailie	28 July 2003 (2003-07-28)	6.68
15	9	"The Seventh Division"	Sam Miller	Ben Richards	4 August 2003 (2003-08-04)	6.92
16	10	"Smoke and Mirrors" (Part 1) "Pit of Secrets^[36]"	Sam Miller	Howard Brenton	11 August 2003 (2003-08-11)	7.32

Series 3 (2004)[link]

Main article: Spooks (series 3)

No.	#	Title^[37]	Directed by^[38]^[39]	Written by^[38]^[39]	Original air date	UK viewers (million)^[40]
17	1	"Project Friendly Fire" (Part 2)	Jonny Campbell	Howard Brenton	11 October 2004 (2004-10-11) (BBC One)	6.77
18	2	"The Sleeper"	Jonny Campbell	Howard Brenton	16 October 2004 (2004-10-16) (BBC Three)^{[n 2]}	6.48
19	3	"Who Guards the Guards?"	Cilla Ware	Rupert Walters	23 October 2004 (2004-10-23) (BBC Three)	6.49
20	4	"A Prayer for My Daughter"	Cilla Ware	Ben Richards	30 October 2004 (2004-10-30) (BBC Three)	6.33
21	5	"Love and Death"	Justin Chadwick	David Wolstencroft	6 November 2004 (2004-11-06) (BBC Three)	5.00
22	6	"Persephone"	Justin Chadwick	Ben Richards	13 November 2004 (2004-11-13) (BBC Three)	5.46
23	7	"Outsiders"	Bill Anderson	Raymond Khoury	20 November 2004 (2004-11-20) (BBC Three)	5.74
24	8	"Celebrity"	Bill Anderson	Howard Brenton	27 November 2004 (2004-11-27) (BBC Three)	5.19
25	9	"Frequently Asked Questions"	Alrick Riley	Rupert Walters	4 December 2004 (2004-12-04) (BBC Three)	4.92
26	10	"The Suffering of Strangers"	Alrick Riley	Ben Richards	13 December 2004 (2004-12-13) (BBC One)	5.33

Series 4 (2005)[link]

Main article: Spooks (series 4)

No.	#	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (million)^[41]
27	1	"The Special (Part 1)"^[42]	Antonia Bird	Ben Richards	12 September 2005 (2005-09-12)	6.63
28	2	"The Special (Part 2)"^[43]	Antonia Bird	Ben Richards	13 September 2005 (2005-09-13)	6.84
29	3	"Divided They Fall"^[44]	Alrick Riley	Ben Richards	22 September 2005 (2005-09-22)	6.50
30	4	"Road Trip"^[45]	Alrick Riley	Howard Brenton	29 September 2005 (2005-09-29)	5.21
31	5	"The Book"^[46]	Jeremy Lovering	Raymond Khoury	6 October 2005 (2005-10-06)	5.20
32	6	"The Innocent"^[47]	Jeremy Lovering	David Farr	13 October 2005 (2005-10-13)	5.83
33	7	"Syria"^[48]	Omar Madha	Raymond Khoury	20 October 2005 (2005-10-20)	5.74
34	8	"The Russian"^[49]	Omar Madha	Howard Brenton	27 October 2005 (2005-10-27)	6.34
35	9	"The Sting"^[50]	Julian Simpson	Rupert Walters	3 November 2005 (2005-11-03)	5.98
36	10	"Diana"^[51]	Julian Simpson	Howard Brenton	10 November 2005 (2005-11-10)	6.18

Series 5 (2006)[link]

Main article: Spooks (series 5)

No.	#	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (million)^[52]
37	1	"Gas and Oil (Part 1)"	Omar Madha	Ben Richards	17 September 2006 (2006-09-17)	6.31
38	2	"Gas and Oil (Part 2)"	Omar Madha	Ben Richards	18 September 2006 (2006-09-18)	5.75
39	3	"The Cell"	Julian Simpson	Ben Richards	25 September 2006 (2006-09-25)	6.12
40	4	"World Trade"	Kenny Glenaan	David Farr	2 October 2006 (2006-10-02)	5.79
41	5	"The Message"	Kenny Glenaan	Zinnie Harris	9 October 2006 (2006-10-09)	5.89
42	6	"Hostage Takers (Part 1)"	Andy Hay	Raymond Khoury	16 October 2006 (2006-10-16)	6.05
43	7	"Hostage Takers (Part 2)"	Andy Hay	Raymond Khoury	23 October 2006 (2006-10-23)	5.53
44	8	"Agenda"	Julian Simpson	Julian Simpson	30 October 2006 (2006-10-30)	5.97
45	9	"The Criminal"	Julian Holmes	Neil Cross	6 November 2006 (2006-11-06)	5.80
46	10	"Aftermath"	Julian Holmes	David Farr	13 November 2006 (2006-11-13)	6.47

Series 6 (2007)[link]

Main article: Spooks (series 6)

No.	#	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (million)^[53]
47	1	"The Virus (Part 1)"	Omar Madha	Neil Cross	16 October 2007 (2007-10-16) (BBC One)	6.61
48	2	"The Virus (Part 2)"	Omar Madha	Neil Cross	16 October 2007 (2007-10-16) (BBC Three)^{[n 3]}	5.78
49	3	"The Kidnap"	Charles Beeson	Rupert Walters	23 October 2007 (2007-10-23) (BBC Three)	6.12
50	4	"The Extremist"	Charles Beeson	David Farr	30 October 2007 (2007-10-30) (BBC Three)	5.62
51	5	"The Deal"	Brendan Maher	Zinnie Harris	6 November 2007 (2007-11-06) (BBC Three)	5.58
52	6	"The Courier"	Brendan Maher	George Tiffin	13 November 2007 (2007-11-13) (BBC Three)	5.30
53	7	"The Broadcast"	Stefan Schwartz	David Farr	20 November 2007 (2007-11-20) (BBC Three)	4.94
54	8	"Infiltration"	Stefan Schwartz	Neil Cross	27 November 2007 (2007-11-27) (BBC Three)	5.26
55	9	"Isolated"	Alrick Riley	Neil Cross	4 December 2007 (2007-12-04) (BBC Three)	4.84
56	10	"The School"	Alrick Riley	Ben Richards	18 December 2007 (2007-12-18) (BBC One)	5.68

Series 7 (2008)[link]

Main article: Spooks (series 7)

No.	#	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (million)^[54]
57	1	"New Allegiances" (Part 1)	Colm McCarthy	Neil Cross & Ben Richards	27 October 2008 (2008-10-27) (BBC One)	5.91
58	2	"Split Loyalties" (Part 2)	Colm McCarthy	Neil Cross & Ben Richards	27 October 2008 (2008-10-27) (BBC Three)^{[n 4]}	5.63
59	3	"The Tip-Off"	Peter Hoar	Russell Lewis & Ben Richards	28 October 2008 (2008-10-28) (BBC Three)	5.59
60	4	"A Chance for Peace"	Peter Hoar	Richard McBrien	3 November 2008 (2008-11-03) (BBC Three)	5.29
61	5	"On the Brink"	Edward Hall	Christian Spurrier	10 November 2008 (2008-11-10) (BBC Three)	5.21
62	6	"Accidental Discovery"	Edward Hall	David Farr	17 November 2008 (2008-11-17) (BBC Three)	5.14
63	7	"The Mole"	Sam Miller	James Moran & Christian Spurrier	24 November 2008 (2008-11-24) (BBC Three)	5.00
64	8	"Nuclear Strike"	Sam Miller	Neil Cross	8 December 2008 (2008-12-08) (BBC One)	5.95

Series 8 (2009)[link]

Main article: Spooks (series 8)

No.	#	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (million)^[55]
65	1	"Episode 1"	Alrick Riley	Story: Zinnie Harris & Ben Richards Teleplay: Ben Richards	4 November 2009 (2009-11-04) (BBC One)	6.55
66	2	"Episode 2"	Alrick Riley	Story: Zinnie Harris & Ben Richards Teleplay: Ben Richards	6 November 2009 (2009-11-06) (BBC Three)^{[n 5]}	5.11
67	3	"Episode 3"	Sam Miller	Christian Spurrier & Sean Reilly	13 November 2009 (2009-11-13) (BBC Three)	5.26
68	4	"Episode 4"	Sam Miller	David Farr	20 November 2009 (2009-11-20) (BBC Three)	5.18
69	5	"Episode 5"	Alrick Riley	Richard McBrien	27 November 2009 (2009-11-27) (BBC Three)	4.39
70	6	"Episode 6"	Edward Hall	Dennis Kelly	4 December 2009 (2009-12-04) (BBC Three)	5.11
71	7	"Episode 7"	Edward Hall	James Dormer	11 December 2009 (2009-12-11) (BBC Three)	N/A^{[n 6]}
72	8	"Episode 8"	Alrick Riley	Ben Richards	23 December 2009 (2009-12-23) (BBC One)	5.91

Series 9 (2010)[link]

Main article: Spooks (series 9)

No.	#	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (million)^[56]
73	1	"Episode 1"	Paul Whittington	Jonathan Brackley & Sam Vincent	20 September 2010 (2010-09-20)	6.74
74	2	"Episode 2"	Michael Caton-Jones	David Farr	27 September 2010 (2010-09-27)	6.27
75	3	"Episode 3"	Michael Caton-Jones	Richard McBrien	4 October 2010 (2010-10-04)	6.04
76	4	"Episode 4"	Paul Whittington	Jonathan Brackley & Sam Vincent	11 October 2010 (2010-10-11)	6.37
77	5	"Episode 5"	Julian Holmes	Jonathan Brackley & Sam Vincent & Oliver Brown	18 October 2010 (2010-10-18)	6.35
78	6	"Episode 6"	Julian Holmes	Jonathan Brackley & Sam Vincent	25 October 2010 (2010-10-25)	6.36
79	7	"Episode 7"	Edward Hall	Anthony Neilson	1 November 2010 (2010-11-01)	6.10
80	8	"Episode 8"	Edward Hall	Jonathan Brackley & Sam Vincent	8 November 2010 (2010-11-08)	6.40

Series 10 (2011)[link]

Main article: Spooks (series 10)

No.	#	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (million)^[57]
81	1	"Episode 1"	Alrick Riley	Jonathan Brackley & Sam Vincent	18 September 2011 (2011-09-18)	5.63
82	2	"Episode 2"	Alrick Riley	Jonathan Brackley & Sam Vincent	25 September 2011 (2011-09-25)	5.12
83	3	"Episode 3"	Julian Homes	Jonathan Brackley & Sam Vincent	2 October 2011 (2011-10-02)	5.15
84	4	"Episode 4"	Julian Holmes	Sean Cook	9 October 2011 (2011-10-09)	5.31
85	5	"Episode 5"	Bharat Nalluri	Jonathan Brackley & Sam Vincent & Anthony Neilson	16 October 2011 (2011-10-16)	5.27
86	6	"Episode 6"	Bharat Nalluri	Jonathan Brackley & Sam Vincent	23 October 2011 (2011-10-23)	5.95

Notes [link]

^ Data of the viewing figures for that week was not available on the BARB website
^ "The Sleeper" on 18 October 2004 on BBC One; the rest of the series would continue on BBC One two days after the BBC Three broadcast.
^ "The Virus, Part 2" airs right after "Part 1" on BBC Three; The series would continue on BBC One a week after the BBC Three broadcast
^ "Split Loyalties" on 28 October 2008 on BBC One; the rest of the series would continue on BBC One a week after the BBC Three broadcast
^ "Series 8, Episode 2" onward would air from 11 November 2009 onwards on BBC One
^ The episode did not appear in the top 30 viewings on the BARB website

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v t e Spooks

Series	Series 1 · Series 2 · Series 3 · Series 4 · Series 5 · Series 6 · Series 7 · Series 8 · Series 9 · Series 10

Episodes	"Thou Shalt Not Kill" · "Looking After Our Own" · "One Last Dance" · "Traitor's Gate" · "Smoke and Mirrors" · "New Allegiances" · "Split Loyalties" · "The Tip-Off" · "On the Brink" · "Nuclear Strike" · "Series 8, Episode 1" · "Series 8, Episode 4" · "Series 8, Episode 8" · "Series 10, Episode 6"

Characters	Beth Bailey · Nicholas Blake · Adam Carter · Fiona Carter · Vaughn Edwards · Ruth Evershed · Helen Flynn · Bob Hogan · Danny Hunter · Connie James · Ben Kaplan · Jed Kelley · Maya Lahan · Andrew Lawrence · Dimitri Levendis · Oliver Mace · Tariq Masood · Ros Myers · Lucas North · Harry Pearce · Tessa Phillips · Jo Portman · Tom Quinn · Zoe Reynolds · Juliet Shaw · William Towers · Erin Watts · Colin Wells · Malcolm Wynn-Jones · Zafar Younis

Spin-off series	Spooks: Code 9

Related topics	David Wolstencroft · Kudos · MI5

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