Hidden is a 2011 British television drama starring Philip Glenister

Philip Glenister

Philip Haywood Glenister is an English actor, known for his role as DCI Gene Hunt in British television series Life On Mars and its sequel Ashes To Ashes.-Television and films:...

, Thekla Reuten

Thekla Reuten

Thekla Simona Gelsomina Reuten is a Dutch actress.Reuten was born in Bussum, Netherlands, the daughter of an Italian mother and a Dutch father. Reuten portrayed Duncan MacLeod's love interest Anna in Highlander: The Source, released in September 2007...

, Anna Chancellor

Anna Chancellor

-Family:Chancellor was born in Richmond, London, England, the daughter of the Hon. Mary Alice Jolliffe and John Paget Chancellor. Through her mother's mother, Lady Perdita Rose Mary Asquith, Chancellor is the great-granddaughter of The Hon. Raymond Aquith and the great-great-granddaughter of Prime...

, Michael Winder and David Suchet

David Suchet

David Suchet, CBE, is an English actor, known for his work on British television. He is recognised for his RTS- and BPG award-winning performance as Augustus Melmotte in the 2001 British TV mini-drama The Way We Live Now, alongside Matthew Macfadyen and Paloma Baeza, and a 1991 British Academy...

 which debuted on BBC One

BBC One

BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...

 on 6 October 2011. The four part series was directed by Niall MacCormick

Niall MacCormick

Niall MacCormick is a British film and television director.-External links:...

, produced by Christopher Hall

Christopher Hall (producer)

Christopher Hall is a British TV drama producer also known as Chris Hall.He is the son of Sir Peter Hall and Leslie Caron and was educated at Bedales School and St Catharines College, Cambridge...

 and written by Ronan Bennett

Ronan Bennett

Ronan Bennett is a Northern Irish novelist and screenwriter. He was raised in a devout Roman Catholic family headed by William H. and Geraldine Bennett at 420 Merville Garden Village in the Whitehouse area of Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland. Since its development in the late-1940s, Merville has...

.

Plot summary

The series focuses on small-time solicitor Harry Venn (Glenister), who is reluctantly drawn back into his dark past after being approached by Gina Hawkes (Reuten). Hawkes, a lawyer searching for a missing alibi witness for her client, quickly draws Venn into a deep and dangerous conspiracy involving the death of his brother 20 years previously, and which reaches deep into the heart of the British political system.

Cast

• Philip Glenister
  Philip Glenister
  Philip Haywood Glenister is an English actor, known for his role as DCI Gene Hunt in British television series Life On Mars and its sequel Ashes To Ashes.-Television and films:...
  
   - Harry Venn
• Thekla Reuten
  Thekla Reuten
  Thekla Simona Gelsomina Reuten is a Dutch actress.Reuten was born in Bussum, Netherlands, the daughter of an Italian mother and a Dutch father. Reuten portrayed Duncan MacLeod's love interest Anna in Highlander: The Source, released in September 2007...
  
   - Gina Hawkes
• Thomas Craig
  Thomas Craig (actor)
  Thomas Craig, is a British actor best known for his work on such TV series as Where the Heart Is and Tommy Harris in Coronation Street, and also the film The Navigators, directed by Ken Loach in 2001.Craig was originally a plumber before making the move into acting in the 1980s...
  
   - DI Fenton Russell
• Ben Smith
  Benjamin Smith (actor)
  Benjamin Smith is a British actor best known for playing Damien Trotter in Only Fools and Horses from 2001 to 2003. He has also appeared in Holby City, Goodnight Mister Tom and Second Sight. In 2008, he played Tegs on EastEnders and Donny on Skins...
  
   - Matt
• David Suchet
  David Suchet
  David Suchet, CBE, is an English actor, known for his work on British television. He is recognised for his RTS- and BPG award-winning performance as Augustus Melmotte in the 2001 British TV mini-drama The Way We Live Now, alongside Matthew Macfadyen and Paloma Baeza, and a 1991 British Academy...
  
   - Sir Nigel Fountain
• Anna Chancellor
  Anna Chancellor
  -Family:Chancellor was born in Richmond, London, England, the daughter of the Hon. Mary Alice Jolliffe and John Paget Chancellor. Through her mother's mother, Lady Perdita Rose Mary Asquith, Chancellor is the great-granddaughter of The Hon. Raymond Aquith and the great-great-granddaughter of Prime...
  
   - Elspeth Verney
• Michael Winder - Kevin Gaunt
• Matthew Marsh
  Matthew Marsh (actor)
  Matthew Marsh is an English actor. Matthew Marsh is the older brother of Jon Marsh of English dance band The Beloved. He has appeared in the films Alambrado, Spy Game, An American Haunting, Hawking and Bad Company, and guest-starred in the sixth series of the spy drama Spooks in 2007 and the...
  
   - James Morpeth
• Bertie Carvel
  Bertie Carvel
  Bertie Carvel is a British actor.He received a first from Sussex University in English, and graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 2003.-Theatre:...
  
   - Alexander Wentworth
• Richard Dormer - Frank Hanna
• Peter Guinness
  Peter Guinness (actor)
  Peter Guinness is a British film, television and theatre actor.-Career:He has appeared in over fifty television productions and over ten films...
  
   - Jason Styles
• Mark Flitton - Paul Hillman
• David Michaels
  David Michaels (actor)
  David Michaels was born in 1964 in Manchester. He is an English actor, appearing on stage and television.He appeared in many stage productions, including A Midsummer's Night Dream, and toured with the Royal Shakespeare Company....
  
   - Brian Worsley
• Christov Ruhn - Mezwar Tanzir
• Christopher Fairbank
  Christopher Fairbank
  Christopher Fairbank is an English actor best known for his role as Albert Arthur Moxey in the hit comedy-drama series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.-Career:...
  
   - George Venn
• Rupert Simonian - Michael Venn
• Mark Powley
  Mark Powley
  Mark Powley Mark Powley Mark Powley (Born 4 October 1963 Chelmsford, Essex United Kingdom is a British actor.Powley is best known for his work on television, most notably for appearing in 88 episodes of police drama The Bill as P.C Melvin (1987–1990) and as builder Tom in BBC sitcom Next of Kin for...
  
   - Mark Venn
• Audrey Looten - Jennifer Moscati
• Mens-Sana Tamakloe - Dean Stubbs
• Andrew Scarborough - Ben Lander
• Paul Ritter
  Paul Ritter (actor)
  Paul Ritter is a British stage and screen actor.His selected filmography includes roles in Quantum of Solace, Son of Rambow, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Nowhere Boy, The Eagle and the 2007 television serial Instinct....
  
   - Stevie Quirke
• Christopher Webster - Young Harry Venn
• Lisa Kay
  Lisa Kay
  Lisa Kay is an English actress, born 1977 to Peter and Jean Hazel Kay. She grew up in Levisham on the North York Moors, and has three sisters, Samantha, Sara and Caroline....
  
   - Lauren
• Seainin Brennan - Frances
• Nina Hossain
  Nina Hossain
  Nina Hossain is a British journalist, presenter and newscaster.Hossain is currently employed on a freelance basis by ITN where she is the main presenter of ITV London's regional news programme London Tonight. Nina also acts as a relief newscaster for ITV News.-Background:Hossain was born in...
  
   - Herself
• Adam Boulton
  Adam Boulton
  Adam Boulton is political editor of the British television channel Sky News, a post he has held since being asked to establish the politics team for the launch of the channel in 1989.-Biography:...
  
   - Himself

Episodes

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