The Netflix drama comes out today
BY YASMIN VINCE, IMAGE BY NETFLIX
If you love dramatic, family dramas mixed with psychological crime stories, Netflix may have just released your next obsession. Their new show, Adolescence, is all about what happens when a 13 year-old boy is arrested for murder. Did he do it? Why? And how will his family cope?
So that you can focus on the gritty events, we’ve brought together a list of where you may have seen this cast, full of queer actors and allies, before…
Erin Doherty (Briony Ariston)
Queer actor Erin Doherty plays Briony Ariston, a psychologist evaluating the mental state of teen murder suspect Jamie Miller. But you may know Erin as Princess Anne in seasons four and five of The Crown.
Erin has also been in a recent show, A Thousand Blows, where she plays Mary Carr, a gangster in Victorian London, and as Becky Green in Chloe.
Faye Marsay (DS Misha Frank)
Faye plays one of the detectives who have Jamie arrested. Before this, the actor has been in a number of queer films and TV shows, from period dramas to sci-fi fantasies.
This includes the 2014 film Pride, where she played one of the lesbians who campaigned on behalf of the miners in 1984. More recently, Faye was Vel Sartha, one half of a lesbian couple in Andor and The One in Avocado Toast, a Canadian web series created by none other than Faye’s wife, Heidi Lynch. Later this month, she will also make an appearance in Heidi’s latest show Get Hooked.
Stephen Graham (Eddie Miller)
Eddie Miller is the father of Jamie and must learn how to cope knowing what his son did. Even from the trailer, it’s clear that Stephen Graham is making this role one of his best. Stephen’s list of credits is incredibly long, so chances are you’ve definitely seen him before, whether that’s from his time in Peaky Blinders, Line of Duty or A Thousand Blows, in which he starred alongside Erin Doherty.
Ashley Walters (DI Luke Bascombe)
Misha Frank’s partner, DI Luke Bascome is the other detective building a case against Jamie. He is played by Ashley Walters, who you may recognise from Top Boy, Netflix’s Missing You or as the third A Thousand Blows castmate to reunite on this project.
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