Biographies

This three-part psychological thriller set in Glasgow follows the paranoia of a woman who sees her identity being dismantled and can't work out whether the cause is another woman or her own baby.

Published: 3 February 2017

Morven was born in Helensburgh, Scotland, and grew up in Glasgow and Aviemore. She studied at the Drama Centre London until 2003 and came to prominence six years ago for her roles in Sam Mendes and Kevin Spacey’s much-acclaimed Bridge Project at The Old Vic and Brooklyn theatres.

Morven has become known for starring in the 2009 drama The Young Victoria, where she appeared alongside Emily Blunt, and the BAFTA nominated romantic drama, Lilting.

Morven also starred in the well-known short film Hollow, winner of four awards at the 2011 Rhodes Island International Film Festival. The film explores the nature of addiction as Morven’s character struggles with her partner to overcome their heroin addiction. Further film credits include: Between Places, Shell and The Flying Scotsman.

In 2016, Morven starred in the BBC series The A Word, (written by BAFTA-winning Peter Bowker and also starring Christopher Eccleston) as a mother dealing with the news her son has autism. She also recently appeared in the ITV detective drama Grantchester and in Birger Larsen’s Murder on BBC Two.

Vicky McClure

Thanks to Shane Meadows’s This Is England 86, Vicky won a Best Leading Actress BAFTA for her mesmerising and heartbreaking performance as Lol. She was nominated again for the same role in This Is England 88 and finished the story last year with This Is England 90.

Vicky has gone on to star in the hit BBC Two crime thriller Line Of Duty, played a steely and driven journalist in the first series of Broadchurch, starred in True Love with David Tennant exploring the heartache of long lost love. She recently starred in her first period drama The Secret Agent - a thrilling three-parter based on anarchy and terrorism in Victorian London and starred Toby Jones and Stephen Graham. In early February 2017 she will star in her first stage play Touched in her home town of Nottingham at the Playhouse Theatre: a powerful and poignant World War II drama set during the 100 days between VE and VJ Day as well as returning to our screens in Line Of Duty 4.

Richard Rankin

Born in Rutherglen, Glasgow, Richard first attracted attention in the Scottish comedy series Burnistoun, and toured worldwide in the Olivier Award winning play Black Watch for the National Theatre of Scotland. It was his iconic role as Capt. Thomas Gillan in The Crimson Field that led to other strong performances on television such as Silent Witness, The Syndicate, From Darkness and Thirteen for the BBC. Richard stars as Roger Wakefield in the popular STARZ/Sony epic production, Outlander which returns in 2017.

Dougray Scott

Chiefly known for his roles in action thrillers like, Hitman, Mission Impossible 2 and Taken 3, Dougray’s impressive career spans film and TV in both the UK and Hollywood. From Enigma to My Week With Marilyn, and Day Of The Triffids to Desperate Housewives, Dougray is one of Scotland’s most successful actors of the past two decades. Born in Glenrothes, Scotland, and going on to be named the most promising student at the Welsh College of Music and Drama, Dougray started out with small TV roles and quickly progressed to films. He divides his time between LA and the UK.

Neve McIntosh

Neve was born in Paisley and grew up in Edinburgh. With television credits that include The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Psychos, Lip Service, Bodies, and Single Father, Neve is perhaps most recognisable for her compelling and fresh portrayals of Silurian warrior Madame Vastra in Doctor Who, and nurse consultant Nicola Hicklin in Jed Mercurio's Sky 1 drama Critical.

Navin was born and raised in Bristol. He made his professional debut aged 15 in John Schlesinger's critically-acclaimed film Madame Sousatzka, starring alongside Shirley MacLaine and Peggy Ashcroft. Several films followed co-starring with actors such as Peter O'Toole and Nigel Hawthorne. In 1994, Navin graduated from a bio-chemistry degree from Imperial College London, after which he went on to play Kurt in Channel 4's drama Teachers and Raph in Channel 4's Ny-Lon. Other recent TV work includes Dalziel And Pascoe, Judge John Deed, Waking The Dead and A Touch Of Cloth. He played Anwar in the critically acclaimed BBC TV series Doctor Foster.

Siobhan Redmond

Originally from Tollcross, Glasgow, Siobhan studied English at St Andrews University and playwright Liz Lochhead remembers discovering her performing in a student Mermaids society production. Her first television appearances were in the 1980s, notably starring alongside Robbie Coltrane, Ben Elton, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, and Emma Thompson in sketch comedy Alfresco. She went on to play memorable roles in shows such as Between The Lines, The High Life, Holby City, The Smoking Room and Doctor Who.

Joe Ahearne - Writer/Director

Joe created the series Ultraviolet for World Productions for Channel 4 in the UK and SyFy in the US. Joe has written and directed episodes of This Life and Strange, as well as the two-part drama-documentary Space Odyssey: Voyage To The Planets for the BBC and Discovery which Fox adapted into the scripted series Defying Gravity.

Joe was the director of five episodes of the first series of Doctor Who, for which he was nominated for a BAFTA. In 2007, his TV movie Perfect Parents starring Christopher Eccleston won three Rome Fiction Fest awards.

In 2012, Joe wrote and directed the BBC’s The Secret Of Crickley Hall, from the book by James Herbert. Joe’s TV movie Trance was adapted into a feature for director Danny Boyle, co-written by Joe. Set for release later this year is feature B&B, written and directed by Joe for Hummingbird Films/Creative England.

Nicole Cauverien - Producer

Nicole is a freelance TV producer. The Replacement is her third collaboration with Joe Ahearne. The show follows their previous success Perfect Parents which won Best TV Film, Best Overall TV Drama and Best Script awards at the Rome Fiction Fest.

Nicole began her career working on Drama and Children’s programmes for WorldWide Television where, as Head of Development she produced, developed and script-edited on a varied slate. She moved on to become Director of Drama at Scottish Television.
She has since worked freelance and has produced and developed scripts for the BBC, ITV Productions, World Productions, Clerkenwell Film and TV, Impossible Pictures and the Film Council/South-West Screen.

Most recently she worked for Development Media International producing drama enabling behaviour change in francophone West Africa.

The Replacement came out of Nicole and Joe’s desire to make a thriller out of women’s lived experience, in this case, the insecurities that arise from being “replaced” at work .

Andy Harries - Executive Producer

Andy Harries is a TV, film and theatre producer. As well as a producer of Peter Morgan’s hugely successful The Audience on the West End and Broadway, Andy recently executive produced the first ever Netflix original series in the UK, The Crown, written by Peter Morgan and directed by Stephen Daldry. The series recently won the Best TV series (drama) at the 2017 Golden Globes.

Andy is Chief Executive and co-founder of Left Bank Pictures. Established in 2007 and a majority stake acquired by Sony in 2012, Left Bank Pictures has built up a creative team with a wealth of experience in British filmmaking and broadcasting. To date it has produced four series of the seven times BAFTA award-winning Wallander (starring Kenneth Branagh), five series of Strike Back for Sky 1 and HBO, four series of Mad Dogs for Sky 1, the critically acclaimed three-part drama for BBC One, Zen (starring Rufus Sewell), the four-part ITV thriller Father & Son (starring Dougray Scott) and five series of the ITV crime drama DCI Banks (starring Stephen Tompkinson). Other shows include School Of Comedy and Cardinal Burns for E4, Married, Single, Other for ITV, BBC single drama Loving Miss Hatto written by Victoria Wood and Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This, a film for ITV about the life of comedian Tommy Cooper (starring David Threlfall).

Feature films include The Damned United, directed by Tom Hooper, All In Good Time, adapted from the Olivier Award-winning National Theatre production Rafta Rafta by Ayub Khan Din, The Lady, directed by Luc Besson and the upcoming Dark River directed by Clio Barnard.

Prior to establishing Left Bank Pictures, Andy was Controller of Drama, Comedy and Film for Granada Productions. During this period he produced a huge range of dramas, comedies and films, including Silent Witness, Prime Suspect, Cold Feet, The Royle Family and The Street, winning Golden Globes, Emmys and BAFTAs and receiving an Academy Award nomination as a producer of The Queen, which saw a run of six Academy Award nominations, with Helen Mirren memorably winning Best Actress.

In 2007, Andy was awarded the Special Achievement award by BAFTA and, in May 2011, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Television Society for outstanding contribution to the broadcasting industry.

Suzanne Mackie - Executive Producer

Suzanne Mackie is Creative Director at Left Bank Pictures.

Mackie’s recent work includes Executive Producing the first UK Netflix original drama series, The Crown, working closely alongside Creator Peter Morgan.

Alongside writer Chris Cole, Mackie originated Mad Dogs for Sky 1, three series of which she Executive Produced. Mad Dogs series one was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Drama Series in 2011 and has since won several other nominations and awards.

Previously, Suzanne was Development Executive at Harbour Pictures from 1994 having formerly worked for BBC Drama Serial. After securing a first-look deal with Buena Vista International Suzanne originated and produced her first feature film Calendar Girls, in 2002/3 for Buena Vista.