Which ITV crime drama series stars Brenda Blethyn in the title role?
Brenda Blethyn (1998). Blethyn has since appeared in a range of big-budget and independent features, including "Girls' Night", "Music from Another Room", "Night Train" (all 1998), "Saving Grace" (2000), "Lovely and Amazing" (2001), "Pumpkin", "Sonny", "Plots with a View" (all 2002), "Beyond the Sea", "A Way of Life" (both 2004), "Pride & Prejudice" (2005), "Clubland", and "Atonement" (both 2007). In addition, she has continued to appear frequently on television, in productions such as "" (2001) and "War and Peace" (2007). She currently stars as DCI Vera Stanhope in the British crime drama series "Vera" (2011–present). Born in Ramsgate, Kent, Blethyn was the
Brenda Blethyn with the Royal Shakespeare Company and her American stage debut "Absent Friends", for which eventually received a Theatre World Award for Outstanding New Talent. Besides she played character parts in the BBC adaptation of Hanif Kureishi's "The Buddha of Suburbia" and the ITV cricketing comedy-drama series "Outside Edge", based on the play by television writer Richard Harris. Blethyn also performed in a variety of episodes of "Alas Smith & Jones" and "Maigret". Blethyn's breakthrough came with Mike Leigh's 1996 drama "Secrets & Lies". Starring alongside Marianne Jean-Baptiste, she portrayed a lower-class box factory worker, who after years once again comes