View our online Press Pack. The Bafta-nominated star will soon be seen in new BBC One series The … Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Born in 1970 in Stepney in the East End of London to a scrap-metal dealer father “who thought acting was a ridiculous thing to do”, it was her mother who provided the necessary encouragement. ‘I played wealth,’ she smiles. The Split is set in London and follows the lives of three sisters who are high-flying divorce lawyers. “I’d be an absolutely appalling detective... appalling,” she demurs. A top-notch support cast included Bernard Hill, Tom Courtney, Trevor Eve, Ruth Sheen and Gemma Jones, while Walker was joined by Sanjeev Bhaskar as her police partner, DI Sunil “Sunny” Khan. This year, besides the third series of Unforgotten — which was the most talked about yet — she has also headed up a rather more glamorous drama, the BBC’s high-class legal soap opera The Split. ‘It was on recently and I had a lot of phone calls from my family,’ she reveals. For other inquiries, Contact Us. He is a man haunted by the murder victims whose cases he must lay to rest. You just think, “No, that doesn’t make any sense at all.”’, Similarly, she says, growing up in the East End as the daughter of working-class parents, she was never fazed by the perceived snobbery of the profession. For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click here. “Here, there’s a little more staring, and people coming up and saying ‘really sorry to bother you but I really love Unforgotten... when’s it coming back?’ I can now tell them.”, Does Walker herself stop famous people in the street? Nicola was cast in the leading role of DI Susan Taylor in ITV thriller Touching Evil in 1997 acting opposite Robson Green and in 2003, Nicola joined the cast of Spooks. By Laura Fox For Mailonline. Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post the same level of attention, but we have preserved this area in the interests of open debate. Instead their fractious relationship echoes the inter-generational culture wars currently raging in society. Nicola plays the role of Hannah Defoe, who is inquisitive and analytical with other people's marriages, while dealing with her own relationship issues. It’s a CV quirk that she credits to the female-friendliness of crime dramas. Whenever Unforgotten ends, though, she thinks it will be time for her to hang up the badge: ‘Cassie is my last copper, I would have thought.’. Last Tango in Halifax couldn’t have been more different to Spooks if it had cast Sir Derek Jacobi as her father, which of course it did. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. The existing Open Comments threads will continue to exist for those who do not subscribe to Independent Premium. The 46-year-old actor has a new series of Unforgotten in the pipeline. NICOLA Walker graces our screens in the Bafta-nominated ITV crime drama Unforgotten as the tenacious DCI Cassie Stuart. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. Walker and Bhaskar have an unmistakable on-screen chemistry in ITV’s ‘Unforgiven’  Unforgotten's Nicola Walker interview: I'd be an appalling detective, You may not agree with our views, or other users’, but please respond to them respectfully, Swearing, personal abuse, racism, sexism, homophobia and other discriminatory or inciteful language is not acceptable, Do not impersonate other users or reveal private information about third parties, We reserve the right to delete inappropriate posts and ban offending users without notification. In fact, she has played a number of policewomen through the years, dating all the way back to her breakthrough role in late-1990s procedural Touching Evil. I remember trying to get our deposit back from quite a scary landlord in St John’s Wood and there being too many of us living in a very small flat. ‘I was told [that] by older actresses when I started out, and I never believed it,’ she says. Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile, There were a few weeks in the autumn of 2015 when avid consumers of television crime drama might have started to feel slightly confused.

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