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MyAnna Buring, Adelayo Adedayo, Ian Hart and Kerrie Hayes have been added to the cast of BBC thriller The Responder.
They join The Hobbit star Martin Freeman in starring in the programme, which is set in Liverpool.
Filming of the series begins on Monday.
Martin Freeman (Matt Crossick/PA)
Freeman portrays Chris across six night shifts as an urgent response police officer.
BBC The Responder filming starts as new cast members are announced
The BBC drama is filming in Liverpool and is based on the experiences of a Merseyside Police officer
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Adelayo Adedayo has been announced as Martin Freeman s co-star on Liverpool-based The Responder. (Image: @adelayoadedayo/Instagram)
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In My Skin), Sir Lenny Henry CBE (
The Lord of the Rings) and Cole Martin have also joined the cast.
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Martin will play the lead role of Leon, a 9-year-old mixed race boy who is on a quest to reunite his family after being separated from his blonde, blue-eyed baby brother.
Production has begun on the television film, which is set in 1980s Birmingham, England.
My Name is Leon is produced by Douglas Road Productions in association with Tiger Aspect Productions, Ringside Studios and Vicarious Productions for BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
Lynette Linton will be making her directorial debut, based off a script by Shola Amoo.
A FIRST: Shola Amoo
FILMING HAS begun in Birmingham on BBC One’s adaptation of Kit de Waal’s lauded debut novel
My Name is Leon, produced by Douglas Road Productions.
It’s rare, in my experience, for projects such as this to be made and even more rare to be seen
Malachi Kirby
Shola Amoo’s first screenplay for television, it stars Malachi Kirby, Monica Dolan, Olivia Williams, Christopher Eccleston,Poppy Lee Friar and Sir Lenny Henry CBE
Cole Martin will play the lead, Leon, in his first TV role.
Lynette Linton, Artistic Director of world-famous home for new plays and playwrights, the Bush Theatre, will direct, her directorial debut on a television drama.