Scacchi is a familiar face on screen, with movie and TV roles going back to the early 1980s. She was celebrated for 1983 Merchant Ivory film Heat and Dust, and for 1996 film Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny, and is perhaps best recognised for starring opposite Tim Robbins as June in Robert Altman’s 1992 film The Player and opposite Gwyneth Paltrow in 1996’s Emma, among many, many roles.
Alexandra Roach as Maggie
Police forensics officer Maggie, who works with DS Hasan in the 2023-set Bodies segments, is played by Welsh actor Alexandra Roach, who came to fame playing Becky in Channel 4’s excellent comic book conspiracy thriller Utopia. She’s most recently appeared in Welsh drama The Light in the Hall, and in hit creepy podcast series The Witch Farm, but has a host of roles under her belt after starting out in Being Human and The IT Crowd. Roach was a lead in crime comedy-drama No Offence, and Julia Davis historical comedy Hunderby, and has had roles in Sanditon, Killing Eve, Black Mirror and Inside No. 9 episode “The Riddle of the Sphinx”.
Synnove Karlsen as Polly Hillinghead
Polly is the daughter of Detective Hillinghead (see above) and his wife Charlotte (played by The Nevers actor Amy Manson – who’s actually only 11 years senior to Karlsen).
Polly is played by Scottish actor Synnove Karlsen, who’s best known for playing Clarice in lush historical drama Medici, the lead in BBC young adult psychological thriller Clique, the daughter of Keeley Hawes’ character in Sky’s recent adaptation of John Wyndham’s sci-fi The Midwich Cuckoos, and Jocasta in Edgar Wright’s spooky 2021 film Last Night in Soho.
ALSO STARRING
– Gabriel Howell from The Fence and Nightsleeper as young Elias.
– Kate Ashfield, best recognised for playing Liz in Shaun of the Dead as Elias Mannix’s adoptive mother Elaine Morley.
– Mark Lewis Jones, who plays Tom in Outlander and Steve in Keeping Faith as Elias’ adoptive father Andrew Morley.
– Newcomer Chloe Raphael as 11-year-old young German, Jewish “Kinder” child Esther Jankovsky.
– Philippa Dunne from Motherland and The Woman in the Wall and Derry Girls as Lorna Dunnet.
– Michael Shaeffer from The Sixth Commandment and Bodyguard as DI Hayden.
– Happy Valley and Gentleman Jack‘s Derek Riddell as Whiteman’s Inspector Calloway.
Bodies is out now on Netflix.
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