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The Road Less Travelled podcast is now available, as previously announced. Holliday talks about The Illustrated Mom as of when she felt she would be an actress for a living, with only 14; remembering when she started acting at 5; how to manage different accents; the short movie Home and Tell it to the Bees and […]

Born and raised in Didsbury, south Manchester, Holliday Grainger is one of Britain’s brightest and most versatile screen actors. Her CV spans everything from big budget movies (Great Expectations, Cinderella, My Cousin Rachel) to popular TV dramas ‎such as the BBC’s recent series Strike and The Capture. For her acclaimed role in 2019 film Animals – an adaptation of Emma […]

Preparing for The Capture allowed the actress to indulge her own interest in police work, as she spent time shadowing the homicide department at the Met to broaden her knowledge of the force (“I was excited, thinking, ‘I’m going to solve a murder case!’”). Grainger was so immersed in this on-the-beat experience that she “didn’t want to […]

Holliday Grainger is having a massive moment right now in BBC show The Capture. But the actor has impressed us in everything from period dramas to fairytale retellings. Here are six of her best roles… Holliday Grainger is currently confusing the whole nation in her new BBC surveillance thriller, The Capture. She plays the ambitious and […]

Holliday Grainger plays Rachel Carey in The Capture. Please complete the sentence: “DI Rachel Carey is…” …a young Detective Inspector who’s just been promoted. Rachel’s on the fast track scheme for graduates within the police force. She’s seen a lot very quickly, and we join the series with Carey having just been promoted to DI […]

Word on the wire is that The Capture, BBC1’s intriguing new six-part surveillance thriller, has all the water-cooler potential of Bodyguard. The complex story of an innocent man falsely accused in the ‘post-truth’ era will keep even the most observant armchair sleuth on their toes. It is a timely production, taking on such hot topics […]