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  • The Criminal
  • The Criminal review by A customer from Devon
    Rated - 5.0 stars Brilliant black humour. 8 May 2006
    ...mances in this gritty black comedy but the partnership between Bernard Hill and Holly Aird is great to watch. Fast paced and a completely unexpected ending. Class! ...   Read customer review
  • Inspector Morse - Last Bus to Woodstock
  • Inspector Morse - Last Bus to Woodstock review by A customer from Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire
    Rated - 4.0 stars Pub car parks have always been dangerous places 12 October 2006
    ...ry of Spenser provides a common area of interest for Morse and a young student (Holly Aird) who has problems of her own with the academic staff. A nicely focused episode ...   Read customer review
  • Waking The Dead - Series 1
  • Waking The Dead - Series 1 review by williamsgwynfa from gwaenysgor in flintshire
    Rated - 5.0 stars superb 6 April 2007
    ...ng - as is the character of forensic scientist Frankie Wharton who is played by Holly Aird. The series is darker, and much more unconventional than the average detectiv...   Read customer review

Holly Aird - filmography


  • The Promise (2 discs) on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Lukas Gregorowicz,  Hiam Abbass,  Katharina Schüttler
    Director: Peter Kosminsky,  Madagascar
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    All four episodes of the Channel 4 drama mini-series starring Claire Foy and Christian Cooke. Written and directed by Peter Kosminsky, the series follows London teenager Erin (Foy) as she travels to modern-day Israel to retrace the steps of her grandfather Len (Christian Cooke), who as a young man ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 82% from 790 members
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  • The Promise - Blu-ray (2 discs) (2011)
    Starring: Lukas Gregorowicz,  Hiam Abbass,  Katharina Schüttler
    Director: Madagascar
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    All four episodes of the Channel 4 drama mini-series starring Claire Foy and Christian Cooke. Written and directed by Peter Kosminsky, the series follows London teenager Erin (Foy) as she travels to modern-day Israel to retrace the steps of her grandfather Len (Christian Cooke), who as a young man ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 79% from 354 members
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  • Identity (2 discs) on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Anthony Calf,  Jenny Seagrove,  Holly Aird
    Director: Brendan Maher,  Andy Hay
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The complete six-part series of the television crime drama, starring Keeley Hawes as part of a police unit fighting identity theft. DSI Martha Lawrence (Hawes), along with her team members, DI Bloom (Aidan Gillen) and DS Wareing (Shaun Parkes), must seek out murderers and criminals who assume the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 418 members
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  • Torn on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Jo Woodcock,  Adam Kotz,  Nicola Walker
    Director: Sarah Harding
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Television drama inspired by a true story. Two families' lives are turned upside down when a mother recognises her daughter who was snatched from a beach 12 years before, and had generally been assumed drowned. But reuniting a family causes destruction and heartache, wherein nobody knows where they ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 99 members
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  • Waking The Dead - Series 4 (6 discs) on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Trevor Eve,  Holly Aird,  Claire Goose
    Director: Suri Krishnamma,  Andy Hay
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    All eight episodes from the fourth series of the British television police drama about the members of the Cold Case team, dedicated police officers who use cutting-edge forensic technology and old-fashioned police work to reinvestigate old cases where every lead has come to a dead end. Episodes ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 84% from 909 members
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  • Possession (2002)
    Starring: Lena Headey,  Jeremy Northam,  Aaron Eckhart
    Director: Neil LaBute
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    When laid back American scholar Roland Michell (Aaron Eckhart) discovers a collection of love letters between two prominent Victorian poets, he recognises that he's on to a big literary find. Enlisting the help of sceptical British academic Maud Bailey (Gwyneth Paltrow), the two embark on a journey ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 3,196 members
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  • Waking The Dead - Series 1 (5 discs) on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Trevor Eve,  Holly Aird,  Wil Johnson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    All eight episodes from the first series of the British television police drama about the members of the Cold Case team, dedicated police officers who use cutting-edge forensic technology and old-fashioned police work to reinvestigate old cases where every lead has come to a dead end. In this ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 2,809 members
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  • The Criminal on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Bernard Hill,  Holly Aird,  Eddie Izzard
    Director: Julian Simpson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    J (Steven Mackintosh) can't believe his luck when he picks up a beautiful blonde in his local bar. But when he wakes up next to her butchered corpse the following morning, he is at a loss to explain what happened. The police make him the number one suspect; but with no murder weapon, no evidence ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 213 members
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  • The Theory of Flight (1998)
    Starring: Helena Bonham Carter,  Kenneth Branagh,  Gemma Jones
    Director: Paul Greengrass
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A dreamer who aspires to human flight is assigned public service after one of his attempts off a public building. This leads him to meeting a young woman, who is dying of motor neuron disease. The strong-willed woman admits her wish to be de-flowered before her death. The man, struggling to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 10 members
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  • Fever Pitch on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Colin Firth,  Ruth Gemmell,  Mark Strong
    Director: David Evans
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Schoolteacher Paul (Colin Firth) has one true passion - his beloved Arsenal. However, when he begins a relationship with Sarah (Ruth Gemmel), he has to confront the fact that there may be more to life than football - a revelation that risks remaining unheeded as the Gunners make a charge towards ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 5,364 members
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  • Fever Pitch - Blu-ray (1996)
    Starring: Colin Firth,  Ruth Gemmell,  Mark Strong
    Director: David Evans
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Schoolteacher Paul (Colin Firth) has one true passion - his beloved Arsenal. However, when he begins a relationship with Sarah (Ruth Gemmel), he has to confront the fact that there may be more to life than football - a revelation that risks remaining unheeded as the Gunners make a charge towards ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 102 members
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  • Flame Trees Of Thika (2 discs) on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Nicholas Jones,  David Robb,  Holly Aird
    Director: Roy Ward Baker
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Classic television drama set in colonial East Africa around the beginning of WWI. Eleven-year-old Elspeth Grant (Holly Aird) arrives in Africa with her parents Tilly (Hayley Mills) and Robin (David Robb), who are planning to build a coffee plantation, and is enthralled by the beauty of its ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 294 members
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Holly Aird facts

5 most recent films

The Promise - 4.0 stars
The Promise - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Identity - 3.0 stars
Torn - 3.5 stars
Waking The Dead - Series 4 - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Waking The Dead - Series 4 - 4.0 stars
Waking The Dead - Series 3 - 4.0 stars
The Promise - 4.0 stars
Waking The Dead - Series 2 - 4.0 stars
The Promise - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Theory of Flight - 3.0 stars
The Criminal - 2.5 stars
Soldier Soldier - Complete Series 1 - 3.0 stars
Possession - 3.0 stars
Fever Pitch - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Trevor Eve - 23 times - show films
Sue Johnston - 23 times - show films
Claire Goose - 23 times - show films
Wil Johnson - 16 times - show films
Max Deacon - 6 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Andy Hay - 15 times - show films
David Thacker - 10 times - show films
none - 9 times - show films
Suri Krishnamma - 7 times - show films
Madagascar - 6 times - show films