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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 - Blu-ray (2 discs) (2011)
    Starring: Christian Cooke,  Claire Foy,  Itay Tiran
    Director: Madagascar
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Shot entirely on location in the Middle East, Peter Kosminsky's (WHITE OLEANDER, BRITZ) epic drama serial THE PROMISE tells the story of 18-year-old Londoner Erin (Claire Foy, LITTLE DORRIT) and her efforts to fulfil a promise made by her grandfather over 60 years ago. When Erin spends her summer ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 79% from 308 members
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  • Identity (2 discs) on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Keeley Hawes,  Aidan Gillen,  Julian Lewis Jones
    Director: Andy Hay,  Brendan Maher
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Identity, a new six-part drama starring Keeley Hawes (Ashes to Ashes; Mutual Friends) and Aidan Gillen (The Wire; Queer As Folk), follows an elite police unit formed to combat the explosion of identity theft. From murderers who take over victims' lives and criminals who create personas to escape ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 383 members
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  • Torn on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Holly Aird,  Nicola Walker,  Bradley Walsh
    Director: Sarah Harding
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Torn is a dramatic saga of parental love, family and belonging - 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 ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 90 members
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  • Waking The Dead - Series 4 (6 discs) on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Holly Aird,  Trevor Eve,  Claire Goose
    Director: Suri Krishnamma,  Andy Hay
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Series four of the drama focusing on the Cold Case Team - a group of experienced investigators charged with re-opening unsolved murder investigations. With today's technology at their disposal, the Cold Case team are able ensnare suspects that evaded capture years before
    4 stars out of 5 84% from 857 members
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  • Possession on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow,  Aaron Eckhart,  Jeremy Northam
    Director: Neil LaBute
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    An American poetry researcher, Roland Michell, travels to England and enlists the help of Doctor Maud Bailey, a British expert on the life of a famous but Victorian poet, to help him piece together the life and love affair of two poets. It's not long before they discover one of their very own...
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 3,030 members
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  • Waking The Dead - Series 3 (4 discs) on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Trevor Eve,  Sue Johnston,  Holly Aird
    Director: Andy Hay,  David Thacker,  Tim Fywell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Series 3 of the drama focusing on the Cold Case Team - a group of experienced investigators charged with re-opening unsolved murder investigations. With today's technology at their disposal, the Cold Case team are able ensnare suspects that evaded capture years before...
    4 stars out of 5 82% from 1,071 member
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  • Waking The Dead - Series 1 (5 discs) on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Trevor Eve,  Sue Johnston,  Holly Aird
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Led by Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd (Trevor Eve) the Cold Case Squad investigates serious crimes which have gone unsolved. Armed with the latest technological advances and old fashioned hard work, Psychological Profiler Grace Foley (Sue Johnston), Forensic Pathologist Frankie Wharton (Holly ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 2,897 members
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  • The Criminal on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Steven Mackintosh,  Holly Aird,  Natasha Little
    Director: Julian Simpson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    J leads an uninteresting life so can't believe his luck when one night after drinking in a bar he finds himself with a mysterious blonde drinking vodka at two in the morning back at his place. Little does he realise that his good fortune is about to lead him into a world of murder, extortion and ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 207 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 60% from 7 members
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  • Fever Pitch - Blu-ray (1996)
    Starring: Colin Firth,  Ruth Gemmell,  Mark Strong
    Director: David Evans
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When Paul (Firth), a middle-aged British teacher who nurses an obsession for the North London football team Arsenal, meets Sarah, a seemingly uptight young woman who is a single-minded professional, he is forced to drastically re-evaluate his life. Sarah loathes the sport, while Paul's entire life ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 21 members
    Due for release on 28th May 2012
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  • Fever Pitch on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Colin Firth,  Ruth Gemmell,  Mark Strong
    Director: David Evans
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When Paul (Firth), a middle-aged British teacher who nurses an obsession for the North London football team Arsenal, meets Sarah, a seemingly uptight young woman who is a single-minded professional, he is forced to drastically re-evaluate his life. Sarah loathes the sport, while Paul's entire life ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 5,189 members
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  • Flame Trees Of Thika (2 discs) on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Hayley Mills,  David Robb,  Holly Aird
    Director: Roy Ward Baker
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    An excellent t.v. mini-series based on Elspeth Huxley's much-loved memoir of her upbringing in East Africa, where her family hewed a farm from the rugged land in 1913. Growing up amidst the same pastoral loveliness that so inspired Danish novelist Isak Dinesen, the little girl and her family ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 284 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

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

Most frequent co-stars

Sue Johnston - 23 times - show films
Claire Goose - 23 times - show films
Trevor Eve - 23 times - show films
Wil Johnson - 16 times - show films
Christian Cooke - 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