Prime Suspect
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Helen Mirren stars as Jane Tennison in this seminal, BAFTA-winning drama following a complex detective who battles to prove mettle in a male-dominated world.

  • Mystery
  • Year 1991 - 2006
  • 7 Seasons

When a corpse is discovered in an Afro-Caribbean neighbourhood of London, the controversial subject of racism in the police force rears its head. Tennison is called in to head a sensitive enquiry into how the corpse came to lie in its burial place.

  1. Year: 1991
  • Cast
  • Helen Mirren

    DS Jane Tennison

  • John Benfield

    Kernan

  • Richard Hawley

    Richard Haskons

  • Jack Ellis

    Frank Burkin

  • Ian Fitzgibbon

    Detective Constable Jones

  • Philip Wright

    Detective Constable Lillie

  • Andrew Tiernan

    Detective Constable Rospe

  • Gary Whelan

    Detective Sergeant Terry Amson

  • Stephen Boxer

    Detective Chief Inspector Thorndike

  • George Harris

    Vernon Allen

  • Lloyd McGuire

    Sergeant Calder

  • Peter Capaldi

    Vera/Vernon Reynolds