Acting
Holly Aird
Born May 18, 1969 · Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK (age 57)
No biography available.
Known For
Silent Night · 2021Silent Night
★ 5.92021
MovieComedyScience Fiction
Nell, Simon, and their boy Art are ready to welcome friends and family for what promises to be a perfect Christmas gathering. Perfect except for one thing: everyone is going to die.
Page Eight · 2011Page Eight
★ 6.62011
MovieMysteryThriller
Johnny is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss dies suddenly, leaving behind an inexplicable file which threatens the stability of the organisation.
Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors · 1991Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
★ 6.91991
MovieMysteryDrama
At the insistence of Ruth Van Rydock, an old schoolfriend who is convinced that there is something wrong, Miss Marple agrees to visit 'Stonygates', the country house of Ruth's sister.
Fly Free · 2023Fly Free
2023
MovieDocumentary
Eighty year old Mary blows her life savings on a sports car but can she convince her controlling daughter, Fiona, to fly free...?
Possession · 2002Possession
★ 6.02002
MovieDramaMystery
Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell is an American scholar in London to study Randolph Henry Ash, now best-known for a collection of poems dedicated to his wife. When Maud and Roland discover a cache of love letters that appear to be from Ash to La Motte, they follow a trail of clues across England, echoing the journey of the couple over a century earlier.
Fever Pitch · 1997Fever Pitch
★ 6.51997
MovieComedyRomance
A romantic comedy about a man, a woman and a football team. Based on Nick Hornby's best selling autobiographical novel, Fever Pitch. English teacher Paul Ashworth believes his long standing obsession with Arsenal serves him well. But then he meets Sarah. Their relationship develops in tandem with Arsenal's roller coaster fortunes in the football league, both leading to a nail biting climax.
Intimate Relations · 1996Intimate Relations
★ 5.41996
MovieDramaComedy
In 1950s England, sailor Harold Guppy arrives in a small seaside town looking for his estranged brother. After a brief reunion, Harold finds a room for rent in the house of Mrs. Beasley, her meek husband and their teenage daughter, Joyce. It's clear that Harold has a troubled past, but his future is about to get more perilous yet. Despite the rosy surface, Harold soon finds himself in a tawdry sexual tug-of-war that won't end well.
Carry On Columbus · 1992Carry On Columbus
★ 3.91992
MovieComedy
Christopher Columbus believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades the King and Queen of Spain to finance his expedition...
Movies
Silent Night · 2021Silent Night
★ 5.92021
MovieComedyScience Fiction
Nell, Simon, and their boy Art are ready to welcome friends and family for what promises to be a perfect Christmas gathering. Perfect except for one thing: everyone is going to die.
Page Eight · 2011Page Eight
★ 6.62011
MovieMysteryThriller
Johnny is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss dies suddenly, leaving behind an inexplicable file which threatens the stability of the organisation.
Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors · 1991Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
★ 6.91991
MovieMysteryDrama
At the insistence of Ruth Van Rydock, an old schoolfriend who is convinced that there is something wrong, Miss Marple agrees to visit 'Stonygates', the country house of Ruth's sister.
Fly Free · 2023Fly Free
2023
MovieDocumentary
Eighty year old Mary blows her life savings on a sports car but can she convince her controlling daughter, Fiona, to fly free...?
Possession · 2002Possession
★ 6.02002
MovieDramaMystery
Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell is an American scholar in London to study Randolph Henry Ash, now best-known for a collection of poems dedicated to his wife. When Maud and Roland discover a cache of love letters that appear to be from Ash to La Motte, they follow a trail of clues across England, echoing the journey of the couple over a century earlier.
Fever Pitch · 1997Fever Pitch
★ 6.51997
MovieComedyRomance
A romantic comedy about a man, a woman and a football team. Based on Nick Hornby's best selling autobiographical novel, Fever Pitch. English teacher Paul Ashworth believes his long standing obsession with Arsenal serves him well. But then he meets Sarah. Their relationship develops in tandem with Arsenal's roller coaster fortunes in the football league, both leading to a nail biting climax.
Intimate Relations · 1996Intimate Relations
★ 5.41996
MovieDramaComedy
In 1950s England, sailor Harold Guppy arrives in a small seaside town looking for his estranged brother. After a brief reunion, Harold finds a room for rent in the house of Mrs. Beasley, her meek husband and their teenage daughter, Joyce. It's clear that Harold has a troubled past, but his future is about to get more perilous yet. Despite the rosy surface, Harold soon finds himself in a tawdry sexual tug-of-war that won't end well.
Carry On Columbus · 1992Carry On Columbus
★ 3.91992
MovieComedy
Christopher Columbus believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades the King and Queen of Spain to finance his expedition...
The Theory of Flight · 1999The Theory of Flight
★ 6.31999
MovieDramaComedy
Richard is assigned public service after crashing his homemade aircraft, leading him to meet Jane, a young woman dying of motor neuron disease. After they strike up a friendship, Jane asks Richard to help fulfill her deepest wish: to lose her virginity before her death.
Scenes of a Sexual Nature · 2006Scenes of a Sexual Nature
★ 5.32006
MovieComedyDrama
Sex and love. Some seek it, some need it, some spurn it and some pay for it, but we're all involved in it. Set on one afternoon on Hampstead Heath in north-west London, the film investigates the minutiae of seven couples. What makes us tick?
The Happy Valley · 1987The Happy Valley
★ 6.11987
MovieCrimeDrama
In 1940 Kenya as their country prepares for war, the local aristocratic social set lives a decadent, self-indulgent lifestyle, that leads to murder. The same events were also dramatised in the feature film White Mischief, which was released seven months after the first transmission of The Happy Valley.
Spider's Web · 1982Spider's Web
★ 7.21982
MovieMysteryCrime
Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. 'Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library, what should I do?' she muses. Clarissa has her chance to find out when she discovers a body in the drawing-room of her house in Kent.
Dreaming of Joseph Lees · 1999Dreaming of Joseph Lees
★ 6.41999
MovieRomanceDrama
Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousin Joseph Lees, with whom she fell in love as a girl. However, stuck in a closed community she becomes the object of someone else's fantasy, Harry. When Harry learns that Eva is planning to leave the village in order to live with and look after the injured Lees, he devises a gruesome scheme in order to force her to stay and look after him.
The Criminal · 1999The Criminal
★ 5.51999
MovieThriller
Jasper Rawlins, a none-too-successful musician, finds himself chatting with a beautiful woman at his neighborhood bar. She goes home with him, direct and frank in answer to his nervousness. During the night, someone breaks into his flat and cuts her throat. He runs into the arms of the police, who dismiss his story, but release him while they search for the weapon. He investigates the crime, and over the next few days, meets a knowing pornographer, hit men, and other schemers. As dead bodies pile up wherever he goes, the police are soon looking for him with guns drawn. As he discovers secrets about a shadowy corporation, the police close in. Can he find someone to trust?
The Tale of Beatrix Potter · 1983The Tale of Beatrix Potter
1983
Movie
Biography based on the life of the author Beatrix Potter.
Losing It · 2006Losing It
2006
MovieDrama
Comedy-drama about an advertising executive whose struggle to meet the standards of his demanding boss is made more difficult when he is diagnosed with testicular cancer.
Ian Brady: 50 Years Behind Bars · 2016Ian Brady: 50 Years Behind Bars
★ 6.02016
MovieDocumentary
As 2015 marks a half a century since the Moors murderer was sentenced to life imprisonment, this documentary examines Ian Brady's 50 years in jail. Among the contributors are prison officers, detectives, relatives of victims, pen pals and inmates who served time with him. They reveal how Brady has shown a psychopathic lack of connection with his crimes. Arrested and charged in 1965, he’s never been considered for parole, nor has he asked to be freed.
TV Shows
Midsomer Murders · 1997Midsomer Murders
★ 7.51997
SeriesCrimeDrama
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
Casualty · 1986Casualty
★ 6.21986
SeriesDrama
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
Hijack · 2023Hijack
★ 7.52023
SeriesDrama
Expert negotiator Sam Nelson is in for the ride of his life—and so is everyone on board with him—after a group of hijackers take control. Sam will try every move in his playbook to take them down...as the stakes grow higher by the second.
Inspector Morse · 1987Inspector Morse
★ 7.91987
SeriesCrimeDrama
Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well as a large cast of notable actors and actresses.
Waking the Dead · 2001Waking the Dead
★ 7.22001
SeriesCrimeMystery
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.
A Discovery of Witches · 2018A Discovery of Witches
★ 7.82018
SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama
Closet witch Diana Bishop and centuries-old vampire Matthew Clairmont are drawn into a deadly mystery and forbidden romance when a magical book shows up in an Oxford library.
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip · 2011Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
★ 6.02011
Series
Antiques experts accompany celebrities on a road trip around the UK searching for treasures and competing to make the most money at auction
Soldier Soldier · 1991Soldier Soldier
★ 6.91991
SeriesDrama
The daily lives of a group of soldiers in 'B' Company, 1st Battalion The King's Fusiliers.
Law & Order: UK · 2009Law & Order: UK
★ 7.02009
SeriesDrama
Adapted from the hit US series, Law & Order: UK follows a team of police detectives and prosecutors representing the public interest in the criminal justice system.
Four Lives · 2022Four Lives
★ 6.52022
SeriesCrimeDrama
The true story of the courageous families of four young gay men who lost their lives to killer Stephen Port. Facing police failings, they fought for justice for their loved ones.
Oxbridge Blues · 1984Oxbridge Blues
★ 7.01984
Series
An anthology series of seven linked plays about the lives of people connected with the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
The Flame Trees of Thika · 1981The Flame Trees of Thika
★ 7.71981
SeriesDrama
Elspeth and her unconventional parents decide to settle down in Kenya and begin a coffee plantation. This is a time of discovery for Elspeth, as she encounters the incredible beauty and cruelty of nature, and new friendships with both Africans and British expatriates. A side plot involves the beautiful and bored British Lettice Palmer who enters into an affair with a handsome safari guide. Eventually, however, the excitement of Elspeth's life is disrupted by the onset of WW I, and the changes it brings.
Identity · 2010Identity
★ 6.92010
SeriesDrama
Identity is a British police procedural drama television series starring Aidan Gillen and Keeley Hawes, airing in the UK during July–August 2010. Concerning identity theft, the series was created and written by Ed Whitmore, a writer most noted for his work on the BBC's Waking The Dead and the acclaimed ITV mini-series He Kills Coppers. The remake rights have been sold to the ABC Network in America who are developing their own version of the show. ITV confirmed that the show had been cancelled on 19 October 2010, after a single series.
Torn · 2007Torn
★ 7.02007
SeriesDrama
Torn was a three-part original television drama series, which was broadcast on ITV from 19 September 2007 to 3 October 2007. The drama was controversial because reportedly based on real events, and was criticised because of its similarities to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in May 2007. ITV denied any connection between the two, insisting that the series had been inspired by recent cases in the United States and had been written and filmed before Madeleine's disappearance.
Monday Monday · 2009Monday Monday
★ 10.02009
SeriesComedyDrama
Monday Monday is an ITV, UTV comedy drama. It stars Fay Ripley, Jenny Agutter, Neil Stuke, Holly Aird, Morven Christie, Tom Ellis, and Miranda Hart.
It is set in the head office of a supermarket that has fallen on hard times and had to re-locate its staff from London to Leeds. The show was initially announced as part of ITV's Winter 2007 press pack, but was "iced" until 2009 due to falling advertising in the wake of the economic downturn.
The Promise · 2011The Promise
★ 8.02011
SeriesDrama
The story of a young woman who goes to present-day Israel/Palestine determined to find out about her soldier grandfather's involvement in the final years of Palestine under the British mandate.
Hope It Rains · 1991Hope It Rains
★ 6.31991
Series
After the deaths of her parents, Jace moves in with her godfather Harry, who runs a waxwork museum in a seaside town. He hopes the weather will change for the worse to attract custom.
Seal Morning · 1986Seal Morning
★ 9.01986
SeriesDrama
Seal Morning is a 1986 British drama serial developed by Rosemary Anne Sisson for ITV. In 1930s England, the lives of orphaned young Rowena and her aunt Miriam are changed by raising an abandoned seal pup, Laura, attracting the attention of naturalist Dr Bernard Lacey.
Affairs of the Heart · 1983Affairs of the Heart
★ 7.51983
SeriesComedy
Affairs of the Heart is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1983 to 1985. Starring Derek Fowlds, it was written by Paul Daneman. It was made for the ITV network by Granada Television.
Dressing for Breakfast · 1995Dressing for Breakfast
★ 6.71995
SeriesComedy
Dressing for Breakfast is a Channel 4 sitcom which ran between 1995 and 1998 about two women, Louise and Carla. The series was based on a 1988 book with the same title by Stephanie Calman who also wrote the series..