
Diana Hardcastle
Encyclopedia
Diana Hardcastle is a British
actress who has appeared largely in television roles. She appeared in episodes of Midsomer Murders
, Inspector Lynley and Taggart
. She played recurring roles in the series First Among Equals
and Fortunes of War
.
She is married to the actor Tom Wilkinson
, with whom she has two children. In 2011, Hardcastle and Wilkinson portrayed real life husband and wife Joe
and Rose Kennedy in the mini series The Kennedys.
United Kingdom
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actress who has appeared largely in television roles. She appeared in episodes of Midsomer Murders
Midsomer Murders
Midsomer Murders is a British television detective drama that has aired on ITV since 1997. The show is based on the books by Caroline Graham, as originally adapted by Anthony Horowitz. The lead character is DCI Tom Barnaby who works for Causton CID. When Nettles left the show in 2011 he was...
, Inspector Lynley and Taggart
Taggart
Taggart is a Scottish detective television programme, created by Glenn Chandler, who has written many of the episodes, and made by STV Productions for the ITV network...
. She played recurring roles in the series First Among Equals
First Among Equals (TV series)
First Among Equals is a ten-part miniseries based on Jeffrey Archer's 1984 novel First Among Equals, produced by Granada Television and aired on ITV in 1986....
and Fortunes of War
Fortunes of War (tv series)
Fortunes of War is a 1987 BBC television adaptation of Olivia Manning's cycle of novels Fortunes of War. It stars Kenneth Branagh as Guy Pringle, lecturer in English Literature in Bucharest during the early part of the Second World War, and Emma Thompson as his wife Harriet...
.
She is married to the actor Tom Wilkinson
Tom Wilkinson
Thomas Geoffrey "Tom" Wilkinson, OBE is a British actor. He has twice been nominated for an Academy Award for his roles in In the Bedroom and Michael Clayton...
, with whom she has two children. In 2011, Hardcastle and Wilkinson portrayed real life husband and wife Joe
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.
Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy, Sr. was a prominent American businessman, investor, and government official....
and Rose Kennedy in the mini series The Kennedys.
Filmography
Year | Title | Roles | Notes |
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1982 | East Lynne | Wilson | TV movie |
1983 | Reilly, Ace of Spies Reilly, Ace of Spies Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatizing the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies to ever work for the British. Among his exploits in the early 20th century were the infiltration of the German General Staff in 1917 and a near-overthrow of... |
Anna | TV miniseries Miniseries A miniseries , in a serial storytelling medium, is a television show production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. The exact number is open to interpretation; however, they are usually limited to fewer than a whole season. The term "miniseries" is generally a North American term... |
1984 | Charlie | Ainsworth's secretary | TV miniseries |
1984 | The House | Mrs. Janek | TV movie |
1985 | Love Song | Philippa Jameson Hatchard | TV movie |
1986 | Screen Two | Judith Walters | 1 episode |
1986 | First Among Equals First Among Equals (TV series) First Among Equals is a ten-part miniseries based on Jeffrey Archer's 1984 novel First Among Equals, produced by Granada Television and aired on ITV in 1986.... |
Louise Fraser | TV miniseries 9 episodes |
1987 | Fortunes of War Fortunes of War (tv series) Fortunes of War is a 1987 BBC television adaptation of Olivia Manning's cycle of novels Fortunes of War. It stars Kenneth Branagh as Guy Pringle, lecturer in English Literature in Bucharest during the early part of the Second World War, and Emma Thompson as his wife Harriet... |
Edwina Little | TV miniseries 3 episodes |
1988 | That's Love That's Love That's Love is a British television sitcom about the domestic problems of a young married couple, lawyer Donald and designer Patsy .-Plot:... |
Patsy | 1988-1992 18 episodes |
1992 | Boon Boon (TV series) Boon is a British television drama and modern-day western series starring Michael Elphick, David Daker, and later Neil Morrissey. It was created by Jim Hill and Bill Stair and filmed by Central Television for ITV... |
Kate Newsome | 1 episode |
1993 | Punchdrunk | Vikki Brown | 6 episodes |
1993 | Resnick: Rough Treatment | Claire Millinder | TV movie |
1996 | The Tide of Life | Rona Birch | TV miniseries |
1997 | Midsomer Murders Midsomer Murders Midsomer Murders is a British television detective drama that has aired on ITV since 1997. The show is based on the books by Caroline Graham, as originally adapted by Anthony Horowitz. The lead character is DCI Tom Barnaby who works for Causton CID. When Nettles left the show in 2011 he was... |
Barbara Lessiter | 1 episode |
1997 | Bugs Bugs (TV series) Bugs was a British television drama series which ran for four series from April 1995 to August 1999. The programme, a mixture of action/adventure and science-fiction, involved a team of specialist independent crime-fighting technology experts, who faced a variety of threats based around computers... |
Elaine Harman | 1 episode |
1999 | The Bill | Ruth Watts | 1 episode |
1999 | Taggart Taggart Taggart is a Scottish detective television programme, created by Glenn Chandler, who has written many of the episodes, and made by STV Productions for the ITV network... |
Mariah Strange | 1 episode |
2003 | Holby City Holby City Holby City, stylised as Holby Ci+y, is a British medical drama television series that airs weekly on BBC One.The series was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical drama Casualty, and premiered on 12 January 1999... |
Pam Wilkinson | 1 episode |
2004 | If Only | Claire | |
2004 | A Good Woman A Good Woman (film) A Good Woman is a 2004 drama film directed by Mike Barker. The screenplay by Howard Himelstein is based on the 1892 play Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde... |
Lady Plymdale | |
2004 | Rosemary & Thyme Rosemary & Thyme Rosemary & Thyme is a British television mystery series that starred Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris as gardening detectives Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme. The show began on ITV in 2003, and the third series ended in August 2007... |
Crystal | 1 episode |
2005 | Chromophobia | Mrs. Wharton | |
2006 | The Inspector Lynley Mysteries The Inspector Lynley Mysteries The Inspector Lynley Mysteries is a series of BBC television programmes about Detective Inspector Thomas "Tommy" Lynley, 8th Earl of Asherton of Scotland Yard and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers... |
Deborah Proctor | 1 episode |
2008 | Doctors | Pam Philips/Penny Healey-Henderson | 2 episodes |
2010 | Silent Witness Silent Witness Silent Witness is a BBC crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes. First broadcast in February 1996, the series is still airing to the present day, with a fifteenth series expected to air in January 2012. The series was... |
Mary Bradburn | 2 episodes |
2011 | The Kennedys | Rose Kennedy | TV miniseries 8 episodes |