Dead Still
Dead Still is a six-part Irish-Canadian television drama series, which premiered on May 18, 2020 on Acorn TV and May 15, 2020 Citytv. The series is a co-production between Ireland's Deadpan Pictures and Canada's Shaftesbury Films and is written by John Morton, from a story by John Morton and Imogen Murphy, and directed by Imogen Murphy and Craig David Wallace.
In 2021 Dead Still was nominated for 7 IFTAs at the 17th Irish Film & Television Awards, including Best Drama and Best Director.
Premise
Dead Still follows Brock Blennerhasset, a well regarded photographer in 1880s Ireland who specialises in memorial portraiture – photographing the recently deceased – as he is drawn into a series of murders which appear to be linked to his work.Cast
- Michael Smiley as Brock Blennerhasset
- Aidan O'Hare as Frederick Regan, an officer of the D.M.P.
- Eileen O'Higgins as Nancy Vickers, Brock's niece and an aspiring actress
- Kerr Logan as Conall Malloy, a gravedigger and Brock's assistant
- Jimmy Smallhorne as Cecil Carruthers
- Mark Rendall as Percy Cummins
- Martin Donovan as Bushrod Whacker
- Aoife Duffin as Betty Regan
- Peter Campion as Henry Vickers
- Rhys Dunlop as Ronnie Roper
- Fiona Bell as Abigail Vickers
- Gemma-Leah Devereux as Hanna Dubby
- Patrick FitzSymons as William Glendinning
- Jordanne Jones as Lily Molloy
- Laura Murray as Eva Lambert / The Ghost Queen
- Mary Murray as Aline Lambert
- Lynn Rafferty as Bessie Bulger
- Shane Lennon as Harry Farrelly
- John Morton as Ossie Burke
- Natalia Cooper as Vicenta