Vera, TV’s tattiest detective (post-Columbo) returned for a sixth outing last night, her grimy old raincoat bustling like sails in the brisk, forlorn Northumbrian winds, and still chiding her young colleagues with that unsettling voice that sounds by turns like black treacle slipping off a spoon to the shrillness of iron nails scraping down a windowpane. DCI Vera Stanhope investigates the case of a murdered entrepreneur whose legacy of unpaid debts and ruined lives leaves no shortage of suspects.
My wife and I are just starting with Vera, so we didn’t know what had happened with the death of Bethany (of course we knew that she had left the series because we knew Cush Jumbo from The Good Fight!).
41.9k Followers, 605 Following, 617 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Cush Jumbo OBE (@cushjumbohere) Cush Jumbo, who originated the role of attorney Luca Quinn on The Good Wife before segueing to the CBS All Access spinoff upon its launch in 2017, is …
Paul Ritter is on board as Dr. Billy Cartwright and the writers give him at least one, and normally a couple of superb lines whenever he is on camera. These days we can see her in the CBS's political drama TV series 'The Good Fight' as Lucca Quinn.
Cush Jumbo, 31, who plays Lucca Quinn in The Good Wife, has claimed Britain is losing some of its most talented actors because of a refusal to embrace diversity in television and film. Then DC Bethany Whelan (Cush Jumbo) confronts Vera, demanding to know why she’s scuppered her chance for promotion to the Major Crimes squad… Media caption Cush Jumbo says she has missed out on roles because her skin colour "I would like nothing more than to be working on television and in film in this country," said the 31-year-old. A key figure is leaving The Good Fight. Brenda Blethyn has donned her hat and raincoat once more for another run of the ITV drama set in Northumberland’s rugged countryside.
Cush Jumbo, best known in the US for playing Lois Habiba in Torchwood: Children of the Earth, replaces Mosaku in the cast as DC Bethany Whelan and is unfortunately under utilized.
Directed by Marek Losey.
Cush is a keen dancer and performer; she joined dance classes at the age of 13. She is credited for writing the famous one-woman show Josephine and I, and starring in it herself. by Jessica Pena, May 29, 2020.
... Cush Jumbo as DC Bethany Whelan. In 2020 Cush Jumbo will play the title role in Hamlet at the Young Vic in London. She reprised her role in the series' spin-off The Good Fight.
Jumbo appeared in the third season of Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood, subtitled Children of Earth, before later roles on Jo Brand’s Getting On and ITV detective series Vera. The fifth series sees the return of Jon Morrison as D.C Kenny Lockhart, Cush Jumbo as D.C. Bethany Whelan, Kingsley Ben-Adir as pathologist Marcus Summer, Riley Jones as D.C. Mark Edwards and welcomes Lisa Hammond as Intelligence Officer, Helen Milton, the newest recruit to Vera's team.
Vera investigates the murder of a 56-year-old grandmother discovered by a young girl on the wild and desolate Northumberland moors. Star Cush Jumbo is leaving the CBS All Access TV show ahead of its fifth season, TVLine reports.
Jumbo … The series stars Brenda Blethyn as the principal character, Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope. With Brenda Blethyn, Kenny Doughty, Jon Morrison, Cush Jumbo. Season 9 opens with “Blind Spot,” in which the body of Joanne Caswell, a 26-year-old forensic psychologist who was training under Matthew Wells (Peter Davison, Doctor Who) in Newcastle, is found dumped in a landfill.It isn’t a pretty sight, and the presence of the newly re-transferred prickly pathologist, Dr. Malcolm Donahue (Paul Kaye, Dark Heart), doesn’t thrill Vera, either. Cush Jumbo is an award-winning British actress and writer, appeared on the screen at the age of 21.
Vera is back. On May 29, 2020, Jumbo announced that she is departing the series after four seasons. Vera is a British crime drama series based on novels of the same name, written by crime writer Ann Cleeves.It was first broadcast on ITV on 1 May 2011, and to date, eight series have aired.. London-born actress Cush Jumbo, star of new US drama The Good Fight, can remember exactly where she was when Donald Trump was announced as the next President of the United States.