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Jessica Raine

October 2022

  • Jessica Raine as Lucy in The Devil’s Hour.

    The watcher
    The Devil’s Hour: a perfect freaky little Halloween treat

    Jessica Raine and Peter Capaldi and a weird unblinking little boy are superb in this timely horror – which has all the creepy components to be essential viewing

October 2020

  • Devrim Lingnau as Carmilla and Hannah Rae (Lara) in Carmilla

    Carmilla review – blood lust and mystery mark a superior gothic drama

    Jessica Raine stars in this atmospheric adaptation of a Victorian novella

January 2020

  • Rebecca Nicholson

    Names in the news
    Heston Blumenthal: that almost looks good enough to eat, chef

    Rebecca Nicholson
    The Fat Duck owner could be fighting a losing battle to stop his patrons photographing their meals

March 2019

  • Jessica Raine

    The Q&A
    Jessica Raine: ‘My school careers adviser told me I could be a secretary’

    The actor on shutting down ambitions, clueless politicians and embarrassing farts

December 2016

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    TV review
    Inside No 9: The Devil of Christmas review – macabre merriment all round

    Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton take us back to the 1970s for this nightmarish festive folk tale. Plus, The Real Marigold On Tour: Miriam Margolyes takes on Trump’s Florida

January 2016

  • Shanty townies ... Clarke Peters, Jessica Raine and Hans Matheson in Jericho

    TV review
    Jericho review – The story’s the thing, and there’s plenty of that

    Everyone’s a bit too clean but the story of Jessica Raine’s Apparent-Widow Annie making a living on the 1870s Yorkshire moors is just the thing for dreary January. Plus dignified documentary The Age of Loneliness
  • Jessica Raine in Jericho

    TV tonight
    Thursday’s best TV: Britain’s Bloody Crown – The Mad King; Birds of a Feather; Jericho; Death in Paradise; The Age of Loneliness; Brooklyn Nine-Nine; Inside Assad’s Syria

    A widow finds the going tough in ITV’s new Victorian drama, there’s more Caribbean crime to warm up a winter evening and the new scourge of loneliness is explored, plus the day’s best films and sport action
  • Jessica Raine

    From Call the Midwife to Jericho: the unstoppable Jessica Raine

    She shot to stardom in Call the Midwife and Wolf Hall. Now she’s preparing for a western – set in Yorkshire. Jessica Raine talks about Jericho, growing up on a farm and why fame left her ‘espalled’

July 2015

  • Jessica Raine as Tuppence and David Walliams as Tommy in The Secret Adversary (episode 1), Partners in Crime on BBC1.

    Partners in Crime: episode by episode
    Partners in Crime recap: episode 1 – Sunday night escapism with Tommy and Tuppence

  • David Walliams and Jessica Raine in the BBC’s forthcoming Partners in Crime.

    Escape from the vicarage as Agatha Christie brand gets TV makeover

May 2015

  • Jessica Raine (centre) as Jenny Lee in Call the Midwife, riding a pushbike

    Jessica Raine: I've had enough of watching women get abused

    Former Call the Midwife actor’s comments about violence in TV dramas follow criticism by novelists and actors

April 2015

  • Royal Court associate director, Carrie Cracknell, talking to girls at the Inspiring Women in the Arts event at Tate Modern.

    Hundreds of successful women from the arts inspire the next generation

    Miriam González Durántez’s Inspiring Women campaign paired girls from 15 comprehensive schools with artists, directors, actors, authors and designers

December 2014

  • Jessica Raine

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Jessica Raine: ‘If I’d been born in Tudor times I’d have married a blacksmith’

    The star of Call the Midwife tells Kate Kellaway about squeezing into a corset for her new role in Wolf Hall, being a shy child and why she has never dieted

October 2014

  • Lena Dunham on Stylist cover

    Girls creator Lena Dunham to guest edit Stylist

    Anniversary issue will feature Community’s Gillian Jacobs, Nigella Lawson and Call the Midwife’s Jessica Raine. By Mark Sweney

September 2014

  • Fortitude

    TV trailerwatch
    Fortitude: Sofie Gråbøl and Christopher Eccleston star in big-name Arctic Circle thriller – trailer

    Clip: The new crime series, which sees a small Arctic mining community torn apart by murder, also stars Michael Gambon, Stanley Tucci, Richard Dormer and Jessica Raine. See a clip of Gråbøl in action as the town’s ambitious mayor

March 2014

  • Call the Midwife

    Call the Midwife finale pulls in 8m viewers

    BBC1 drama episode that saw one of its stars, Jessica Raine, exit beat ITV's final farewell to Dancing on Ice in ratings. By John Plunkett

October 2013

  • roots wesker

    Roots; The Light Princess; Charlie Peace – review

    Jessica Raine and Linda Bassett captivate in an essential Wesker revival. And The Light Princess needs to be darker, writes Susannah Clapp

April 2013

  • Call the Midwife: Jessica Raine

    Call the Midwife and Ashes to Ashes stars join BBC's Line of Duty

    Jessica Raine and Keeley Hawes, plus My Family's Robert Lindsay, to appear in second series of acclaimed police drama. By John Plunkett

January 2013

  • 1965

    Doctor Who drama to star Harry Potter actor

    David Bradley to play William Hartnell in film about creation of show, which will also feature Jessica Raine and Brian Cox. By John Plunkett

January 2009

  • Jessica Raine in Gethsemane

    'Horribly funny ... stroppy ... touching ... troubled but coping'

    The hotlist 2009: Jessica Raine, actor

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