Stephen Graham TV Dramas
Stephen Graham delivers powerful performances in intense television dramas streaming across platforms.
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Stephen Graham is drawing renewed attention for a range of intense television roles. The 2019 Channel 4 drama The Virtues stars him as Joseph, a man who returns to Ireland after personal turmoil and is forced to confront traumatic memories from his past; critics particularly praised Graham’s performance. He also appears in the gripping crime drama Save Me, created by and starring Lennie James, about a father searching for his estranged daughter after she disappears. Graham plays Nelly’s close friend Melon, whose importance grows as the search takes a darker turn.
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In The Virtues, Joseph turns to alcohol after his former partner and their son emigrate to Australia; once he has almost run out of money, he returns to Ireland and tries to reunite with his sister Anna, whom he has not seen for 30 years.
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The Virtues is a four-part Channel 4 drama written and directed by Shane Meadows, who co-wrote it with Jack Thorne; Meadows said the series was partly inspired by a moment from his own childhood.
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In Save Me, Nelly is accused of abducting his estranged 13-year-old daughter Jody, although he says he has not seen her in a decade. After persuading police he is not responsible for her disappearance, he sets out to search for her himself.
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Stephen Graham’s Save Me character is Fabio “Melon” Melonzola. The article says the drama was praised for sidestepping familiar missing-child-story clichés, and notes that the story continues 17 months after the first series.
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