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