Hidden (2011 TV series)

Hidden is a British television drama starring Philip Glenister, Thekla Reuten, Anna Chancellor, Michael Winder, Andrew Scarborough and David Suchet, which debuted on BBC One on 6 October 2011. The four-part series was directed by Niall MacCormick, produced by Christopher Hall, and written by Ronan Bennett in collaboration with Walter Bernstein.

Overview
Small-time solicitor Harry Venn (Glenister) is reluctantly drawn back into his dark past after being approached by Gina Hawkes (Reuten). Hawkes, a lawyer searching for a missing alibi witness for her client, quickly draws Venn into a deep and dangerous conspiracy involving the death of his brother twenty years previously, and which reaches deep into the heart of the British political system.

Cast

 * Philip Glenister as Harry Venn
 * Thekla Reuten as Gina Hawkes
 * David Suchet as Sir Nigel Fountain
 * Thomas Craig as D.I. Fenton Russell
 * Anna Chancellor as Elspeth Verney
 * Séainín Brennan as Frances Martin
 * Andrew Scarborough as Ben Lander
 * Matthew Marsh as James Morpeth
 * Bertie Carvel as Alexander Wentworth
 * Richard Dormer as Frank Hanna
 * Paul Ritter as Stevie Quirke
 * Peter Guinness as Jason Styles
 * Ben Smith as Matt Grogan
 * David Michaels as Brian Worsley
 * Christopher Fairbank as George Venn
 * Rupert Simonian as Michael Venn
 * Mark Powley as Mark Venn
 * Lisa Kay as Lauren Chisholm
 * Michael Winder as Kevin Gaunt
 * Mark Flitton as Paul Hillman
 * Christov Ruhn as Mezwar Tanzir
 * Audrey Looten as Jennifer Moscati
 * Mens-Sana Tamakloe as Dean Stubbs
 * Christopher Webster as Young Harry Venn
 * Marie-France Alvarez as Nadine

Critical reception
Josephine Moulds of The Telegraph said of the series: "All in all it was terribly exciting. Less pretentious than Page Eight and more ambitious than Spooks, Hidden nailed the intelligent, pacy TV thriller."