BBC cast of Ordinary Lies, plus location details on where Ordinary Lies was filmed in Warrington and Manchester: 2015 BBC1 drama series starring Michelle Keegan, Jason Manford, Mackenzie Crook, Max Beesley, Jo Joyner, Sally Lindsay and many more.
When does Ordinary Lies start on BBC One?
The air date and time for episode 1 of Ordinary Lies has been set for Tuesday 17 March 2015 at 9:00pm on BBC1. The series is scheduled to broadcast over six 1-hour episodes.
Marianne, Grace, Alison, Viv, Tracy, Ruby, Amelie, Emma, Jez, Ziggy, Beth, Mike, Kathy, Rick, Dave, Fat Jason, Marty and Pete – Image Credit: BBC/Red Productions/Ben Blackall
Plot
Set in the offices, workshop and showroom of used car sales company JS Motors, each of the shows six episodes focuses on a different colleague or friend of the business. Featuring a mix of drama, tragedy, humour and warmth, the series demonstrates how a desperate, or even simple spur-of-the-moment lie, can quickly spiral out of control and begin to unravel.
Ordinary Lies Cast List – BBC One
Character Name – Actor/Actress
Mike Hill – Max Beesley (Hotel Babylon, Mad Dogs, Survivors, Suits, The Last Enemy, London Ink, Bodies, Talk to Me, The Last Minute)
Beth Corbin – Jo Joyner (EastEnders, No Angels, Trying Again, Candy Cabs, North & South, Family)
Kathy Kavanagh – Sally Lindsay (Coronation Street, Mount Pleasant, Scott & Bailey, Scallywagga, Still Open All Hours)
Pete – Mackenzie Crook (Pirates of the Caribbean movies, The Office, Almost Human, Game of Thrones, Detectorists, North by Northamptonshire)
Ziggy – Fisayo Akinade (Cucumber, Banana)
Tracy Shawcross – Michelle Keegan (Coronation Street)
Marty McLean – Jason Manford (Ideal, Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This, 8 Out of 10 Cats, The One Show)
Grace Wells – Rebecca Callard (Blackout, Sunburn, The Grand, 32 Brinkburn Street)
Dave Corbin – Shaun Dooley (Broadchurch, Misfits, The Game, Wolfblood, The White Queen)
Rick – Shazad Latif (Spooks, Toast of London, The Silence, My Mad Fat Diary, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Salting the Battlefield)
Fat Jason – George Bukhari
Amelie – Lauren McQueen (4 O’Clock Club, The Mill)
Jez – Kris Mochrie
Emma – Cat Simmons (The Bill)
Vivienne Baxter – Cherrelle Skeete
Ruby – Holly Earl (Cuckoo, Casualty, Touching Evil, The Musketeers, The Greatest Store in the World)
Marianne Morton – Manjinder Virk (Monroe, Hunted)
Alison Hill – Belinda Stewart-Wilson (The Inbetweeners, Primeval, Broken News)
Hannah – Emily Boardman
Viv (CHERRELLE SKEETE), Tracy (MICHELLE KEEGAN) and Grace (REBECCA CALLARD) – Image Credit: BBC/Red Productions/Ben Blackall
Guest Cast of Ordinary Lies
Episode 1 – 17/3/15
Katrina – Erin Shanagher (Hit & Miss)
Jake – Xander Rundle
Jessie – Bethany Thompson
Joe – Kamerson Cowan
Young Lad – Theo Graham
George Hagan – Jeff Alexander (In the Club)
Postman – Phil Zariah Bailey
Episode 2 – 24/3/15
Tanya – Samantha Power (The Cup, Little Britain, A Prince Among Men)
Jimmy – Danny Kelly (My Mad Fat Diary)
Robbie – Brian Fletcher (The Passing Bells)
Detective Aziz – Ash Tandon
Janice – Angela Murray (New Street Law)
Flash Customer – Darren Farley
John – Danny Lawrence (Emmerdale, Mersey Beat)
Ronaldo – Omar Augusto Luis
Gang Leader – Merionne Toussaint
Bale – James Saintil
DEA Officer – Teo Terrero
Episode 3 – 31/3/15
Niall – Edward MacLiam (Holby City, DCI Banks, Run & Jump, The Year London Blew Up: 1974)
Registrar – Natalie Ferrigno
Ronnie – Vincent Davies (The Visit, Northern Lights, Coronation Street)
Nurse – Sakinah May
Marianne’s Sister – Perveen Hussain
Sally – Karen Bryson (Shameless, Bodies)
Ralph – Tony Maudsley (Benidorm, The Job Lot, Eyes Down, Blandings, Place of Execution, The Royal, In a Land of Plenty, Perfect Strangers, The Wilsons, Underworld, Vanity Fair)
Beatrice – Laura Woodward
Episode 4 – 7/4/15
Saskia – Kate O’Flynn (Above Suspicion: Silent Scream, Room at the Top, The Syndicate, The Palace, Kingdom)
Luke – Niall Foley
Episode 5 – 14/4/15
Vanessa – Jayne Ashbourne (Emmerdale, New Street Law, Bodies, Nice Guy Eddie, Coronation Street, Casualty)
Lloyd – Darren Connolly (Holby City)
DS Kaufman – Philip Bulcock (Hanrahan Investigates)
Marie – Olivia Sweeney
Gina – Ellie Haddington (Foyle’s War, The Cafe, Spies of Warsaw, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Bad Girls, Life Begins, Sea of Souls, Scott & Bailey, New Tricks)
Caz – Sara Sadeghi
Kyle – Kevin Sutton (In the Flesh, The Syndicate)
Johnny – Sebastian Shaw
Gambling Man – James Foster (Ideal)
Sonographer – Jemma Thompson
Jazz – Charlotte Dowson
Sam – Jake Hanson
Phill – Martin Shenton
Nell – Jessica Greenhalgh
Rhys – Robert Jarmen
More guest cast and character details coming soon.
Where was Ordinary Lies filmed?
According to the Warrington Guardian, Ordinary Lies filming locations included Warrington Collegiate, The Orford Hotel and the Church of the Ascension in Woolston. The main car sales centre scenes were shot at the John Stuart Motor Company which is situated in Orford Lane, Warrington. You can view this location below using Google Street View.
As reported by Hello Magazine last October, actress Michelle Keegan was also spotted filming scenes for the series at Manchester airport and later in the high-street of Manchester city centre. The BBC drama was filmed during the autumn and winter of 2014.
Ordinary Lies BBC Trailer
