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Friday, 3 Sep 2010

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New six-part drama series - Identity

23rd April 2009

Identity, a new six-part ITV drama series starring Aidan Gillen and Keeley Hawes, follows an elite police unit formed to combat the explosion of identity-related crime.

Ed Whitmore’s newly created Identity is here to tackle the darker side of reinvention: murderers who literally take other people’s lives; criminals who create new personas to escape evil pasts; impostors who look, talk and sound just like us but would kill you in a heartbeat.

The unit, led by DSI Martha Lawrence (Keeley Hawes), deals with any case where making an identification is a significant part of solving the crime by outsmarting, hunting down and unmasking the modern day Jekyll and Hydes.

DSI Lawrence is also the founder of the unit - for which she fought long and hard - and its perilous fate is a constant source of anxiety to her. She knows she took a gamble in hiring DI Michael Bloom (Aidan Gillen) - the secret weapon of the Identity Unit. Crucially, Bloom is an ex-undercover cop, so he knows at first hand what it’s like to pretend to be someone you’re not. He’s also only too aware of how easy it is to lose your own identity when you’re living a lie.

Holly Aird is Tessa Stein, IT expert in everything from trawling databases to cracking security codes. Completing the team are DS Anthony Wareing (Shaun Parkes), who has his eye on promotion and a stance on cases that can err on the self-righteous, and DC Jose Rodriguez (Elyes Gabel), who is cocky and self-assured, yet has a seriousness and sensitivity that gives him insight into cases. As the series unfolds, DS Wareing becomes more and more concerned about Bloom’s methods and frustrated by what he sees as Martha’s blind and foolish indulgence of him.

Kate Bartlett, Controller of Drama at ITV Studios, says: "This is a unique crime series, with an exciting cast, which explores the theme of identity. The psychology behind the issue of identity opens up a whole world of stories. We take for granted that people are who they say they are and a person’s ID is sacred. However, when that trust is violated, it can provoke a special kind of fear - one that cuts to the heart of our sense of self and the world around us."

Identity is an ITV Studios production and is currently filming in and around London. It was written and created by Ed Whitmore, Clive Bradley and Edward Bennett, produced by Lachlan MacKinnon and directed by Brendan Maher. Kate Bartlett is the executive producer.