Sarah Parish on playing a cop with a very dark secret…
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BANCROFT MON-THU / ITV / 9.00PM
Many TV cops have a troubled past, but few are as damaged as Detective Superintendent Elizabeth Bancroft, the brilliant but ruthless officer played by Sarah Parish in ITV’s four-part thriller Bancroft.
The dedicated cop is hoping to be promoted to Detective Chief Superintendent and is trying to bring down a dangerous gang.
However, her life is turned upside down when new recruit DS Katherine Stevens (Game of Thrones’ Faye Marsay) is assigned to a cold case involving the 27-year-old unsolved murder of the wife of lawyer Tim Frazer (Linus Roache).
It becomes clear that Bancroft knows a great deal about the case and she will stop at nothing to keep her secrets hidden…
TV Times visited Sarah, 49, during filming to hear more…
What can you tell us about Bancroft?
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