Blue Lights 星／主役にする Sian Brooke 明らかにする／漏らすs how watching her police officer father at work as a child helped her 'see the person behind the uniform' - as she returns to 審査するs as Constable Grace Ellis

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Sian Brooke has 明らかにする／漏らすd how having a police officer for a father helped her see the 'person behind the uniform' while getting into character as?Constable Grace Ellis in the 攻撃する，衝突する series Blue Lights.

Speaking on Woman's Hour, the Welsh actress, 44, explained that she was able to get 'and insight into the world of policing' from a very young age.?

'My 職業 is to put myself in the shoes of whichever character I'm playing and to make sense of the choices that they make,' she told presenter 足緒 Creighton on Wednesday.

'The thing is with my dad and growing up in a 世帯 where he was a police officer, I could see the person behind the uniform.

'That it was a real human 存在, it was a dad, and so that gave me an insight I suppose into the world of policing.'

Speaking on Woman's Hour, the Welsh actress, 44, explained that she was able to get 'and insight into the world of policing' from a very young age

She 追加するd that because of her childhood, there also 'wasn't a sort of 障壁 between herself and the uniform'.

'I think so often when we see people? in whatever service it might be - pracademics 解雇する／砲火／射撃 service you see the uniform first,' Sian 発言／述べるd.

The actress has in past spoken about her father, who worked as a police officer in Staffordshire, and how his experience 補佐官d her for the 役割.?

'It's a different type of policing in very different circumstances [to those in Northern Ireland], but there's still an element of danger,' she told The Times.

'I remember reading the script and it reminded me of my dad and the camaraderie he had with his work mates.

'If they had solved a 事例／患者 and （機の）カム 支援する to the house for a cup of tea I could hear the banter and it was so 独特の.'

'Declan and Adam have 研究d Blue Lights to the hilt and I think it's important to 反映する reality, to 持つ／拘留する a mirror up to where we are ? good or bad,' she said.

The actress has in past spoken about her father, who worked as a police officer in Staffordshire, and how his experience 補佐官d her for the 役割

She 追加するd that because of her しつけ, there also 'wasn't a sort of 障壁 between herself and the uniform'

'With the 最近の 消極的な events in the police 軍隊, I don't think people should stop making police 演劇s because of them.

'Because then that's some form of 検閲, isn't it? Blue Lights doesn't glorify anything.'

Speaking to The Sunday 地位，任命する last year, Sian 明らかにする／漏らすd that that her father's work in the police? changed her approach to the character, explaining: 'It's why I felt such an affinity with the 役割 and that world.

'It was nice to portray the human 面 of a 職業 which has such high levels of 責任／義務. It's a real person ? a mum or a dad or a husband or a wife ? trying to do their best.?

'I was able to speak to my dad about it ? I'd spoken to him about his career anyway, but this 供給するd another level of understanding and opened new conversations.?

'After watching it, he's remembered other things which have led to lots more conversations.'

Written by the team behind Novichok 演劇 The Salisbury Poisonings , Blue Lights 星／主役にするs Sian as Grace, a 選び出す／独身 mother and ex-social 労働者 who's decided to switch careers in 中央の-life

In an another interview with the Telegraph , Sian 勧めるd テレビ視聴者s to tune into Blue Lights no 事柄 what their 現在の 態度 about the 明言する／公表する of policing is

Sian also told Woman's Hour about how 存在 able to reprise the 役割 has been 濃厚にするing.?

'The prospect of doing a show and staying with a character for that length of time is such a 扱う／治療する as an actor,' she said.

'Because you get to revisit. The first time 一連の会議、交渉／完成する you're putting the paint on the canvas and you're 猛烈に wanting that it's the 権利 colour and the 権利 picture and the 権利 this - so that you can show this world in all its glory.?

'And then when you revisit it, you are able to put a little bit more 詳細（に述べる） の上に that picture and breathe a little bit in that character...'?

The Welsh actress has become a familiar 直面する in 最近の years after appearing in 演劇s such as?The Moorside, Doctor Foster and?House Of The Dragon.?

Yet her 最新の 役割 has the 可能性のある to take her from recognisable 直面する to 世帯 指名する, as the 星／主役にする of BBC's gritty Belfast police 演劇 Blue Lights.

It follows the long line of 罪，犯罪?shows she has 設立する herself in, with 役割s in A Touch of 霜, Midsomer 殺人s and New Tricks の中で others.

Written by the team behind Novichok 演劇 The Salisbury Poisonings, Blue Lights 星／主役にするs Sian?as Grace, a 選び出す／独身 mother and ex-social 労働者 who's decided to switch careers in 中央の-life.

Now a probationary 警官，（賞などを）獲得する, she's frequently out of her depth and finds herself in 予期しない danger as she 試みる／企てるs to keep order in 地位，任命する-Troubles Belfast.?

Last year the BBC 演劇 was a sleeper 攻撃する，衝突する, with hordes of fans now 熱望して を待つing the season two 首相.?

For Sian, it's been a rare chance to work on a long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 character 熟考する／考慮する, given a third and fourth series have already been （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限d.?

After 卒業生（する）ing from?王室の 学院 of 劇の Art (RADA) in 2002, she?began her career, like many jobbing actors, with one-off 外見s in TV shows.

She 伸び（る）d prominence in 2017 when she starred in the fourth and final 一連の Sherlock as?Eurus Holmes, the psychotic younger sister of?Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch).?

The first season saw her character Constable Grace Ellis torn between her new policing career and her previous turn as a social 労働者. Sian pictured last year

Sian was 賞賛するd by テレビ視聴者s for her versatility in the 役割 and her interactions with co-星／主役にする Benedict, no 疑問 精製するd from having worked with him two years 事前の in the Barbican's 生産／産物 of Hamlet.?

In 2020, she reached an international audience with her 役割 in Apple TV+'s?Trying, which is 現在／一般に on its fourth season.?

The に引き続いて year she took on another police 役割, playing?Cressida 刑事 in Stephen the 小型の series based on the 1993 殺人 of 黒人／ボイコット British 十代の少年少女 Stephen Lawrence.

While a small 役割, her part in?House of the Dragon's 2022 首相 was also memorable, with her character?Queen Aemma Targaryen 存在 支配する to a 残虐な 中世 C-section.?

As for Sian's personal life, she is married to actor and director 法案 Buckhurst (left), and they have sons, Archie, nine, and Ben, 11

It is her 最新の 役割 that has 可能性のある to be her true breakout 役割, however, with millions 推定する／予想するd to tune in for the season two 首相.??

The first season saw her character Constable Grace Ellis torn between her new policing career and her previous turn as a social 労働者.?

Speaking about the 役割, Sian told The Daily Mail's 週末 magazine last year:?'I 設立する it intriguing why somebody in their 40s would be mad enough to change career like that.

'Grace is a lot braver than I am and a lot more 決定するd. It's やめる 奮起させるing to see a woman like that on 審査する.'

As for Sian's personal life, she is?married to actor and director 法案 Buckhurst, and they have sons, Archie, nine, and Ben, 11.

Fans may recognise 法案 from his stint as the 秘かに調査する Ronson in James 社債 movie Skyfall and his 2010 役割 of?Walford High School's 長，率いる teacher Mr Allcock in EastEnders.?

He also spends time behind the camera and on 行う／開催する／段階, 以前 directing Whoopi Goldberg and Jennifer Saunders in Sister 行為／法令／行動する The Musical.?