HE IS television's hottest hunk and now a second Beverley actress is to star alongside him.
Aidan Turner set pulses racing as the star of BBC hit series Poldark, when he appeared alongside Eleanor Tomlinson, also from Beverley.
Now, Turner is to head the cast in another major BBC One series, this time starring another Beverley actress – double Bafta award-winner Anna Maxwell Martin.
Maxwell Martin and Turner are in a stellar cast lined up for a BBC One adaptation of the Agatha Christie thriller And Then There Were None, due to be broadcast over Christmas.
The adaptation of the bestselling crime novel features stars including Miranda Richardson, Charles Dance and Sam Neill and is expected to be another BBC hit.
Retired Beverley High School teacher Helen Gallifant remembers Beverley actres- ses Anna and Eleanor from their days at the girls' secondary in the town.
She said: "I'm sure a lot of people in Beverley will be following both Anna and Eleanor's careers.
"They are both very successful actresses and I always look out to see what they are doing.
"I thought Eleanor was excellent in Poldark and now Anna, who is a very versatile and accomplished actress, will also be starring alongside Aidan Turner – I'm sure a lot of women would like to swap places with her!"
Both actresses have pride of place on Beverley High School's Wall of Fame, which celebrates the careers of past pupils.
Mrs Gallifant said: "I taught Eleanor when she was filming Angus, Thongs And Perfect Snogging in 2008 and she was having to work with a tutor while she was on set.
"Her career has really taken off. She has done really well."
The two Beverley actresses appeared together in another BBC One drama, Death Comes To Pemberley, which featured scenes shot in the town.
London-based Eleanor, 23, whose father is the actor Malcolm Tomlinson, regularly returns to the town to visit friends and family.
She will soon begin filming for her role as Demelza in the second Poldark series with Turner, who stars as Ross Poldark, after the hugely successful first series attracted audiences of eight million.
Anna, 38, retains links with Beverley and is listed as an associated artist at the town's East Riding Theatre.
She won two Bafta awards, for Bleak House in 2006 and for Poppy Shakespeare in 2009, and was a Bafta nominee for South Riding.
Anna Maxwell Martin (Motherland, Bleak House, And Then There Were None) will play a major role in the final two episodes of Line Of Duty series five. The Bafta-winning actor will appear as Detective Chief Superintendent Patricia Carmichael, a senior anti-corruption detective brought in from outside of AC-12. Viewers will first meet DCS Carmichael this Sunday at 9pm on BBC One. On joining Line Of Duty, Anna Maxwell Martin says: “I’ve been a fan of Line Of Duty for years, so was dead chuffed to be part of series five. I’m so pleased I no longer have to keep it a secret! I feel honoured to follow in the footsteps of the host of great actors who make up the Line Of Duty family, and Jed Mercurio - of course - has written a brilliant character in Carmichael. She’s a woman on a mission.” Line of Duty showrunner Jed Mercurio says: “I’m delighted and flattered an actor of Anna Maxwell Martin’s status agreed to play this pivotal role in Line Of Duty. Anna was a pleasure to work w
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