Aimee Lou Wooden as Tracey Taylor
Tracey Taylor is one other actual Corby resident whose household was severely affected by the toxins carried by mud from the reclaimed steelworks website. Her husband Mark is performed by Matthew Durkan.
Tracey is performed by Aimee Lou Wooden, who established her title alongside fellow stars Ncuti Gatwa and Emma Mackey in Netflix’s teen comedy-drama Intercourse Training, and has been booked and busy ever since. Wooden is filming a second sequence of BBC comedy Daddy Points with David Morrissey, starred with Invoice Nighy in characteristic movie Dwelling, and is presently showing in season three of the most well liked present round, HBO’s The White Lotus reverse Walton Goggins.
Rory Kinnear as Des Collins
Des Collins is the actual solicitor who led the negligence declare towards Corby Borough Council alongside 18 of the moms whose pregnancies had been affected by the toxins. As talked about within the drama, he and his agency additionally represented practice crash victims of the Southall and Paddington rail disasters.
He’s performed by Rory Kinnear, a much-loved British display and stage actor (and by the way, the son of one other well-loved actor: Roy Kinnear) seen lately within the function of Dave “Financial institution of Dave” Fishwick in Netflix’s follow-up movie to the primary. He’s been in Bond movies, performed John Clare in Penny Dreadful (and got here again for sequel Metropolis of Angels), lately starred in The Diplomat and performed Tom Bombadil in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy.
Brendan Coyle as Roy Thomas
Corby Borough Council Labour deputy chief after which chief Roy Thomas is a fictionalised character based mostly, because it says in Poisonous City‘s closing credit, “…on numerous males, none of whom lived to see their plans for Corby absolutely realised.”
He’s performed by Brendan Coyle, who’s well-known for taking part in the Earl of Grantham’s valet Mr Bates within the Downton Abbey TV sequence and have movie spin-offs. In between taking part in Bates, he slotted in a task in BBC crime drama Requiem and movie Mary Queen of Scots, and earlier than that, he performed Robert in Lark Rise to Candleford and appeared in an enormous vary of TV dramas from Prime Suspect to literary adaptation North and South to Dangerfield and plenty of extra.
