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Small Island (TV Mini Series 2009) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Small Island: With Naomie Harris, Hugh Quarshie, Ruth Wilson, David Oyelowo. A gentle Jamaican woman reunited with her husband in post-World War II London encounters both racism and homesickness as she adjusts to her new life.
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- 2010-04-18
- Drama
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Season 1 (2009) ← Back to season. Series Cast 21. David Oyelowo. Gilbert (2 Episodes) Ashley Walters. Michael (2 Episodes) Benedict Cumberbatch. Bernard (2 Episodes ...
Overview. Follow three intricately connected stories of Jamaicans and Londoners involved in World War Two. Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots.
Cast and characters Naomie Harris as Hortense Roberts Born out of wedlock in an illegitimate, but not loveless, liaison between her affluent Jamaican father and an illiterate farm girl, Hortense is brought up by her father's cousin as playmate to his son, Michael.
S1.E1 ∙ Episode #1.1. Sun, Apr 18, 2010. Hortense joins Gilbert, her new husband, in England, where he is lodging with Queenie Bligh. 7.9/10 (20)
Cast Ashley Walters, Benedict Cumberbatch, David Oyelowo, Naomie Harris, Nikki Amuka-Bird. Director John Alexander. Producers Alison Owen, Paul Trijbits. Part of the Small Island series. Naomie Harris stars as Hortense, a young ambitious Jamaican woman thrust into the grit of 1940s post-war London. The streets are paved with rubble, not gold.
