Canadian actor Peter Banks will be playing Dr. Shepherd in the two-part opening story of the 2011 series.
Peter is a well established actor who has appeared in numerous film, television and theatre productions. He will be appearing on our screen this autumn as Sir. Harry Oakes in the second episode of Channel 4′s adaptation of William Boyd’s novel Any Human Heart with Jim Broadbent and Matthew Macfadyen.
Another Canadian, Kerry Shale who was once fortunate enough to appear on stage with one of our contributors has also been cast in the story as a currently unknown character with a Southern US accent.
He recently appeared on our screens as an Advisor in the BBC film The Special Relationship alongside Michael Sheen and Dennis Quaid. And will shortly be returning to our screens as Steve Coogan’s US Agent in Michael Winterbottom’s six episode improvised comedy series The Trip.
Alex Giannini, who starred as Steven in the 1998 Sundance Festival Special Jury Prize winning film Miss Monday has also been cast in the story.
He can currently be seen playing Moses and Saul in Stephen Berkoff’s play Biblical Tales and in a filmed segment of The Prisoner of Second Avenue at The Vaudeville theatre as Judge Mario Pecona.
Kieran O’Connor will be appearing in the story as Guard.
Although the majority of his credits thus far have been in theatre roles, Kieran did play the role of Lenny Scott in five episodes of the BBC daytime soap Doctors that aired in 2008.
He will also be appearing in the upcoming UK filmed superhero film Captain America: The First Avenger.
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