‘Grantchester’ Returns: Where Are the Former Stars Now?
Grantchester is back with an “explosive” new season, but as always, a certain vicar-detective team is still hard at work.
The ITV mystery series’ eighth season premieres stateside on Sunday, July 9 at 9/8c as part of the PBS Masterpiece franchise, and the new episodes once again put Grantchester’s crime-solving colleagues through their paces.
At the start of Season 8, Will (Tom Brittney) is happy, and Geordie (Robson Green) and Cathy (Kacey Ainsworth) are content in their relationship, PBS explains. “But an accident and shocking announcements threaten the stability and happiness found by Grantchester’s vicar and police detective duo,” the network adds. “Exploring faith, forgiveness, and redemption, this explosive season of Grantchester tests Will and Geordie to the limit.”
Ahead of the show’s return, scroll through the photo gallery below to see where Grantchester alums have ended up.
Grantchester, Season 8 Premiere, Sunday, July 9, 9/8c, PBS
James Norton (Sidney Chambers)
Since leaving Grantchester, Norton has stuck around on TV, starring as Stephen Ward on The Trial of Christine Keeler, reprising his role as Tommy Lee Royce on Happy Valley, and playing Hugo Swan on The Nevers. He also appeared in the latest Little Women film and joined Amanda Seyfried in Things Heard & Seen.
Morven Christie (Amanda Hopkins)
Christie starred as Alison Hughes on The A Word and then played DS Lisa Armstrong on The Bay, receiving BAFTA Scotland Award nominations for both parts. She also had a multi-episode arc as Penelope Fittes on the supernatural series Lockwood & Co. Coming up, she’ll lead the cast of the ITV/Britbox crime drama Payback.
Selin Hizli (Margaret Ward)
After Grantchester, Hizli appeared in episodes of Mum, Father Brown, Deadwater Fell, Avenue 5, and Doctors, and she co-created and starred as Jen on the comedy series Am I Being Unreasonable? alongside former classmate Daisy May Cooper. Most recently, she joined Kevin McKidd on the crime thriller series Six Four.
Lorne MacFadyen (Phil Wilkinson)
Since his Grantchester departure, MacFadyen played Doward on the mystery drama Vigil, portrayed music video director Julien Temple on the biopic series Pistol, and joined Hizli on Six Four. Earlier this year, he and his partner Niamh Algar starred on the drama series Malpractice. He also appeared in the films The Little Stranger, Outlaw King, and Operation Mincemeat.
Tom Austen (Guy Hopkins)
After Grantchester, Austen continued playing Jasper on the drama The Royals, recurred as Cody on The Bold Type and as Elijah on Django, and co-headlined the Marvel TV series Helstrom as demon fighter Daimon Helstrom.
Gary Beadle (Archdeacon Gabriel Atubo)
Beadle has been plenty busy in the last year and a half, guest-starring on the TV series Around the World in 80 Days and Midsomer Murders and playing Clem Andor on the Star Wars series Andor and Frank on the TV drama Best Interests. He also appeared in the movies Persuasion and Rye Lane.
Neil Morrissey (Harding Redmond)
Morrissey has been all over British telly recently, with parts on the series Striking Out, Unforgotten, Penance, The Syndicate, and The Long Call, among others. In his longest role since his Grantchester era, though, the actor starred in all four seasons of the medical drama The Good Karma Hospital.
Claudie Blakley (Agatha Redmond)
Since her Grantchester exit, Blakley starred on the crime drama Manhunt and the thriller series Flesh and Blood and played Rowan Atkinson’s onscreen ex-wife on the comedy series Man vs. Bee. And as of this year, she stars on the TV series Father Brown, playing parish secretary Isabela Devine in a return to Grantchester’s “cozy mystery” genre.
